Washing Up

Pink.

Hi plzhelpmesave!,

It's not a silly question, it's been asked before:

Washing Up

I'll add your thread to that one later.

Pink

Swipe

Boil the kettle, use the hot water from the kettle to boil an egg in a saucepan on the hob. Bring water to the boil, switch off electric ceramic hob. Push down toaster with two slices of toast in, eat egg and toast then use hot water (with added cold) to do the washing up. There's just me so that method works great.

plzhelpmesave!

Thanks for the replies guys, and the link PW.

Am going to revolutionalise my washing up technique for 2012!!

I_luv_cats

From a kid I always filled a bowl with hot water\wul and washed the dishes in that.
Years on.................................

My former lodger said I was doing it wrong.

Since then...............................

I wash under a hot running tap with a non stick scourer sponge/wul (or scourer when needed)

(lodger used to soap up all dishes first with cold water)

LondonDreamer

bouncyd!!! wrote: »

Half fill the sink with water as hot as you can bear (wear gloves) and a tiny bit of fairy. Wash the glasses first, followed by cups, plates, veg pans and then really dirty stuff last.

This. Except I use a washing up bowl that's about 3/4 the width of my sink and will only fill it about a quarter of the way unless I have a lot to wash up. The last quarter of the sink is where the tap is, and I use that space for quickly rinsing things either before or after I've washed them (only if absolutely necessary) so I'm not adding more water to the bowl. Also if DH has recently made a cup of tea, I'll use the remaining kettle water instead of waiting for the tap to run hot. And I never leave the water running. We're unmetered but I grew up in Australia, and habits picked up during water restrictions die hard.

freakyogre

First of all the washing up bowl has to be empty (or have only cutlery in it). I can't stand washing up being piled in the bowl/sink!

I run the hot tap until hot (filling my kettle with the cold, but my boiler seems to take a while). A squirt of washing up liquid and then a quick flip of the cold tap to get the bubbles going

Top up with hot water and then wash items one at a time. Generally it's glasses/mugs first, then the dirtier stuff as I go on.

I very rarely dry as I go, it just sits in the stand until dry!

I am naughty though as I generally fill the bowl almost to the top

If I have boiled the kettle and have water leftover i'll use that as well/instead.

Linda32

I put a squeeze of fairy into the sink, while running the hot tap. When sink is half full I wash everything with cloth.

If its evening or weekend OH drys with tea towel, we put things away.
If its weekday and I'm at work, I wash pots before I go out then they sit in drainer all day.

Every few days I put cloth and tea towel in the washing machine to go with load as and when it next appears.

The_Angry_Jock

Washing up - a contentious issue in the Jock household.

My method:

- Fill empty basin with hot water only and squirt of washing up liquid
- as basin fills sort all items to be washed into corresponding piles
- put all cutlery in now filled basin
- wash glass tumblers
- wash mugs
- wash flat plates starting small and working up to large
- wash bowls
- wash cutlery

If there are any pots or trays needing done I'd do a second basin with fresh hot water, makes sure grease is washed off. I do everything in this way in order to maximise space available and make it easier to put it all away. (I also have several years kitchen experience - you need a system)

OH method.

- fill up basin with hottish water and squirt of liquid
- leave tap running for entire duration of washing up
- grab first thing that comes to hand and rinse under tap, dunking it in now heavily diluted basin water
- wash pots/trays first to ensure subsequent items gets coated in a greasy film
- create a massive Jenga pile of plates, tumblers and cutlery
- make sure floor has at least a gallon of water on it
- shout at Jock to shut up when he asks why his feet are wet again :money:

System

i put all the washing up in the sink. Add a good squirt of WUL then run the hot tap. Depending how dirty they are i give them about a 15 minute soak then i wash them before rinsing them in cold water (and no, ive never had a glass break in all the years ive been doing it this way). I rarely dry them, just leave them on the drainer to drain.

lilrahi

Stick everything in the sink, run the hot so everything gets wet, then clean everything using scourer and WUL, putting aside on drainer when finished. When everything is washed, clean the sink to get rid of gunk and grease, stick everything back into the sink, wipe down drainer to get rid of soap suds. I then run the water and rinse all the items and put them on drainer to dry.

I rarely dry, only if I know visitors are coming and I want to the place to look extra tidy