Plastic Basins - to use or not to use

Nanamia

I'm a bowl girl too I'm afraid, but it's washed and put back under the sink when the pots are done. Sounds sad doesn't it but my beautiful Carron Phoenix sink is then polished. Had our kitchen replaced three years ago after a twenty five year wait and couldn't afford to loose the cupboard space for a dishwasher. The sink is the first think that catches your eye when you walk into the kitchen. As a keen cook/baker I spend a lot of time in there so I've a beautiful sink and gorgeous mixer tap and my clean washing up bowl is hidden away

Sambucus_Nigra

Emuchops wrote: »

We all harbour 'things' that are 'just no good' and they're a lot closer to home than the freakin' washing up bowl.
Use the bowl in these drought ridden time-it saves water

But not plastic - which is not a renewable substance [if we are talking sustainability].

katieclampet

I always use a bowl. Uses less water, less likely to chip or crack things if I drop them (i am really clumsy). Takes 2 mins to wipe under the bowl, I usually do that when I clean the sink out.

katie

Snowy_Owl

Wow! thanks guys!!:j

yeah - i do tend to wipe round the outside of the bowl every day and the cloths get thrown in the washing machine evryday. Use disposible sponges with those scrubby pads.

He still complains.......in one ear and out the other.........:rotfl:

LameWolf

Like the OP, I'm a clumsy-duff, so I also use a plastic bowl to soften the blow if a plate slips from my hand when I'm washing it. We don't have a dishwasher, as it's not worth it for just the two of us, and we've nowhere to put one.

I think, as long as the bowl is cleaned after use, there's no problem with germs.

Also, if I want to use the sink for something and we're partway through washing up (it does happen - I'm not very organised!) I can just lift the bowl of water out of the way, do what I need to do, and lift it back; and of course I can chuck the water on my herb pots after it's finished with.

anguk

If I had a double sink I wouldn't bother with a bowl but I've only got a standard single sink. Nearly every time I do the dishes a cup appears with some tea still in the bottom, with a bowl I can just tip the tea down the side, if I didn't have a bowl I'd either have to tip the cold tea into the washing up water or trek outside to tip it down the drain and I can't be bothered with that.

applepad

tanith wrote: »

I'm so happy I have a dishwasher..lol

So do I but still find I wash up some stuff, what am I doing wrong?

SailorSam

tanith wrote: »

I'm so happy I have a dishwasher..lol

Me to.
Call her the Wife.

lmp0507

We have a dishwasher that we never use, And a plastic bowl in the sink that I can never be bothered to clean - sue me :rotfl:

LittleMissAspie

Pooky wrote: »

It takes no more effort to rinse the bowl out and wipe it over as it does to rinse the sink out after doing the dishes.

It does because you have to clean both the bowl and the sink after you've emptied all the dirty water into the sink.