Washing Up

caroc

I always wipe any greasy plates/pots etc with a flexible spatula which leaves the surface almost clean. I wipe the spatula on a used Tea bag
I then use squeezed out teabags to wipe further residue and the cutlery.


A bit of kitchen roll or newspaper for any residual grease/ sauce.


All the food waste/kitchen towel/teabags/newspaper can then go in the compost/kitchen recycling.


I use tiny amounts of WUL, a bit in the bowl and a bit on the sponge.

Putting greasy dishes in the bowl makes the water, bowl, sink and pipes all greasy.

trailingspouse

Make sure you soak the dishes if you're not going to wash them immediately. I use paper towel to wipe of excess fat/grease eg from the grill pan.

Then as said previously - wear rubber gloves so you can get the water as hot as possible, and off you go.

This might sound like a daft question - do you wear glasses? Maybe you're just not seeing the residue until the dishes are dry and you can feel it?

You don't need to keep buying new dishcloths - boil a full kettle of water, put the cloth in your washing up bowl, sprinkle with bio washing powder then pour in the kettle of boiling water. It de-greases and disinfects both the cloth and the bowl at the same time. Leave it for a couple of hours minimum (I normally leave mine overnight) and your cloth will be nice and white and clean and sweet-smelling.

Oh - another thought - if you use disposable J-cloth type things, they're really not very good at anything but the easiest cleaning jobs. The 'proper' dishcloths (they're usually white with blue stitching round the edge) are much better at the job, last longer, and can be disinfected as described above.

DigForVictory

If near lethal hot water, going a bit larger on the washing up liquid, getting the bubbles well rubbed over the surfaces & rinsing under yet more hot water don't get things like plates clean, delegate to a 3rd party & see how they do it differently.

My sister washes, rinses, stacks & then upends a just boiled kettle over the stack...

Me, I make tea first, and scald the washcloths/panscrubbers, then leave any drips remaining over the now almost dry plates.

Floss

Good quality rubber gloves mean you can stand the water at its hottest, quite a lot hotter than hands can bear. That should help, along with using a "proper" dishcloth rather than a sponge (I find these hold grease very easily).

givememoney

I have a dishwasher but if there is extra I wash by hand. I always use Fairy original which I think is best.


When I got my first dishwasher in 1990 in the instructions it said "a dishwasher is not a waste disposal unit so remove as much excess food as possible" I took this to heart and the same goes for hand washing up to.

bluebag

I can't use fairy or any of the other 'quality' brands as our water if too soft, it seems to leave a film on the dishes.

Counter intuitive maybe but try a cheaper liquid.

LouisePollit

Fill the solution of mild bleach and clean the washing bowl. Let the solution get inside the bowl properly. Leave it to soak for some time so that it gets really absorbed in the sink. Use bleach solution at times to get a clean sink. Hope this helps, it works for me. I'm in search of a feasible way to dispose semi-hazardous waste..any suggestions? I live in Toronto and fro garbage removal we have hire junkit(junkit.ca). But there is no way for getting rid of semi hazardous waste.

PlutoinCapricorn

I often use Stardrops, which gets everything sparkling.

I do agree about very hot water and removing as much as possible in advance though.

givememoney

LouisePollit wrote: »

I'm in search of a feasible way to dispose semi-hazardous waste..any suggestions? I live in Toronto and fro garbage removal we have hire junkit(junkit.ca). But there is no way for getting rid of semi hazardous waste.

Not that I am going to be any help as I live in London but what do you mean by semi hazardous waste?


Over here you'd probably get in touch with your local council and ask them regarding disposal. Anything like asbestos for instance would need specialist disposal and you would have to pay for that.

Starrystarrynight

I can't use a bowl. I have to do the whole lot under running water. Not very environmentally friendly, and I get through lots of Fairy liquid, but it works for me.
I also soak anything that looks like it might be harder to get off.