When do you replace your washing up bowl?

tanith

I don't use a bowl as I have a dishwasher but if I did I guess I would change it once a year..

LumpyCustard_2

hev wrote: »

My mother never used a washing up bowl either. Every time I washed up for her I used to find half a cup of black coffee, or a pan full of veggie water, which I would normally tip down the sink, but couldn't because it would make the water dirty. (:rolleyes:There's always one, and it's always me)

So I use a washing up bowl and I put it on a stand because I am slightly taller than average and if I wash up with the bowl in the sink I get back ache. And if I use a bowl I always remember to empty the slops first :rolleyes:

Ah, I've got a double-sink so don't tend to have the first problem. I'm also pretty short so don't have the second one

Charis

I use a bowl because I have found that the water stays hot longer in a plastic bowl than in the stainless steel sink and you need less water for one or two items. Also I have lost count of the number of times I have accidentally pulled the plug out because the chain is invisible below the suds. I have a dishwasher but usually wash up plastic things by hand because white and clear plastic stains if there is anything tomatoey on the other crockery and the machine leaves water splashes on plastic when it fails to dry.

To the OP I would say if spending a couple of quid on a new bowl lifts your spirits, go for it. A spare bowl is always useful, either in the house or garden.

salster

I've had my bowl 4 years and it gets bleached when I bleach the teatowels periodically.

As long as the water is hot and it's given a wipe out, it seems fine to me.

powershopper

....just seen a fantastic bowl in a shop in Hebden Bridge..... made of rubber with a turn down top, like a cuff, so you can have it deep or shallow. ( the bowl, not hebden Bridge) if I used a bowl, thats what I'd have, bright red too.....

pigpen

I don't have one either.. infact I can't recall having one for years.. it must be 1996 when I last owned one.. as soon as I got the DW it went.. everything goes in there!

Oh.. I fib.. I bought one to bath the babies in.. then donated it to the charity shop.

belfastgirl23

Haven't used one for years but personally I would be trying to think of other uses I could downgrade it (car washing?) to so that I had an excuse to buy the nice new shiney one

hev_2

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

Haven't used one for years but personally I would be trying to think of other uses I could downgrade it (car washing?) to so that I had an excuse to buy the nice new shiney one

I could put it under the sink to catch the drips when the pipe leaks. (knackered kitchen). If I use that instead of a bucket it would be easier to get out from underneath the u-bend when it filled from the occasional leak. Hmmm. And I need to get decorating, so I am positive having a spare bucket (the one under the sink that would no longer be needed because the old washing up bowl was there) would come in really useful. Hmmm.

Belfastgirl - I owe you :T

hev_2

powershopper wrote: »

....just seen a fantastic bowl in a shop in Hebden Bridge..... made of rubber with a turn down top, like a cuff, so you can have it deep or shallow. ( the bowl, not hebden Bridge) if I used a bowl, thats what I'd have, bright red too.....

In Lakeland they do a see through bowl with a little attachment that acts like a strainer to get all the gunky bits out of the water before it hits the plug hole - with my drainage that is a real plus! I think it is an expensive bowl, and if I had the cheap black one from Matalan then I wouldn't see how much my plug hole needed cleaning.

Love the idea of turning the top of the bowl down. I wonder if they have something like that near me?

FunkyFairy

I was thinking about this the other day as mine is nearly 7 years old. Its still in really good condition and only cost £1

The reason i use a bowl is that it uses less water to fill it up and i dont have a dishwasher.