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| Alee |
Posted - Mar 03 2008 : 12:08:39 PM
How do you dish wash?
Do you wash by hand? By Automatic? Or both?
Do you wash with your husband, boyfriend, children? If so, are you the washer, dryer, or puter-awayer?
Doug and I have gone rounds with having a dishwasher and not having a dishwasher. I am happy not having one as long as the dishes don't build up. If they build up then I want an automatic just long enough to help me get caught up! LOL
In our house Doug is usually in charge of keeping the dishes caught up, but just as often I end up going in and getting us set back to square one.
I wash the dishes from left to right. Dirty dishes pile up on the left hand side of the sink, I wash in a sink of soapy water, rinse in a sink of clean water and then they go to the drain board. At this point we either drip dry them if there aren't very many or Doug will towel dry them and put them away as I get them washed.
For some reason, the right to left has always felt natural to me. I remember hand washing dishes as a kid and I always did them from right to left. I wonder if this is influenced by what side the garbage disposal is on? I know if the disposal was on the right hand side I would probably do it from right to left.
By the way- that is a mandatory thing in my house- a garbage disposal. I can't wait until I have a house of my own and the ability to start a good compost heap or worm farm!
Alee
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| Lainey |
Posted - Mar 04 2008 : 10:01:25 AM
We have a dishwasher but the plumbing to it needs working on so we've been doing by hand. My hubby does them more than I do, which is nice I think. Jonni, my method sounds just like your's. Left to right, glassware first, yucky pans last. Except for the glassware we let them airdry for the most part, then put away.
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| JessieMae |
Posted - Mar 04 2008 : 09:52:44 AM
I'm impressed - you all have trained your husbands well! My honey wouldn't do the dishes if his life depended on it. That being said, the house we bought had a dishwasher in it, and we use it! |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Mar 04 2008 : 09:23:47 AM
Growing up we had a dishwasher--but it was always full of tupperware! My mom used it for STORAGE! We do dishes by hand at our house and Justin and I have a totally different method. Mine is the one I think I learned in Home Ec--glass first, then plates, bowls, etc...then flatware, then the creepy pans/dishes last. Left to right, rinse all at the same time.
We keep up with them now, but when we were first married it was terrible! I couldn't PAY him to see the dirty dishes. He doesn't do them as much as me, but then, it also doesn't take me all darn day like it does him, either! Seriously!
Some friends of ours, a married couple, said that they just HATE doing dishes and don't have a dishwasher, either. We got to talking one day and she remarked that they had started eating off paper plates and using plastic throw away cups because they were both so terrible at keeping up with the dishes and they sat in the sink for weeks at a time and the "stench" and bacteria was so terrible that they ended up throwing most of their dishes away!!!! These are smart people, too--he's a rocket scientist that sells plans and stuff to NASA and she's an RN!!!!!
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| kissmekate |
Posted - Mar 04 2008 : 08:52:14 AM
I am the dishwasher at my house. We do ours by hand. I wash from left to right in my sinks, and let them air dry for the most part.
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| sweetproserpina |
Posted - Mar 03 2008 : 5:38:11 PM
My hands are still wrinkly from washing dishes this evening. =;-)
We hand wash dishes at our house. (Haven't had a dishwasher since I moved out at 17!) Technically it's the fella's job (that and taking out the garbage are his only household chores, lucky fellow ;) but I usually end up washing 'cause I'm in the kitchen more, and I like things neat and tidy.
I'm the opposite of you Alee, I wash left to right. ;) For a while I used to wash with the tap running (eek!) but now that I have to pay for the water truck every month, I just fill my sink with as hot as I can stand it soapy water and get to it. I've read in various housekeeping books about the 'right' order to wash in, but I admit I'm pretty higgle piggle when it comes down to it. Dirtiest get done last - unless I forget something! And everything air dries on the draining rack, (which is often an engineering feat of balance).
Oh, and when I cook I always try to wash as I go - less to do after supper.
Does anyone where gloves when they wash? I never do, I always find they make everything harder to hold on to!
I've never had a garbage disposal, but we have a mini compost bin beside the sink and it gets dumped in the greencart that the city picks up with the garbage. It's a municipal wide compost program and the greencarts gobble everything - veg, bones, meat, cheese, tissues, wax paper etc... It's reduced our household garbage down to practically nothing. Cool eh?
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