Did you know that there is more than one way to wash dishes???
I still wash dishes in the way I was taught as a youngster: Fill the sink with hot soapy water. Wash and scrub the dishes, put in the other sink filled with hot water for rinsing, then dry and put away. We never left dishes to dry sitting out, they always had to be dried and put away. (That is an area I have slacked on; I mean, it made perfect sense when there were two kids who need chores, right, one washes and one dries. But now I am the dish lady and Chris is the laundry man so I have an awesome dishrack and they sit....but anyway, I digress)
We had a little get together last week and Nick and Ali (aka: Nali) so graciously started doing dishes for me. This was their method. Put a dirty dish in the sink. Run a little water on, and put some soap on it. Scrub it clean. Put it back on the edge. Continue until all the dishes are soapy and clean. Then turn on rinse water and rinse all the dishes. Put in rack to dry.
Neat, eh? I tried to do it one day, and just couldn't break my regular routine. It's funny how those things get ingrained in you. But I think I will try again.
On the topic of dishes, do you want to hear how I was tricked into doing dishes growing up? (Dad, you will have to verify this story). My sister and I would beg to do the dishes and my Mom would say No. No, no, no. You're too young. No. No. Until finally, she 'gave in'. And we were so excited and happy to be 'allowed' to do dishes. Except then we had to do them forever. I mean, which was a good thing retrospectively. It was good for me, and I actually don't remember hating it that much. I mean, I had no choice, I had to do them. But anyway, lets remember that trick with our kids!
Thanks again Nick and Ali for washing the dishes for me:)
3 comments:
I just recently saw someone doing dishes the way that your friends did, too. I can't remember who it was! Anyway, my first thought was that it seemed to waste a lot of water and soap...am I mistaken?!
Nevada, I say continue to let your dishes air-dry-away! My mom thinks I'm just lazy, but there are two benefits: 1. It's less work (so, yes, she's partially right), but also 2. The dishes are actually cleaner because you aren't wiping germs around on all the dishes (either from the towel itself or from one of the dishes if it wasn't totally properly washed, plus the less handling the better). So, save your precious time! I guess some people don't like to air dry because they have to have a perfectly empty counter -- but my counter's too small to ever be perfectly empty, plus that doesn't bother me.
And, I agree with Allison. That other method would seem to waste a lot of soap & water. It'd be interesting to see if it saved time though.
My personal pet peeve is people who don't rinse the soap off. Gross!
-Jessica
I definitely think it uses more soap, not sure about water though because they just splash a little on with each dish, so you never fill the whole sink. I don't think it saves time either. I think it is a cleanliness issue. You know how some people are shower people because they hate the thought of sitting in their own dirty bathwater? Maybe thats it. So interesting...
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