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I'm not sure how many of you on here actually wash your dishes manually, but I have often wondered how you rinse them. Do you rinse under running water, or fill a sink/basin with water to dunk them in. ALso, do you let the water run the entire time you are washing them, or turn it on and off as needed.
 
there's nothing like a good hand job...

My kitchen has two built-in dishwashers. My house was built by Rabbi Silverman and his wife (I still get the Hadassah News in my mailbox) and they wanted a Kosher kitchen, pretty much two of everything. Living alone I do almost all dishes by hand, rinsing them under the faucet. I grew up in a house that always had a dishpan of hot sudsy water in the sink. I'm the only person I know that still has one. I use a dishwasher when I have company. Two are handy for parties.
 
I rinse mine under running water, trying to get the water just a little bit hotter than I can stand. If I have alot of things to rinse, I will put them on the other side and rinse them altogether, using the sprayer on the faucet.

Favorite dishwashing detergents are: Palmolive, Joy, Dawn and Ajax. Manual dishwasher here...ME!
 
I lve in an apartment and

I can't have a dishwasher (it's prohibited by my lease) so I have no choice but to wash dishes by hand.

If I'm washing one or two pieces then I'll wash them in the sink and rinse them under running water.

If I'm washing more then a few pieces then I'll wash them in a dish pan, that's filled with hot sudsy water, and rinse them under running water. (I balance the dishpan on the narrow counter that's between the sink and the stove.)

I wear rubber gloves -- regardless of how may pieces I'm washing.

It's kind of ironic, I grew up with a dishwasher. Mom had a dishwasher (a top loading Lady Kenmore portable) even when we lived in an apartment and long before she got a washing machine. (She used to go to the laundromat around the corner.) The top loading Lady Kenmore gave way to a top loading portable Kitchen Aid (by Hobart) that my parents still have. Now that they live alone, they hardly ever use it.
 
My house EVERY THING goes in the dishwasher. When I am at my friends house who does not have a dishwasher I rinse under running hot water. I never put in a rinse bucket. Put one soapy dish in it then you have soup in the rinse bucket...

Jim
 
yea we do it here i wish we had a dishwasher the sink is always full and other than constantly needing milk its dishwashing detergent.

my method
1. saturate with water or soak as needed.
2. turn water off scrub everything like no tomorrow (while wearing gloves)
3. turn water on and rinse thoroughly.

ohh how one day i will have a dishwasher!!!!
 
I have no dishwasher so everything is done by hand. But, I am planning to redo my bathroom which is in a terrible state for years now. For that I want to (temporarily) remove my electric water heater so there will be no hot tap water available for some time. I think that is a good reason to look for a dishwasher first :-)
 
Love washing dishes by hand.......

I know its weird, especially since I do have an automatic dishwasher but I still like to get my hands in that soapy water and scrub stuff.
I always use Dawn detergent and lots of hot water.
I never think to use gloves.
I just scrub them "au natural" !
I have a dish rack that sets on the drain board and I put everything in there and using the sprayer I rinse them all off with very hot water.
I usually let them air dry.
My kitchen sink is over 60 years old and I love it.
Its deep and the drain board is attached (all in 1 piece)
 
Between dishes, diapers and d@@ches a girl's hands are forever under water!

Don't mind the washing so much as the CONSTANT washing. I also dont like want have a dish-drainer. I like nice clean open spaces!
So for me an autoimatic DW is to store dirties, and store cleans. The washing rinsing and drying is incidental!
Of course DW-ers degrease better than any person can (short of using ammonia) and make many a thrift-store find like-new!

But the most important factor for me is to keep food and water away from the insectuous critters. That means the sink and coutertop must be 100% dry at all times (when not in use),and a DW helps to that end. That, and nearly a dozen roach baits under the DW ensure the creepy little b@@tards have gone!

The sink and the garbage can get a dose of cleanser with bleach every night. Bye-bye creepy-crawlies!
 
everything possible goes into the dishwasher....fortunately I have two.....hand wash the bigpots and pans with hotest water possible....usually take them down to the double laundry tub...just easier because of it being deep and big...should wear gloves causes it tears up my hands but get distracted and forget about them till my hands crack....thats the reminder!
 
Despite having 5 working dishwashers, there are plenty of things that I still choose to wash by hand. Most of my vintage turquoise kitchenware (the Club aluminum pots and pans, the turquoise Sunbeam Mixmaster bowls, the turquoise pyrex bowls, and my anodized aluminum 'copper' measuring spoons or vintage blender jars) are hand-washed. Usually there are not that many items to wash so I just soap 'em up, then rinse and dry them right away.
The most laborious hand-washing I have ever had to do was when I was living in Brazi for a few months with hubby in early 2007. The house we rented had no running hot water! I heated a pot of water on the gas range, used half for washing in a dishpan; gave the dishes a first rinse under the cold tap; then ran them through a dishpan with the remaining hot water.
 
You're right paul, this is how 99,9999999999999999% of the brazilians do their dishes.

it's very difficult to find a family that has a dishwasher and, if you find, you'll discover they hardly use it.

Hot water is also rare, because of the weather.

At home I have my small brastemp (12 years old) and it works great almost daily, but my mom still doing the dishes by hand always she can. She loves it!
 
My friends in Sao Paulo had a Brastemp built-in model - while I lived there, I actually showed them how to use it because they never really bothered with it!!
 
I wash my pots and pans by hand

If it's just one or two I won't even fill the sink, just use Dawn foam. Full sink to wash or not, I usually rinse under running water. I turn it on as needed then off. If I am ever forced to handwashing dishes themselves, as I was last year when we were waiting for May-pool to send parts then I fill both sinks. The rinse water is as hot as it will come out of the tap and then I add LCB. Yes my old resturant days are still with me. Then they drain, I don't towel dry.

Actually now, I don't even own a dish drainer. I just turn the pots upside down in the sink and let them drain there.
 
Hi Thomas, may I ask you why so many brazilians do their dishes by hand. Is this a cultural fact? I know that in Italy a lot of housewives even now prefer to do the dishes by hand.
Are the dishwashers in Brazil more expensive than in other countries?
I have a smaller built-in bosch dishwasher. There are some things I wash by hand especially plasticware. My hand washing detergent last for so long I get always sick and tired of it, because I like to change produts and scents.
Ingemar
 
Prohibition

seems to be universal here in Jersey. Some apartments come with dishwashers but if they don't, having one is usually forbidden. Water/sewer issues are usually what's cited. Ditto for washing machines. My upstairs neighbor had a small portable for awhile, landlord discovered it and threatened eviction.

Landlords love to do unannounced walk-throughs for any reason.
 
I do a lot of dishes by hand because my dishwasher sucks. It's built-in and included in the apartment, so I can't replace it. It's a Frigidaire from about 2005, the plain model sold for property owners. I do have hard water, but it does a bad job no matter how much or little of any product I've tried was used. My hot water is about 160, so it's not that, either.
 
Oh yes - I handwash

I mentioned in another thread that I have never owned a dishwasher - so I have always handwashed dishes. My mother had an old farm sink - she would fill up her one basin with hot, soapy water and fill up a dishpan with hot clear water for rinse. I always hated that arrangement since, as Spankomatic said above - one soapy dish goes in and the rinsewater is no longer clear - it is now diluted wash water. In my home I have a stainless two - basin sink (that I love!) I wash from right to left - dirty dishes on my right (if there's enough to stack - usually its just hubby and me and we don't generate that many dishes), sink of hot, soapy water in the right-hand basin, and I stack the clean dishes in the left-hand basin. Once I have the left basin full/have cleared the right basin/or am completely finished, I rinse off the clean dishes and stack them to my left on the counter to be dried and put away. I have a chrome dish drainer I keep under the sink if I need it, but usually there's only a couple of plates and some flatware, so after a rinse under the sprayer, I will stack the clean dishes on a towel. Then it's dry and put away - everything in its place! I think putting the dishes away is my favorie part - I love all of the neat, even rows the glasses make as well as the regular, uniform stacks of dishes. It all looks so neat and orderly....(sigh)

I'm gonna go wash my husband's breakfast dishes now :)

-Sherri
 
WE JUST LOVE OUR BUSY WORK...DON'T WE?

Sherri...we just love you to death, and I know you have heard this a million times, but I have a best friend named Sherri...and everytime we meet I have to start singing like FrankieValley..........SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRIIIIEEEEEEEE...BABY!

can't help myself
 
Next Time You Wash Dishes...

Take a tip from the "Petticoat Junction" cast and pick up some Ivory Liquid--if you want to get a man!

 
Very, very rarely do I hand wash anything. The only thing now that gets had washed is the insert to my rice cooker. Way too many years without a dishwasher did this to me!
 
Alas, I do plenty of handwashing, since I don't have a dishwasher at the moment.

I rinse with running water. Dunking the dish would possibly save water, but (even with care) would probably eventually have too much detergent.

I use (almost exclusively) "green" detergents--Seventh Generation, etc. I'm not sure if they are as effective as conventional, but they have worked well enough for me. Plus, I find the scent more tolerable, and I think they may be easier on my hands.

I'm looking into getting a dishwasher. When that happens, about the only things I'll hand wash are things that can survive safely--good knives, a Calphalon soup pot, etc.
 
Forgive me if you've heard this one...

Somehow this thread reminds me of this story:

A man visited a friend, and was disturbed at dinner at how the dishes really didn't seem very clean. His friend said: "These dishes are as clean as Soap and Water can get them!"

After dinner, the host set the dishes on the floor, and called to a couple of dogs in the corner: "Here Soap and Water!"
 
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRIIIIEEEEEEEE...BABY!

I've always preferred:

You should've been gone
Knowing how I made you feel
And I should've been gone
After all your words of steel
Oh I must have been a dreamer
(must have been a dreamer ooooh)
And I must've been someone else
(someone else)
And we should've been over
(over now)

Oh Sherrie
Our love holds on
Holds on
Oh Sherrie
Our love holds on
Holds on!

Steve Perry. If there was another man that could sing like him...well he'd probably be a professional singer, too.
 
Often at large holidays or dinner parties, when there are a number of "helpers" I've put pots and pans and stove parts in the DW- as they now take WAYYYYYY to long to be useful.

1 person clearing the table
1 person scraping and stacking dirties
me at the sink
1 person drying and stacking
1 person putting away

Just used one (formerly)dirty pot as a dishpan and boom boom boom. like greased lightning.

We were done with dishes from multi-courses and quickly too!

Many many folks like to play in with and around water and can't get past their psychological fear that a DW is, in their beliefs, less effective. The reality is they probably don't want to give up control and the need to play with water. :-)
 
Well as much as I hate it..,

and I do have a dishwasher, I usually end up washing dishes (mostly pots and Pans) twice a day. My partner seems to think that in order to put a meal on the table one must use every utensil, pot and pan in the kithen. If I put everything in the dishwasher, It would constantly be running. I have a double basin sink, so one side is hot soapy water, rinse turn on the water then needed and then they stack in the dish drainer which is in the other basin.
 
Awwww thanks yogi....

I loves you guys too :) Okay, everybody get in here - group hug! >>HUG<<

I don't want to sound too gushy, but I really feel at home around you guys :) You know what they say, "birds of a feather..."

And yes - absolutely everybody feels they MUST sing either the Steve Perry or (more usually) the Frankie Vally song to me. (sigh). For you guys, I will endure and smile :)

During the holidays I do the same kind of bucket brigade Toggle described. It can be a lot of fun, but my kitchen is so wee it will be nice to have a DW for next year's celebration.

I don't know what I'm going to do for next year's holidays, though! My mother in law has passed, my mother is in Texas, and I just learned my brother and his hubby are moving to Toledo! I have nobody to cook for anymore (well, save the husband, of course) :(

Anybody want to come to my house for Thanksgiving this year? :)

-Sherri
 

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