supersurgilator
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I know most of you probably have a nice dishwasher, but if you hand wash dishes are you one that leaves the water running constantly for rinsing, or do you fill a sink or basin with water?
Hand Dishwashing
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I just rinse off anything and load my 1995 Whirlpool and maybe I can get enough to justify running it once a week. No way I am going to wash dishes by hand and no way am I going to run it daily. One wash thru normal and then have to put it away the next day, the things I hate, emptying a dishwasher and a dryer.
I fill the left sink with about 2” hottest tap water, wash the cutlery first, rinse over the soapy water with, slow stream hottest water turning it off and on, not leaving it running, and repeat the process with glass ware next, then plates and bowls, next pots and pans, using by the end a total of about 2.5 gals hot water on the average. I never use the DW anymore, dishwashing is my perverse stress reliever, go figure, huh? LOL
When we had power outages, I heated the water over a propane camp stove and filled both sinks with about 2 gals or less, and washed and rinsed in succession.
Eddie
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When we had power outages, I heated the water over a propane camp stove and filled both sinks with about 2 gals or less, and washed and rinsed in succession.
Eddie
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Anything I wash, I rinse with a briefly turned on flow of hot water, but I'm not giving up on the dishwasher.
I hate hand washing dishes, but when I must, I don't leave the water running. Just a learned behavior after coping with a few periods of extended drought and related rationing and rate increases over the past 45 years or so.
I don't own a dishpan, so I use whatever needs washing that will serve as one. I also don't own a drying rack. I have one of those absorbent pads next to the sink instead.
If I were in a situation where even a portable dishwasher wasn't an option, I'd install a Dishmaster for sure.
I don't own a dishpan, so I use whatever needs washing that will serve as one. I also don't own a drying rack. I have one of those absorbent pads next to the sink instead.
If I were in a situation where even a portable dishwasher wasn't an option, I'd install a Dishmaster for sure.
Read this on my news feed...
Q. Family dish-turbance: When I met my girlfriend of two years, I knew she was a little eco-friendlier than I was, and I resolved to be more like her. Fast forward two years and her eco-friendliness has turned into a persistent conflict that we can’t seem to get past. “Ellie” will only wash dishes by hand, with recycled water (e.g., pouring water from one bowl into another over and over). She’ll let dishes pile up for a few days in the sink before beginning this process. I much prefer to put them in the dishwasher immediately—I have a weak stomach and the mixture of old smells makes me feel sick. Ellie gets upset with me when I do this. I grew up poor without a dishwasher; now that we have one, it’s incomprehensible to me that we wouldn’t use it. Ellie’s dishwashing method saves water, sure, but it leaves our kitchen a mess and causes a conflict every time we need to do dishes. I feel irrational for saying this, but is a vast difference in dishwashing styles a rationale for a breakup? We literally have no other conflicts other than this, and for some reason, we’ve both dug our heels in. Dishes will come up millions of times in our future life together. I just can’t see how we will ever come to an agreement.
A: Your girlfriend’s dishwashing strategy isn’t “eco-friendly.” Nor do I think the word washing can be correctly applied to “letting dishes stew in old, crusted-on food particles for several days, then giving them a gentle bath in the same water, over and over again......
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Q. Family dish-turbance: When I met my girlfriend of two years, I knew she was a little eco-friendlier than I was, and I resolved to be more like her. Fast forward two years and her eco-friendliness has turned into a persistent conflict that we can’t seem to get past. “Ellie” will only wash dishes by hand, with recycled water (e.g., pouring water from one bowl into another over and over). She’ll let dishes pile up for a few days in the sink before beginning this process. I much prefer to put them in the dishwasher immediately—I have a weak stomach and the mixture of old smells makes me feel sick. Ellie gets upset with me when I do this. I grew up poor without a dishwasher; now that we have one, it’s incomprehensible to me that we wouldn’t use it. Ellie’s dishwashing method saves water, sure, but it leaves our kitchen a mess and causes a conflict every time we need to do dishes. I feel irrational for saying this, but is a vast difference in dishwashing styles a rationale for a breakup? We literally have no other conflicts other than this, and for some reason, we’ve both dug our heels in. Dishes will come up millions of times in our future life together. I just can’t see how we will ever come to an agreement.
A: Your girlfriend’s dishwashing strategy isn’t “eco-friendly.” Nor do I think the word washing can be correctly applied to “letting dishes stew in old, crusted-on food particles for several days, then giving them a gentle bath in the same water, over and over again......
Help! I’m Disgusted by My Girlfriend’s “Eco-Friendly” Method of Dishwashing.
Should I break up with her?
The ONLY items I hand wash are my good Wusthof knives, traditional cast iron, and antique or very delicate crystal items only used for holiday dinners. The crystal bowl will have a little soapy water added to it, washed accordingly, then rinsed and dried immediately...no constantly running water and no sink filled with water. I'm about to get my old Maytag out and return it to it's former portable state but as a kitchen island so I can just go from one clean dishwasher to the other dirty dishwasher...wash, rinse, repeat.
I have a dishmaster.....
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Most of what I use goes in the dishwasher. For the few things I wash by hand I probably let the water run and turn it on and off if I can remember. This is a learned response I guess from the way I grew up. My Mom didn't put some in the dishwasher and those she did, she practically washed first. I remember her washing items in the sink and letting the water run while she was picking stuff out of the sink and moving it over if that makes sense. She didn't turn it on and off. The dishmaster is great for quick clean ups but for heavy duty items I will usually fill the item with water and let sit for a little while, while I finish the rest of the dishes. Then come back to it. I try to remember to turn the water on and off but I forget until hubby yells across the kitchen "turn the water off." He is much more conscious of that than I and thanks to his influence I try to remember. I think the dishmaster helps to use less water as long as you turn it on and off as you're moving things around. </span>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: 'courier new', courier;">How about when brushing your teeth? Water running while you're brushing or off until you're done? I let the water run and it drives him crazy. Again how I was raised but now I try to remember to turn it off while I brush or until he yells across the bathroom to turn off the water.</span>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: 'courier new', courier;">He has taught me a lot about trying to be more conscious of where I/we waste in our lives.</span>
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Oh and about that article.....my only response would be what else is it? You can't expect me to </span>believe</span><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"> you would end a relationship over dishwashing habits</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">. I don't get the random change in font but oh well. Robert, any thoughts? I selected the whole thing again and tried to set it to the same font but it has a mind of it's own. I guess there are some hidden html tags in here overwriting what I'm choosing. I really didn't do this on purpose. It's like it's possessed. </span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"> </span>
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Most of what I use goes in the dishwasher. For the few things I wash by hand I probably let the water run and turn it on and off if I can remember. This is a learned response I guess from the way I grew up. My Mom didn't put some in the dishwasher and those she did, she practically washed first. I remember her washing items in the sink and letting the water run while she was picking stuff out of the sink and moving it over if that makes sense. She didn't turn it on and off. The dishmaster is great for quick clean ups but for heavy duty items I will usually fill the item with water and let sit for a little while, while I finish the rest of the dishes. Then come back to it. I try to remember to turn the water on and off but I forget until hubby yells across the kitchen "turn the water off." He is much more conscious of that than I and thanks to his influence I try to remember. I think the dishmaster helps to use less water as long as you turn it on and off as you're moving things around. </span>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"> </span>
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: 'courier new', courier;">How about when brushing your teeth? Water running while you're brushing or off until you're done? I let the water run and it drives him crazy. Again how I was raised but now I try to remember to turn it off while I brush or until he yells across the bathroom to turn off the water.</span>
<span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"> </span>
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: 'courier new', courier;">He has taught me a lot about trying to be more conscious of where I/we waste in our lives.</span>
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Oh and about that article.....my only response would be what else is it? You can't expect me to </span>believe</span><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"> you would end a relationship over dishwashing habits</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">. I don't get the random change in font but oh well. Robert, any thoughts? I selected the whole thing again and tried to set it to the same font but it has a mind of it's own. I guess there are some hidden html tags in here overwriting what I'm choosing. I really didn't do this on purpose. It's like it's possessed. </span></span></span>
Only time I hand wash is when the dishwasher is out of order. Everything we use is dishwasher friendly and the dishwasher uses less water and energy than doing it by hand.
If there is anything that won't fit and I want to clean up I will hand wash a few pots and I wash them in the sink of hot soapy water and then run clean water over to rinse towel dry and put away.
If there is anything that won't fit and I want to clean up I will hand wash a few pots and I wash them in the sink of hot soapy water and then run clean water over to rinse towel dry and put away.
xraytech
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Only stuff I hand wash is my cookware, which is vintage Revere, Club, and Farberware, as well as my vintage Pyrex bowls, and wooden utensils.
I’ll let them accumulate a few days until it’s worth drawing up a sink of water, then I’ll start washing as the ding is filling and rinsing, then Ince sink is nearing full I then wash them turn water on to rinse.
I’ll let them accumulate a few days until it’s worth drawing up a sink of water, then I’ll start washing as the ding is filling and rinsing, then Ince sink is nearing full I then wash them turn water on to rinse.
vacerator
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You know
your soaking in it! It's green.
your soaking in it! It's green.
vacerator
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But I use Dawn.
I need to use less, and it cuts grease well.
I need to use less, and it cuts grease well.
There is an interesting site out there--Duke University Advertising archives. They ended up with a lot of Procter and Gamble ads from various products (handled by a specific advertising agency)...not every product, but it was interesting to see how they tailored the advertising for Dawn (as well as other products) at launch (with several different ads, each of which focused on a different attribute) to see what would do best. They had lots of ads for Dawn, Camay, and a few other products...some of the Camay ads from the early 60s were even targeted to a specific city (product launches...they would have shipped the ads to show up on the local television stations).
Thanks for Camay
When Daddy came back from trips we would always go for the little soaps from motels where he stayed. Camay, Cashmere Bouquet, Palmolive and rarely, Sweetheart are old soap names I remember that he brought home.
When Daddy came back from trips we would always go for the little soaps from motels where he stayed. Camay, Cashmere Bouquet, Palmolive and rarely, Sweetheart are old soap names I remember that he brought home.
Tom, I so miss the Sweetheart bath soaps. Grandmother bought them when I was a kid, they sort of had a mild lime scent, wonderful smell. Recently found Jergens bar soap, hadn't seen that in many, many years. It's a good soap, very mild. Love the motel soaps as well. I use Ivory Bar soap as a daily driver.
Barry
Barry
