Before washing, what do you do with your dishes.

Mine go in the sink.

Yr other option be:

"I eat out as I am too busy busy busy (the Jimmy Saville option)"

mine go on the worktop near the sink - technically it wd be a washing bowl in the sink. hate hate hate having them in the bowl before i'm actually gonna wash them.

My actual write in is:

They go on the side, then get rinsed off a but, then go into a bowl with the hot watta and ecover, soak a bit, then get hand-washed and put on the side to dry. A branch option here: Sometimes they get dried and put away, sometimes they get left to dry naturally for about 1 hour, then get put away.

All the first four. I lack discipline.

on the counter

HATE housemates who leave dirty dishes in the sink and therefore prevent anyone else from using it

What else do you do in your sink?

wash up my own dishes? we don't wash each others' stuff. also, if the sink is piled high with dishes you can't fill up kettles or water bottles

if i need to fill a kettle or a glass of water i don't wanna have to shift dirty dishes to do it

oh jinx

Get a double sink. One side for dishes, the other side for urination.

taking sides: refitting yr kitchen vs putting dirty dishes somewhere sensible

sinks should ALWAYS be empty for the reasons mentioned above

it's a delicate balance about when you should actually do the dishes (when you don't have a dishwasher); ideally they should be done as soon as possible after dinner but too soon and it feels like uncouth rushing

when badly behaved: they go on counter before handwashing

when well behaved: they don't go anywhere, they are washed the second they are used

xp For that reason, I always stor my dirty dishes in the bath.

i'm tending to just do yesterday's dishes in the morning now but i don't create a ton of mess very often

xp Sorry, experiencing a shortage of 'e's here...

plus i'll put some water/washing up liquid into pans straight away if there's sauce remnants or anything like that

because i find putting stuff away the most disspiriting part of the process a dishwasher has never held much appeal

first i resent them.

ts: "Stop filling up the sink" vs "You haven't emptied the Dishwasher!"

The only solution is to have two dishwashers, one to store the clean dishes and one to put the dirty ones in.

Euraka! I think I might replace all the non-food cupboards in my kitchen with dishwashers.

the actual solution is to have fewer dishes

very occasionally, like after having friends for a meal, i have that "wouldn't it be awesome to only use paper plates?" feeling

Oh why don't you just ask your friends to bring plates then?

we have two bowls. this is far from the optimum number and not the solution to anything.

Breakfast bowls?

p flexible as bowls go so can be breakfast bowls or soup bowls, or ice-cream bowls. (all of the above if i have melted ice-cream for breakfast. which i don't. ever.)

i mostly leave my dishes on the side by the sink, intending to do them in the morning whilst secretly hoping that my free-loading flatmate will feel guilty about said free-loading and do them himself.

Well, not flexible inasmuch as being "Washing-up bowls" where you fill one up, then not wanting to get hands wet, move full wub to somewhere else and get wub no2 out and fill that one...

oh, yeah wasn't following yez; we have no washing up bowls just a sink and an occasionally used dishwasher. this is not optimum either.

voted: I use a dish-washer. I wash them immediately after use.

In reality, they go in the dish-washer fairly shortly after use, but then sit there until it's a full load (usually about a day, slimline dish-washer so gets full pretty quick). Anything non dish-washable gets washed in the sink the same day.

There's a phantom "bowl soaker" in my office who leaves cereal/soup/other bowls "to soak" on the side in the shared kitchen every day, which drives me completely fucking nuts.

Everyone in my office is a washing-up savage, the sink and draining board is piled up with dirty crockery by the end of the day. Either put it in the dishwasher or take the 30 seconds to wash it up!

At the shop we handwash the dishes; At home dishwasher.

>take the 30 seconds to wash it up!

Dead right. Even the claggiest of foodstuffs will come off if you give it a rinse straight after use. But it seems preferable to fill the bowl with barely soapy water, set it on the side and leave it there for me to glare and tut at as I make a brew every morning.

take the 30 seconds to wash it up!

^^^

I use a dish-washer and wash the dishes immediately after use, or at least within an hour or so (so there might be cooking dishes sitting in the sink until we wash up after we eat). Sometimes a coffee mug or water glass will sit in the sink from morning until post-dinner clean up.

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Rinse off in the sink, then put on the counter. Unless it's something that needs soaking (egg yolks, cooked on bits), then I soak. I do live alone, so the only one I disgust is myself. They can build up, both in the sink and on the counter.

mostly go in the dishwasher pretty much immediately after use. But they might hang in the sink for a bit. We don't have much counter space so I'd rather have them rinsed and waiting in the sink than dirty and spread all over the counter.

ideally worshed as used, but sometimes left to "soak" in the sink for a time

No Courtney Love option? "I don't do the dishes, I throw them in the crib"

yikes sink soakers are disgusting savages. who wants to reach in and pick that shit up?

just leave it, i'll wash it for you

Takes about 1.5 days to accumulate a full dishwasher load in my house.

The theory is dirty dishes and flatware are rinsed after use and placed on the counter (aka drainboard) away from the locations of greatest use when preparing food. Dishes that had food baked in them sometimes need soaking. That's done in the sink. When a load is ready I load the dishwasher and run it. My wife unloads it after.

That's the theory. The practise is a bit looser than the theory.

normally i eat off my plates before washing them.

otm

I have a single sink and no dishwasher or bench space. I have to either stack stuff to the side, and/or then I just wash under the running tap with one of those sponges on a tube filled with dish soap.

I WANT A DISHWASHER AGAIN.

those itt talking about keeping the sink clear and placing yet-to-be-cleaned dishes on the counter OTM

my roommate keeps putting my french press in the sink and it is really getting on my nerves, glass is fragile fer chrissakes

tho i guess i should be better at cleaning the french press before i take off for the day. is there a poll on that?

haha my french press has been sitting in the sink for like two months now, but it’s because my old roommate left it dirty the day she moved out and like, what, she expects me to do her dishes for her?

also i don’t really drink coffee

pile em up on the counter unless they need soaking. throw the lot into the dishwasher when critical mass is reached.

sometimes i'll use the sink to wash the lot, in this scenario the dishes will be left to drip-dry and don't get put away, seems pointless imo.

dishes, whatever

i would kill each and every one of you for washer/dryer in my apt tho (and not those dual-purpose pieces of shit either)

even though i'm by nature quite messy i maintain a very clean kitchen because it's hot and humid where i live and i don't want bugs partying all night on my dirty dishes or benchtops. so i rinse everything and put it in the dishwasher as i go and then run it when it's full, which is about once a day because i cook a lot.

i would kill each and every one of you for washer/dryer in my apt tho (and not those dual-purpose pieces of shit either)

Yeah I could never deal with a laundromat. Ive never ever had to, in all my life.

Never had a dryer tho, I manage fine with clotheslines and clothes horses.

my first apartment had a washer/dryer AND a dishwasher, all three sadly wasted on 19 year-old me

antipodean climatebraggin strong itt

Hardly! :) I have to dry all my gear inside in winter it rains so much.

pshaw in winter we should beg for rain, huddled as we are in caves as the land is scoured by seasonal dragons

^^^<3

*enthusiastically fills out irish passport application*

i don't think you can claim enthusiasm for a process you've been bemoaning on this very board since lj's lil bro threw that house party

i have to get one identity document from my mother and i keep forgetting, otherwise it's all ready to go.

i'll send word around so i will

Down with this sort of ting

fr ted house now doing afternoon tea, on that note.

I throw the dishes out the window after every meal, it's expensive but hilarious

DISHES ARE DONE, MAN

I really enjoy cleaning up after cooking, it's rewarding or something. Making a big mess, eating then having a clean kitchen. depending on how involved the dinner was, I clean as I cook so when I'm finished I only have our plates to clean, and always by hand because why clean things twice with a dishwasher. Although T has been telling me dishwashers have much hotter water which is good for cleaning babies plates, bottles and stuff. Still I kind of despise dishwashers.

stop making the rest of us look bad, beardo

(i am *mostly* kidding)

I really don't like filling up the sink with soapy water and letting dishes soak. Everyone seems to do it that way but it grosses me out. Instead I like to just hand wash as I go along and then washing plates, utensils and glasses immediately after.

Get really weird about sponges too. I replace often. If a sponge is used on something other than our dishes, I have to throw it out.

Exception: I have been soaking the juicer parts after use, but not for long. I do this so I can drink the juice and not have to worry about immediate clean up.

I replace often

how often

(i hear you on infiltrators thinking they're helpful by commandeering sponges.)

I think the best solution is one of those double-drawer dishwashers where each drawer opens to a large dish rack, and each drawerful can be washed independently of the other. So you have all your clean plates, glasses, and utencils in one drawer, and after you use them, you put the dirty dishes into the other drawer. When that drawer gets full, then you wash that drawer. So you always have one clean and one dirty drawer, switching back and forth each time, and thus never have to empty your dishwasher and put your dishes away. Probably wouldn't work well for more than two people, but it's a nice timesaver.

http://remodelista.com/img/sub/fp-tall-dish-drawer.jpg

wait, so the people that leave their dirty or clean but not dry dishes on the counter -- where do you actually prepare your food -- in the sink? Or do you just have a ridiculous amount of counter space?

xp that is my idea! perfectly realised! i need one!

loads of counter space, metres of it.

xps that's why i have no counter space - 1/3 is dirty dishes (or reserved space for upcoming dirty dishes) and 1/3 is clean dishes that are drying. and then i have a tiny area for food prep (but also one of those large built-in chopping boards that pull out from underneath the counter).

i think i hate putting away clean/dry dishes even more than i hate washing them.

No Courtney Love option? "I don't do the dishes, I throw them in the crib"

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, March 28, 2012 9:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Man, I had just synced up my ipod too. Now I'm gonna have to go back and switch everything out for Hole.

Although T has been telling me dishwashers have much hotter water which is good for cleaning babies plates, bottles and stuff. Still I kind of despise dishwashers.

― JacobSanders, Thursday, March 29, 2012 1:36 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, you'll want to sterilize your babies' dishes in very hot water. There are such appliances as Baby Bottle Sterilizers, but I have no idea how well they work.

I generally go through 2-3 sponges a month now. I use to replace weekly.

my french press has been sitting in the sink for like two months now

do you not use your sink?? this would drive me insane after like 2 hours.

actual sterilization involves boiling water at 1 bar of pressure. baby sterilizers are not capable of that. so i tend to think of them as placebos. yes, wash with hot water, certainly, and wash well, but that's really all you need to do.

add a plastic bucket thingie inside the sink.. when sink space is needed lift bucket containing dirty dishes away and then voila

urination can also occur within bucket

actual sterilization involves boiling water at 1 bar of pressure

I have a memory as a child of my mum putting some plastic baby bottles on to simmer to sterilise then for whatever reason we popped over the road, and she'd forgot about them. We came back a little later to a fug of melted plastic in the air :/

That's good info, Tracer. Thanks!

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