Dishes

[jennyjoan]

Anybody get fed up - you wash your breakfast dishes - dry them - put them away. 3 hours later same again for lunch. 3 hours later same again for dinner. Such a futile chore.

Maybe I will do the American way - buy 1,000 paper plates use them and dump them. Just a rant. Have to go down and do dinner dishes.

[woofgang]

dishwasher :-)

[anneasquith]

dishwasher= a man :)

[shoota]

Save 'em all up JJ and do one wash in the cooler evening.

[jennyjoan]

Have one woof but in order to get a load need to be in it for some days so it is too stinky. Just use it when I have company.

[woofgang]

rinse hold JJ and it doesn't have to be full to be used.

[shoota]

Or (if you have no visitors coming) save 'em all up until the sink is full, the work surfaces are full and the pile in the corner is in danger of falling over...

[jennyjoan]

I had an American young girl staying with me years ago and she was spoilt.

I had no dishwasher at that time but she came in to me and said OMG where is your dishwasher - I said "you are looking at her".

[jennyjoan]

good idea shoota. maybe I'll just starve - Wow no dishes. There's a thought.

[237SJ]

And why is there always a forgotten teaspoon lurking in the bottom of the bowl just when you think you have finished the washing up?

[Buenchico]

>>>you wash your breakfast dishes - dry them - put them away.

No way. You eat breakfast and put the dishes into your sink.

At lunchtime you look at dishes and think about washing up but decide that it's easier to go to the burger van.

At teatime you consider washing up again but instead make tea in a way that doesn't involve using the same plates/dishes as earlier (e.g. by deciding to have cheese & biscuits, which only requires that clean side-plate you've still got in the cupboard, rather than the dinner plate still in the sink).

Suppertime: Ditto.

Skip breakfast the next day.

Go to the charity shop to buy some more plates and dishes ready for lunchtime.

Been there. Done that. Love it!

[EcclesCake]

When I'm on my own I still use the dishwasher. Rinse crockery etc, put in dishwasher turn dishwasher on every other day or every three days, certainly not stinky in my experience.

And I don't eat three meals a day so less plates etc.

[fairycakes69]

I so dislike doing dishes, like you say pointless and so repetitive.
I used to do the dishes, tidy the kitchen, I'd leave the room for 5 mins come back and the place is a tip, the delightful 5 teenagers I managed to raise, but not totally housetrain, decide they were hungry.
Only have 2 left at home now, kitchen so much better. I now know who the culprits were.

[Buenchico]

>>>I have never known an American who buys 1000s of paper plates eats off them and then dump them!

There have been several occasions where I've simply dumped the contents of my washing-up bowl (which might have been in there for months!) straight into the bin and gone out to buy new crockery and cutlery!

(That's why, even though I've got some emergecy spares in a cupboard in case of breakages, I now use just one dinner plate, one breakfast bowl, and a few side plates and mugs. It forces me to wash up reasonably often, even though I really hate doing it!).

[ummmm]

I do the same as Eccles. Just rinse under a running tap and pop in the dishwasher. Turn dishwasher on when it's full.

[dancecaller]

Shake the crumbs off and reuse.
Or if you are really fussy swill under the tap and stand upside down on the draining board

[boxtops]

We got rid of our dishwasher when it died, and didn't replace it. During the day, anything we use goes in soak in the sink in soapy water, then washing up is my second job when I get up in the morning (the first job's feeding the catz).

[Buenchico]

>>>the first job's feeding the catz

I'm pleased to hear that you've got your priorities right, Boxy ;-)

[Canary42]

I just lick the plate "clean" at the end of a meal, then re-use it for the next. This can be continued for lots of meals (depending to a certain extent on the food of course).

[Mamyalynne]

I wash up once a day, but then I don't have 3 meals, one bowl of water and done- 5 minutes.