kitchen sink habits: washing dishes

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do you wash the dishes daily after meal or do you wait a few days, or worst (best?): pile it up till there is not one clean cup in the house?

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― dakatin, Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

I used to wash up the previous night's dishes the next morning. I now start work much earlier and so am lapsing even in this, with depressing results. When I lived in a shared house it used to pile up more, but on the other hand there were three other people who could potentially clear it.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've managed to become pretty good at keeping the dishes clean these days.

Maybe it has to do with moving into a house with a dishwasher.

I used to be a "let 'em sit in the sink" type, but with my son living with me, and him getting hungry and thirsty and whatnot, I kinda had to let that phase go.

Hell, there was once a time when I only owned 3 dishes...a pan, a plate, and a fork. No cups, I just drank out of bottles...usually beer.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I do them the same evening, but not straight away. Even this is a problem for my flatmate, who comes home and crashes pots and pans about hoping I'll take the hint before disappearing to her cuntish boyfriend's house or worse, bringing him over to stand in the living room and tell me 'jokes'. Ally C and RJG have witnessed his sense of humour and will back me up on this, I think.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why the fucking hell (WHY? WHY? WHY?) do people insist on piling them up in the sink? You only have to pull them out again to actually wash them, it makes it impossible to fill the kettle and if anyone else wants to do their own washing up, they can't. Also I hate people who put your stuff in the sink, cz I only have one tea plate that I have to use for breakfast and lunch, and invariably it ends up in the sink covered in water and gunge while I'm out.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

I absolutely agree Graham. I think some people imagine that the sink is some sort of magic vortex, and when you put dishes in there you don't have to think about them ever again. Currently trying to break Matt of this habit.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 December 2002 17:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

I too agree. Unless there is some strange soaking deal going on. Only, there never is, just some kind of steady stagnation. I washed up yesterday and found some hugely bloated pasta underneath everything in the sink. Mmm.

― alix (alix), Thursday, 5 December 2002 17:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's also my pet hate.. you end up with horrid coloured smelly water, which you then have put your hand in when you do get around to washing up.
We end up piling the washing up by the sink until I get around to doing it, but I'll only wash up when there are other people in the kitchen to keep me company. However at the house I work in, everything is washed up as soon as it's dirtied. Wish my home could be the same.

― Celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 5 December 2002 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am the worst by far b/c I pile them up and then make my b/f do them. I am so ashamed.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 5 December 2002 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Withnail and Marwood own this thread.

― lol p xx, Thursday, 5 December 2002 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have a dishwasher: once my last instance of anything important is dirty, I pile them in.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 5 December 2002 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

i usually wash what i have used straightaway. after living in shared houses for a while, it just seems a hell of a lot easier

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 5 December 2002 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

mine get put beside the sink and i do the lot in the morning.i have to rinse them really well after use, because i have about a zillion ants in my neighbourhood who are lurking in case i leave an atom of food about. i HATE it when people fill the sink with either dirty dishes, or even worse, water with dishes in left 'to soak' because the water goes cold and grungy and disgusting, with slimey bits floating in it.

― donna (donna), Thursday, 5 December 2002 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

daily after dinner. But like Donna I have an ant problem so I have to put everything in the sink and rinse it as soon as it gets dirty. I tried that Yates ant bait poison but it seems to either have killed off one lot which were replaced by another variety or caused them to grow more fat and shiny and healthy, so I don't want to risk using it again.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 5 December 2002 19:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

when I washed dishes at a restaurant for a very very very short shit time ppl would put dirty kitchen knifes in the water without you knowing it, i hated that!

do you dry your dishes with a cloth and put them back on the shelf or leave them drying up for next time use (as I do mostly?)

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― dakatin, Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

mint oil kills ants and smells nice.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Withnail and Marwood own this thread

Oh Christ Almighty. Sinew in nicotine base. Keep back, keep back. The entire sink's gone rotten. I don't know what's in here..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 6 December 2002 00:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

i have a dishwasher, my wife!

(NB although this is actually true, it is in a totally non-bernard manning type way as i do all the cooking (which meg doesn't like doing) and i do occasionally wash-up)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 6 December 2002 00:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

In my loft we have a mutually agreed-upon "zero tolerance" policy as we had a bit of a dish problem initially. Now they are done almost immediately almost all the time.

We also have a sign above the sink that says "If not now...when?"

― webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 6 December 2002 00:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

Weird. Have slashed my hand on a shattering glass for the second time in six months (requiring visits to A&E) ... So, that's more trips to A&E in six months than in the rest of my life ...

― djh, Sunday, 25 June 2017 08:37 (six years ago) link

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