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Jul 22, 2010 18:27:02 GMT -5
Post by notsomessyshell on Jul 22, 2010 18:27:02 GMT -5
I wear gloves for dishes and cleaning. I love the idea of a pretty dispenser for the dish soap! Greatness.
I am in love with my dishwasher, too. My life is much easier now.
Here is hoping you have conquered mount dishes!
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Dishes
Jul 23, 2010 2:01:13 GMT -5
Post by fireweed on Jul 23, 2010 2:01:13 GMT -5
Thanks, you are some of the most awesome people ever! Where else could I get three pages of advice about dishes from people who actually understand!
I'm getting there, getting close to done! I emptied out a dishpan (full of papers and stuff, oh well) and filled it with some things that have been sitting around forever! Just having them soaking makes me feel better already. It's such a big head start.
Also, re: gloves, I'm with Script. I wear gloves for a lot of things. I work in food service so I need to have clean hands. Living in Alaska, it gets cold and dry in the winter and my hands crack and bleed and it seems like it takes forever for them to heal up. Also I have a bit of psoriasis that crops up once in awhile. Lotions and even prescriptions just don't seem to work well for my skin. The only thing that works is prevention! I didn't used to wear gloves while washing dishes either now I do and can use much hotter water.
This is such an awesome place!
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Jul 23, 2010 4:44:12 GMT -5
Post by eagle on Jul 23, 2010 4:44:12 GMT -5
I actually do have several pairs of gloves for cleaning, but don't use them very often. When we owned the restaurant, I wore gloves when doing dishes because of the high volume of dishes and food waste and the use of extremely hot water.
At home I usually only wear the gloves for dishes if we have a large family dinner and subsequently a high volume of dishes.
But for everyday purposes, I don't wear gloves for dishes. I do dishes after each use. In fact, often I'll do a few food prep dishes before I even eat, because that's the system that works for me since I got out of the habit of leaving dishes until there were none clean. It's been a few years now, and I love that this habit has stuck with me. My kitchen is so much nicer than it used to be when my husband would complain to his friends that when he got up in the morning he couldn't even make coffee for all the dirty dishes everywhere. (His sponsor told him to 'just do the dishes'. Wasn't that nice?)
I also use a scrub brush for cleaning pots or sticky food on plates. It's the same brush I bought for the restaurant (which we closed over a year ago & needs replacing now).
For lightly dirty dishes & silverware, I use a rough scrubby sponge thingy, applying the dish soap to the spongy thing covered with rough scrubby surface, creating the suds (which aren't really necessary for cleaning, but lets me know the soap is there) and clean with that.
I prefer a double sink and am glad that is what I have, because I wash in one side and rinse in the other, although I rarely have enough dishes to fill or soak in the sink. Mostly I just have the water running for rinsing after washing.
Some dishes I hand wash & put in the dish strainer to air dry. Some dishes go into the dishwasher. I have lived with a dishwasher and without a dishwasher. They are not really necessary, but I do enjoy the luxury of having one, although I stopped using it for about a year because our dishes were too big for the spinner to spin, so I just hand washed everything until I decided to replace those dishes with smaller ones.
I was curious about the question about foaming dish soap. Is that like the foaming handsoap? I don't think I have seen foaming dishsoap, but I suspect it foams in the same fashion as the foaming handsoap does, by virtue of the mechanism within the dispenser.
Regarding having loads of dishes that have stacked up over time, I've been there, but it's been several years since I altered that habit. I began changing the habit with the goal to keep the sinks clean and empty all the time. It sure is nice to have both sinks empty and ready for use at all times. I can soak vegetables in a clean sink whenever I choose. I can thaw frozen food in the sink whenever I choose. I am very happy to have overcome this part of my squalor.
Another thing that helped me was to elminate some of the excess dishes, by donating them, tossing them or in some way just getting them out of my house.
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Jul 23, 2010 6:01:51 GMT -5
Post by Chris on Jul 23, 2010 6:01:51 GMT -5
One of the things that makes dish washing easier for me is that I get the dish clothes that have a netted white scrubby side and the towel side. They are so great that it saves my scrubby sponges for only the really stuck on stuff. Come to think of it I really need some new ones.
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Jul 23, 2010 8:26:01 GMT -5
Post by canna on Jul 23, 2010 8:26:01 GMT -5
Dishes I usually do once a day. I do not use gloves. I let pots & pans soak in hot water. Use the dishwasher a lot, and have a habit of letting it get full before turning it on. I don't put drinking glasses in the dishwasher, wash those by hand; sometimes they get cloudy looking if washed in dishwasher. I use the "rough scrubby sponge thingy" (ha Eagle!) and also dish wash cloth. For the stuckon stuff, I let the pans soak and then use a sturdy plastic teflon-safe spatula/turner to scrape it off. I have a double sink and really like it also. I dilute the liquid dish detergent. I buy the large bottle of liquid detergent; then use a smaller bottle and fill it with 1/2 detergent from big bottle and 1/2 water. Works ok for me.
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Jul 23, 2010 15:35:31 GMT -5
Post by usedtobeneat on Jul 23, 2010 15:35:31 GMT -5
Even when my house was clean, I would end up with a lot of dirty dishes every day, and my dishwasher hasn't worked in years. I have washed dishes since my house has been bad, and I used the same method and it wasn't as difficult as I was anticipating. This is what I did; I took everything off my kitchen table and put all my dirty dishes on it, but grouped them together - glasses and cups, silverware, plates and saucers, bowls to eat out of, serving bowls, plastic stuff, pots and pans, cookie sheets. I would go through the house and get every dirty dish and also get any dishes out of the fridge and throw away what was in them. Usually this was a massive amount of dishes. Then I would run some very hot water in one side of the sink with dish soap and in the other side I'd run hot water and put about a capful of plain Clorox bleach (they even do this in restaurants I've worked in where they didn't have dishwashers). I put any glasses in the soapy water that need to soak and then wash the other glasses and cups while the filthy ones are soaking. The other side of the sink is rinse water. As I'd wash them I'd just put them in the rinse water, so all I had to do was pick them up and put them in the drainer. No rinsing under running water. After I got all the glasses washed, I'd put the plates in to soak and run some clean rinse water in the other side of the sink. I run clean rinse water whenever it gets soapy or between types of dishes. After I did the plates and saucers, I'd do bowls and serving bowls, then silverware. Then plastic stuff, then mixing bowls, then pots and pans, then cookie sheets. When the drainer (my broken dishwasher is my drainer ) was full, I'd start putting the clean stuff up. If you have things that need to soak, you don't actually have to submerge them in water to soak them. You can actually wet them and lay wet paper towels or wet rags on them and leave them on the counter or table for about 30 mins and it will come right off. You can also get an empty spray bottle and mix up some dish soap and water and spray them really good and let that soak. If you have a pan that just won't come clean, you can use oven cleaner on it and then wash it off, but wash it in hot water really good with soap afterwards.
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