kitchen sink habits: washing dishes

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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

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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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