• @RBWells
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    21 year ago

    Soaking dishes in a tub of water with some soap will do more than anything to help make the dishes easier to clean.

    Except a dishwasher - we have a dishwasher now and you can literally put dirty dishes in and get clean ones out and it uses less power than heating water to wash by hand, uses less water than hand washing dishes too.

    But when I had to wash by hand - filling the sink with hot soapy water then just dumping all the dishes in during the day, washing in the evening, was the least effort, best result and really the least water since you can rinse them all at once.

    • @cheese_greaterOP
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      11 year ago

      Besides just quickly cleaning up like right after, right? That is something I’ve had to learn the hard way and really drill in as the only accetable practice for moi

    • @spittingimage
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      11 year ago

      we have a dishwasher now and you can literally put dirty dishes in and get clean ones out

      But if you do that, you’ll eventually have to clean rotting food out of the trap. Trust me that this is not a job you want.

      • @RBWells
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        21 year ago

        Ah, but it has a genius removable filter and I keep an eye on that. It’s not even hard to take out or clean, sort of gross but not terrible. Really well designed machine. I do scrape them but don’t rinse much - new dishwashers keep going until the water is clean, so it rinses everything better if you put them in dirty. Literally says to in the instructions, I love it.