Ch-ch-changes
Oct. 10th, 2006 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
multipurposegoddessi have decided that I need to change the way I wash dishes.
Now, I understand that some people pick up the dish washing process by osmosis or trial-and-error, but I was definitely taught, by two chemists who washed a lot of glassware in college, a precise dishwashing procedure when I was wee. Basin of hot soapy water, rinse a sinkful at a time, glassware then silverware then china and in order of increasing dirtiness. It's a good system, and I've always done it that way.
Even when it was part of my job to wash dishes, as it has been a couple of times, that was the procedure I used but with added sinkful of sanitizer for rinsing. if I could figure out what to use for sanitizer, I'd do that at home, too.
Except that my current kitchen (which I have a lease on through next December) does not have a divided sink. the single sink it does have is too small to hold a basin and any dishes waiting to be rinsed. It has been driving me crazy for the ten or so months I've lived here.
Only in the last month or two have I realized that I could, yes, wash dishes differently.
It was the Dawn pump ads that did it. Pump out a foamy mound of soap onto a sponge or washcloth and wash dishes without a basin. I have been watching those ads with awe and wonder for a month or more. I finally got up the courage to abandon my crunchy granola dishwashing soap that will save us from global warming and bought one of these Dawn pump thingies.
It's wonderful.
I actually wash fewer dishes at a time, because I don't have that basin of hot soapy water taunting me to use it all up before it gets cold. But knowing that I can wash just a couple of glasses, or just one dish if I feel like it, during a commercial - wonder of wonders, I actually do! It's crazy!
The new procedure will wear off before too long, I'm sure, and the piles of dishes waiting to be washed will grow again, but for now I am oh so very pleased. This is me breaking free of the shackles of habit and expectation. By changing how I wash dishes. Yay.
Now, I understand that some people pick up the dish washing process by osmosis or trial-and-error, but I was definitely taught, by two chemists who washed a lot of glassware in college, a precise dishwashing procedure when I was wee. Basin of hot soapy water, rinse a sinkful at a time, glassware then silverware then china and in order of increasing dirtiness. It's a good system, and I've always done it that way.
Even when it was part of my job to wash dishes, as it has been a couple of times, that was the procedure I used but with added sinkful of sanitizer for rinsing. if I could figure out what to use for sanitizer, I'd do that at home, too.
Except that my current kitchen (which I have a lease on through next December) does not have a divided sink. the single sink it does have is too small to hold a basin and any dishes waiting to be rinsed. It has been driving me crazy for the ten or so months I've lived here.
Only in the last month or two have I realized that I could, yes, wash dishes differently.
It was the Dawn pump ads that did it. Pump out a foamy mound of soap onto a sponge or washcloth and wash dishes without a basin. I have been watching those ads with awe and wonder for a month or more. I finally got up the courage to abandon my crunchy granola dishwashing soap that will save us from global warming and bought one of these Dawn pump thingies.
It's wonderful.
I actually wash fewer dishes at a time, because I don't have that basin of hot soapy water taunting me to use it all up before it gets cold. But knowing that I can wash just a couple of glasses, or just one dish if I feel like it, during a commercial - wonder of wonders, I actually do! It's crazy!
The new procedure will wear off before too long, I'm sure, and the piles of dishes waiting to be washed will grow again, but for now I am oh so very pleased. This is me breaking free of the shackles of habit and expectation. By changing how I wash dishes. Yay.
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Date: 2006-10-11 08:27 pm (UTC)You are not allowed to clean up my kitchen.
I'm sure you are heart-broken.
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Date: 2006-10-11 09:06 pm (UTC)Of course I tend to drink out of cups I got at Mariners games so...
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Date: 2006-10-11 11:10 pm (UTC)There's not very much, and I do love my dishwasher, but there seems to always be something that needs to actually be washed by me. Unless we're eating a lot of takeout. Which happens. That's the other upside to revamping the dishwashing technique - I am less likely to think to myself "I could cook, but then I'll just have all this stuff to wash, so I won't" if it's less of a chore.
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Date: 2006-10-12 01:46 pm (UTC)We don't cook all that much though. Mel works three nights a week at the backup job and there are too many good veggie resturants in town for us to have the motivation to cook..