How long is it acceptable to leave the washing up?

[scumbalina]

Oh lordy, I'm sure the poll option of a year was meant to be a joke, but in our kitchen....

 

[bigbry]

I think when the plates and cups start to get nice cultures of mould on them then it's about time they were washed up.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Depends... normally overnight, but if you're having a particularly hard week at work, and there's not much there, it can wait until the weekend.

 

[Dillinger4]

NOTE TO EVERYONE

Simply filling up your pans and dishes with water, and leaving them to 'soak' for days and days is not washing up.

If anybody ever does this again in any kitchen of mine I will hunt you down and kill you with maximum prejudice.

 

[zenie]

Straight away is best, I have left them overnight sometimes though

 

[gentlegreen]

Ones resident kitchen slugs are handy for removing the worst of the congealed food.

 

[aqua]

NOTE TO EVERYONE

Simply filling up your pans and dishes with water, and leaving them to 'soak' for days and days is not washing up.

If anybody ever does this again in any kitchen of mine I will hunt you down and kill you with maximum prejudice.

oh god yeah and left so its all sliimy and grim on the top *vomits*

 

[mrsfran]

Also: when washing has been done, UNPLUG THE SINK. Plunging one's hand into dirty dishwater left to go cold is the grimmest thing there is.

 

[ScallyWag II]

I nearly always leave them soaking over night, and do them before I go to work in the morning. But I'm only washing up for one (and cats bowls every couple of days) so it seems a bit of a waste of water to wash everything up straight away.

 

[bluestreak]

When I live on my own, stuff gets washed when I've run out of stuff to eat with or cook with.

Currently I live in a place where two of my fellows like it to be done immediately. I get around the obvious distress this causes me by using the bare minumum of kitchen stuff and living off of sandwiches.

 

[chymaera]

Also: when washing has been done, UNPLUG THE SINK. Plunging one's hand into dirty dishwater left to go cold is the grimmest thing there is.

You must have an old sink if you need to do that.

 

[May Kasahara]

Overnight is most usual for me, although I don't have a problem with leaving it for a couple of days if we're really busy/tired. It rarely gets to the stage where everything is dirty, and like aqua our washing up is piled neatly in the kitchen rather than growing a skin under various furnitures around the house.

Sometimes, if I'm baking or doing a big cook-up that requires lots of pans and stuff, I like to wash up as I go along, so that the meal is served with little or no washing up left. My name is May and I am middle aged.

Surely the next question is: when you cook, do you habitually use every pan and implement in the house? I've never understood why some people do this.

 

[chymaera]

Surely the next question is: when you cook, do you habitually use every pan and implement in the house? I've never understood why some people do this.

They are cooking a Keith Floyd recipe. (I can manage to produce a meal just using a three tier steamer.)

 

[Kanda]

We've been known to buy cheap cutlery sets from Woolies to avoid doing the washing up

 

[Herbsman.]

You must have an old sink if you need to do that.

Maybe she doesn't know about the existence of the chains that are attached to plugs.

 

[hiccup]

Sometimes do it the same night, but I usually do it when I get back from work the following day, so I have a nice clean kitchen to cook in that evening. As long as I've got the radio on I really don't mind washing up.

If I've just eaten a nice meal, would rather just sit and relax and appreciate feeling pleasantly full than start scrubbing pans.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Here here!!

I never wash up right away - there are few things worse than the absolute pleasure of eating followed by the total and utter un-please of doing the fucking washing up. Ruins the whole thing for me.

I do usually do it the following day though but if it's a couple of plates, 2 mugs and a glass, they might hang around for a couple of days. No longer though.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

wow. i didnt realise i was a slob until now although i had a sneaking suspicion

i was up in the evenings usually. but, get this, some days i cant be bothered that makes me a bad person but i will *sometimes* not wash up for as long as i can avoid it or until it gets on my nerves. the longest ive resisted is about two days, and that involved eating out for most meals.
i just hate washing up, so boring

 

[chymaera]

Maybe she doesn't know about the existence of the chains that are attached to plugs.

How quaint. There is an external lever on our sink, no chain necessary.

 

[subversplat]

Some days I'm right on top of the washing up and do it as I'm cooking and straight after eating; Those days are usually after I've had a mad spring clean anyway. Other days, though, I get into that terrible cycle of doing the washing up before a meal, and everything stays messy until it's needed again; Most frustrating and not the nicest of smells with whatever sludge is living at the bottom of the sink.

As usual, I cover the entire spectrum of disgustingness.

 

[zenie]

I never wash up right away - there are few things worse than the absolute pleasure of eating followed by the total and utter un-please of doing the fucking washing up. Ruins the whole thing for me.

I like washing up

Hate drying though

 

[Ms T]

Normally straight away, but occasionally will leave it until the morning. We have a dishwashe though, so that makes things easier.

 

[milesy]

I like washing up

so do i. i find it quite theraputic, to be honest.

 

[WouldBe]

Until you run out of pots which is 4 days in my case.

 

[Dillinger4]

I like washing up

Hate drying though

Me as well.

 

[Mallard]

Overnight max. Anything else is pure filth.

 

[mrsfran]

You must have an old sink if you need to do that.

The kitchen is 1 year old. I have a sink that has a plug in it. What's old about that?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Hate drying though

Crikey! Does anyone actually DO that?? Drying up never happens in our house!!


A friend of mine had a wicked step-father who would pour hot water over the washed pots to keep them wet so that she had to dry them up.

 

[Herbsman.]

How quaint. There is an external lever on our sink, no chain necessary.

Posh cunt

 

[moose]

Between courses ideally, or between meals at a pinch.