What is the point of a washing up bowl?

[Greebo]

Apart from avoiding chipping your best china and glass, a washing up bowl keeps the water hot longer than if you run the water straight into the sink.

There's also the hygiene thing - if you tend to put cold tea, liquid from tins, blood from meat packaging etc down the sink (instead of pouring it down the toilet or on the garden), a washing up bowl saves you from having to constantly disinfect your washing up area.

 

[tangerinedream]

Surely you'd just wait and wash it at the end.

Obviously people who are that material minded to need both a washing bowl and a sink would probably just throw the cup away in case it was a bit dirty and get a new one for fear of getting their precious water dirty...

 

[toblerone3]

Here's a tip

1. get a fork and an old large plastic bottle (i.e. a 2 litre pop bottle.)
   
2. Heat the fork with a flame (get supervision if required)
   
3. Use the now hot fork to pierce the base of the bottle several times till it looks tike the flower of a watering can or a shower head.
   
4. Fill the drying rack on your draining board with stuff you have washed but not rinsed.
   
5. Fill the two litre pop bottle with cold clean water.
   
6. Hold it above the washing up and rinse, passing it across and back, taking care to distribute water evenly.

awesome or what? all my own work that. Throw that bowl away!

I just thought this was going to be drug-related.

 

[Looby]

No, no, no: glasses first, cups next.

I don't know, you people!

Yes I agree but if there was a cup with tea in it that's I'd forgotten I would leave it and wash it under the tap when I've emptied the sink.

 

[tangerinedream]

Apart from avoiding chipping , a washing up bowl keeps the water hot longer than if you run the water straight into the sink.

There's also the hygiene thing - if you tend to put cold tea, liquid from tins, blood from meat packaging etc down the sink (instead of pouring it down the toilet or on the garden), a washing up bowl saves you from having to constantly disinfect your washing up area.

How do you get packaging down the sink

You would honestly disinfect a sink after throwing a brew in it?

 

[tangerinedream]

I just thought this was going to be drug-related.

It's genus was. I actually did create that

 

[Tank Girl]

Who the fuck rinses?

me.

washing up bowl means that when people turn up mid washing up session with a half full glass of water/cup of tea etc. you can tip it down the sink and wash it up and not contaminate the water with the filthy scummy left overs.

 

[tangerinedream]

The argument so far

Pro bowlers

"oh, my best china might get chipped and it's inconvenient for me when I have to hose off the uneaten prime veal slices from the wedgewood spoons and left-over champers is a such a bind, plus I do steralise my entire house on a bi-minutely basis so actually I wash up in a bowl in a sink inside a pressurised chamber inside a spacesuit to protect myself from germs"

Anti bowlers

"Dunno - they are a bit daft"

That's pretty much what's been said so far.

 

[toblerone3]

me.

washing up bowl means that when people turn up mid washing up session with a half full glass of water/cup of tea etc. you can tip it down the sink and wash it up and not contaminate the water with the filthy scummy left overs.

But you can just pour it down your other sink.

 

[tangerinedream]

me.

washing up bowl means that when people turn up mid washing up session with a half full glass of water/cup of tea etc. you can tip it down the sink and wash it up and not contaminate the water with the filthy scummy left overs.

Or you could force them to drink it at knife point? Clean knife point at that.

 

[danny la rouge]

I think some of you people must have pathogen-coated kitchens. <involuntary shudder>

Remind me to eat first if I visit.

 

[trashpony]

I have a plastic sink so my waterford crystal doesn't get broken if it comes into contact with it

A WUB makes a very good water toy for small boys in the garden I've found

 

[tangerinedream]

Three observations:

1. That's a terrific idea
2. I admire your thinking on that one
3. Awesome
4. I'm verry impressed

Thanks.

 

[tangerinedream]

I have a plastic sink so my waterford crystal doesn't get broken if it comes into contact with it

A WUB makes a very good water toy for small boys in the garden I've found

You eat off crystal. WTF?

 

[toblerone3]

If you're talking about nasty skanky things in the washing up arena the big iceberg in the cabbage patch is the washing up cloth or sponge. Think of all those food germs festering for days and weeks.

 

[Stig]

Two situations in which I can see they would be handy:

1) because we lost the fucking sink plug, it's a stupid size one, no-one got a new one.

2) because of shared household: people put their filthy shite in the sink, and leave it there. I want to wash my stuff up. Having a washing up bowl, I can just move all their filthy shite out of the way, in one swift easy movement, and wash mine up straight in the sink.

Neither actually applies, can't stand the things myself, they are just plastic germ repositories, but we own one, I think it's in the garden at the moment.

 

[northernhord]

I have a plastic sink so my waterford crystal doesn't get broken if it comes into contact with it

A WUB makes a very good water toy for small boys in the garden I've found

One of the best pictures I have of my son is him sat in washing up bowl in the garden when he was 2

 

[tangerinedream]

Are you richard o brian?. I bet he doesn't have washing up bowl and he had a maze made of the shit. Ed Tudor pole did though. For sure..

 

[danny la rouge]

Thanks.

Tell me a bit about rinsing.

 

[tangerinedream]

Two reason's no-one's thought of yet:

1) because we lost the fucking sink plug, it's a stupid size one, no-one got a new one.

2) because of shared household: people put their filthy shite in the sink, and leave it there. I want to wash my stuff up. Having a washing up bowl, I can just move all their filthy shite out of the way, in one swift easy movement, and wash mine up straight in the sink.

Neither actually applies, can't stand the things myself, they are just plastic germ repositories, but we own one, I think it's in the garden at the moment.

This is the first post that has given a reason I can understand. Clearly, the sink is the first choice and the bowl an inferior second choice.

 

[tangerinedream]

One of the best pictures I have of my son is him sat in washing up bowl in the garden when he was 2

Think how much better that pic would be if he was sat in a sink

<- see! two cool faces

 

[Tank Girl]

But you can just pour it down your other sink.

I don't think the double sink set up is universal.

 

[tangerinedream]

I don't think the double sink set up is universal.

In that instance you could make a cocktail out of the leftover drinks and sell it out of your window to passing folks. If you live in a flat you could save it up and pour it out of watering cans to refresh pavement level people on hot days.

Everyone's happy.

 

[danny la rouge]

Think how much better that pic would be if he was sat in a sink

<- see! two cool faces

Who the hell has a sink in their garden?

 

[tangerinedream]

Who the hell has a sink in their garden?

That's why the picture would be awesome.

I would have thought that was obvious

 

[moomoo]

Do you people not have dishwashers?

(((((You people)))))

 

[toblerone3]

I don't think the double sink set up is universal.

I'm talking about the bathroom sink which is my flat is very close by, but thats the advantage of having a very small studio flat.

 

[tangerinedream]

Do you people not have dishwashers?

(((((You people)))))

You can fuck right off.

 

[Tank Girl]

I don't even have a kitchen moomoo!

 

[toblerone3]