What's the point of washing up bowls?

[milesy]

yep - the wife turned me onto the washing up bowl ways. before that i was in denial, trying to unplug the sink full of manky greasy water with a bit of cutlery or a washing-up brush, with a look of disgust on my face. and now - and now i know that the washing up bowl way is the only way, the most practical and effecient and best organised way - and it's all thanks to the lvoe of a good woman

<cries>

 

[milesy]

i'm with milesy.

use a bowl.

i will reply to your PM at some point today - but it's back to work now!!

 

[EastEnder]

If someone had answered my question yesterday, I wouldn't have had to start a thread about it.

Having not previously quizzed the washing up king milesy on the subject, I was unaware of the many & varied indisputable justifications.

But as with most things in life, I just instinctively knew I was right.

 

[beeboo]

But why, why not pour the coffee and stuff away first, then proceed to do the washing up in the sink, sans bowl

In my house, when the washing up commences, someone will ALWAYS wander in and materialise a half-empty coffee cup halfway through the washing up. For this reason, the bowl reigns supreme

Also - if someone has committed that most heinous of crimes of leaving an empty porridge or weetabix bowl to go all concretey, you can scoop some washing up water into the bowl, leave it to soak and then tip the weetabixy water down the side of the washing up bowl before washing it, saving contamination of the washing up water.

 

[boohoo]

Having not previously quizzed the washing up king milesy on the subject, I was unaware of the many & varied indisputable justifications.

But as with most things in life, I just instinctively knew I was right.

you weren't right about the twist in the plot in Vertigo.... smart arse....

And although milesy is a master of his subject, I think you have to give the credit to his lovely wife.

 

[Cid]

In my house, when the washing up commences, someone will ALWAYS wander in and materialise a half-empty coffee cup halfway through the washing up. For this reason, the bowl reigns supreme

Also - if someone has committed that most heinous of crimes of leaving an empty porridge or weetabix bowl to go all concretey, you can scoop some washing up water into the bowl, leave it to soak and then tip the weetabixy water down the side of the washing up bowl before washing it, saving contamination of the washing up water.

Or you could just put some hot water from the tap in the weetabix bowl... The coffee cups/glasses argument is a silly one - what if someone's been ashing in their cup or if there's an encrusted layer? that needs a quick blast from the hot tap, and with a washing up bowl you risk contamination of your water. Pour all excess liquids into the sink first, give the sink a quick rinse then fill it up. At any rate I tend not to let my washing up build up - a few plates and acouple of pans after a meal rarely require a full sink of water. Of course we have a double sink, so the argument is irrelevant to us anyway, but washing up bowls are so... Plebian.

 

[EastEnder]

Of course we have a double sink, so the argument is irrelevant to us anyway,

Bourgeois capitalist scum!!!!! May you choke on your Dom Perignon and your Persian rugs be infected with anthrax.....

 

[milesy]

Or you could just put some hot water from the tap in the weetabix bowl...

the first lot of water out of the tap might be cold - you risk cooling the washing up water down, not a good thing to do if you want the washing up done properly.

The coffee cups/glasses argument is a silly one - what if someone's been ashing in their cup or if there's an encrusted layer? that needs a quick blast from the hot tap, and with a washing up bowl you risk contamination of your water.

silly argument? pfff - with a washing up bowl what you describe above is much easier to do! you can let the tap run to a nice hot temperature down the side of the bowl and then give your cup a quick blast and then stick it in the bowl. you only contaminate your washing up water if you are careless. and as for ash in a cup - well, the sort of people who ash in their cups are not the sort of people who set foot through my front door!!

Pour all excess liquids into the sink first, give the sink a quick rinse then fill it up.

have you read the thread?!?!? that's time wasting and bad organisation!!

At any rate I tend not to let my washing up build up - a few plates and acouple of pans after a meal rarely require a full sink of water.

then a bowl will be nice and helpful - less water used but deeper than the saem amount in a large sink, aiding all round better, more efficient washing up

 

[trashpony]

I have a little mini sink in which I can tip tea and other rancid liquids. And the sink is plastic so things don't break. My washing up bowl is a handy under sink storage basket

 

[Orang Utan]

I am very much anti-bowl - wars have been started over less important issues

 

[milesy]

<sneers>

 

[Orang Utan]

<sneers>

<smashes milesy in the face with washing up bowl>

 

[Cid]

the first lot of water out of the tap might be cold - you risk cooling the washing up water down, not a good thing to do if you want the washing up done properly.



silly argument? pfff - with a washing up bowl what you describe above is much easier to do! you can let the tap run to a nice hot temperature down the side of the bowl and then give your cup a quick blast and then stick it in the bowl. you only contaminate your washing up water if you are careless. and as for ash in a cup - well, the sort of people who ash in their cups are not the sort of people who set foot through my front door!!



have you read the thread?!?!? that's time wasting and bad organisation!!

You talk of organisation and yet you don't have the forsight to rinse or set to soak any dishes that require it before doing the washing? Cad! Washing should be done in a batch form - first all extrenuous liquids are emptied, then all encrusted things have water added to them and are set to soak on the side. After this you run your first basin of waterand clean until the water is too scummy to use, at which point you replace the water (before which you can empty any cups/cans your housemates have brought down). After this encrusted things should be ready for their final wash.

then a bowl will be nice and helpful - less water used but deeper than the saem amount in a large sink, aiding all round better, more efficient washing up

MISREPRESNTATION! insolent cur! As I said the amount of washing up does not justify running a basin or bowl full of water as it is quicker and simpler to simply use the tap on each article of crocker/cutlery.

 

[milesy]

You talk of organisation and yet you don't have the forsight to rinse or set to soak any dishes that require it before doing the washing? Cad! Washing should be done in a batch form - first all extrenuous liquids are emptied, then all encrusted things have water added to them and are set to soak on the side. After this you run your first basin of waterand clean until the water is too scummy to use, at which point you replace the water (before which you can empty any cups/cans your housemates have brought down). After this encrusted things should be ready for their final wash.

but with the bowl you don't have to make sure every dreg is poured away before you can start filling the sink - you can do both at the same time. multi-fucking-tasking. better time and motion management. and then you can start putting the glasses and cups into the sink of hot soapy water rather than having to put them back onto the side you've just taken them off of until all dregs are done away with. once the cups and glasses are down, you can move onto plates, and if they haven't been left long enough to get all crusty you can just rinse them off down the side of the bowl and then wash them in the bowl. or if they DO need soaking, you can put them in that water and put the cups and glasses away out of the way.

pans which need soaking will have been filled with hot soapy water just after or before the bowl has been filled, and put back on the oven hob. if they need the outside soaking they can go in the bowl after the plates for a while.

As I said the amount of washing up does not justify running a basin or bowl full of water as it is quicker and simpler to simply use the tap on each article of crocker/cutlery.

that's just WRONG.

 

[Madusa]

As I said the amount of washing up does not justify running a basin or bowl full of water as it is quicker and simpler to simply use the tap on each article of crocker/cutlery.

We dont ever have much washing up at any one time as we also do it in batches. we also do it this way. Much more hygienic and plus we live in a shared house and our housemates sometimes leave their skank in the sink so short of washing/removing their stuff from inside the sink, cleaning the sink and then washing my dishes, it's just easier to do it this way.

On the odd occasion if there is a lot of washing up to be done, by no means is one of those... bowls needed.

The thought of those washing up bowls makes me feel ill. I will never succumb.

 

[Orang Utan]

I never leave someone else's dishes - I just do the lot

 

[Cid]

I never leave someone else's dishes - I just do the lot

See if i did that in my house I would be the only one who ever did any cleaning. I've left pans to gather mold simply on principle - we have one housemate who never does his washing up so we just leave it and bitch at him until eventually he gets round to it. Fucking irritating though.

 

[geminisnake]

the first lot of water out of the tap might be cold - you risk cooling the washing up water down, not a good thing to do if you want the washing up done properly.

You can't have it both ways!! Earlier you posted that you had to run water for it to be cold enough to drink, now you're moaning it might cool the water temperature. Easy seeing you don't get water straight from the mains.

While you are running the water to correct washing temperature you should be emptying all the dregs and rinsing all the yukkiness(which should have ideally been rinsed straight after the plate was emptied )

We do NOT and will NOT have a bowl coz hubby wouldn't keep it clean and it would just bug me

Must admit if I houseshared and folk weren't doing their washing up I'd dump it on their beds. Luckily I have never had to houseshare

 

[LDR]

Bizarre English habit. Something that expat/travelling kiwis/aussies are always mystified by.

I never really understood it. Most English people we have lived with had gone out and brought one when they found we didn't have one. I really don't see the point myself.

 

[milesy]

You can't have it both ways!! Earlier you posted that you had to run water for it to be cold enough to drink, now you're moaning it might cool the water temperature.

course i can have it both ways

when you first turn a tap on, it might still have some hot or warm water in the pipes that needs shifting before you get a nice cold glass of water. or it might be the teenager getting a drink - she likes to run the tap for a quite a while, to get the very cold water from the tank. she's a bit fussy like that. and on the other hand, when you have a combi boiler like what we do have, it takes a while of running the water to get it to the desired washing up temperature. which for me, is very hot indeed. even with a conventional boiler with hot water stored in a tank, it will still take a little while to get the correct washing up temperature water.

it's all very scientific

 

[geminisnake]

Eeewww. Do you have a mixer tap? I don't like them. Focus only had ONE sink that used two taps when we went down there to buy a new kitchen the other week!!

If you want cold water pour some into a jug or bottle and put it in the fridge

 

[guinnessdrinker]

The purchase of a washing up bowl stopped many arguments at mine (sad but true) - because people fill the sink, wash something filthy and greasy then leave the water there. At least if its in a washing up bowl you can empty the water straight out. If its in a sink you have to put your hand in the skanky water and pull out the plug.

don't you have a chain to pull the plug without wetting your hand?

 

[spanglechick]

Eeewww. Do you have a mixer tap? I don't like them. Focus only had ONE sink that used two taps when we went down there to buy a new kitchen the other week!!

mixer taps are the only logical thing. i have never mastered the art of washing my hands in sinks with two taps without burning or freezing myself.

what on earth could be wrong with a mixer tap?

 

[geminisnake]

what on earth could be wrong with a mixer tap?

If you have a mixer and someone has been running hot water(to wash dishes perhaps) you then have to pour loads out waiting for the cold to come through. If you have had a cold drink then someone wants to wash the dishes you have to pour loads out to get hot

I just don't like them, never have and never will. My cold water comes straight from the mains and is VERY cold at this time of year, my hot water comes from the upstairs opposite side of the house so takes ages to get warm anyway, so separate taps are better for us.

Bottom line is I think they are wasteful and I don't like waste

 

[trashpony]

Must admit if I houseshared and folk weren't doing their washing up I'd dump it on their beds. Luckily I have never had to houseshare

When I was a student in halls, we used to do it in the bath

 

[Delia]

Bizarre English habit. Something that expat/travelling kiwis/aussies are always mystified by. File alongside that thing that the English also used to do - sell electrical goods without including the plugs. They seem to have got over that one now though.

Yep, when i went to UK I thought it odd that every house I went into had a sink within a sink.... I figured it was for hygiene reasons. ie, food scraps etc end up in the sink whereas the bowl is solely for washing up only.

 

[Cid]

The problem is that some older plumbing systems have different pressures between hot and cold, and mixer taps are designed to operate with equal pressure.