I have a dishwasher at home. So rarely nothing need handwashing. But away from home if handwashing is needed I do like I said. Can not stand the idea that even a microscopical speck of soap might be left.
Dish washing in UK.
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They're asking about washing crockery John, not your bathing habits....
I was wondering that too....last time I just wiped really well with paper towels and used them to light the fire the next time round
Absolutly not. Will not cook food unless access to fully equipped kitchen with sink and running water.
Outside freeze dried meals only.
PS. I have grilled sausages and steaks on open fire but I do not consider that cooking.
And have worked as a cook 1991-2013 (no fancy restaurants, only simpler restaurants). Probably that is why I am so autistic about food hygiene.
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I camp, I cook, we eat, we clean up, and none of us have had food poisoning yet !
Half the fun of a camp is the cooking
From bread dough wrapped around peeled sticks for the kids to cook, or sausages done the same way, to cooking whatever we find, or sometimes hunt. It's dinner
M
Half the fun of a camp is the cooking
From bread dough wrapped around peeled sticks for the kids to cook, or sausages done the same way, to cooking whatever we find, or sometimes hunt. It's dinner M
We just find a burn 
That's running water
That's running water
Depending on if its had oinion, garlic or something else thats bad for the dog its usually the four legged pre-wash, put the washing up liquid on the sponge and not just in the water.
Wash and a quick swill in the bowl to get the rough of the soap off and allow to dry or dry manually.
I'm either too numb or tastless to notice any soap taste or smell.
Wash and a quick swill in the bowl to get the rough of the soap off and allow to dry or dry manually.
I'm either too numb or tastless to notice any soap taste or smell.
One can choose to use a lower impact washing up liquid such as Ecover. It's more difficult to get products which are similarly lower-impact for dishwashers, as they need extra substances to compensate for the lack of mechanical washing actions.
Also..... I wouldn't use the description "autistic" about your cooking-cleanliness obsession. I'm autistic and I don't feel the need to obsess over dishwashing, I have over the years happily cooked outside and eaten camping food cooked from scratch. If stuff is not left to fester in the warm, is cooked properly all the way through and then eaten promptly (no reheating), shouldn't have too much to worry about. You can obsess over something without being autistic.....
But then I've never felt the need for a dishwasher. When we renovated the new place, it was really difficult to convince the kitchen place that "no, we really DONT want a dishwasher". The sales person was clearly aghast! Very little that soaking for a couple of hours and a soap-filled pad won't deal with.
GC
We got exactly the same when we refitted the kitchen.
“……but it’s free!”
No thanks, its space is more valuable than its presence.
We did check that we couldn’t flog it in it’s wrapping and that wasn’t on
I absolutely love having a dishwasher and it pays for itself in the time I get back from doing a chore I dislike, whilst working full time and generally keeping busy with other things.
Each to their own.
Each to their own.
I just don't get that. It takes minutes. All done, kitchen clean and tidy. Nothing left undone.
I'm inclined to wash up as I go with stuff. Baking bowls and utensils washed while the food's in the oven, etc.,.
There's never really a lot of dishes to be done. Even when there's a crowd in, folks just muck in and the job's done by the time the kettle's on for a final cuppa or someone's opened another bottle.
I don't see it as a chore, it's just part of making food, and then setting things back to right.
As you say though, each to their own.
I'm inclined to wash up as I go with stuff. Baking bowls and utensils washed while the food's in the oven, etc.,.
There's never really a lot of dishes to be done. Even when there's a crowd in, folks just muck in and the job's done by the time the kettle's on for a final cuppa or someone's opened another bottle.
I don't see it as a chore, it's just part of making food, and then setting things back to right.
As you say though, each to their own.
Never had an electrical dishwasher, never will. My hands were made to do things like washing and cleaning.
I would be seriously questioning my life if I felt I needed a dishwasher to be able to keep my house and home functioning.
If you need to rinse because soap is still on the plates, you are using too much washing up liquid.
Secondly, a simple jug of water gently trickled over the plates stood in the rack will clean off any soapy residue if realy needed.
There is a school of thought that people are sicker more often as they don't build up imunity by being in contact with various pathogens by being "too clean"
The native American peoples were wiped out by encountering pathogens from western civilisation that they had never built up immunity to.
I would be seriously questioning my life if I felt I needed a dishwasher to be able to keep my house and home functioning.
If you need to rinse because soap is still on the plates, you are using too much washing up liquid.
Secondly, a simple jug of water gently trickled over the plates stood in the rack will clean off any soapy residue if realy needed.
There is a school of thought that people are sicker more often as they don't build up imunity by being in contact with various pathogens by being "too clean"
The native American peoples were wiped out by encountering pathogens from western civilisation that they had never built up immunity to.
I do not have a dish washer ... I am married!
Ducks and runs for cover
Actually I am barely allowed in the kitchen at home - which is why I enjoy my experiments in cooking on camp
Ducks and runs for cover
Actually I am barely allowed in the kitchen at home - which is why I enjoy my experiments in cooking on camp
I don't think anyone needs a dishwasher, anymore than people need a gas stove or an electric kettle or a washing machine or a tumble dryer or any of the myriad other modern appliances that people use for convenience.
Just sensing some of the replies have a hint of holier-than-thou about handwashing dishes over people who choose to use a dishwasher. I'm sure we all do some things based on our own individual circumstances for convenience that others would see as needless.
Just sensing some of the replies have a hint of holier-than-thou about handwashing dishes over people who choose to use a dishwasher. I'm sure we all do some things based on our own individual circumstances for convenience that others would see as needless.
I don't think it's a holier-than-thou thing, I genuinely think it's more a that-just-does-not-compute, sort of thing.
Not so much Herman's tick about the soap, I think he clearly has not just strong feelings but issues there.....but then, I eat the weeds I don't wash my hands before I eat my sandwiches when I'm out either...well, not unless I've really been doing sommat reeeeally mucky. I don't wash the fruit I pick when foraging either...today I scoffed three full handfuls of straight off the canes raspberries, and some plums Himself foraged from an over hanging tree. Mushrooms get brushed off and any dodgy bits cut out, but, y'know, seasonal round and all that.
Each to their own.
Not so much Herman's tick about the soap, I think he clearly has not just strong feelings but issues there.....but then, I eat the weeds
I don't wash my hands before I eat my sandwiches when I'm out either...well, not unless I've really been doing sommat reeeeally mucky. I don't wash the fruit I pick when foraging either...today I scoffed three full handfuls of straight off the canes raspberries, and some plums Himself foraged from an over hanging tree. Mushrooms get brushed off and any dodgy bits cut out, but, y'know, seasonal round and all that.Each to their own.
Tried to find as suitable word and could not come up with any better. But obsession is the word I should´ve used. Sorry, mean nothing bad against real autistic people. English is not my language, as you probably can guess.
@Herman30
You do so much better with English as a second language than virtually everyone else on the forum
Most of us have a smattering of others, but very few have any real skill or familiarity with anything but English.
I think it's a lack among Brits. It's easy for us because English is so prevalent, but Europeans are more usually polyglots. Even with slang or regional meanings.
You do so much better with English as a second language than virtually everyone else on the forum
Most of us have a smattering of others, but very few have any real skill or familiarity with anything but English.
I think it's a lack among Brits. It's easy for us because English is so prevalent, but Europeans are more usually polyglots. Even with slang or regional meanings.
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