Just has to be crystal clear with no water marks, smudges, fingerprints or anything visible on the glass when held up to the light.
Dish washing in UK.
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Just has to be crystal clear with no water marks, smudges, fingerprints or anything visible on the glass when held up to the light.
Just sounds like how we would polish a glass at the hotel I worked at.
You never were invited back onto the Great British Bake Off, were you?
This is interesting theres so many different views
I had a youtube argument with some people raving about a mini dishwasher designed for motorhomes.
apparently "everyone" nowadays uses a dishwasher that uses 20+ litres of water and people who use this mini dishwasher are morally superior as it uses something like 6 litres
i pointed out that my wife uses about 2 litres to do the breakfast dishes by hand and they said that i must be lying as handwashing dishes REQUIRES constant running cold water to rinse.
as above posts, you dont!!
just very hot water and leave dishes to drain, never noticed any soap taste, sometimes glasses might be a bit smeary. Anything involving flour, oatmeal, potato just presoak ina bit of water, soretd.
i do concede that the rubber gloves need replacing as they perish, but teh costs of a dishwasher seem ludicrous
I had a youtube argument with some people raving about a mini dishwasher designed for motorhomes.
apparently "everyone" nowadays uses a dishwasher that uses 20+ litres of water and people who use this mini dishwasher are morally superior as it uses something like 6 litres
i pointed out that my wife uses about 2 litres to do the breakfast dishes by hand and they said that i must be lying as handwashing dishes REQUIRES constant running cold water to rinse.
as above posts, you dont!!
just very hot water and leave dishes to drain, never noticed any soap taste, sometimes glasses might be a bit smeary. Anything involving flour, oatmeal, potato just presoak ina bit of water, soretd.
i do concede that the rubber gloves need replacing as they perish, but teh costs of a dishwasher seem ludicrous
Dishwasher vs handwashing: which is the most efficient method? - Which?
Which? tests show even the least efficient dishwasher uses a fraction of the water compared to washing by hand. They're often more energy efficient, too
Dishwashers actually tend to use much less water, counterintuitively. Remember you don’t use them after every meal, so you need to add up the water for the same amount of washing up as you’d put in a full dishwasher.
Although I am not sure that water usage really matters these days, and perhaps the fairer measure is what the environmental impact of fully manufacturing/transporting/selling a dishwasher might be vs just using more water to handwash.
Dishwasher vs handwashing: which is the most efficient method? - Which?
Which? tests show even the least efficient dishwasher uses a fraction of the water compared to washing by hand. They're often more energy efficient, toowww.which.co.uk
Dishwashers actually tend to use much less water, counterintuitively. Remember you don’t use them after every meal, so you need to add up the water for the same amount of washing up as you’d put in a full dishwasher.
Although I am not sure that water usage really matters these days, and perhaps the fairer measure is what the environmental impact of fully manufacturing/transporting/selling a dishwasher might be vs just using more water to handwash.
I concede that they have got more efficient
but the cost of the electricity for 1 cycle is the equivalent to 84 litres of water!
not many people have free water supplies....and most is metered nowadays...
and the link above assumes large amounts of water and minimal dishes...
but then a lot of people pay for convenience nowadays, prepackaed ready meals, eating out.
food evry week for 2 is about £30 , mostly ingredients...
ive got clients that will walk 200 meters to a coffee shop, but a coffee then walk home. even that short distance i dont get it....
I have never understood the water consumption comparison. I can only presume that the calculation involves a running water rinse which I simply don’t do.
This is outside my experience but don’t people rinse dishes before putting them into a dishwasher?
I use one bowl for breakfast and lunch together and another for supper. I don’t know how much the pre-wash rinse uses but it’s nothing like a bowl full.
Once or twice a week there may be a separate bowl full while I clean up a baking tin.
This is outside my experience but don’t people rinse dishes before putting them into a dishwasher?
I use one bowl for breakfast and lunch together and another for supper. I don’t know how much the pre-wash rinse uses but it’s nothing like a bowl full.
Once or twice a week there may be a separate bowl full while I clean up a baking tin.
30 seconds?!?! I don't want to even think what a UK water bill would look like with that sort of usage! I think I get plenty of rinse in 3 seconds, no more than 5 for a pan. I use cold water most of the time. Save gas, save water. Water on sponge, soap on sponge, wipe, rinse.
I wash up under my running cold tap, no hot water here. Belfast sink and lead pipe out into the ditch.
No mains drainage in my hamlet, and water on a fixed rate of £180 a year- in dry weather in summer the veg gets watered 24/7 in rotation.
No mains drainage in my hamlet, and water on a fixed rate of £180 a year- in dry weather in summer the veg gets watered 24/7 in rotation.
If you give some thought to it - dirty dishwater is just another form of perpetual stew..
If you gave it a good simmering down at the end of the week there is probably a fair bit of nutritional goodness left in it.
en.wikipedia.org
If you gave it a good simmering down at the end of the week there is probably a fair bit of nutritional goodness left in it.
Perpetual stew - Wikipedia
I don't care that they supposedly boil the dishes, I don't think dishwashers clean them. They just sort of spray them with hot soapy water, then the 'rinse' agent.
Dishes, and cutlery, and the pots, need rinsed or scraped off before you load....and then that smeary mess can sit until there's a 'full' load of dirty dishes built up.
They also bleach the colour and design out of even good quality crockery. They're not suitable for all dishes or glassware.
Just do the dishes when you finish eating and chatting. It doesn't take long, it doesn't exactly need rocket science type intelligence, just a little hygienic diligence.
Dishes, and cutlery, and the pots, need rinsed or scraped off before you load....and then that smeary mess can sit until there's a 'full' load of dirty dishes built up.
They also bleach the colour and design out of even good quality crockery. They're not suitable for all dishes or glassware.
Just do the dishes when you finish eating and chatting. It doesn't take long, it doesn't exactly need rocket science type intelligence, just a little hygienic diligence.
How ? they just spray hot water and detergent, they don't even do it with any force.
I know I'm fussy, I am known to return cutlery at cafes that have come out of the dishwasher, they may be sterile but there's still food stuck between the tines.
I don't think that's 'clean'.
I’m not fussy but I certainly don’t eat from dirty crockery and cutlery.
I've had people handwash (myself included) and have to have it go back in for another wash as a bit of food was still on there. It doesn't mean I think all handwashed items are not 'clean'.
Nope don't rinse but I do have a set order of doing things.
Hot soapy water - Any glassware gets done first, then any cutlery, knives etc, cups next and then plates/crockery. Empty the water and refill again with hot soapy water for any chopping boards, pans, baking trays etc. They all go on the draining rack before eventually being wiped down with tea towels.
Hot soapy water - Any glassware gets done first, then any cutlery, knives etc, cups next and then plates/crockery. Empty the water and refill again with hot soapy water for any chopping boards, pans, baking trays etc. They all go on the draining rack before eventually being wiped down with tea towels.
That is the sequence that my grandmother taught me. Also, when the bottom of the bowl becomes obscure then you change the water. For two of us, that doesn’t happen.
I air dry. If the water is hot enough plates are dry before you could get to dry then. Rarely use a tea towel.
I air dry. If the water is hot enough plates are dry before you could get to dry then. Rarely use a tea towel.
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