Ok - couple of questions from the previous thread which I don’t think got answered:
- is there anywhere else, apart from Australia, that has drive through bottle shops/off licences?
- why are American eggs mostly white (though s9me shops have special shelf for brown eggs)?
The whole washing-up bowl saga I find fascinating! Am really surprised by the number of people who wash-up with running water - that just seems nuts to me.
I don’t have a double sink and, personally, don’t see the point in them. I’d rather have the extra work surface. My washing up process is streamlined and effective, have never questioned it until now! Basics are:
- scrape all food/scraps into the bin. Quickly rinse small remnants off with hot water into the sink
- items are placed in order on the worktop next to the sink, so they get washed up in order (glasses, cutlery and crockery - so cutlery will be in a pile on the top of crockery)
- fill washing up bowl (this uses much less water than filling the sink, plus I’m clumsy so less chance of me chipping a glass or plate)
- wash glasses, have cold tap lightly running outside of the bowl to rinse glasses)
- wash plates and cutlery
- everything that’s been washed goes onto to dish rack to drain. I don’t wipe anything with tea towels
- if there any pots/pans etc they DON’T go in the washing up bowl. They are left until the end. I empty/rinse the bowl and out it to one side. The pot/pan gets washing-up liquid squirted in, is filled with hot water and sits in the sink (normally over night due to time). In the morning, I tip out the water, refill said pan with fresh hot water/washing up liquid and clean it sitting in the bottom of the sink - but at no point has it been sitting in a bowl/sink of water. This means that it’s never sitting in a greasy soup!
The above sounds long-winded, but it really isn’t. There’s no “greasy soup” that anything is languishing in. And nothing has any residue on it when it’s air dried and out away.
And I’d never give up worktop space just for the luxury of tipping away a bit of tea from a forgotten mug. That’s the extra beauty of the washing-up bowl, just top it straight into the sink.