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To not want to use a washing up bowl?

112 replies

hiddenhome · 02/01/2015 18:00

Dh and I have been together for a good few years now and he knew that I absolutely hate washing up bowls when we met.

His parents used to have one and I used to do the washing up when we visited and it was horrible. Warm, greasy water with little bits floating in it swirling around the fingers Confused he used to say "just change the water", but I'd end up changing it constantly and it was just wasteful.

I like to wash up under running water which goes straight down the plug hole. You get to rinse the dishes and there's no horrible little bits.

I don't like the bottoms of bowls either as they seem to get greasy and it ends up as yet another thing to have to clean.

He is mentioning getting a bowl again. I do most of the washing up. We have no room for a dishwasher.

OP posts:
Bunbaker · 02/01/2015 20:19

Grin at Skylark

Original poster
hiddenhome · 02/01/2015 20:24

What a barrel of laughs eh?

OP posts:
newbiefrugalgal · 02/01/2015 20:25

Wasteful amount of water.
Plan your order of washing up and it's not a problem.
Are you using enough detergent in the water?
What were you taught in home economic?

Original poster
hiddenhome · 02/01/2015 20:29

Home economics? Fucking hell, I'm 45 not 14 Confused

Obviously nobody understands the concept of filling a washing up bowl involves turning the tap on. In fact, rinsing the dishes prior to washing up involves turning the tap on too.

I see the intelligentsia have arrived Grin

OP posts:
Fabulous46 · 02/01/2015 20:32

Buy a dishwasher, problem solved Grin

ElphabaTheGreen · 02/01/2015 20:39

YANBU. I loathe washing up bowls. I disposed of DH's in very short order and he's never mourned the loss. I'm forever moving the one people at work insist on using in the kitchen. I think I'm in the minority there, but I really loathe them.

If something must be submerged in hot soapy water, then I fill the sink and rinse under running water in the smaller sink, but most things go in the dishwasher, or get washed under running water as it's cleaner and not just washing something in its own filth.

mrs2cats · 02/01/2015 20:44

I don't see the need for a washing up bowl and hate the things; why not just use the sink? I can understand it though if you have a granite sink. What I don't like is when people just wash the dishes in the sink (and after a while the water gets quite dirty) and don't rinse the dishes in clean water before leaving them to dry. To me it looks like washing dishes in dirty water.

I tend to wash up the way you do - when I wash up. We have a dishwasher which makes things a lot easier Grin.

Bunbaker · 02/01/2015 20:51

"why not just use the sink?"

Because I don't want to smash my crockery.

Cutleryhands · 02/01/2015 20:57

Why do we put a bowl in a bowl to wash up ?

capsium · 02/01/2015 20:57

Overflows on sinks are always mingling and difficult to clean properly. I don't want my washing up water sloshing through this, which it usually ends up doing if a washing up bowl is not used. I have chipped a ceramic sink before by not using a bowl also. Bowls also protect plates. Bowls can be easily cleaned.

capsium · 02/01/2015 21:01

Minging^ autocorrect.

Janethegirl · 02/01/2015 22:06

Washing up bowls are totally not necessary. The sink provides a perfect basin to wash up in and you only have to clean it, not it and the washing up bowl!
Washing up bowls are filthy things Grin.
My dmil loved them and would have the potato peelings and dishes in together........totally disgusting Shock

capsium · 02/01/2015 22:10

So how do you ensure the overflow gets really clean and water is not constantly sloshing through it, Jane?

How do you prevent chipping a ceramic sink or protect dishes and glasses in a stone composite sink?

bigbluestars · 02/01/2015 22:21

Dishwasher. Can't stand washing dishes.

WanderingTrolley1 · 02/01/2015 22:25

Yanbu.

I hate them!

capsium · 02/01/2015 22:29

Oh we have a dishwasher but seem to wash up before it washes. My DH likes to load and unload it so is the dishwasher police - hates getting debris out of the filter. If I didn't rinse (in the washing up bowl) he would (does). Grin

Left to me anything gets slung in...I know how to clean the filter. However I appreciate DH sorting the dishwasher so a dunk in the washing up bowl of all plates and pans isn't much to ask.

FunkyBoldRibena · 02/01/2015 22:30

I have a system, not that i use it much as the Oh does the pots.

Scrape any bits off first.

Then half fill the sink, with glasses and mugs in, and once washed, rinse in hot water which helps to fill the sink to the top. Then do the cutlery, rinsing in hot water then the plates rinsing in Hot water then the pans wiping dry with clean damp cloth. The hot rinsing water rinses everything and keeps the sink water hot.

My OH used to use a bowl and i emptied it once and i swear there were creatures loving on the underside of it. I chucked it. And when we first moved in he brought one with him and it also got chucked out. Yuk.

He takes the piss because i go through tea towels like nobodys business.

capsium · 02/01/2015 22:31

And cleaning the overflow on the kitchen sink is far worse than using a washing bowl IMO...

montysma1 · 02/01/2015 23:45

So you put washing up liquid on every item individually?

WerewolfBarMitzvah · 02/01/2015 23:53

Wait a minute corsaircat tiny shrimp?
Is no one else troubled by this?
Is that normal for everyone?
Are there tiny shrimp coming out my tap and I'm unaware?!

ChippingInLovesChristmasLights · 03/01/2015 00:02

Some people are so rude. My washing up bowl is not mingling or disgusting, it's incredibly clean Thank You Very Much.

I use a bowl for several reasons (no second sink to pre rinse, tip stuff etc, seal on the actual sink isn't great, I can have stub soaking in soapy water while I wash other dishes etc). However, I kind of pre soak the dishes in there washing them and rinsing them under the tap in very hot water.

Neither of you are being unreasonable as long as he keeps the water clean and rinses dishes under the tap. Straight from washing up bowl to drainer with suds on is disgusting.

ChippingInLovesChristmasLights · 03/01/2015 00:04

werewolf I just chose to ignore it.

steff13 · 03/01/2015 05:05

I am completely unfamiliar with the idea of a washing up bowl. So it's a bowl that you sit inside the sink to wash dishes in?

I grew up in a house with no dishwasher; we just used the sink. One side to wash, one side to rinse. We put one of these in the sink to prevent glassware from breaking:

www.rubbermaid.com/Category/Pages/ProductDetail.aspx?CatName=KitchenAccessories&SubcatId=Sinkware&Prod_ID=RP091310

Our bathroom sinks have overflows, but not the kitchen sinks. It never occurred to me, but I don't think I've seen a kitchen sink with an overflow.

Now I use the dishwasher. Washing dishes is my most hated task.

Truckingalong · 03/01/2015 06:01

I still can't get over the fact that he knew your preference for no washing up bowl. I've been with my OH for 10 years and I neither know nor give a shiney shite what his preferred method is, nor vise versa. This is a bizarre parallel universe I've stumbled into here!!

eltsihT · 03/01/2015 07:21

I have a washing up bowl, which i use when I wash up. Last thing i clean and dry is the bowl and put it away under the sink. DH doesn't use it, he washes under running water.

We don't have a domestic about it we just do things differently.

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