AIBU to want sinks to have three compartments as standard?

[DoctorWhatTheFuck]

In an ideal world (which still had washing up)

1. You eat your dinner.
2. You scrape off the leftovers in the bin but the plate still has a few grains of rice, gravy, grease whatever.
3. You soak the plate in compartment (A) of the sink.
4. You then wash the plate in hot soapy water in compartment (B) of the sink.
5. You then rinse off the soap in hot water in compartment (C)
6. Dry the dishes (or air dry on a rack).

So why are we expected to do A B C in one bowl? I have a plastic washing up bowl for the rinsing, and wash under running water to avoid washing the plates in an oily soup. Are we expected to have dishwashers?

AIBU to want sinks to have three compartments as standard?

Kitchen sinks.

Or you get a dishwasher and use less water.
:)

That's a bit much, just get a dishwasher

When I was a child I used to visit many Jewish households with multiple sinks. They always seemed very well set up. Kosher style I think.

Use a washing up bowl. Run hot water over dishes with washing up liquid. Pick up a sponge and an item and scrub the item clean. Turn tap back on and rinse. Put on drainer.

No need for 3 sinks!!

Can you please explain the plastic bowl bit? In Australia, I've never seen one, but on a visit to the UK, they were in all the air bnbs - what do you use them for?

I scrape the plates into the trash, rinse them in the sink and anything leftover goes into the garbage disposal, and then they go into the dishwasher. We have two compartments, which is sufficient for our needs.

Can you replace your sink with a 3-compartment one?

So you can have a bowl of soapy water and rinse with the running tap at the same time.

Think how much of your kitchen would be taken up by sinks and taps op!

Every kitchen I've ever had is average size. It's not practical in most kitchens to devote all that to a sink. I don't need all that space to do washing up, I need counter space. If the water gets dirty I refill the sink.

Not everyone has the space / need for a dishwasher. There is no way we would accumulate enough pots and pans for a dishwasher even on a 2/3 day basis. Quicker and easier to wash. [smug smiley]

Pre-soak in bowl.
Empty and clean bowl.
Wash in bowl, rinse at side of bowl.
Tbh I’m not overly precious about dishes so it’s usually washing and rinse in same bowl and the drip dry or towel dry depending if DP is in the house.

Before we had a dishwasher (which I would give up almost anything to keep btw!) we used to: scrape all dishes and pile on one side. Then with a bowl of hot water and lots of suds, scrub everything, ending up with huge pile of soapy dishes inside sink. Then at the end put on rubber gloves and rinse one by one in very hot water until they squeaked and place on side to air dry. However now, if dishwasher not working, I refuse to wash anything and wait till it's fixed

I have lived in the UK all my life and I did not realise the advantage of a washing up bowl until just now! Rinsing at the side, you say? Fancy that!

@Jinkx - you use them to wash your dishes in, because (apparently) sinks on their own aren't suitable for the job. I think the sink is there to drain the water from the plastic bowl :). In all seriousness I wonder if the use of a bowl came about before 2nd sinks were around & made the rinsing after washing dishes easier ......

In answer to the op yabu 2 sinks only. We have an Insinkerator (small sink) so food scrapings go down there & any rinsing water goes down there as well. If on the odd occasion I wash by hand that happens in the next sink sans plastic bowl. But usually I use a dishwasher.

Jinkx

Bowl one has hot soapy water. Bowl 2 has clean hot water.
I have a separate bowl of clean hot water, for the same reason I don’t step out of the shower covered in shower gel and shampoo. To rinse it off.

The reason I would put a plastic bowl inside the sink is that if I knock a plate against a plastic bowl it is less likely to chip than if knocked against a metal or ceramic sink.

They come out totally clean though as it is. I do mine under slightly running very hot water.

But flowerslemonade, it takes ages doing them like that.

Do you mean the ones where you have the main sink, a small sink then the draining board?
We have one of those in our current house (it was here when we moved in). It is handy for rinsing if the sink is full I admit. But I usually rinse everything in the main sink first, then fill it, wash up, dry, put away. Before we moved here we rinsed everything first so we were used to it.
I don't like washing up bowls.
And I hate leaving things to drain. Things get dried and put away straight away here. I can't relax until my kitchen is tidy (there was a draining thing in our new house when we moved in, it got binned. I hate them

I also grew up in Australia with a single sink; and we wouldn't have dreamt of washing or rinsing under running water. (ie avoiding wasting water). I ended up with a washing up bowl in our current house quite rapidly mainly because I couldn't find a plug that fitted the sink properly! and then got used to using the bowl.