Cups bowls etc wishing for washing up. Placed in sink filled with cold water and a generous squirt of watching up liquid

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First world problem! OH does this. Don't understand benefit and cups take longer to wash up to get the washing up liquid / taste clear. Views?

I'll run a bowl of hot soapy water just before I start dishing up. Then things like serving utensils etc can go straight in. Plates and cutlery go in once finished with, and then once I've had a 15 minute or so digesting session, they barely need much wiping at all to get clean.

DP does all the dishes one by one under hot running water - but doesn’t use WU Liquid🤬🤬🤬then I need to do them all again - does my head in!

Why boak?

I do the dishes with bare hands, I can't abide wearing gloves. What's the problem?

Yes yes yes

My DH chucks everything in with hot soapy water. Refuses to use the dishwasher. Seeing all the chunks of food floating around makes me 🤢. We have a tap with a hose attachment so really easy to give them a rinse first. He will wash up eventually once the plates have soaked but I have to see it. Then watch DH fishing around in the disgusting water.

This is one of our most common causes of argument. DH doesn’t get why I don’t let him get on with it his way. I don’t get why he doesn’t rinse stuff and use the bloody dishwasher!

Dishwasher. Two of us use a days bits then push button & go to bed bliss. Why people spend time at a sink is be me.

I wholeheartedly agree. I hate having to wash tiny DCs hands but there's loads of dirty things in there soaking that they keep touching.

I've a dishwasher, there are only two of us here. Said dishwasher was purchased in January to fit into the new kitchen. It has been used ONCE since I bought it. Honestly I couldn't be bothered waiting an hour (quickest wash), and then having to unload and put it away.

I just wash, rinse and leave on the rack. Five or so minutes. Put away when I'm in the kitchen for something else. So quick, so easy and I think I'll just have to run the dishwasher once a month to keep it working!

Of course if there's a crowd here, I'll use it. Am waiting for them all to arrive (not!)

Yes but what you do after this is what shapes them for the future, so get them back into the kitchen and stand over them whilst they remove their dishes from the sink and put them into the dishwasher. I wouldn't touch them and neither would Dh, they would be called back through, even if it meant they got left there all day whilst they were at school.

Going forward they know that they will have to put them in the dishwasher because putting them in the sink is pointless. Stop picking up after them if they are teens. This is why my children have tidy rooms, because I didn't tidy their rooms up despairing as I did it, I made my children tidy their rooms, it is non-negotiable. My children are 21 and 18 year old boys.

OP we have a Quooker which means you can run both the boiling water and cold water at the same time which allows you to get instant very hot water to wash things up with so single items are washed immediately. Dishwasher for most items, pans are hand washed. We call it double handling, you don't handle or deal with something later that you could have done right there and then. Ds1 is at uni, cooks, plates it, immediately washes the pan, dries it, back into the cupboard then enjoys his meal.

Putting things in soak in the sink rather than washing them up is so annoying.

And if you’re not going to wash them up straight away, leave the things on the side so they don’t block the sink!

If anything does need to soak, like a pan, fill with boiling water on the side

@guitarpluckingchicken I agree with your post so much - I have drilled my dds in the same way. Their rooms look pretty good!

If you allow your children to be slobs then they will be!

Don’t tell me - is he also a teabag sink litterer?

Any time it gets in your way, call him over "DH? When are you going to finish this washing up so I can use the sink?"

He won't want to admit outright that he left them in there for you to do them. And if he does, it might make him think about how that actually comes across.

I didn't enjoy mine so no dishwasher in new kitchen. I could smell and taste the chemicals in tablets and it took much longer to sluice out dishes then load machine then unload than it does now just to wash. There are only 2 of us now and not 6 though. Don't miss it!

Not everyone can fit them into their kitchen!

That's a whole thread right there.
Also people who do this in work kitchens. Especially when the bin gets emptied daily so you can't claim it cause mould!!

I have told DH, either wash up or leave it alone. Stop leaving things with cold water in them, it does nothing.

MIL was obsessed with soaking. If you had a glass of water it then had to sit full of water for several hours before she washed it up, what’s the point?