Do you use a washing up bowl?

[ClarasMummy]

Have heard several people on Mumsnet say they don't use one/have no need for one.
Was just wondering what your reasons were if you don't have one.

I don't. I have never really thought about why other than it is not needed. I use one in our caravan though.

I have one, I keep it in the cupboard under the sink meaning pots are out of sight until washed. Also means I have to wash them when washing up bowl is full, which means they get done quicker than if they were filling up the sink.

No I use a dishwasher.

Bowls drive me mad, always in the way when you want to run some water or tip ends of tea away...

I bought one recently because I like to bleach my kitchen cloths and and cant tip coffee/tea dregs away if I have cloths steeping in the sink.

Apart from that I have a dishwasher, so not really needed, but is handy to have.

No dont use one-they get filthy and manky and tea stained underneath and its one more thing to clean

I don't use one - we have a half sink so there is somewhere to drain and empty even if we are doing dishes. Most goes in the dishwasher anyway.
MIL has one and I find it a real pain. It is just something else to clean and seems to make the sink dirtier as stuff gets stuck around it etc (and she is super clean freak). I do have a basin for soaking things in the utility room though as the plug doesn't hold.

I use one purely cos it saves water. Tight that I am but the grime underneath (DH never ever thinks to swill under) is making me rethink....

I use one and it has saved me a couple of times when I have started running the tap and then got distracted - having the bowl meant the plug wasnt in so excess water went down the plughole rather than all over my floor!!

yes we use one. i have a dishwasher, so it doesn't get used often, but it does get used.

mainly because it uses less water than filling the sink, and also because there is always an inevitable half-full cup that needs washing... and where do you tip it if the sink is full of water???

I have a pathological hatred of them. I just wash up under hot running water and leave the rinsed dishes to dry by themselves.

I hate washing up bowls because they get full of horrible little bits of food that swirl around your fingers when you're washing the dishes That feeling sets my teeth on edge and I hate it.

They also get very dirty underneath and you're forever having to empty them.

My MIL has one and it's very annoying.

yes, use it for putting potatoes in before peeling also protects (crap white) sink from chipping

I have never understood what they were for

we have no plug in our sink, so we have one and i HATE it. People leave dirty dishes and half full cups of tea in it, and then it fills with water when they use the sink, which turns manky and is cold and I have to empty it before I can wash anything and its GROSS!!!!

Don't your sinks get blocked if you don't use one? We use one, sieve the water and chuck out any debris.

The first thing I do when I am at someone house where there is one is to take it out before proceeding to wash the dishes. I really have never understood the need for a washing up bowl inside a sink.. I am forin though, maybe a cultural thing?

Less water, and you can sieve it so you're not chucking food down the sink. I want to know what Non Bowlers do when a stray noodle gets in the washing up water.

I have a "thing" with small holes that collects the stuff and I just shake it in my recycling bin

We use a washing up bowl because we only have one sink, and what else do you do with the weird stuff that always turns up needing tipping away? Doesn't get dirty underneath because it's the last thing I wash when I do the washing up, doesn't collect dirty utensils because it's kept sideways in the sink and the dirty stuff is stacked neatly on the side /control freak.

I'd rather have a dishwasher though, but have no space for one (use DH as one instead...)

You can buy a little thing that catches the debris. It sits in the plughole. I don't use a plug in my sink, I just run the hot tap and wash the dishes under the water so they get rinsed. I have a thing about bits of food in water, so I have to do that. Very tiny bits of food just get washed down the plughole if I haven't got my little debris catcher in.

I can't get my head around the fact that in UK you never rinse dishes. Crockery pulled out of filthy water ..eugh.. In my country it's either double sink or wash with a soapy sponge and then rinse under running water.

I always rinse my dishes! I could never have them covered in suds and still with bits of food clinging to them. Yuck

never used one. the sink is for washing up, no?

i rinse the suds off, it's wasting water to do the whole lot under a running tap surely? and could miss bits of food. anyway who cares really? :D

I can't get your link to work. I know what you mean by a debris catcher. Our sink came off the ark though, we can't get one to fit.

And yes, you can still chuck stuff down the sink once you've run the water. All positives.

I will not be getting rid of the bowl. It's green too. I like green.