Please educate me in the ways of washing up by hand

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This is one of those really sumple questions that should need answering but I've had a dishwasher for the last 8+ years and can't actually remember washing up!!!

Kitchen in new house doesn't have a dishwasher and it could be a while before we manage to fit one. DH and I dislike washing up and en dup with stuff piled up all over the place.

Is there a 'system' that works, something like wash x first, then y, remember to rinse

(I need really simple!!)

Thanks

Glasses first, then cups, then plates & cuttlery. Last of all are the pans.

thanks

And use really hot water. Win the sink with the tap half full, then boil a full kettles worth and add.

Do you have a one and a half bowl sink?

If so, put washing up bowl in main sink, add small amount of really really hot water and w up liquid, get marigolds on and wash your glasses and anything not too dirty. Stack those up in the half bowl and sloosh over with cold water to rinse, then stack them up on cutlery rack over draining board. Continue with more and more dirty stuff. So it will likely go glasses, side plates, mugs, cutlery, main plates, saucepans, oventrays, roasting dishes etc.

I speak as voice of experience with no dishwasher for the past 3 weeks and counting!

I hate washing up too. I have developed allergies on my hands since having my baby and they are dry and cracked, so now i have an extra 1st step to keep the skin moisturised and the allergens out:

1. get cotton gloves, whack on some vaseline and put hands into cotton gloves, then put into marigolds.
2. lay a dry dishtowel next to your draining board. Get a drainer for the draining board. the dishtowel is for glasses, fragile things, or baby bottles.
3. http://www.dishmatic.com/dishmatic.html are the dogs cahunas. My baby bottles have a separate non scratch washer head so bacteria from chopping boards don't get in them.
4. wash the big things first and dry them up then the other stuff can be stacked on the drainer and drip dry.

look up this lady and the related link here on mumsnet.
flylady.net/
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Hot water - check

You don't need to boil the kettle. Takes up too much time.

Whoops, x-posts.

Thanks guys - fab advice. Sadly we only have the one bowl.

You could also do with a TV in the kitchen if you have no dishwasher...or at least a decent digital radio for some distraction.

Also, if you have too many mugs hide some away so that people don't use every last one and leave you have stacks of them to wash up.