When do you wash the pots?

[TimeWasting]

After every meal? In the morning? On a Friday?

Dish-washer free answers only please.

After every meal

When they're dirty.

I don't put pots and pans in the dishwasher anyway. Dead easy to wash up after cooking. Usually just a short rinse, a quick swipe with the scrubber, a hot wash and done!

I wash them after each meal and any cups etc. before i go to bed.

I don't like coming down to dirty cups in the morning.

( I don't use a dishwasher!)

Are only the 'good' girls answering?

Whenever they're dirty. I can't sleep with dirty dishes in the kitchen...they call out to me!

After every meal, unless meal was a sandwich so there's 1 plate and 1 knife...then it waits til tea. Am I a slattern then?

Generally after every meal, but now and again if there is somehing good on the telly in the evening I will sod it and do them in the morning.

Mostly in the morning. But sometimes while things are still cooking, if its something like a lasagne where the pans aren't in use by the end IYSWIM?

I do have a dishwasher, but it usually seems silly to run it for about 2 pans!

By your last post TimeWasting I am guessing you are a bit like me and usually have lots of washing up on the sides. I used to let it all pile up and then do it before dinner time but I am trying to change and now doing 15 minutes here and there when I feel like it!

After every meal. I haven't got a dishwasher as I quite like washing dishes loser.

I couldn't leave dirty dishes until the morning, I used to in my younger slob days, but never would now.

I know I should after each meal, but that's always seemed innefficient somehow.

When I need them again

breakfast things get done when I go into the kitchen to make the evening meal. Dinner stuff is done immediately after the meal-I can't relax knowing its all in there

During the week when it's just me and the youngest DC at home, I'll wash the breakfast and lunch pots together in my half an hour clean up blitz before the school run. DH washes dinner pots early evening.

[slattern]

If they don't fit in the dishwasher, after the meal or before bedtime (can't sleep properly otherwise). On the odd occasion that I leave the pots until the next morning, I get up and the whole day seems a nightmare and I find it hard to get going. If I come down and the worktops are clear and clean, I feel soooo much better.

After every meal.

When the washing up bowl (which I keep in the cupboard uner the sink) is full.

Usually only once a day as there is only me and DS.

What do you do, if someone dirties a plate or mug in the evening?

When I feel like it! Or when DD has a nap, but she only naps for half an hour at a time at the moment. As a pp said, sometimes I wash up as I go, especially if I'm baking or making something that has to go in the oven for a bit. Then there's only the dish and a couple of plates and cutlery, they might get done the same night, or the next morning.

My first job of the day is normally to wash whatever pots there are, sometimes it's a lot, sometimes hardly any. My PET HATE is having to wash something because I need to use it, and I can't make a start cooking dinner if there are pots needing washing up.

Y'see, I try to be a good girl, but it's just not in my nature :(

There are only two of us so we dont have to many dishes
breakfast 2 cups/2 bowls/2 spoons
lunch 2 cups/ 2 glasses/ 2 plates knives etc

I normally do these all together before I start making dinner then when I have finished cooking dinner place all the pots in the leftover water to soak while we are eating then use fresh water to wash all the dinner dishes. We try to do what we can to save water :)

When?
the only time I wash the pots is if DH is doing something very important and I'm being nice as a treat.

Nickel - you are exempted from dishwashing for at least another 6 months.

I hope and your baby are doing well

Never.

DH does it every evening before coming to bed.
:)

I wish I was exempt from washing the pots.