When do you wash the pots?

[TimeWasting]

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

Dish-washer free answers only please.

fanx getorf
love your extra i. very poshe.

Me too, I have a case of CBA-itis today.

when there's no space left on the kitchen surfaces.
since i've noticed it irritating DH i try at least a couple of times a week to do it in the last half hour before he gets in from work (i only work part-time from home) but only the washing never the drying - it can all drain for days until DH wipes or puts away or i need the space for the next lot. DH does it if he has the time.
sure i'm a slattern but it's not caused me any harm for the last decade

'wash the pots'

Ah not heard that in a long while! A bit of a northern saying, makes me homesick

My grandma and granddad used to say 'wash the pots' :)

Well I do have a dishwasher, so am technically disqualified from the thread.

BUT

I have got into the habit of completely clearing down the kitchen after a meal so that I am ready to go again, even after the DS's snack time in the afternoons. Otherwise I'm all at sea and things don't happen as they should.

I've got teenagers so I'm disqualified from the thread too

After every meal, and sometimes inbetween if peeps have extra stuff like lunch boxes or flasks... don't like dirty stuff left hanging around on the sides

When I run out of clean ones.

What do other people say then, if not "wash the pots"?

Dishes? 'do the dishes' or just 'wash up'

I was brought up in the north but live in the south, I have noticed a difference. Maybe it's just me!! But 'pots' is something which was said where I'm from

pans
Do the dishes

I thought only students left washing up on the side to do later
I hated that then
I can't bear it if anything is left out

I never realised it was a regional phrase. Learn something new every day on MN.

My gran says 'wash the pots'. She's from Yorkshire, i always presumed it was one of those regional phrases, cause me being in Essex, have never heard anyone say it down here. We say 'do the washing up'.

I should do mine after every meal, i hate cluttered and dirty worktops.
But with our water tank, we have to wait for the water to heat up before we can use it, so i turn it on, then forget, and get distracted by 18month old DS.
So i usually blitz it all while i'm making dinner. I would seriously consider chopping off a limb to get a dishwasher.

After breakfast, lunch and tea. Anything inbetween just save put in hot soapy water until next wash easy!

I used to be really slack and do it the next morning but now that we have mice we're washing up after every meal, and after most snacks too.

I wash up, or do the dishes, after breakfast and straight after dinner.

Unless I've been baking, had a cooked lunch, had people over so used a lot of cups/plates, or cooked something that requires a lot of pans or is cooked in stages (eg lasagne or cottage pie) in which case I also wash up after lunch/mid afternoon/whilst cooking depending on the scenario.

The odd cup/plate left after dinner gets left until morning.

I don't dry up, it usually sits on the drainer until I wash the next lot, unless I am being especially anal and require a clear drainer for peace of mind or have someone coming over I want to impress

When I first heard wash the pots I thought it meant saucepans and had images of big hearty porridge/fry up for breakfast, soup for lunch, stew for dinner etc (not sure where the plates/bowls to eat off were in my imaginings...)

After the meal unless something is baked on. If it is baked on it gets soaked overnight. Can't leave dishes overnight in case a burglar thinks I am a slob

As soon as they are used, usually after every meal - my bug bear is coming down to dirty dishes in the morning - it depresses me!!

buried undernappies - there's nowt wrong with wash the pots lass!! Isn't it strange though how everyone has different phrases or words that the rest of the country wouldn't have a clue about. Anyone know what a gansy is? (Think I've got the spelling right) - apologies to all of the Gordies out there if I haven't!! - It's a jumper!! Anyone else got any??

Learnt something new! I thought that you meant washing the pots only, and not all the other dishes... was wondering why you would make that distinction!

(have dishwasher so otherwise disqualified).