Washing dishes - shower or bathe?

[Folacin]

Combination - stoppper in the sink, dishes in the sink, start water, add soap.

Start washing and rinsing in the main sink, and put in other sink to drain/dry. Depending on how full the sink is, turn off the water while scrubbing.

Things that need a bit of soaking get it while other things are being washed.

[VOW]

Even with a dishwasher, I rinse everything first. Part is habit, I admit.

However---

I've put gunky dishes in the dishwasher (old, new, fancy, plain) and I've used damned near every kind of dishwasher detergent and the dishes DON'T come clean. Plastics do not lose the greasy feel, so along with a rinse, I rub a bit of liquid dishwashing soap inside plastic containers before putting them in the dishwasher.

I even use the hot water boost setting!

For the mongo pots that don't fit in the dishwasher, they get soap on a sponge and shower method of cleaning.

If the dishwasher is busted or I'm at a place with no dishwasher (HORRORS!) I scrape and rinse, and then use the hot soapy water bath, with shower rinse.


~VOW

[Sister Vigilante]

We rinse everything, and anything stuck gets a bath. But only the inside of the pot, pan, whatever. Just to keep it all loose until the dishwasher.

If we are out of plates and need one, and the dishwasher hasn't been run yet, we'll pull one out, and shower it very quickly, usually with whatever soap is left on the sponge from the last time we cleaned the cutting board (which we always hand wash).

Reminds me of a joke. Guy visits his uncle, is served food, the plate seems kind of funky. He asks if it's clean. "Clean as Cold Water can get it," is the reply, every time.

When he finally goes to leave, he finds the uncle's dog lying in front of the door. Uncle says, "Cold Water, get out of the way!"

And actually, our dog is a good cleaner. He gets almost everything off the plate before we put it in the dishwasher. We just don't give him leftovers of things that are poisonous to dogs (onions, etc.). But you almost can't tell it was licked clean; that's how thorough he is.