Well yes, of course, but it negates the entire point of a Ziplock bag.
I don’t remember if this has shown up here, yet, but we’re putting in a new sink faucet. The drain is the new “pop up” style that you push down to close, push down to open and it self-latches in either position.
So when you want to fill the sink with water you pop the drain down (closed), fill the sink, do whatever sink stuff was on your mind and then have to stick your hand down into the dirty water to pop the drain up (open). Gross.
Once you get it home, slit the label with a suitable knife and then the zip-lock is fully useable.
As I’m sure you’ve seen, many zip-lock type packages now have a tear off strip as well. So the package is fully sealed until the tear strip is removed, then the package functions as a conventional zip-lock. And the buyer can see if the package has been tampered with by the absence or damage to the tear strip.
Everything about theft-resistant packaging is a PITA for the legit user. Just one more way thieves turn the world to shite.
You’ll be surprised to know that I’ve tried that, since I’m not a moron. They’re the Ziplocks with the external zipper head.whch can’t pass over the label without jamming, and the bags are a very thin plastic that tears if you try to remove the extra sticky anti-theft label. (Idk if @RealityChuck’s bags are the same.) And they’re not the bags with a tear-off strip, which I’m also fully trained on.
I’ve tried that. Many times. The act of cutting doesn’t help. You either cut the bag or you tear it as you try to pull off the part of the label that covers the zipper.
Cool. Sorry if I’ve annoyed anyone.
At first I was wondering how else you’d open and close a kitchen sink. But then I realized that you can open and close some bathroom sinks and bathtubs without reaching your hand into the water. Which makes me wonder why I’ve never seen such a contraption in a kitchen sink, where you’d be most likely to have to reach into dirty water. Personally I’ve only seen kitchen sinks that you had to stop up with after-market plugs which still required you to reach your hand into the water. So having that come with the drain would at least be an improvement.
Sorry, grouchier than usual this morning.
Excellent post / username combo.
My mistake in not specifying a bathroom sink. I often have pretty messy hands or things I’ve cleaned up and–if I had my druthers–I’d prefer to empty without getting any more of it on me. However, thinking about it, some of the stuff that ends up in the kitchen makes me shudder, too and I’ve never seen that option there.
I’m sure it’s me , but I can’t figure out a reason why I would want to close the drain and fill up either the bathroom or kitchen sick with water that doesn’t involve putting my hands in the water. If I’m filling the sink to wash dishes or clothes , I’m going to be putting my hands in the water . If I was going to empty the sink and then clean the items under running water, I just would have used the running water without filling the sink.
Imagine filling a sink with hot soapy water, then putting something gross in there to soak for a couple hours to loosen the gunk. Now you come back and want to drain the icky gunk-filled water before finishing the clean-up with running water as you’ve described. But you don’t want to touch the icky water to open the drain. I suspect that’s the use case being described.
I think being unwilling to touch icky water is the sign of a weak and fear-filled mind, but apparently some people find the idea of icky water very off-putting.
Likewise. For things that need to be washed in the sink (big pots and pans), I get the water coming out of the nozzle warm hot and I wash and rinse it. Then put it on a towel to dry. Also do the pre rinse with dishes that go in the dishwasher. Not really needed but we will put a couple of dirty dishes in the sink, hit them with an ounce or two or water, and we are good to put them in the dishwasher the next day.
I’m taking care of my mothers house too. I give myself
- One plate
- One bowl
- One glass
- A fork, spoon and knife.
I clean as I go
Easy peasy.
I never fill up a sink. Wash dishes in dirty dishwater is a hard no to me.
Sheesh, what did I ever do to you? 
When I’ve had the sink filled with really hot water, and I wanted to remove the stopper, I’ve used a pair of tongs or worn kitchen gloves to do so. (I was filling the sink with really hot soapy water, opening the drain and then starting the disposal to clear it thoroughly.)
Story time. I’m with the Scouts at our cabin, which has a rudimentary kitchen (stove, sink, you get water from the tap down the hill). It’s well after 9am, we’re supposed to be packed up and at the parking lot at 10am, Tick Tock! One of my scouts is looking at the sink, poking at it with something. Full of gross water and the strainer is obviously blocked by some scrambled egg. I look at him, he’s just waiting for the water to go down drop by drop.
Excuse me, I say. Stick my hand in there and grab a big wad of the egg, and toss it in the trash. The scout looks at me with wonder in his eyes “Gee Mr. Cheesesteak… you REALLY want to go home!” Yeah kid, I changed diapers and cleaned vomit, I’m not letting some egg get in the way of going home today.
Exactly. Every parent has had their hands in stuff a lot worse than dirty dishwater.
I’m old enough to remember when dishwashers and garbage disposals were not common, at least in our world. My siblings and I hand-washed and dried dishes throughout our growing-up years. Putting our hands into icky sink water was something we did each and every day. And we managed to survive into adulthood.
My Le Creuset cast iron pot has a cast iron knob in its lid. Cast iron conducting heat very well, the knob gets invariably too hot to touch when cooking. I have to use an oven mitt to take the lid off. So I see what the company attempted with the plastic knob.
Get a Chevy 
I have to call out Porsche here for their trunk and hood release system. Most car companies use a mechanical release, at least for the hood, so you can open it and access the battery even when the battery is dead. But Porsche has found a far dumber way. The releases are electric switches only. So dead battery? Sorry you can’t open anything, you can’t even access your battery to jump it.
The workarounds for this are various and far too difficult. Some models have a cable you can pull in the drivers side wheel well. In order to access it, you’ve got to remove the plastic panel around the tire. Another method is to pull this little lever out of the fuse box in the drivers footwell. Then you hook up a battery like you’re going to jump it, but this provides just enough power so the hood and trunk release buttons work. Then you can relocate the jumper cables to the actual battery and jump normally.
My solution is to hook up a little adapter cable that snakes from the battery out to near where the windshield washer nozzles sit. Then if the battery is dead, I can always grab that cable and hook up a charger.
This has been a problem since the late 90’s, everyone hates it, and it is still there on their current models today.