Advice from a sink and suds man
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You can spend so very much less – on purchase and installation costs, electricity, water and special soaps – by just ensuring a wide dishwashing area, just below the picture window of course, with two proper sized side-by-side sinks and draining boards (maybe you have them already) with a plastic drying rack on each draining side. You can cope with up to ten three-course eaters.
Get rid of the one-sink-and-plastic-bowl (whatever do the English use that for?) or the one with a tiny extra sink (for rinsing is it?)
Fill both sinks with hot water only. In one, squirt a good shot of dishwashing soap and mix it into foam.
Use a square sponge with hard plastic scraper back, and/or the long handled brush (not bottle-brush). Move items from soapy sink to clear rinse sink, then to drying racks.
Work out the way to stack everything neatly, systematically, into both drying racks, each type of item in its allocated space or slot – and you will find you can fit in crockery, cutlery, glasses and serving bowls from up to ten eaters.
This process, when into your routine, will take 20-30 minutes from first to last. With every piece of crockery, cutlery and glassware clean, rinsed and almost dry, ready to put away with hardly a dishtowel rub.
All at a fraction of the cost, time, space that an auto dishwasher would take; and instead of bending all the time, you are upright and looking out the window. Priceless.
By Tony Hall
You can spend so very much less – on purchase and installation costs, electricity, water and special soaps – by just ensuring a wide dishwashing area, just below the picture window of course, with two proper sized side-by-side sinks and draining boards (maybe you have them already) with a plastic drying rack on each draining side. You can cope with up to ten three-course eaters.
Get rid of the one-sink-and-plastic-bowl (whatever do the English use that for?) or the one with a tiny extra sink (for rinsing is it?)
Fill both sinks with hot water only. In one, squirt a good shot of dishwashing soap and mix it into foam.
Use a square sponge with hard plastic scraper back, and/or the long handled brush (not bottle-brush). Move items from soapy sink to clear rinse sink, then to drying racks.
Work out the way to stack everything neatly, systematically, into both drying racks, each type of item in its allocated space or slot – and you will find you can fit in crockery, cutlery, glasses and serving bowls from up to ten eaters.
This process, when into your routine, will take 20-30 minutes from first to last. With every piece of crockery, cutlery and glassware clean, rinsed and almost dry, ready to put away with hardly a dishtowel rub.
All at a fraction of the cost, time, space that an auto dishwasher would take; and instead of bending all the time, you are upright and looking out the window. Priceless.
By Tony Hall
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