Advice from a sink and suds man Picture from urbanreststop.org 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...
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