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[quote=Anonymous]I am going to take OP at face value.

First, I put on gloves.  Trust me on this.  Hand washing destroys your hands.

I stack all my dirty dishes in one side of my sink and then rinse each thing in hot water, stacking the rinsed dishes on the other side of the sink as I go.  I use a dish brush as needed.  Then I rinse the bottom of the sink and run the garbage disposal to get rid of any gunk in the sink.

Second, I wet a small rag or dish cloth (not a sponge - ugh) and add a few squirts of soap, rub it together to form lots of suds, and then use that cloth to wash all the rinsed dishes, creating a new, soapy stack on the opposite side of the sink.  As I do this, I make a pile of all the silverware, with the ends all pointing the same way.  The water is off for this step.

Finally, I use hot water to rinse all the dishes, pouring the rinse water over the pile of dishes so I am wasting as little water as possible.  As the dishes are rinsed, I put them in a drying rack next to the sink with a folded dishtowel underneath.  I let the dishes air dry either in the rack or on the stove for big items.

I scrub down the bottom of the sink with some soap and a dish brush, and then put both the dish cloth and the towel from under the drying rack in the laundry.  I do not reuse towels and I do not let towels sit around a dry to be used again - they just go into the wash.[/quote]

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