Anonymous wrote:Rinse dishes immediately after use and put in dishwasher, run dishwasher when I go to bed, empty while the coffee's brewing. Every. Single. Day.

Nothing sits in my sink ever.

This is us too. Dds plastic and silicone things get washed after th meal and put on a drying rack. It takes like 2 minutes to wash a couple dishes of hers. If I dirty a spoon or knife I either wash it immediately or put into dishwasher for that evening. No dirty dishes in the sink ever except maybe an oatmeal pot left to soak for 20 min while we eat breakfast.

Anonymous wrote:Immediately put dishes that can go in, into dishwasher during the day/evening when we are home

I do 99% of dinner cooking and clean as I go. DH does 99% of meal clean up and immediately takes care of any dishes/pans that didn't make it into the dishwasher while I cleaned as I went, or are not dishwasher safe.

Run when full, pretty much every day. First adult down empties it.

Meant to add, we both work FT also (have a 14 yo and 10yo), and have never had a sink full of dishes because that would gross me out. Kids help with clearing and loading dishwasher as needed.

Immediately put dishes that can go in, into dishwasher during the day/evening when we are home

I do 99% of dinner cooking and clean as I go. DH does 99% of meal clean up and immediately takes care of any dishes/pans that didn't make it into the dishwasher while I cleaned as I went, or are not dishwasher safe.

Run when full, pretty much every day. First adult down empties it.

Most dishes are rinsed and put in the dishwasher right away. I do hand wash the kids plastic stuff, my good good knives, and most of my pots and pans. I usually hand wash twice a day, before dinner prep so I have a clean sink to work with, and after dinner so the sink is empty before bedtime.

I have two sponges. One sits by the sink, the other sits in the top rack of the dishwasher. Every few days, I swap them out so they stay clean. I set the dishwasher on its delay feature to it runs overnight, and then we unload it in the morning. If we eat dinner and lunch out, we might skip running it and just wait for a fuller load the next day.

I also grew up not using my dishwasher except for special occasion, but I can't imagine living like that now!

Rinse dishes immediately after use and put in dishwasher, run dishwasher when I go to bed, empty while the coffee's brewing. Every. Single. Day.

Nothing sits in my sink ever.

Anonymous wrote:I don't use my dishwasher. I use a clean wash cloth and hot soapy water. I rinse dishes before washing them and I scrub my sink every day. My sink is always clean and shiny and my dishes are always clean. I wash dishes 2-4 times a day.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you have a dishwasher? Everyone does.

We don't use ours. We didn't have a dishwasher in our house when I was younger...so I'm just used to doing everything by hand.

Let me guess, you're Asian.

Wrong you racist fuck

I don't use my dishwasher. I use a clean wash cloth and hot soapy water. I rinse dishes before washing them and I scrub my sink every day. My sink is always clean and shiny and my dishes are always clean. I wash dishes 2-4 times a day.

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Anonymous wrote:Why don't you have a dishwasher? Everyone does.

We don't use ours. We didn't have a dishwasher in our house when I was younger...so I'm just used to doing everything by hand.

Let me guess, you're Asian.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you have a dishwasher? Everyone does.

We don't use ours. We didn't have a dishwasher in our house when I was younger...so I'm just used to doing everything by hand.

This is crazy, start using it.

Wow such great tips from others I'm going to start using my dishwasher right away! Thanks all!

No problem.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you have a dishwasher? Everyone does.

We don't use ours. We didn't have a dishwasher in our house when I was younger...so I'm just used to doing everything by hand.

This is crazy, start using it.

Wow such great tips from others I'm going to start using my dishwasher right away! Thanks all!

I either wash or rinse and put in the dishwasher right after we use. Unless it is really something that needs soaking. Then I put in the sink to soak.

If dishes are driving you crazy, why not use the dishwasher?

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In olden days when there was no running water, or when water needed to be conserved, there was the dish tub. Soapy water, then rinse water. Dry. Done.

My aunt still does this, though she does it in the sink.

I keep the water trickling and go over each dish with my dish sponge to eliminate debris before placing it in the dishwasher to be really cleaned. This method consumes a lot more water, sadly.
We take short showers, have water-saving toilets, don't water the lawn, to do our part for the environment.

Modern dishwashers use minimal water and shouldn't require pre-rinsing. Also, in this area, we get our water from the Potomac. It doesn't really matter if we use a little bit of water or a lot. I came from an area where water is scarce and precious. Here, water is precious but not scarce.

Anonymous wrote:
In olden days when there was no running water, or when water needed to be conserved, there was the dish tub. Soapy water, then rinse water. Dry. Done.

My aunt still does this, though she does it in the sink.

I keep the water trickling and go over each dish with my dish sponge to eliminate debris before placing it in the dishwasher to be really cleaned. This method consumes a lot more water, sadly.
We take short showers, have water-saving toilets, don't water the lawn, to do our part for the environment.

Get a better dishwasher (I'm not being snarky). I scrape food chunks off, but then put my dishes right in the dishwasher without rinsing. We're only a family of 3 and I run the dishwasher every 3rd day. No leftover food after the dishwasher is ran.

Our 'system' that is not really a 'system':

Every night, we pick up and spot clean the whole house, which includes rinsing the dishes from the day and putting them in the dishwasher. If the dishwasher is full, we run it. We did this when we didn't have a dishwasher also - it just took longer because we were washing everything by hand.

I will say that we don't have a sink full of dishes every day, because we do most of our cooking for the week on Sundays. And everyone is at work/school all day. So at most, we'll have breakfast bowls sitting all day, and then whatever from dinner.