I don't know about this new fangled machine dish washing stuff. Back in the day people got married for efficient kitchen management; one cooked, the other washed up.
Course, single people like myself get to do both, lucky people that we are.
My eldest has got a dish washing machine (so have many other people I know come to that) and she's always telling me I can't put this or that in the machine. Well, you can imagine for someone like myself who uses the smoke alarm as a food timer a lot of stuff couldn't go in a dish washing machine.
These machine dish thingies need buckets of electric and have you seen the price of the chemicals you have to put in the machine to get it to work!
In the desert they use sand; that's pretty cheap and you can wash it. Obviously given I've got a small second floor flat a sandpit isn't really a going proposition.
I only use detergent occasionally, perhaps the smoke alarm went off and then the fire alarm after; that's a bad pan burn.
My next concern is one needs an awful lot of crockery to fill one of these machines. I know most people have, my daughter has, but that's because she's nice to people. A man like myself has exactly 4 plates, 4 bowls and a few cups just in case they feel like being nce to somebody. On those rare occasions when I'm feeding more than 4 people or need plates for other courses I tell my guest to bring their own plates and I pack them up dirty for them to take home and wash.
This means even flat out on the cooking I only ever have 4 plates to wash.
I used to have an "eating bowl". It was a lovely piece of ceramic crafted by a friend. It had an eight inch flat base with rounded sides about one inch tall.
Most of the food stayed on the plate, including those eascaping peas! I ate the majority of my meals off it, washed it, dried it, ready for the next meal.
Course, single people like myself get to do both, lucky people that we are.
My eldest has got a dish washing machine (so have many other people I know come to that) and she's always telling me I can't put this or that in the machine. Well, you can imagine for someone like myself who uses the smoke alarm as a food timer a lot of stuff couldn't go in a dish washing machine.
These machine dish thingies need buckets of electric and have you seen the price of the chemicals you have to put in the machine to get it to work!
In the desert they use sand; that's pretty cheap and you can wash it. Obviously given I've got a small second floor flat a sandpit isn't really a going proposition.
I only use detergent occasionally, perhaps the smoke alarm went off and then the fire alarm after; that's a bad pan burn.
My next concern is one needs an awful lot of crockery to fill one of these machines. I know most people have, my daughter has, but that's because she's nice to people. A man like myself has exactly 4 plates, 4 bowls and a few cups just in case they feel like being nce to somebody. On those rare occasions when I'm feeding more than 4 people or need plates for other courses I tell my guest to bring their own plates and I pack them up dirty for them to take home and wash.
This means even flat out on the cooking I only ever have 4 plates to wash.
I used to have an "eating bowl". It was a lovely piece of ceramic crafted by a friend. It had an eight inch flat base with rounded sides about one inch tall.
Most of the food stayed on the plate, including those eascaping peas! I ate the majority of my meals off it, washed it, dried it, ready for the next meal.
It's been a busy year as I've been studying.
