It makes washing dishes incredibly efficient, with less water wastage. I could wash the dishes for a family of four in absolutely no time at all, but without a double sink that takes much longer with more water used.
As I understand from the other comments, it’s a place to put the dishes after they’ve been cleaned and ready for rinsing? The way I’ve always done it is I clean the largest vessel first, then everything goes into that vessel until it fills up, then do a round of rinsing. If I don’t have a large dirty vessel, I take out a large clean mixing bowl for this purpose.
I did, in that terrible time without the dishwasher, that I would like to forget. I was taking a plate, scrubbing it with a sponge and then rinsing it with clean water from the tap.
Or do you want me to tell, y’all using a dirty sink full of dirty water to do it?
That’s a terrible ineffective method, and a waste of water.
Fill one sink with hot water + soup, put as much dishes in it as possible to soak them, and fill the other sink with fresh hot water. Clean one dish after another, preferably with a brush (you’ll burn your hands using a sponge), rinse them in the clean water, and put them on the dryer.
If you do not have a second sink, use a tub for either purpose.
And yes, the water will get dirty and cool over time, and you’ll have to switch if you’ve got too much dishes.
Of course, if you’re only cleaning a plate and a knife and perhaos a glas, using just the tap is far more efficient.
And you, just, like, put a clean dish in the same stale water as all the others? I am shivering just thinking about! Only the first couple of plates will be clean, everything else is dirty with the shit from previous plate!
I’m not sure what you mean. I fully wash the dish in the wash water, then put it in the straight hot rinse water for a minute or so before putting it in the drainer to air dry. The hot water helps them air dry faster and rinses the soap off.
If the rinse water is any less than completely clear, I’m not washing the properly, and I drain and refresh the rinse sink. In my opinion it saves water over rinsing each dish under running water.
The rinse water is clean and stays clean. You’re rinsing off the soap suds. You can wash a shit ton of dishes and the end result is the wash water is dirty and the rinse water is clear. Frankly you’re being absurd, you’re not shoveling dirty water into the rinse water JFC. The rinse cycle on a dishwasher is wayyy worse.
How can it stay clean if you just put all your dirty plates there? And oils, all the oils are floating on top! And all the pieces and bits, just there!
Are you serious? Dish soap breaks down oil. You wash in the dish soap. Which breaks down the oil. Bits and pieces come off in the wash water. When you pick up the dish, the wash water comes off. Carrying the bits and pieces with it. Back into the wash water. Some soap suds remain, which you rinse off in the rinse water. Have you never washed dishes?
It’s actually not exactly true. Soap doesn’t break down oil. It attaches to the oil molecules, and attaches to a water molecule by the other end. Which, when the water is running away and takes all this mess into the drain, is incredibly effective. With the stagnant pool of water, less so.
I did wash the dishes in buckets when I was young, lived in poverty, and had to do it all by hands. I still remember that feeling of always dirty dishes, that’s why I am always terrified when people do it on purpose.
What do you do with double sink? I’ve never had a double sink and I can’t imagine how I would use it
It makes washing dishes incredibly efficient, with less water wastage. I could wash the dishes for a family of four in absolutely no time at all, but without a double sink that takes much longer with more water used.
Single sink makes cleaning pans so much easier. Everything smaller goes in the dish washer, so much faster than hand cleaning.
I can say with certainty you have never hand washed a sink full of dishes before.
As I understand from the other comments, it’s a place to put the dishes after they’ve been cleaned and ready for rinsing? The way I’ve always done it is I clean the largest vessel first, then everything goes into that vessel until it fills up, then do a round of rinsing. If I don’t have a large dirty vessel, I take out a large clean mixing bowl for this purpose.
I did, in that terrible time without the dishwasher, that I would like to forget. I was taking a plate, scrubbing it with a sponge and then rinsing it with clean water from the tap.
Or do you want me to tell, y’all using a dirty sink full of dirty water to do it?
That’s a terrible ineffective method, and a waste of water.
Fill one sink with hot water + soup, put as much dishes in it as possible to soak them, and fill the other sink with fresh hot water. Clean one dish after another, preferably with a brush (you’ll burn your hands using a sponge), rinse them in the clean water, and put them on the dryer.
If you do not have a second sink, use a tub for either purpose.
And yes, the water will get dirty and cool over time, and you’ll have to switch if you’ve got too much dishes.
Of course, if you’re only cleaning a plate and a knife and perhaos a glas, using just the tap is far more efficient.
But the water is dirty. All this dirt you cleaned is there, in your water, floating, clinging to whatever comes close.
They sure are and “what do you mean rinsing with clean water?” say some folks in Europe
Not sure if we can blame the commercials
Idk about others, but I have one sink for wash water, and one for rinse water.
And you, just, like, put a clean dish in the same stale water as all the others? I am shivering just thinking about! Only the first couple of plates will be clean, everything else is dirty with the shit from previous plate!
I’m not sure what you mean. I fully wash the dish in the wash water, then put it in the straight hot rinse water for a minute or so before putting it in the drainer to air dry. The hot water helps them air dry faster and rinses the soap off. If the rinse water is any less than completely clear, I’m not washing the properly, and I drain and refresh the rinse sink. In my opinion it saves water over rinsing each dish under running water.
Oh, with big enough amounts, sure.
The rinse water is clean and stays clean. You’re rinsing off the soap suds. You can wash a shit ton of dishes and the end result is the wash water is dirty and the rinse water is clear. Frankly you’re being absurd, you’re not shoveling dirty water into the rinse water JFC. The rinse cycle on a dishwasher is wayyy worse.
How can it stay clean if you just put all your dirty plates there? And oils, all the oils are floating on top! And all the pieces and bits, just there!
Are you serious? Dish soap breaks down oil. You wash in the dish soap. Which breaks down the oil. Bits and pieces come off in the wash water. When you pick up the dish, the wash water comes off. Carrying the bits and pieces with it. Back into the wash water. Some soap suds remain, which you rinse off in the rinse water. Have you never washed dishes?
It’s actually not exactly true. Soap doesn’t break down oil. It attaches to the oil molecules, and attaches to a water molecule by the other end. Which, when the water is running away and takes all this mess into the drain, is incredibly effective. With the stagnant pool of water, less so.
I did wash the dishes in buckets when I was young, lived in poverty, and had to do it all by hands. I still remember that feeling of always dirty dishes, that’s why I am always terrified when people do it on purpose.