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18 October 2009
Dishes in the sink or on the counter? You've just finished with dinner. Where do you put the dishes?
If they've got wet ick in them, they get rinsed in the sink, but set off to the right side before being washed. The dish rack is on the left side. If they've got dry ick, they get tapped out into the trashcan and then set on the right side of the sink. (My sink is too tiny to stack dishes in it and then wash them decently, but I've done it before when I've got friends coming over and I need more counter space.)
Dishes, pots, bowls, etc. go into the sink to soak. Glasses get rinsed and put on the counter, because if put in the sink they tend to fall over and break.
Never in the sink. I dislike dirty dishes in the sink immensely. I'll say it's a stupid practice. My husband isn't stupid but he does it. My feeling is if you're not going to wash them right away, or load the dishwasher, stack them next to the sink. Once you put dirty dishes inside the sink the entire kitchen goes to hell. There is no place to wash your hands or rinse a dish and everybody kind of gives up.
Just like sperose, only on opposite sides of the sink. I also take the roommate's dishes from the sink if they're not obviously soaking, because he seems to typically put them in there in the (usually) vain hope that I will wash them out of necessity.
When I have lived in places without a dishwasher then they get rinsed/scraped and go on the counter beside the sink, if there is room. If not, then the dishes get done immediately. I hate them sitting in the sink.
Even when I live in places with dishwashers, dirty dishes go into the sink but don't stay there longer than a day. Then they get handwashed and put on the rack.
As I explained it to someone else earlier today, if I had to describe how I do housework in a Chore Wars sort of way, I've got uber-levels in dishwashing and laundry (because these are two chores I like to do and am good at) and I don't have any ability and/or need/want to do dusting, cleaning the bathroom, and/or mopping.
In this kitchen, we have only a teeny tiny bit of counter, but a two-basin sink. Ideally, dishes go in the right-hand sink; the left-hand sink stays empty and clean.
Unlike so many household chores, this isn't a dictate of A Right Way and A Wrong Way, but just The Way That Works Here. In our next home, it might be different.
Even when I live in places with dishwashers, dirty dishes go into the sink but don't stay there longer than a day. Then they get handwashed and put on the rack.
As I explained it to someone else earlier today, if I had to describe how I do housework in a Chore Wars sort of way, I've got uber-levels in dishwashing and laundry (because these are two chores I like to do and am good at) and I don't have any ability and/or need/want to do dusting, cleaning the bathroom, and/or mopping.
i HATE walking into a kitchen with dirty dishes . when i cook, as soon as i finish using a pot or pan , i wash it . same when i am done with dishes after eating . i wash them as soon as i can before food gets encrusted on them .
it only takes a few seconds (especially when the pans are still hot)and in the long i spend very little time doing dishes as i rarely have to scrub or scour
I clean them. Or I put them in the dishwasher. I cannot stand dirty dishes on the counter or in the sink. It's disgusting. On the counter is worse than in the sink; dirty dishes on the counters encourages the cats to get on the counters. It will be a problem once guy is here fulltime (7 weeks!!) cause he hates dishwashers (why? no idea) and just leaves piles of dirty dishes around. I think it's disgusting, so I wash them (really, I don't mind washing them, and I can't abide seeing them around), then he feels like he's not pulling his weight. Ah, adulthood. The endless compromise.
No dishwasher here, so we scrape, rinse, and put them in the right side of the sink, leaving the left side available. Dishes get done either that night or the next afternoon, due to work and school schedules.
Once you put dirty dishes inside the sink the entire kitchen goes to hell. There is no place to wash your hands or rinse a dish and everybody kind of gives up.
YES. THIS. I can never get this through to my partner, that the more you stack dishes in the sink the worse it gets. To clean everything IN the sink, you must take it OUT. And you can't even rinse anything else until everything is taken OUT of the sink and cleaned. GAH.
I don't understand. Big sink, Neatly stacked dishes. Morning comes. While coffee drips, dishes get washed and put in drainer, where they stay forever. However, if my entreaties to the buildergods are successful, soon there will be a machine that washes the dishes, in my very own kitchen. And a countertop! Already, there is a backsplash. The new Ikea cupboards are installed, lacking only their inside shelving and knobs. It's a miracle, I tell ya. Now, if only I would stop hiring drunken builders, injury-prone builders, etc., I'd have a working kitchen.
Umm, return to question. Stop discussing how and where to store them. Dirty dishes? Wash them.
When my dishwasher was working, it was rinse and into the dishwasher they went. Right now, I was all pots/pans as soon as they're cool enough, dishes in the sink. I have the kids and I taking turns emptying the drainboard and washing the dishes. I can't stand coming home to dirty dishes; something I still have to work on with the boys.
Dishwasher! If full, then counter. My SO freaks right out if there are dishes in the sink. He has no problem filling it with a million crumbs, used coffee grinds, eggshells, carrot shavings and food scraped off from plates, but he hates dishes in it. I am not about to try and figure that one out.
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