Do you dry your dishes?

[Orang Utan]

Only put dishes, drinking vessels and cutlery in dishwasher. Pots and pans are washed up immediately after tea and left to dry and put away before bedtime

 

[Cloo]

We have a dishwasher but we still have multiple loads of hand washed stuff to do every day, maybe cos we make a lot of meals from scratch?

 

[oomfoofoo]

Beaded curtains are for stopping flies? I did not know that.

I was skeptical at first, but they really do work, the odd one might get in, but that's it.

 

[Spymaster]

The non-drying of dishes drives me absolutely insane, they get put on a rack and sometimes even with the best of intentions mould happens under the rack, it is fucking disgusting and dishes should be dried and put away.

There isn't any other response to this, you leave stuff hanging around damp and you get mould, just dry everything as quick as you can. Short time is OK, but it is not a long-term storage option

(Your mileage may vary depending upon how prone your home is to mould)

Nah. The dishwasher does the drying but if there's only a plate or two I'll usually hand wash them and stick them on the rack to dry. The rack is on a stainless steel drainer which gets sorted by the cleaner once a week so no chance of mould here.

 

[UrbaneFox]

It's just a steamer.

I have silly collapsible steamers, which are more like executive toys, and very thin.

 

[Reno]

One of the best things about having moved to Germany is that every kitchen here comes with a dishwasher or at least space for one. My last kitchen in London was too small. Would not want to go back to washing dishes in the sink, always hated it. You offer me a choice between a dishwasher or a time machine, I’ll always pick the dishwasher.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Drying dishes? That's what the dishwasher does.

 

[StoneRoad]

We have a dishwasher but I understand the most hygenic way for hand washing is hot rinse and air dry as tea towels are a harbour for bacteria.

Which is why I use a clean one for a max of 15 / 20 mins and if doing a lot of drying up, I may use several. Then straight into the washer it goes.
Air dry is only hygienic in a clean & dry atmosphere and for "pots" turned upside down.

 

[StoneRoad]

<snip>
StoneRoad I bought one of those wooden beaded fly screens for the back door, which is near the kitchen and haven't had any problems with them since.<snip>

We often have windows open as well as doors for ventilation - I'm thinking of getting proper fly screens for door and windows ...

 

[Pickman's model]

We often have windows open as well as doors for ventilation - I'm thinking of getting proper fly screens for door and windows ...

To keep them in?

 

[quimcunx]

The flies at my parents were really bad this summer. Drove us all to distraction.

 

[maomao]

I try to clear them all between loads so I can wash the draining board underneath. There's always something, usually tupperware, that hasn't drip dried properly.

WIth four of us all eating three meals a day at home and pretty much all cooking done from scratch lockdown was basically 10% washing up.

 

[5t3IIa]

The flies at my parents were really bad this summer. Drove us all to distraction.

My childhood summers at home are soundtracked by the smack of leather on wi... a bamboo (?) and bead curtain tinkling woodenly at the back door

Oh shit, probably one of these:


Very 70's

 

[StoneRoad]

I quite like the metal chain ones you sometimes see with a design painted on them from coloured links. Not cheap, though.

 

[5t3IIa]

I quite like the metal chain ones you sometimes see with a design painted on them from coloured links. Not cheap, though.

Quite selection (with little availability) on eBay Bamboo Beaded Curtain Window Door Hanging Shoji Room Dividers Palm Hawaii Beach | eBay

quimcunx I could see this at your gaff

 

[Badgers]

What about this thing I may have mentioned before

 

[quimcunx]

Quite selection (with little availability) on eBay Bamboo Beaded Curtain Window Door Hanging Shoji Room Dividers Palm Hawaii Beach | eBay

quimcunx I could see this at your gaff

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Less so my parents gaff which is where it's needed.

 

[bellaozzydog]

With four people in the house I’ve just initiated Op Teatowel

you will wash, dry and put away after every meal

it’s just been written into the house charter and published

 

[oomfoofoo]

My childhood summers at home are soundtracked by the smack of leather on wi... a bamboo (?) and bead curtain tinkling woodenly at the back door

Oh shit, probably one of these:
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Very 70's

This is actually the sort of thing we have, slightly different pattern though. I thought would look naff and not really work, but when you've had a party of 50 flies in the kitchen whilst trying to work and it suddenly stops happening, I don't care what it looks like!!

 

[oomfoofoo]

We often have windows open as well as doors for ventilation - I'm thinking of getting proper fly screens for door and windows ...

We looked at the magnetic ones, but our back door is not an average size and it didn't fit, but they are meant to be really good.

 

[gentlegreen]

Most definitely "other"

 

[Orang Utan]

You still need to do some washing up if you have a dishwasher

 

[5t3IIa]

Less so my parents gaff which is where it's needed.

Is this more them?

 

[5t3IIa]

You still need to do some washing up if you have a dishwasher

Do you? What a swizz.

 

[Orang Utan]

Do you? What a swizz.

Aye - pans n that

 

[StoneRoad]

Depends on the dishwasher cycles and what's left on/or/in the pans (and relative sizes, of course).

Packing a dishwasher is definitely a black art, unless you're good at it.
I'll pre-wash pans and the like, and most day to day stuff gets bunged in there, but the very good china and glass tableware are hand-wash only.

 

[Orang Utan]

Pans needs scrubbing

 

[Elpenor]

Wash up everything in the sink, dry up immediately with a tea towel. Pans I tend to dry up and let dry further overnight on the worktop before putting away

I no longer have a draining rack as couldn’t find one that worked on the small draining board I have. No dishwasher space in the already cramped kitchen. Don’t need one for just one person

Regarding fly screens etc, I’d like to see these integrated into windows / doors of properties especially in the warmer south east of the country as I’ve seen in Korea / the US. If I was ever to build and design my own house I’d certainly include them.

 

[Reno]

Pans needs scrubbing

Only if food is burned in. Then I give a pan a soak, maybe a bit of a scrub....and then it goes in the dishwasher. Many pans don't need scrubbing and they go in the way they are. Occasionally having to get a crust off a pan doesn't invalidate the convenience of a dishwasher though.

 

[Roadkill]

Normally it's the dishwasher, but that's on the blink atm so it's a tea towel. I loathe clutter, so prefer putting things away once I've finished wiht them.