Posted By: Perelandra
Posted On: 9 hr, 43 min. ago
Views: 7
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In the old days...
That's true, Shar...but in the Old Days when I was a kid in a poor
family (there were five in all--three kids), Mom did all the dishes
until we got old enough to help. We took our turns doing the dishes
ourselves by the time I was in sixth grade.
When there was a big meal like Thanksgiving to be cooked, Mom kept a
sink full of soapy water to soak the pots and pans that got cleaned as
she went along. Most of the rest of the year, we ate one-dish meals, we
never used place settings, and we used our same plates for eating our
meal, salad (in summer) and dessert. So maybe it was a little different
for us. If you did it by The Book of Table Setting, that would
automatically make more dishes.
How did your parents manage? Did they have a mechanical dishwasher, or
were you kids drafted in to do them?
P.S. I wonder if dishwashing time gave couples some conversation time as
well, while one spouse washed and one dried and stacked?
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Posted By: Shar
Posted On: 20 hr, 11 min. ago
Views: 43
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Dishwashers
You don't wash them, but usually you want to rinse any large particles
off to keep it from going down the drain. Some dishwashers do a better
job than others and just a little scraping will do.
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Posted By: Dan
Posted On: 23 hr, 16 min. ago
Views: 59
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Dish washer
I thought the dish washer was to wash the dishes. What wash them before
you wash them what is that all about
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Posted By: Shar
Posted On: 1 day ago
Views: 71
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Dishwashers
Perelandra, that's true if you're a family of one. But if you're a
family of six or seven as we once were, a dishwasher can't be beat.
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Posted By: Perelandra
Posted On: 1 day ago
Views: 79
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I AM the dishwasher!
...which means I -soak- any problem dishes before they are washed.
I honestly don't see how a mechanical dishwasher could do a better job
than I do, especially with the silverware. And it takes me less time,
too--pan-scrubbing and all.
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Posted By: Don the Norski
Posted On: 2 days ago
Views: 177
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Dishwashers
I likely wouldn't rinse my dishes if my landlord would buy anything but
the absolute cheapest appliances possible. El Cheapo models simply do
not clean like the others. You get what you pay for. Except in rent,
that is... and I'm trying to figure out a way out of that. :)
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