No not really. There’s pretty much zero maintenance on stainless steel sinks. Once in a blue moon you can wash down the sinks while doing dishes but it really happens less than you think.
I’ve resorted, about a year or so ago, to using large bottles of natural spring water for the kettle (when making tea/coffee).
It’s an extra expense, however the lack of scaling has been lovely. Not had to clean my kettle once.
Brita filters are cheaper per litre (you can do more than 100l per filter if it’s for a kettle) and create less waste. Personally I only change the filter when I notice residue in the kettle and it’s been so long I have to clean out the jug with citric acid so I clean the kettle at the same time.
Ok so that takes you what an extra 30-90 seconds like once or twice a month? That’s negligible. The other person Almost made it sound like he had to spend hours because of extra basin.
I’ve always tried to tell my SO this, but she’s been skeptical. Now, we’re renting a smaller apartment while renovating our bath, and she absolutely detests having only one sink basin!
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.
No, you don’t use dirty water, you use clean water.
Furthermore, the dirt does not cling to your dishes – it dissolves in the water, aided by soap. If it would cling to the dishes, you wouldn’t be able to rinse it off, either.
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.
… And the effect is the same. It’s in the wash water. JFC. And when you pick up the dish out of the wash water, 99.9999999999999999% of the water returns to the wash water. JFC you’d need scientific measuring equipment to measure the transfer. So it’s not in the rinse water.
If you ever use a dishwasher and unless you clean the trap out every single time, you’re getting wayyy worse. If you’re worried about transfer of molecules by hand washing, then lmao if you use a dishwasher.
Nice story bro. Especially the poverty part, plenty of people wash dishes by hand without living in poverty. I think you’ve never actually washed dishes by hand (with 2 sinks). That’s the only way you’d think this. I’m out of this inane conversation.
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.
It’s the double sink that gets me. I’ve lived in places with a double sink. I do not have a double sink right now.
I need double sink in my life.
Use the poor man’s replacement plastic tub.
This is the way. Double sinks suck. With this you have a double when you need, but can also waeh big things like oven sheets.
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Such a pain moving from a country where it is the default to a country where it is unheard of.
On the one hand I’d love that but on the other it’s more cleaning
No not really. There’s pretty much zero maintenance on stainless steel sinks. Once in a blue moon you can wash down the sinks while doing dishes but it really happens less than you think.
To be fair I do have to wipe my sinks more often, only because we have rather hard water in this area. The scale builds up quickly.
Same here, I deep clean it, then as soon as I open the water for a split second, it’s all white again
I’ve resorted, about a year or so ago, to using large bottles of natural spring water for the kettle (when making tea/coffee).
It’s an extra expense, however the lack of scaling has been lovely. Not had to clean my kettle once.
My sink is another story though.
Yeah the kettle gets bottle water, it’d be a block of limestone by now otherwise.
Brita filters are cheaper per litre (you can do more than 100l per filter if it’s for a kettle) and create less waste. Personally I only change the filter when I notice residue in the kettle and it’s been so long I have to clean out the jug with citric acid so I clean the kettle at the same time.
Ok so that takes you what an extra 30-90 seconds like once or twice a month? That’s negligible. The other person Almost made it sound like he had to spend hours because of extra basin.
Yeah pretty much. It’s not a big issue though one which could become compounded into one if there is any slack with the cleaning times.
I’ve always tried to tell my SO this, but she’s been skeptical. Now, we’re renting a smaller apartment while renovating our bath, and she absolutely detests having only one sink basin!
What do you do with double sink? I’ve never had a double sink and I can’t imagine how I would use it
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?
I don’t use dishwashers, but I hand wash and rinse everything, as well as change the water when it’s greasy or otherwise too dirty.
And I can taste when dishes have been in a dishwasher, for 40 years+
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.
Watch a video on how soap works in water and dishes to get them clean. Funny shit reading your confusion.
No, you don’t use dirty water, you use clean water.
Furthermore, the dirt does not cling to your dishes – it dissolves in the water, aided by soap. If it would cling to the dishes, you wouldn’t be able to rinse it off, either.
Interesting once I figured out he doesn’t know how soap works on the grime of dishes. Almost like it was invented to overcome this exact problem.
Hahaha funny shit.
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.
… And the effect is the same. It’s in the wash water. JFC. And when you pick up the dish out of the wash water, 99.9999999999999999% of the water returns to the wash water. JFC you’d need scientific measuring equipment to measure the transfer. So it’s not in the rinse water.
If you ever use a dishwasher and unless you clean the trap out every single time, you’re getting wayyy worse. If you’re worried about transfer of molecules by hand washing, then lmao if you use a dishwasher.
Nice story bro. Especially the poverty part, plenty of people wash dishes by hand without living in poverty. I think you’ve never actually washed dishes by hand (with 2 sinks). That’s the only way you’d think this. I’m out of this inane conversation.
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 too dream of a double sink.