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the Good Housekeeping Institute's recent publication of a dishwashing guide for all those young people (2 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the UK) who have never learned the ancient art of washing up. In a nutshell, use hot water and rubber gloves, pre-scrape and soak dirty pans, change your water halfway through, and wash in the following order: glasses, mugs, cups, saucers, side plates, dinner plates, cutlery, serving dishes, pans, roasting tins.
While not knowing how to wash dishes is kind of a big deal, it's the whole idea of not being to handle oneself as a versatile, independent adult that is most concerning. Young people lack a wide range of practical skills these days, as revealed in a recent study by YouGov. More than half of young people (18-24) do not know how to set up utility bills upon moving to a new place; 54 percent cannot replace a fuse in a plug; 34 percent can't reset the fuse box after a switch has tripped; 37 percent do not know how to defrost a freezer; and 11 percent is clueless when it comes to changing lightbulbs. (You can see the entire sad list here.)
So what? There's an app for that.
(Score: 2) by tekk on Friday October 06 2017, @06:34PM (4 children)
It also has a weird definition of "knowing". The headline implies that they have no clue how to do the basic scrubbing and stuff, but it seems like they included the order there, which I've never heard of.
It's also worth pointing out that these "young people", myself included, have pretty much always had dishwashers. What you hand wash is just what's left over that you didn't do. Sans dishwasher I would just wash as I go.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 07 2017, @12:36AM (3 children)
We didn't have our own dishwashers but occasionally we visited relatives who did. Everybody knows you must first hand-wash dishes anyway before you throw them in the dishwasher. Oh, and you don't put silver in the dishwasher, but who the fuck eats with silver anymore? Hell, seems all of humanity has devolved back into hands and the packaged spork.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Saturday October 07 2017, @02:17PM (1 child)
I have never pre-washed a dish before putting it in the dishwasher.
Scrape food off it, stick it in.
If only sticks if you leave it around forever before you put the wash on.
Frying pans, roasting tins etc.? You should be filling with water the second you finish with them, literally pull cooked food out of them, pour off oil, run them under tap, squirt washing liquid into them. THEN you put them in the dishwasher when the plates come out.
And, like non-colour-safe fabrics in a washing machine, like hell am I pissing about with cutlery that can't go through a wash. I wouldn't even buy it, let alone faff about using it. Again, I have literally NEVER separate coloured / whites when washing clothes. Put them in the machine. Done. Also, when was the last time you hand-washed clothes? I never have, I don't think.
The washing up procedure listed in the top of this summary is a joke too. Two washes, no, you soak the heavy stuff entirely separately and then the oil and heavy carbon doesn't go down the plug until it's been thoroughly attached to some water. At best, when hand-washing, you soak heavies, wash everything else, then light-wash the heavies to get rid of anything left by then. And there's no "order" - glasses fine to shine, possibly. Everything else is just china and steel and can be washed however. Also, never used gloves in my life.
Rather than stick by antiquated stuff that's not relevant with modern appliances you can pick up for a pittance if they go wrong, before you've even run out of plates/clothes, let's try using some of these modern inventions such that they do what they're supposed to - save time, effort and money.
I'd rather have two dishwashers than be stuck pissing about at a sink.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 07 2017, @09:55PM
Silver is a traditional thing, usually acquired by the family before dishwashers were a thing and passed down the generations.
I wouldn't deliberately buy it nowadays, either. Not that I can afford it anyway.
(Score: 2) by tekk on Saturday October 07 2017, @03:02PM
My dishwasher is from the late 70's or 80's and I don't even have to prewash unless it's something *really* stubborn.