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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @12:08AM (9 children)
Very true. However, there is nothing stopping the parents from saying 'was the dishes by hand'. When they bitch about it (and they will) 'you may not always have a machine learn to do it well'. They do break every now and then. Having suffered from 2-3 floods caused by broken ones over the years... After 2-3 times you would have it down. Then it is 'load it and unload it'...
(Score: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 07 2017, @12:33AM (8 children)
One thing I used to hear from my parents a lot when I asked why we didn't have a dishwasher was, "We already have two, why do we need another one?"
Though I was taught to hand-wash dishes like a man, without rubber gloves. Who the fuck wears rubber gloves in the household besides old-maids?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday October 07 2017, @01:38AM
A lady i work with is obsessive compulsive: she washes her own dishes so that she knows they are clean, but she uses water that is so hot her hands are a mess, especially in winter time, even though she also lotions (which she hates). Her water is pretty scalding from the looks of it: her hands are always red and cracked like crazy. I can see using gloves for water THAT hot, but she also will not wear rubber gloves.
Weird.
Yeah: my parents said the same thing. Same with a snow blower/remover: they had two already, why get another (nice, though, for my sister: she never had to shovel the shit 'cause "she's a girl").
Glad my driveway is shorter now: also kind of glad for global warming. Winter is getting tolerable up here in Canada half the time now, though we gotta watch out for another ice storm shutting down our power for a few days... don't have a fireplace anymore, sadly, like we did last time.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday October 07 2017, @07:11AM (1 child)
Actually this is the first time I've ever heard of the idea of using rubber gloves for washing dishes.
Well, I guess if you are a professional dishwasher who washes dishes eight hours a day, it's a good idea.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 07 2017, @09:53PM
That's not nearly as bad as working in a clean-room 8 hours a day -- especially if you're handling tools that rub your pruney skin right off as if your hands were stewed whole tomatoes.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday October 07 2017, @02:33PM
One thing I've heard about ex-pats living in the developing world: "a good servant or two is worth a house full of modern appliances." And in the developing world, a good servant or two is a whole lot cheaper than a washing machine.
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(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Saturday October 07 2017, @05:45PM (1 child)
I wear rubber gloves when doing the dishes - the choices was gloves or less aggressive detergent. And who the fuck uses a less aggressive detergent other than wimpy city-slickers? ;)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @01:13AM
The cracked skin lets you know it's working.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday October 09 2017, @01:59AM (1 child)
Dishwashers are useless, though. If you have everything to the point where all the stuck-on food is rinsed off (which dishwashers generally don't get off), then you may as well finish with some soap and water.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday October 09 2017, @02:04AM
Well, not all dishwashers are like that, but many are. Then there's all the time spent loading up the dishwasher and taking them all out, so it doesn't seem very valuable to me, especially if you just wash dishes as you dirty them.