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from the would-you-like-fries-with-that? dept.
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 Runaway1956 on Friday October 06 2017, @07:11PM (1 child)
"Why you are doing it in a certain order makes no sense though."
Commercial enterprises and health departments. You do things in a certain order partly to conserve water and detergent, partly to satisfy the health officials. The specific manner depends on the equipment you're using. When I was in the Navy, the scullery crew ran everything through a rinsing sink in no specific order, stuck everything in specially designed racks, and put the racks on a conveyor belt. The belt carried dishes through a high pressure washer, maintained at 180 degrees. You NEVER put anything in there that had eggs on them - they cooked on before they could be washed away.
Of course, in the Navy, we didn't have any crystal, or even glass to worry about. No bone china. Everything was metal or melnac plastic. Blaahhhhh. Well, shipboard, anyway. Things were marginally better for sailors ashore.
I said what I said. - Sophie Cunningham
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @09:24PM
s/melnac/Melmac
(Brand name for molded melamine resin dinnerware.)
...also the planet where Alf (Alien Life Form) started out.
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