Comments on: The Washing Up https://freakytrigger.co.uk/seven/2005/11/the-washing-up Lollards in the high church of low culture Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:07:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Kat https://freakytrigger.co.uk/seven/2005/11/the-washing-up/comment-page-1#comment-259493 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:07:05 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/seven/2005/11/the-washing-up/#comment-259493 Dave, since I wrote the above, my housemates have changed but the problem remains the same. I sympathise.

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By: Dave https://freakytrigger.co.uk/seven/2005/11/the-washing-up/comment-page-1#comment-259478 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:23:11 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/seven/2005/11/the-washing-up/#comment-259478 RE: AAARGH #2 – My Flatmate does this…

Its the most annoying thing ever. Like you say, rather than actually wash something up there and then his preference is to leave things “to soak” as he puts it. My understanding of leaving something to soak is when something really hard to clean is baked solidly into a pan a pan or something, and then you might leave it to soak in some hot water for an hour or two before cleaning it up. What he does is fill a sink with cold water and drop everything in, without rinsing anything… even if its just a plate which has had a sandwich on so only has a few crumbs on it, he’ll leave this “to soak” too. So it all just sits there in a sink of scanky water getting greasy and leaving a scum ring in the sink. The problem is that he genuinely thinks this helps.

I came home the other day to find a sink full of stagnant water containing dishes and oven trays and knives and forks etc which had been filled to the top. This was the washing up from the previous night where he had cooked some garlic and spiced chicken with rice. So not only was loads of left over rice left in the sink to soak up water and expand to a size where it has trouble fitting through the plug hole… but all the washing up had been left in a sink of scanky water by the window on a hot day so the entire house smelt of garlic… it was horrible… there isn’t enough fabreeze in the world.

I’ve tried to have a conversation about why he does this but the problem I have is that he’s not doing it to annoy me, he actually gods honest believes that this is the best way to do it and has doing us both a favor. His counter argument being “its better than leaving it on the side to dry up and go hard making it impossible to clean”.

The real answer is scrape all excess food into the bin first and then rinse. Just rinse things like sauce pans used for beans or rice, frying pans used for bacon etc. Rinse plates and stuff. Then… when they are free of food, sauce and stuff leave on the side where yes they will dry, but its just clean water that drying… then I’ll wash them later in hot water with washing up liquid and stuff. DO NOT LEAVE THINGS soaking in their own filth, it makes them more dirty, is completely unhygienic. does my nut in.

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