Washing up shocker

MissAdventure

Our cold food and milk used to be kept in the coal bunker.

You’re making it up now, admit it!😂

MissAdventure

Our cold food and milk used to be kept in the coal bunker.

Our coal bunker and larder were next to each other.
The difference was the larder had a door off the kitchen and the coal bunker had a smaller door reached from outside the house.

Milk was kept in a pail of cold water in the larder until we got a fridge.

My Nan used to do the milk in a bucket of cold water thing, I remember that.

Nope, as true as I'm riding this unicycle...
Our milk, bacon and things like that were kept in an airtight box in the coal bunker.

It usually just had the milk in it, and it would have been rare to have any other stuff.

It was just to the side of the door.

I can remember butter and milk standing in a saucer or bowl of water in the pantry covered with a teacloth with its edges in the water so it stayed damp and the water evaporation kept the butter or milk cool.

Many years ago my parents had caravan for holidays and that had a fridge that worked purely on water evaporation. It looked like a block of plaster about 18 inches -2 ft cube, which encased a small metal cupboard about a foot cube. In the top of the plaster was a shallow dip, which you poured water into and it permeated through the plaster, evaporated and kept the contents of the box remarkably cool.

Later when I had what was, laughingly called, a 'studio flat',(one room with kitchenette and shared bathroom), the kitchenetts had no fridge and the caravan fridge was excavated from a corner of the garage and sat under the sink in my kitchen. It was very effective, especially in hot weather.

I always rinse, dh does not.

Was all pot then rinse straight away and dry.

We are so depressed over here across the pond .Harris ran a wonderful campaign . Mexico elects a Jewish Woman and we elect a felon . There are lots of anger and tears here . I fear for my grandchildren especially my granddaughter . There were lots of people who didn’t vote , who were uneducated and never listened to the debate or any speeches. Some just voted party. I’m physically ill today from all this . We cannot take four more years of his lying , hate and racist remarks along with his misogyny. Many want to leave the country . We need lots of support here today

Babs03

Apparently Americans are shocked by how we Brits wash up -tbh I don’t think is groundbreaking just a lighthearted observation. The thing is they cannot get their heads around the fact that many of us don’t rinse off the soap/suds from our dishes before leaving them to drain, apparently everyone rinses off the dishes before leaving to drain stateside.
Personally I do rinse off the soap before draining but have a grown daughter who doesn’t but she doesn’t drain, she dries the dishes immediately.
So how do you wash up?

I find it hard to accept criticism of what the US perceives as our inadequate washing up habits from a nation who have just elected a sex-pest convicted felon with delusional fantasies as “leader of the free world”.
Our kitchen habits pale into insignificance.

Americans use what they call soap for washing up. Presumably it’s actually detergent the same as we use.
Also what we call wiping they call scrubbing.

Rhinestone

We are so depressed over here across the pond .Harris ran a wonderful campaign . Mexico elects a Jewish Woman and we elect a felon . There are lots of anger and tears here . I fear for my grandchildren especially my granddaughter . There were lots of people who didn’t vote , who were uneducated and never listened to the debate or any speeches. Some just voted party. I’m physically ill today from all this . We cannot take four more years of his lying , hate and racist remarks along with his misogyny. Many want to leave the country . We need lots of support here today

and hugs…

AGAA4

I always rinse then leave to dry. Don't want washing up liquid residue, left on plates, in my food.

Same !

Wonder why the OP is concerned what other countries think about how some Brits wash up..I'm sure there's many Americans who don't have dishwashers

kittylester

*Babs03*, I think it has been proved that it is much cheaper, and more ecologically sound, to use a dishwasher than to wash up by hand.

Yes KittyLester, a dishwasher uses far less water than washing by hand. That part has been proven. I don't know how how much electric they use but hands use zero.

Hands use zero, Macadia but you still have to heat the water!

Rhinestone

We are so depressed over here across the pond .Harris ran a wonderful campaign . Mexico elects a Jewish Woman and we elect a felon . There are lots of anger and tears here . I fear for my grandchildren especially my granddaughter . There were lots of people who didn’t vote , who were uneducated and never listened to the debate or any speeches. Some just voted party. I’m physically ill today from all this . We cannot take four more years of his lying , hate and racist remarks along with his misogyny. Many want to leave the country . We need lots of support here today

You’re probably on the wrong thread, Rhinestone, because this one is about washing up, but sending you virtual hugs and . I can understand your distress. Best wishes.