Plastic washing up bowl in stainless steel kitchen sink - why?

My kids don't get it either. They always remove the washing up bowl (they were recently here whilst we were on holiday).

I agree with everyone else

- where do you put the slops if you don't have one?
- It's far more gentle on the delicate things,
- and you can't lose anything down the plughole.
- it's more hygienic, as I stand the bucket for the floor cleaning, etc, in the sink (stand the washing up bowl on the draining board first)

The first thing I do when I clear the kitchen is fill the washing up bowl with water and a few drops of bleach. I leave the washing up brush and dishcloth in there, too, whilst I tidy.

Then I know it's clean and can replace the water with hot washing up water and go on to do the hand washing up in it, and can wipe the counter with the bleachy dishcloth.

I have a double sink, so the emptying tea cup dregs problem doesn't exist I just use the other sink. I do not have a bowl in the sink because I have a dishwasher so rarely wash uo anything other than large saucepans.

I do have a plastic bowl in the cupboard under the sink. Much easier to squeeze a mop out when washing the floor, also for taking a bowl of warm soapsuds out to scrub the garden table and cleaning the car - much more convenient than a bucket.

Im on a water meter I used a washing up bowl to save water.

How?

Exactly wot JackyB says.
You use less water in a smallish bowl, rather than filling a sink ( unless you have a tiny sink.)

I can't imagine what colour Moocow's bowl is. What plastic bowl can cause such raptures?

Mine is elephant grey.?

All that has been said already. Getting rid of dregs, using less water, much less likelihood of breakage if you happen to drop a delicate item. As far as I know, everyone I know has a plastic bowl, except right now my partner hasn't because he put it on a hot stove (wally) and it makes washing up a lot more difficult. Neither of us has dishwashers.

That's the point, if you have a double sink you usually have a large and a small one and what is to stop you using a big sink and having only a couple of inches of water in it. I have a dishwasher and a big sink needs very little water when dealing with vegetables, or for cleaning purposes. I would probably have more in a bowl because I would have deeper water in it because it isn't possible to spread things around in it.

Perhaps because we are all different Monica so we do things differently.
Also, not everybody has a double sink.

I don't have a dishwasher so all washing up is done in a washing up bowl.
All things that I feel about this have already been said BUT now I want a new bowl in an exciting colour because mine is dark grey. This is why the internet is potentially dangerous - it has caused me discontent. I HAVE to have a new bowl!!

I am finding it really difficult to find another one in the size I like. It's quite worrying. I might even have to bring a previously used one from the shed and give it a really good spruce up.

I much prefer round ones to square. They seem easier to clean round.

I don't have a double sink. Just one large deep one. Can't stand a shallow sink. I get wet.

I think my present one is red. Or that might be the one I've been using for compost carrying this afternoon. I am not in the kitchen at the moment. There is a yellow one in the shed.

And I think, a grey one.

It uses a lot less water. The left-over space can act as an 'in-tray' as it were.

I have a single sink and the space at the side of the plastic bowl is used for rinsing, and for disposing of the first wash if necessary, I can also run the cold side of the mixer tap for making tea or rinsing in a small sieve while the dishes are in the washing up bowl.

I use a lot of my washing up water on the garden. Couldn’t do that if I didn’t have a bowl.
We have recently had a new butler sink in the utility room and my husband was getting a bit precious about my lack of care! It IS in the UTILITY room.( sorry for shouting!)
So I got a bowl for that sink too.

Unless you have a utility room with a sink and you only use the kitchen sink for washing up, the bowl is definitely more hygienic.

I have always used a bowl, I can't see the difference between the sink and a bowl for hygienic reasons.
I spray my bowl all over every night the same as the sink, if there are messy pans I take the bowl out and use the sink.

I clean the bowl out at least once every day. It's not such a faff as cleaning the sink out would be

I have a plastic bowl in the sink, it's black and I've never bleached it cos I can't see the stains! It just gets a good wash occasionally. I have never gone down with a nasty bug either so I think I must have built up resistance.

Gosh! This is a coincidence, I was asking DH today why he thinks most people we know use a plastic bowl in their sinks. I don’t. Also the use of cloths to wash dishes freaks me out after watching a show learning how they just push germs around and are a Petri dish to grow germs unless you wash them with boiling wash in between each use. I use a wash brush and boil the head for 5 mins once a week. Coincidentally no one in my family really catches colds etc. My neighbor washes her dog bowls with their dishes in the sink using a cloth and I won’t eat there.

I don't use a washing up bowl. Most of my dishes go into the dishwasher. The only thing s I put in the sink are my glasses and the pans.

I don’t have a washing up bowl, I have a half sink as well as full sink so dregs go in there but everything apart from pans goes in the dishwasher so no need for a bowl.