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Economies, Quirks & Foibles 3 – Tips for Manual Dishwashers

Albert Hall writes (Jan 2013)

Some claim that automatic dish washers do the job more efficiently than any manual washer, a claim that raises many questions as to how efficiency is defined in terms of the total costs and the value of time taken.

However if YOU are a manual dishwasher, then do you make the most of the clean hot water with which you presumably start and of the liquid detergent you probably use? Are YOU one who takes pride in finishing up with a swamp of fats and oils floating over soggy debris, all in tepid waste water? This is all too often achieved instantly by piling everything into the bowl at step one.

Each piece of ware must be handled individually so why not pre-sweep and wet-sweep and then detergent-sweep with the brush before the ware reaches your clean hot water? In effect, the bowl of hot water can become the final rinse and all fats, oils and debris are separated. Not only will the water stay relatively clean, it will also lose its heat more slowly. As for the detergent, far from adding it to the bowl of wash water, only a spoonful of diluted liquid need be used by dipping the brush onto a saucer of plastic tub.

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