“So, I wash dishes. Not sure if you all do, but, you know, some of us still do this thing.

No special claim to being unusually minded, and I am. Some of us ‘have problems with details’. Or entailments. Or, in my case, whiskey so cheap that ants could probably succeed at purchasing some. If they were suicidal. But that’s a whole other routine.

Though many would not believe it of me, I have concerns about things.

And this is one of them:

I simply do not understand washing dishes in a filled sink, etc.

After the first dish touches that water, it’s not necessarily horrible, but it’s »not clean anymore.

Is it even actually possible to clean object A with object B if object B is a festering filth reactor? Imagine your sponges, folks. The ones near the kitchen sink.

No.

And every used dish that is added to it just makes it worse. Especially in situations where there are wildly uncontrolled variables ( think: time ).

I mean, the actual goal is to »get clean dishes, right?

I totally get the part about conserving water. Truly, that.

But, uh, apparently some folks may believe that ‘the water with soap in it is the clean water’. As if soap magically »cleans the water you’re washing with.

This causes my soul to quiver in terror. Because folks who can think »that? Can think »anything.

The more absurd? The easier it is for them to think it.

So, for me, I clean dishes under running hot water. I haven’t done the math on the difference in water usage. I doubt it’s a »lot higher, but the thing is this: if I am going to wash dishes, I want actually clean dishes when I am done. And I don’t want to be finger-dodging the refuse of previous meals while cleaning them.

Now, I know there are methods that merge the two worlds. Some folks actually have some methods I can respect.

I don’t care. Give me hot, running water and the urge to purge plates, silverware, cookware, bowls, mugs and glasses of intrusive substances and … when I’m done Mr. Clean winks at me from ancient television adverts.

I nearly never »need the sponge, because my method is ancient and avoids almost everything anyone else usually does. I do have a sponge though, and it’s usually pristine.”

— Bobby Yingo at The Kitchen Sink