- Washing dishes is two jobs: getting food off the dishes and getting grease off the dishes. Water does not get grease off dishes, and soap does not get food off them.
- To wash dishes, put some soap in a bowl or pan and add enough water to make a strong soapy solution. Do not dilute this solution by running the tap into it.
- Run the tap into the other end of the sink. Stack dirty dishes under the tap so that they soak as you rinse clean dishes.
- Dip your sponge into the soapy solution and scrub each dish clean of food and grease. If dried food will not come off, put the dish back under the tap to soak longer.
- Never squirt soap onto a dish you are washing. You will end up eating soap.
- Stack like dishes next to each other in the drying rack to simplify putting away. Putting away is the worst part of doing dishes.
