How to wash dishes: ways and means

The washing process is very tiring. In order to facilitate your work, you need to know how to wash the dishes correctly. Strangely enough, this sounds, but even such usual homework can cause a number of questions and doubts. For example:

• how to wash dishes from delicate and fragile materials;
• which detergents are safer to use;
• how to get rid of burnt fat quickly and efficiently;
• as in a few minutes to clean table silver;
• can you do without household chemicals.

Let's try to answer these and other questions, and also call the basic rules for washing dishes.

Where to start?

If you do not belong to the category of happy owners of dishwashers, you will have to do unpleasant work yourself.

To wash the mountain of accumulated dirty dishes, you must prepare everything you need.

• Combat equipment: apron and gloves.
• Tools of labor: all kinds of sponges, rags, brushes, metal wool, brushes.
• Means of household chemicals for the destruction of fat, old plaque, dried food: cleaning pastes and powders, detergents in the form of gel, soap solution. Of course, you need hot water. If there is none, use the means that effectively relieve fat in cold water. You can also heat the water in a saucepan.
• And, of course, prepare a place where "military actions" will take place: it will be a usual wash, if you are at home, or a basin( you can have a bucket) if you are at a dacha or are resting in a tent on the nature.

Important!

Whatever you use to wash the dishes, remember: all the achievements of synthetic chemistry in the form of powders, pastes and gels are unsafe for health. Only a thorough reusable rinse can guarantee a complete cleaning of dishes from harmful substances contained in detergent solutions.

When choosing a dishwashing detergent, use the following indicators:

• reasonable value for money;
• wide range of applications;
• the effectiveness of fat elimination;
• speed of cleaning from the grime;
• degree of safety of household chemicals for the skin of the hands and for the body as a whole( in case of residues of poorly washed away remedy together with food in the stomach).

Sorting utensils

How quickly to wash the dishes? Before the start of the "favorite" occupation, take a few minutes to sort the available contaminated items: spoons to spoons, forks to forks, a separate pile for plates, cups and glasses. In addition, it is possible to decompose the dishes according to the degree of contamination: in one pile devices with a large amount of fat, in the other - "fat-free".It is better to wash separately each pile, not mixing objects from one heap with objects from the other. For example, start washing small objects( spoons, knives, forks), then mugs, then plates and at the very end start "heavy artillery", where there is always a lot of fat and other contaminants - such as frying pans, pots, pans,.If you follow this recommendation, you can slightly reduce the time spent on washing dishes. How?

• Firstly, an orderly process of laundering cutlery will help in the necessary order to quickly place in their places all washed items, without creating confusion.
• Secondly, the hands perform similar actions much faster. For example, if you wash the forks first, and then go exclusively to the plates. In a situation where you want to wash the fork first, then the glass, then again the fork or spoon, and then suddenly the plate, do not wait for the instantaneous muscle reaction from your hands: in order to rebuild from one action to another, the muscles need a certain amount of time.
• Third, it is better to start with dishes that do not have fat, wash it easier and faster. In addition, it will not have time to get dirty even more from other, more contaminated dishes.

Creating a mood

A festive feast behind, the guests parted, and you think, how can you force yourself to do what you must? How to wash the dried fatware?

• Let the dishwashing detergent be pleasant in color and fragrant.
• Take a new, just bought sponge, and discard the old one mercilessly.
• Do not skimp on household chemistry: let there be a lot of foam, so it's more pleasant and effective, and therefore faster.
• Finally, turn on your favorite music or broadcast.

Use any means to raise your mood, lethargy and apathy will slow down the whole thing.

Do not delay

One of the answers to the question on how to clean dishes right after meals. Fresh food remains easier and faster to clean, without waiting for them to dry out. Having accustomed yourself to wash the dishes right away, while there are still a few, you will not spend any time and energy exploring the whole mountains of accumulated dried and smelling utensils.

This habit will save you from the unpleasant feeling of unfulfilled homework, which will be a heavy burden to hang over you all day and poison your mood.

When for any reason you can not wash the dishes right away, soak it in hot water. Then there will be enough easy movement of the sponge to remove from the plate or mug all unnecessary.

What should I wash with cold water only?

Products from crystal and porcelain are washed in cool water, otherwise they can fade and lose their strength in time.

How quickly to wash the dishes, if it left traces of dough, eggs, cottage cheese, yogurt or milk? Do not use hot water. This will lead to the fact that the proteins contained in these products are brewed from the effects of high temperatures and will stick to the plates even more. In this case, first wash the dishes with cold water, and then heat it.

Some useful tips for a good hostess

1. To remove the smell of onion, garlic or herring from the cutlery, rinse them with vinegar.
2. Plates and mugs with patterns can not be rubbed with anything hard or washed in very hot water, so as not to damage the image.
3. To separate the jammed one in one glass, you can do this: in the glass that is inside, pour hot water, and in the one that outside - cool.
4. Products made of iron and iron should be dried well, so that rust does not form.
5. Aluminum dishwasher can not be cleaned with the means in which there is acid.
6. Enamelled dishes should not be treated with hard brushes or metal mops, do not allow shocks, scratches or other damage. All this can lead to the formation of a crack.
7. To impart shine to porcelain, glass and crystal products use vinegar and salt( in one liter of water, add a teaspoon of vinegar and salt).Wash dishes, rinse and wipe with a dry linen towel.
8. Dark coating on the inner walls of the teapot for welding can be removed as follows: leave the kettle filled with a solution of soda( 200 ml of water plus a teaspoon of soda) for the night.
9. How to remove the sediment in the vase, which appeared from the long standing flowers in it? Prepare the solution: one teaspoon of acetic acid is diluted with a liter of water. This solution will cope with such contamination well.

Washing dishes by alternative means: clean and safe

How to properly wash dishes by hand without using harmful chemicals? There are a lot of unconventional folk methods. Consider the most common of them.

• Dry mustard is suitable both as a cleaning powder and as a component of an aqueous solution or cleaning paste. You can add a little vinegar.
• Soda food is also good, but it can scratch special coatings.
• Calcined soda is useful as an aqueous solution or paste. If you wash the dishes with this product by hand, it is better to use gloves.
• The use of the old grandmother's way of washing dishes with wood ash is actual to this day. Ash is extracted from village stoves or fireplaces.
• Sand is good in hiking conditions on a holiday in the woods. It perfectly cleanses all dirt, but can scratch elegant products.
• Salt will cope well with burnt greasy residue of food, it will clean glass thoroughly.
• You can use tooth powder to remove plaque on spoons, especially from tea and coffee;it is suitable for cleaning silverware.

Take care of the dishes, as well as your strength and time, do your homework correctly and on time!