Lifehacks and secrets on how to wash dishes quickly and effortlessly
In the frantic pace of life of a modern person, it is increasingly difficult to find time for household chores.
But dirty plates, forks and spoons will not clean themselves, and sooner or later you have to roll up your sleeves and begin the unpleasant cleaning process.
Lifehacks and secrets on how to quickly wash the dishes will turn your daily homework into an easy, fun activity.
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General rules to speed up the process
To ensure that the routine process of washing dishes goes as quickly as possible, You must adhere to some rules:
- We don't accumulate dirty dishes. While the pie is baking in the oven and the meat is frying in the frying pan, there is enough time to wash previously used cutting boards, knives, and bowls.
By starting to clean up immediately after eating, you can forever forget about mountains of dirty plates, cups, forks, spoons and other kitchen utensils.- We organize a workplace. In order not to delay the cleaning process, it is necessary to determine in advance the place where to put soapy plates, cups, spoons, and where to dry already clean dishes.
It is important to organize your workplace so that detergents, sponges, and wipes are always at hand.
- We prepare a variety of dishes care products.The more variety of detergents you have on hand, the faster and easier it is to wash a large number of kitchen utensils.
Do not forget about rubber gloves (the delicate skin of your hands must be protected) and a beautiful apron. Bright household items not only help organize the process of washing dishes, but also simply lift your spirits.
How to speed up the process?
Knowing some of the intricacies of washing a large amount of dishes will help speed up and ease this tedious routine process significantly.
Soak
To quickly, efficiently and, most importantly, effortlessly remove dried-on food particles, grease and other contaminants, The dishes need to be soaked.
For such purposes, dirty spoons, forks, plates, cups are loaded into a large basin (alternatively, you can use a kitchen sink, after closing the drain with a stopper), and fill it with water (you can add a few drops of detergent). In this form, the dishes soak for thirty minutes.
So crystal glasses and decanters are filled only with cold water (crystal darkens from high temperatures).
Plastic, glass, porcelain products are soaked in warm water. Dishes coated with grease, metal cutlery, graters, meat grinders, frying pans and pots are filled with hot water with the addition of a special detergent.
Sorting
Dividing into groups will not only speed up the process of washing dishes, but will also protect kitchen utensils from damage (the risk of a heavy pan crushing fragile glass glasses is minimized).
So First of all, wash cups, glasses, glasses (items that are easiest to break). Then plates, gravy boats, bowls, various vessels and jars are loaded into the sink.
Lastly, metal kitchen utensils, forks, spoons, and knives are washed in a separate group. The utensils in which fish dishes were prepared or served fall into a separate category. This will help prevent the unpleasant fishy smell from spreading to other kitchen utensils.
Choosing a detergent
In order for the dishwashing process to go quickly, you need to prepare the necessary equipment in advance and choose the right detergent.
So, for work you will need:
- double-sided foam sponges (the abrasive side will help to better clean stubborn dirt);
- metal scourers (an irreplaceable thing for cleaning cast iron frying pans and grill grates);
- viscose, cellulose, sponge napkins (good for both washing and drying already clean dishes).
When choosing a detergent, special attention should be paid to the composition. A good option is a liquid or gel product that contains a minimum amount of synthetic surfactants and a maximum amount of natural ingredients. Dry powders are not used as often (abrasive particles leave deep scratches).
How to wash kitchen utensils by hand in 5 minutes in the sink?
Clear coordinated actions will help wash a large amount of dirty dishes very quickly:
Plates, forks, pots and pans are cleared of food debris (the trash bag is prepared in advance).- Dirty dishes are sorted (by material, degree of contamination).
- Particularly dirty kitchen utensils are soaked in soapy water.
- Lather a few drops of liquid detergent on a damp sponge.
- Surfaces treated with a soapy sponge are rinsed under running water.
Already clean dishes are carefully laid out in a drying rack or on a special napkin.
How to remove complex stains?
Toothpaste and ammonia will help restore shine and shine to darkened stainless steel dishes. The ingredients are mixed in equal proportions and the resulting mixture is applied to the contaminated surface. In just a few minutes, your stainless steel cookware will shine like new.
Mustard will help remove old grease from glass surfaces.. It is enough to dilute dry mustard powder with warm water to form a thick paste and treat dirty dishes with the resulting composition.
How to clean pans and pots?
There are several ways to clean grease-covered pans and pots without much difficulty.
Laundry soap and PVA glue
Regardless of the material the frying pan is made of, quickly clean the dense layer of fat and soot A proven folk recipe will help - a mixture of soap and PVA.
To prepare the cleaning composition, dissolve 3 tablespoons in five liters of water. shavings of laundry soap and 1 tbsp. PVA glue. Dip dirty dishes into the resulting solution and boil for thirty minutes. After this procedure, a dense layer of fat and other contaminants easily come off the surface of the frying pan.
Baking soda
Baking soda can help quickly remove grease, burnt food and other contaminants from the walls of pots or pans.
Dry powder is diluted with water to a thick paste.. Rub the prepared paste onto the walls of pots and pans, then wash off along with the dirt under running water.
If possible, it is better to use soda ash rather than baking soda to clean dishes (it is more effective in combating grease, carbon deposits and other contaminants). Read more in this article.
Table vinegar
Table vinegar can be used to clean the bottom of aluminum frying pans or stainless steel pots from burnt food as quickly and effortlessly as possible. All you need to do is fill the bottom of the dish with 9% vinegar, leave for two hours, and rinse the surfaces under running water.
Activated carbon
Activated carbon will help to quickly clean any dirt from the walls of pots and pans. Tablets (at least ten pieces) are ground into powder, which is used to rub contaminated surfaces with a soft sponge.
The dishes treated with activated carbon are left alone for one hour. After that, use the abrasive side of the foam sponge to remove the cleaning powder along with dirt from the walls of pots and pans.
Adviсe
To quickly get rid of the smell of fish or onions, soak dirty dishes in a vinegar solution (2 tablespoons of table vinegar is enough per liter of water).
Do not stack dirty plates. Otherwise, you will have to wash off the fat from not only the front side, but also the back side.
It is better to wash dishes with a sponge. Porous foam holds detergent well and whips up fluffy foam faster.
To quickly clean a vessel with a narrow neck, you need to pour water into it with a few drops of detergent and eggshells (one tablespoon is enough). The filled vessel is shaken vigorously for two to three minutes, after which the water is poured out.
Lemon and salt will help restore the shine of copper cookware as quickly as possible. Contaminated surfaces are wiped with a slice of lemon sprinkled with salt, after which the copper is rubbed with a dry soft towel.
It is enough to apply coffee grounds to the walls of a plastic bowl, wait forty minutes and there will be no trace of unpleasant odors left.
The finest porcelain cups and saucers are washed and rinsed only in cool water (sharp temperature changes cause porcelain to become covered with small cracks).
Video on the topic of the article
This video will show you how to wash a mountain of dishes in 10 minutes:
Conclusion
A properly selected detergent and following the recommendations on how to wash dishes will quickly help simplify this tedious daily household chore as much as possible and achieve the desired result of cleanliness.
