KIS - Dishwashing

Because I wash dishes so much I try to keep this chore as simple as possible.  While I do own a dishwasher I find I rarely use it.  Typically I reserve it for use after large dinner parties.  I find I use it a lot during canning season as well.  But on a daily basis I simply prefer wash my dishes by hand.

Once plates are scraped and things are rinsed down the garbage disposal I fill one sink halfway with hot water and a healthy squirt of dish soap, about a tablespoon.  I put everything in the water at once, save for the pots and pans.  I then use my soapy dish cloth and clean out the sink with the garbage disposal.  I place the dish drainer in this sink so I don’t risk things slipping into the disposal by mistake.

With hot water trickling in the sink filled with dishes I wash and rinse everything and place it in the dish drainer.  Then I wipe down the counters, table and stove top.  Finally the pots and pans are washed up.

I keep my dishwashing supplies pretty simple:

Dish drainer

Dishsoap

Dish towel

Dish cloth

Scotch-Brite pad

Baby bottle brush (to get the parts I can't like the girl's drink bottles)

I leave my dishes to air dry and find that God does a wonderful job for me.  About an hour later I put them away and the job is complete.  Doesn't get much simpler than that.