Dishwashing emergency

by Ed

Help! The repair man can’t come until Monday. I’ll just have to use that marvelous tap if I can remember what to do. At least I get to wear rubber gloves, perhaps the whole weekend. Hey…

{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

Stephanie July 6, 2007 at 4:32 pm: My kitchen looks about the same … and I don’t have your excuse!
Lucas July 6, 2007 at 11:37 pm: Love the blackboard wall. I want one!!!!

I too, like stephanie, don’t have that excuse of a broken dishwasher. Maybe that is why I have stopped cooking recently!
Mike July 8, 2007 at 1:28 pm: I like your Kitchen!!
As there are only 2 of us at home we don’t have a need for a dishwasher, let alone the space for one!! So i get to pretend i’m the dishwaser….. joy.
Serenity Later July 9, 2007 at 11:09 am: Ah the dilemma one faces when the culinary muse strikes: is the effort going to be worth the mess that will be waiting for you in the kitchen sink?

Hmmm…well in the meantime if anyone asks you could always say that you’re leaving the dishes aside to save water, right?
Ellie July 9, 2007 at 11:43 am: Pfth! We have a dishwasher but it gets used once in a blue moon – only when we have dinner with so many guests that there isn’t enough bench space to accomodate them Just roll up those sleeves and get a little elbow grease going, you’ll be fine!
Thanh July 9, 2007 at 2:39 pm: Our dishwasher only gets used to rinse the dishes. Due to our very detailed calculations (we half measured and half guessed), its more water efficient to keep loading the dishwasher with hand washed plates until it is full and then rinse them all at once rather than rinse the plates by hand under the tap.

The blackboard is cool though, very TV chef looking.

And to answer Serenity’s question, it is worth it if the food turns out good, although even then the clean up can be quite a lot.
Ed July 9, 2007 at 3:13 pm: Stephanie, it’s mended now but still looks as bad.
Lucas/Thahn all the blackboard takes is a couple of coats of special paint and has the advantage of being wipe clean – food often spatters it from the chopping block.
Mike, Believe it or not there are just two of us but we quite often have friends and neighbours round. Ellie, you wouldn’t believe it but we use it everyy other day at least but I’m told they use less water than washing up.
Serenity, over the weekend it was one pot cooking which increased the return over the work involved.
hannah July 11, 2007 at 2:19 pm: I feel your pain – last week my oven (Smeg 5 years old) dishwasher (Smeg 5 years old) and washing machine (Simpson 17 years – draw your own conclusions) all died – I feel like I’ve gone back to the 19th century.