What cheeses me off

[TheRealTMA]

Yes. I suppose HDB flats have limited space for such appliances and eating out is quite cheap, and many used to or still have a maid. But its becoming more common. - some are single drawer and countertop form factors

Now,
Whats with the Australian hand dishwashing technique where after washing the plates, they are not rinsed. Instead of rinsing then stacking them to dry???

Not at our place.

 

[RooFlyer]

Now,
Whats with the Australian hand dishwashing technique where after washing the plates, they are not rinsed. Instead of rinsing then stacking them to dry???

Dunno. Never heard of it. A NSW thing?

 

[tgh]

after washing the plates, they are not rinsed

First world judgements here...
I have seen this but not for a very long time , some places have only one sink and limited or no running water.
Washing up camp dishes is also a challenge for rinsing..

 

[Quickstatus]

Mstr QS went to stay with some friends out in Dubbo on the weekend. he came back and said they dont rise their dishes after washing them

 

[anat0l]

Whats with the Australian hand dishwashing technique where after washing the plates, they are not rinsed. Instead of rinsing then stacking them to dry???

How do you wash plates without rinsing? How do you get the dishwashing soap/liquid off?

One thing that surprised me growing up was, amongst us who handwashed dishes, at home we stacked the dishes on a drying rack (now we use the dishwasher racks) to dry before putting them away, but Australian families tended to dry them immediately (using a cloth) and then put them away.

WCMO is a workplace sink full of dirty dishes and cups. I suppose I should be more specific in that the last time this was a thing was when I was working in a uni institute, and the culprits would normally be grad students, but the latter are adults too - I mean, come on, how difficult is it to quickly wash up your mug, or at worst, just put it in the dishwasher (provided the latter was in "dirty" mode)?

W also CMO are the dummies who think the cleaners' job is doing the dishes. Yeah, no.

Funny enough, when I went to year 5 camp a long time ago, one of the duties of selected camp groups was helping in the kitchen after meals to clean and dry dishes. We used one of those industrial dishwashers that you load then pull down the cover, which then pretty much hot washes the dishes lickety-split. I guess now you can't have kids in a commercial kitchen without a mountain of paperwork, let alone washing dishes.

 

[MARTINE]

Now,
Whats with the Australian hand dishwashing technique where after washing the plates, they are not rinsed. Instead of rinsing then stacking them to dry???

Never ever done this.
Have been to houses and offered a smeary glass of water that tastes like soap
Bit like washing your clothes without rinsing

 

[tgh]

Bit like washing your clothes without rinsing

First world conversation continues...

As a child, we had a wood fired copper to boil clothes and a tub that could receive a limited amount of precious tank water.
Nothing was rinsed until the first Hoovermatic arrived and worked it's magic
Initially , we had a bath with a wood fired chip heater and a plain simple black wood stove in the kitchen upon which to heat water.
Time passed, and living in a gumn't owned house, we received a shiny new age slow combustion stove in the kitchen that had a water heating coil..
...led to my father connecting a small tank in the ceiling to a simple shower gravity fed via the stove coil.
A hand pump drew water from one of four 1000 gal tanks on a nearby building.. want a shower....go pump...
Mother was careful to instruct me that among even the most wealthy local farmers , few had such a luxury, let alone so many water tanks….so do not brag….

I suspect that many folks have not moved on from those days, hence the unrinsed dishes in Dubbo

 

[cove]

My pet hate is Qantas Perth Airport where the brick paving catches the wheels on my luggage.

 

[tgh]

P'rhaps the thread should be retitled to the "things that cheese off us first world dwellers" …

 

[dajop]

Yes. I suppose HDB flats have limited space for such appliances and eating out is quite cheap, and many used to or still have a maid.

Not talking about HDBs, private condos.

I suspect developers know that owner occupiers will put one on in if they want and also know landlords here are too stingy to ever want to include one and/or worried the tenants would ruin it. When we moved recently (to another apartment in same complex) the state of some of the Kitchens was quite appalling compared to ours all the same age but clearly many were not looked after.

 

[anat0l]

I guess I can be lucky that I have never needed to live being extremely frugal with water.

Even when we visited my father's ancestral childhood home, when I was young, the only source of water was a hand pump. Water supply was at best by the bucket full, and showers/baths were cold water only (or mixed in with boiled water), but we otherwise weren't necessarily being very frugal with the water. It was a couple of decades until the house was renovated with mains supply water from taps (though the pump is still there).