I have thoroughly enjoyed all your comments regarding soaking; some defending, some empathizing. I do need to clarify that I am not opposed to soaking in and of itself, I just believe that all soaking items should be cleaned out before leaving the kitchen. Tom's out playing Risk with the fellas tonight so I've got a little time on my hands to give a little instructional guide for avoiding the overnight soak.
Let's Begin:
Dirty pan= remains from broiled salmon
Step 1: Before doing the other dinner dishes, fill dirty pan with super HOT water...
and soap.
Step 2: Set pan aside and wash the other non-soakable dishes...
and put them in the dishwasher!
Step 3: Approximately 10 minutes have gone by. (If you are done with the non-soakables sooner than that, you should clean the counters and other left-over kitchen duties.) 10 minutes is the only soaking time needed before you can start washing out the pan.
This tool is key in cleaning off crusted on dishes. It's a little hard plastic scraper made to get your stubborn foods off.
Step 4: Rinse and dry.
Voila! Clean pan without an hour/2 hour/overnight soak.
Just remember soakers...
Happy Wife=Happy Life!!!
14 comments:
Wow! I will now be using your instructional pictures and cleaning tips in order to teach my children AND husband how to clean dishes the right way. THANKS RACHEL!!!
Hahaha you crack me up! That was one of my most favorite instructional run-throughs I've ever seen!
Hey and by the way LOVE the new family picture! So cute.
Oh by the way I tagged you, check out my blog for details it's the one titled "back-in-classroom"
Rachel, you make me laugh. Cute kitchen, even with all the dishes on the counter.
Who took these pictures? Way to get out of cleaning dishes Tom!
Cory
i need to show this to brent to show him a pan only needs 10 minutes - not 24 hours!
I love it! I also love the new family picture--you guys are quite the beautiful family!
Cory, Reese took the pictures. No, you're right Tom took the pictures and yes it got him out of doing the dishes again.
Tom "did the dishes" again today and I kid you not the the soaking items are even worse today! I want to post a picture so bad, but I won't. Tom's had a pretty good sense of humor about all this so far, but I don't want to push it. And just so you all know I did show Tom the posts before I published them just to make sure he didn't mind. I love the man, good dish doer or not!
I love it. Don't studies show that you learn better if you see, hear and DO? I'll need to show Will your post and then have a little practice session.
Oh, and I love your new family picture. Cute family!
I am totally with you. I can't stand letting dirty dishes "soak!" I like to have all the dishes clean and put away and then I feel much better!
Ok, so cleaning is one of my favorite things and so that post gave me just a few tears in my eyes......best post yet!!!
This is just so hilarious!! I'm thinkin' you should start a whole line of "training" videos. The possibilities are endless and you look so cute in your little demonstrations!
Your last two posts were so funny. The soak...lol. I've just learned with this whole marriage thing in general that men have very different methods and definitions of cleaning...all of which are far different from mine. Ahhh....I just hope training pays off at some poing...
You are hilarious! I cannot believe Tom was okay with taking the pictures so you could post to your blog the correct way he should have done the dishes. I bet that leads into some funny conversations for you two. I loved it!
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