How to properly and quickly wash the dishes?

By tradition, the guest is always invited to the table or at least for tea. And how unpleasant it is that this same tea is poured into a cup with tea plaque. After such a visit, the first desire is to check your dishes at home and see if everything is clean and shiny.

How to properly and quickly wash dishes, preserve their beauty and get rid of fat, plaque and scale?

The answer to this question depends on several factors:

• Do you have a big family and do you often have to wash the dishes?
• how dishwashing detergents act on the skin;
• what means are used more often: national or industrial;
• How many oily dishes are there;
• Do I have to wash bottles (for example, baby bottles).

In addition to gloves and an apron, you should stock up with various sponges, brushes, brushes, washcloths with metal threads. Depending on preferences for all kinds of dishes, liquid and dry detergents will be needed to remove plaque, grease, burnt food. Some types of dishes can and should be washed with cold water, but it’s still difficult to do without hot water. In the absence of running water, you will need a basin or dish. In nature, this role is usually played by a bucket.

The following rules should also be observed:

• Before washing dishes, remove all food debris so as not to clog the sink.
• Do not forget about the sorting and sequence of washing dirty objects.
• Each dish has two sides: inner and outer, and both of them need to be washed.
• To clean greasy utensils is much easier after soaking.
• Drying is carried out in one of two ways: natural drying in an inverted form or drying with a towel.

Modern industry offers a large number of detergents and cleaners. When choosing, do not forget that:

• high price is not a guarantee of quality, but a means of payment for advertising;
• a large number of components increases the risk of an allergic reaction to the drug;
• strong odor of the flavoring may obscure the chemical smell of low-quality components;
• bright fluorescent (acid) colors of liquid detergent formulations are the result of the use of a large number of dyes, which allergies can negatively react to.

There are a huge number of folk ways to clean dishes. We list a few:

• Dry mustard can be used undissolved as an abrasive. It is rubbed on the surface and left for 10 minutes, after which it is washed off with running water. Mustard can be diluted in water and soak the dishes in it. Dried food can be perfectly removed in this way.
• Baking soda is used similarly. It can scratch the surface, but it copes well with burnt food, stubborn stains, tea and coffee plaque, yellowness on enameled pots, dark spots on cutlery. And soda removes unpleasant odors from any dishes. To do this, it must be lowered into a soda solution (1 tablespoon per 1 liter of water).

• Soda ash is a stronger remedy. You need to work with it with gloves, use in the form of a solution or paste.
• Table vinegar (not essence) remarkably degreases surfaces, fights with scum, bleaches light dishes and kills microbes. For use, you need to dilute 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vinegar in 1 liter of water, and, wetting the sponge in the solution, wash the dishes. Vinegar also removes odors from kitchen items. And pouring the product into the pan and leaving it for several hours, you can clean the utensils from soot.
• Laundry soap contains alkali, so it perfectly disinfects and copes with any dirt. You need to use a classic brown soap with an unpleasant odor.

• The ammonia has a pungent odor. But those who are not afraid of this can clean out old spots on dishes and other kitchen surfaces with a few drops.
• Citric acid will cleanse, bleach, disinfect, eliminate scale and remove unpleasant odors. 5 g of citric acid, diluted in 1 liter of water, will help wash household items.
• Wood ash is a rare component in modern times. But it is her best to clean the dishes in the country, in nature, on a hike. The remains of the bonfire will perfectly cope with the fat in the pot and the sooty bucket.
• Edible salt is an abrasive available to everyone. A pan with hardened fat or a burn must be covered with a centimeter layer of salt and pour a little water. Leave the container overnight, then boil. This method cannot be applied to Teflon coatings.

• River sand, as well as ash, will help in nature to clean dishes. But at home, this abrasive will brilliantly clean aluminum pans and cast-iron pans.
• Using stationery glue, you can also clean stale dirt on dishes. To do this, pour in chips of one bar of household 72% soap, ½ cup stationery (silicate) glue, ½ cup soda ash in a large pot with boiling water. Reduce boiling water, lower pots, pans into it, boil for 2 - 5 hours.The smell of the composition cannot be called pleasant, so you need to work with the hood turned on or the window open. Water should be periodically added to the pan so that the dishes are covered with water. When the water darkens, and the carbon from the pan or pan leaves, the dishes are removed from the container and begin to clean with a scraper, knife or aluminum sponge.
• Paraffin, which gets on the dishes from candles, in the first place, you need to scrape off the maximum. The residue is heated with a hairdryer and removed with a paper towel or towel. In another case, in a large container, standing on fire, put the dishes in paraffin, add detergent (preferably soda ash) and bring to a boil. Dissolving, paraffin remains in the water. It remains to wash the dishes under running hot water.

Regardless of the method of washing, dishes pre-sorted. The fattest should be separated from fat-free, glasses - from plates, pots - from cups and cutlery. Such sorting will significantly speed up the work, because it is easier to arrange the washed dishes, and muscle memory will quickly remember what, why, and where to put it. Therefore, it is easier to wash the dishes, starting with spoons - forks, continuing with glasses and cups, catching up with saucers, plates and dishes and ending with pots, stewing pans and baking trays.

Indeed, not every type of dishes can be washed with the same product. Otherwise, the pots may darken, and the gilding may come off.

To wash glassware, you should follow these tips:

• Hot salted water washes glass dishes well. After washing, rinse it under cold water.
• The peel of a lemon or a few drops of its juice added to the wash water will add shine to glass objects.
• Instead of lemon for shine, you can add small pieces of raw potatoes to the water.
• Glass objects can be cleaned with fine grains or salt: pour into a carafe or vase (bottle), add a little water and shake thoroughly. This method of cleaning will help if there is no bottle brush.
• The water in which the potatoes were cooked perfectly cleans glass, earthenware and clay dishes.

New glasses, glasses, and glass plates are tempered by boiling to give them strength. Pour clean river sand with a thickness of 1 cm into the pan, add cold water, bring to a boil and boil for 15 minutes. Then pour 2-3 tbsp. l salt and boil for another 30 minutes. Cool the water, then remove the dishes and rinse thoroughly.

Among household utensils, the most diverse metal is found: cast iron and silver, gold and cupronickel, stainless steel and enameled, copper and aluminum. In order not to spoil it, you must consider the following:

• Do not use abrasives, hard sponges or metal washcloths to wash dishes made of stainless steel, polished aluminum, otherwise the coating will be scratched.
• Cutlery made of silver and cupronickel after use is dipped in boiling water, adding a little baking soda there.
• To clean the enameled pan from yellow plaque inside, you need to pour water into it and add table salt at the rate of 5-6 tbsp. tablespoons per 1 liter of water. The solution can be left for several hours or boiled for 40 minutes.

• A red-hot enameled pan cannot be immediately put in cold water - the enamel will crack.
• Metal dishes are wiped with slices of raw potatoes to make them shine.
• Copper kitchen utensils are easy to clean with half a lemon sprinkled with salt. Grate copper thoroughly with lemon, rinse and wipe dry with a soft cloth.
• So that white spots do not appear on the stainless steel pan, do not add salt to cold water. Only hot, while stirring. To get rid of white spots, you can also rub the bottom of the pan with half a lemon.

Over time, plastic dishes are covered with an unpleasant coating and an odor appears. You can get rid of them with the help of soda: dilute soda with water, and rub the plastic abundantly with this pulp, rinse after 24 hours.

Coffee grounds, applied to dishes for 3-4 hours, relieve them of odors, and a bag of vanillin (not sugar) is diluted in warm water poured into a container. The container is closed with a lid, shaken for several seconds and left for 2-3 hours, after which the container is rinsed.

Porcelain and earthenware should not be washed with abrasive substances. Besides, she does not like temperature changes: wash and rinse with water of the same temperature. You can save porcelain from darkening with a mixture of soda and vinegar or rubbing it with soda. Plaque from tea is also removed with soda or ammonia solution.

Gold-plated dishes should not be washed in the dishwasher. It is washed in the sink with liquid products. Teaspoons from black can be cleaned with baking soda. And the glitter gilding is returned with egg whitesthat rub the dishes with a flannel cloth.

Above have already been given several ways to get rid of fat cookware at home. Let's name a few more:

• Dilute 100 g of baking soda with hydrogen peroxide to a pasty composition. Rub the dishes with gruel and leave for a while. This method will not only help to wash the utensils from old fat, but also disinfect it.
• Soda and vinegar (1: 1) quickly break down fat and after 10-15 minutes. washed off dishes without streaks. For too much soiling, the procedure can be extended.
• Hot water is poured into the cast-iron pan so that the bottom is completely covered. Capacity put on fire and add 2 tbsp. tablespoons of salt. After boiling, pour the same amount of soda and boil for another 15-20 minutes. After cooling water, the surface is cleaned and rinsed.

In order not to provoke the development of an allergy in a child, it is recommended to use soda, salt, mustard powder instead of chemicals. If possible, the dishes are boiled. If this cannot be done, hydrogen peroxide or soda. The main thing is to rinse thoroughly after washing.

Recommendations to the hostesses:

• Acetic solution will help get rid of the smell of onions or fish.
• Wash frozen caramel with soda water.
• In order not to form rust on metal products, the dishes must be thoroughly dried.
• To remove the sediment from the vase, you need to pour water with acetic acid into it (1 tsp. 1 tsp. Acid).

• Wooden utensils will be natural in color for a long time if you dip them in cold water before use.
• Crystal dishes are washed with mustard, rinsing with a weak vinegar solution.
• Laundry soap washes grease even in cold water.
• To wash the teapot from plaque will help a soda solution, poured into the vessel for several hours.

See how to properly and safely wash the dishes without using a dishwasher in the next video.