Save water by not washing pans and plates

[jeanmarie]

After you have used a plate, pan, spoons, and forks, put them in the fridge, you can do that for 3 days if you only keep them out for a short time, then you only wash dishes about 2 times a week.

Hah! You are so spoiled! Go to Desertphile's channel on YouTube and watch "My Life as a Mojave Desert Hermit." He had one pot. He cooked in it, ate out of it, licked it dry and cleaned it out with dirt. Then, the next meal went right in on top of the dirt residue.

[travelaround]

Cooking with dirt? Now, that's innovative!

I will make one pot of veggies in a day and eat that as soup. Easy-clean pots. Keeping it simple.

[highdesertranger]

ok I am finally going to say something.

conserving water is a good thing I am all for it. but saving water by not washing your dishes I don't get. no need to use dirt, alcohol, vinegar, etc

no matter where you are there is water close by that you can use to wash with. get a real map not a google map or a google earth or any of the other 3rd party maps. get a USGS map that is what all others are based on, but the others leave stuff off. I can almost guaranty that everybody reading this is within 2-5 miles of water. even in the desert. if you have an internet signal there is water close by.

I use very little dish soap. in fact 99% of the time I don't use any, maybe once every couple of weeks and then sparingly.

I use very few paper towels. very wasteful. I hate paper plates and plastic utensils, super wasteful. in the long run you are not saving any water by using paper towels, paper plates, and plastic utensils, in fact now your overall usage has skyrocketed.

highdesertranger