DISH WASHING AS A FINE ART.

Otaki Mail, 6 January 1922, Page 4

DISH WASHING AS A FINE ART.

* ■ I STRUCK AGAINST DISHWASHING. "The mere thought of the dishes spoiled every meal for me. To go straight from the table to the dish pan morning, noon and night was too great a price to pay even for food. Finally I struck for freedom. Ino longer wash dishes three times a day, but take care of the three meals' supply iu one grand attack every morning. "Under my regime eveiy meal has its own special dishes, its own special , tray for stacking them when, dirty or for placing them when clean, and each tray has its own special place on the closet shelf. "After breakfast all three trays of dishes are brought to the kitchen table. All the lost motion of going through the same performance three times a day is done away with. There ib one heating of water, one washing, one rinsing, one scalding, one putting away —and the aggregate of time required is. much less than one-half the old way. "I packed away all dish towels and replaced them with, medium-weight TunOsh towelling. The power of absorption and hence the shortening of time more than make up for the difference in cost. Even this towel is not a, dish towel in the conventional sense that it is for drying the dishes. I do not wipe them at all —that is, none except the vegetable dishes. To wash every dish and then go back to the beginning of it all -and pick up every single dish again to dry it—my nerves just couldn't stand it. It is this sort of repetition, 'this sort of constant doubling on their own tracks, that drives women frantic. I SAVED INNUMERABLE STEPS. "I searched every big store in the city till I found a dish drainer to suit me. It cost not more than six dish towels —and what a care it is to keep them laundered. The metal holders of this drainer reach high enough to hold even the dinner plates with perfect j security. The dishes are washed in a large pan and straight from the warm suds they go to the drainer standing in the sink, each dish placed upright and each standing separate and untouched by any other. Over them I pour-quan-tities of rinsing water and at the last water that is boiling. That is the end of it all. The drainer with its steaming dishes is lifted to a table on which has been spread a Turkish towel to catch the drippings —and they will be perfectly dry and perfectly glossy by tho time you finish washing your flat silver and boilers. They arc then taken from the drainer and placed on their respective trays. When the time comes to set the table for any meal it is a matter almost of seconds to place tho tray on the table and transfer the dishes. xMI that lost motion of walking back and forth to even a near china i closet is thus done away with."