Doing the Dishes in 1820 |No Plumbing| You'll Never Complain Again
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- What is a dry sink? How was cast iron cleaned 200 years ago? Let's see if we can tend to these filthy dishes without running water!
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Show this to your kids whenever they complain about doing the dishes.
It sucks either way! Hand washing dishes is the most tedious torturous task man has ever made. Standing there, the gross food waste, the dramatic temp differences, the stench, wrinkled fingers, hard to reach spots, the stubborn spots you cant wash- then someone overlooking your 'work' and throwing the dish back in. Like you might as well ask me to rewash by hand every toilet paper square I ever used. Insanity! Dishwashers should be mandated like heat in winter and not be considered luxury.
Will do 😜
My kids (and grand kids) grew up as avid campers. This is pretty much status quo for us. LOL! (Of course we don't have the burden of wearing a long dress to the river ;) Also, in thirty three years of marriage, I have never owned an electric dish washer. Granted, I do have running water and a drain!
Tell Ron it's time for him to dig you a well.
I was just doing the dishes few moments ago 😅
Can you all imagine washing dishes, laundry (especially diapers) etc., for a family of 11 children? I'm sure it was hard on the mom and older kids. But it was all they had! Thank you, Mom and Poppy!
I imagine the older children would have helped.
i cant imagine washing up, doing the washing especially nappies
Yeah and that's why mental health progressed to how bad it is now n days because the mothers didn't have time to actually care for any of their kids which passed on to the next generation.
Oh and when a kid did misbehave, they got an ass whooping instead.
The parents probably had their kids do a lot of the chores and some parents probably had the older kids take care of the younger kids just like some parents do today
That's the reason WHY they had like 11 kids 😂😂 they did not sit and watch their parents go mad doing it all, they had to work with them
Thanks Justine. I have cast iron from the 1800s. It's come down through the family, perfectly seasoned and absolutely NOTHING sticks to it. I just love my pots and pans and cauldrons.
Those are family treasures! I wish we had some, but I have a friend who inherited one and it's amazing! So much better than any of the "non-stick" stuff sold today.
That'll probably be due to the high lead content
@@michaelosborne3414 lead only was common in enameled cast iron in "black iron" not a problem and if well cared for many generations could pass it on with out problems I totally love cast iron
I definitely don't go through all this washing cast iron, even as old as it is. Just clean it out, heat it up, scrub with coarse salt, and lightly coat again. Only ever season with a full strip. But the old cast iron requires the least work and nothing sticks to it (new stuff doesn't).
A full strip of what ? I have a cast iron as well
My kids complained about loading/unloading the dishwasher until I made them wash it all my hands for a month. Most people do not realize how blessed we are. Since the kids are grown I wash most by hand, dry in a drainer and put them away. It’s really easier since we have so few. Thank you Justin for reminding us how very blessed we are. Stay well!
Yeah I remember being a kid and making such a fuss over emptying the dishwasher. It's been like 20 years since I've had the luxury of using one and I genuinely don't understand people who own one but let their dirty dishes pile up!
I had never used a dishwasher until I got hired for a day as a dish girl at a restaurant in the summer of 2022 and they had an industrial dishwasher. My duties were to rinse, load and unload the dishwasher but I had no idea that this what they meant by dish girl and I had mentally prepared to wash an unfathomable amounts of dishes by hand! 😂 I was ridiculed for not knowing how to use one! I had never touched a machine like that in all of my 23 years of life! I was used washing dishes by hand since I was 3 and became more efficient around 6. Have been cooking and cleaning since I was 8, let's just say I haven't used a more complicated machine as of yet!
When I was young my family and I we would visit my dad's village for a month during the summer and his village is near the mountain Olympus. His village didn't have 24/7 electricity until the early 2000s and I remember doing my homework and other things under candle light when we would visit in the winter. Around 2010 they got WiFi but still we have terrible tv and radio signal even phone signal! We were completely off grid when we would visit.
And because my dad's house is old indoor plumbing was added by my grandpa around 1960s. Yet due to how the area is and because it's Greece we have frequent water and electric blackouts! So, I have memories of carrying buckets and bottles of water from the streams half an hour away to our car and drive back to the village and carrying them inside. Then we would proceed to wash the dishes, clothes and ourselves by hand in buckets.
It's an experience that I will never trade and will pass it on to my kids. During the hours of scrubbing clothes or utensils we would talk and exchange stories I learned so much history about my family, learned my village's dialect and taught my grandma how to speak English. I heard gossips from our neighbors who would join us with their own buckets of stuff to wash.
When I was 17 years old I was in college and living by myself due to the fact that one person doesn't generated much laundry to excuse the use of a washing machine I was washing my clothes in the bathtub and sink. I lived at my aunt's house and she was paying for the electric and water bill so I tried not to spend too much of either. One weekend my aunt visits and I'm mid-washing my clothes she yelled at me for not using the machine! 😂
She said and I quote; "Stupid girl! You don't live in the 1800s! Use the damn machine! And if you feel guilty for the small amount add some bedsheets from my humber! Jesus! Your knees, back and hands will thank you!"
Only issue was that washing machine was in German and I don't speak or can read German! 😂 I was a bit intimidated! But it couldn't be as bad as my parents' Swedish washing machine, right? Wrong! It was a weird year for my clothes and me! 😂😂😂
All in all, all these experiences taught me that it's good to know how to do chores both the old way but the modern too! Especially with how things are escalating energy wise. But also be open to learn more modern ways of doing chores if they come out.
Your kids might find the old ways more efficient in the future so teach them both. Sorry for the long comment!
@@VasilikiTzalachanihappyI honestly don’t think I’ve read a comment as long as yours but it was very beautiful and I hope you’re doing well 😇
@@lilymead5457 Hi! Thank you for your kind comment! So sorry for how long it was! I just had a lot to say! 😅
I'm doing well! Thank you for asking! Hope you're doing well too! Thank you for taking the time to read my comment!
I live out in the country, and there have been a few winters where the neighborhood water line has frozen and left us without running water (once for over a month, which absolutely blew; this year thankfully it was only 8 days). Washing dishes like this was such a pain in the ass that I just went out and bought a lot of paper plates, bowls, and plastic cutlery, so I was only washing the dishes I cooked with. I can see why people made so many simple meals with few dishes back in the day.
Why don't you watch your language
We had a similar experience when we had a cold snap before it had a chance to lay down a nice insulating layer of snow over our well. Those paper plates and plastic cutlery came in handy. The snow finally came, so we ended up melting snow for dishwater. Because the snow was powdery, it took a lot of snow to come up with enough dish water. Now we have a cement lid over our well and we put straw bales over it when the snow comes late but the temps drop below zero.
@@clairevero what?
@@clairevero 💀💀💀 Stfu. How’s that for language
@@vickiring7761 Yeah, I found out the hard way that trying to melt snow for dishwashing water was an exercise in frustration. The year our line froze for over month was the same thing -- cold snap before there was any snow to insulate it. The joys of living in the country, lol, but it's worth it.
I, too, found this topic interesting. We use a giant cast iron frying pan for cooking almost everything, and after gently washing it we oil it and put it back on the gas stove to heat and season. We've used cast iron for thirty years- virtually every day. That pan is huge, heavy, and cumbersome to clean but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
That's a true family heirloom!
My mom got my boyfriend and I some while we were at my boyfriends parents house...I planned on keeping them forever and passing them on to my kids. HIS mom put them in the DISHWASHER!! She was all mad that I said something about it. Saying "I was just helping they were sitting there dirty for days"
They were rusty already just from one washing :(
I don't know how to fix them...
This is how we do the dishes at our cottage, except that we pump the water from an old hand pump, then heat it up on the stove. Food scraps are scraped into the compost pail. One thing I found that keeps dishwater clean longer is to prewash the really dirty dishes in a large dirty bowl or pan. This also helps pre-soak the bowl or pan. When we’re done, dishwater gets tossed out back, the dish pan gets cleaned with the rinse water, and they get hung up til next time.
We had a red hand pump in the kitchen to fill the tea kettle. And another one outdoors for buckets
I distinctly remember once when my family went camping (car camping, but still), I had to wash all the dishes by hand with water I hauled from the water pump in a central location in the campground. I was probably around 13. Ever since then, we've used paper plates on our camping trips 😂
Well, that is American if I ever heard something. Good grief!
That's what this reminded me of. Water is heavy to carry!
It doesn't get any more adorable than Snow White doing the dishes! 😊
AGREED!
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Omg yes I'm glad someone else noticed this!
Lovely Said
I've been waiting for a video showing how you do all those dishes! Never been more grateful for my dishwasher 😂
Couldn't agree more!
We don't use dish washers in South Asian villages, towns and most homes in big cities
Used to heat water on the stove, pour water in the dishpan and start washing while another tea kettle full was heating. Once the water was boiling, the washed dishes we would “scald” the washed dishes and turn them upside down on the washboard until finished, the dry with a t-towel!
Still wash dishes by hand unless there are a LOT!
My house was built in 1959 and much of the kitchen is original... no dishwasher. No biggie because I live by myself and washing dishes by hand for one person is no harder. It's a pain in the butt though on holidays where there are 4 or more.
Amen!
My in laws didn’t have running water in the house until 1973. Some areas inhabited by family’s here in Southeast Ky didn’t get electricity until close to 1999. I was unaware that people in our county didn’t have electric until I read in the news paper that an area around Buckhorn Lake had electric power now. I wasn’t convinced that article was meant for that present time. I thought possibly it was a post from back in the history of the county that was being reposted. I had noticed the persons name that wrote the article was the same as that of a man we transported by ambulance pretty often. The next time I transported him I asked if he wrote that article and he said yes and confirmed that it was true about the community just now getting electric.
Interesting synchronicity running into the man who wrote the article. Imagine he was pleased to hear that. I wasn't aware that people live like that in modern times either.
Makes our lives look so easy. Thanks for the lovely video, Justine! xoxo
We camp a lot at mountain man rendezvous. I love doing dishes this way.
A dry sink makes so much more sense now. I never new how they used them. Love this channel!
As someone who used to not have a dishwasher (it was awful), this makes me appreciate some modern technology like the dishwasher and a washer and dryer. 😊
Amen to that. And not everyone is young and strong to be able to stand for a long time or carry heavy water buckets.
I have been waiting for this video! We had to do our dishes this way while living in a tent building our home.. and when the pipes froze last Thanksgiving! Hot water on tap is such a blessing
I'm in Alaska, our water is OK but our sewer line is frozen right now you got no Idea what an issue that is which reminds me i told the lady of the house I'd sort out the dishes tomorrow. Oh and I'm kind of a guest here not her man, (He's my very good friend)..
This is great. We wash dishes outside in the summer time in our outdoor sink :) no plumbing just boiled water; scenery is so much nicer
Yes! That's the best thing about washing clothes outside, too. When I lived in NY, people would bring things to do at the laundromat while their clothes were washing, like handheld games and stuff; but the whole environment was so bleak.
But outside, it's fresh and beautiful, I can listen to the birds sing; and the squirrels perched in the trees chittering at my two dogs with the squirrel equivalent of four-letter words, lol; and the pine-scented breeze ruffling through my hair. So much more peaceful and beautiful! But only during the summer, of course; in winter, we use our washing machine.
This is how I feel about hanging the wash out to dry in the summer. It’s relaxing hanging it up and folding it outside.
It won't work where there are many external threats. After all, you have to bring water.
This is why in many regions, instead of washing clothes and dishes in the river, people have to work hard to bring water home. Especially a newlywed woman without children should be more careful when she is outside alone.
I'm from the Dominican Republic, many families do their dishes this way to conserve water. Although for the most part they do have running water from their faucet, but you can quickly run out depending on your system.
No coat on and snow on the ground! You are a pioneer woman! 😊
and summer dress on as well!! Tough lady!
When I moved out of the city many years ago as a young woman, to a country area, everyone I knew had a double sink in their kitchen. One for washing and the smaller one for rinsing. That when I learned to wash the pots and pans and whatever that didn't go into those older dishwashers. Was being told that I had to learn how to conserve water. Learned much from my elders who grew up before the modern conveniences.
My home ec teacher taught her classroom full of girls only this way of washing dishes back in 1975.
I agree. No matter what it's always good to conserve water. People take it for granted.
I live in Southeast Texas, on the border of TX and LA, and during hurricane recovery, this is how we wash dishes, clothes and ourselves. Now, we don't have to draw from a river because I collect water but I grew up having to do this anyways because we weren't well to do and often didn't have power to pump our water from the well. Water collection was our only source and we'd fill up the toilet tanks so the ladies could do a 1x flush in morning. Boys could just go out the back off the porch and wash away their accumulation in the morning.
Everytime I watch one of your mini movies, I get transported in time to my 'Little House on The Prarie' days as a kid, enjoying the outdoors, landscape & fantastic scenery.
Three attributes that evoke a true sense of realism to the uniqueness & style of your Channels content.
I cannot measure the joy it brings to me as a 50+ living in this 'modern' albeit troublesome World nowadays, as a pleasant distraction.
So here's wishing u guys continued success with educating us about the ways of the old Frontier...LOL
wonder if cast iron can be used on a smooth top electric stove?
That's basically how I do dishes when we go camping. :)
I personally enjoy doing house chores (or physical work in general), it's calming. Love your videos, they are very satisfying to watch! Keep up the good work, guys! ❤️
From Italy ,ti seguo con piacere,apprezzo tanto i tuoi video e li trovo molto istruttivi,la storia Americana dell'Ottocento per noi europei ha un grande fascino.
It was interesting! We love all of your programs and look forward to every new episode. Peace, happiness, and health to you and your family.
Wow, I once read that one of your subscribers requested u on how u wash your dishes!☺️ And so it is!🥰 That means u guys really take time to read your viewer's comment! Good job Justin and Ron!😊 From your subscriber here in the Philippines 🇵🇭 God bless 🥰
You need to teach Ron to do that😁 I have not used anything but cast iron for years. Nothing better IMO
All soaps contain lye, but in varying amounts, depending on their purpose.
Castile soap was gentle, because it didn't contain much lye, so it was for washing people.
For washing dishes and household cleaning, strong lye soap was used. For really scrubbing things (especially pots and pans), they used brick dust on a cloth dipped in vinegar.
I have never heard of the white brick dust. Interesting!
I learned how to wash dishes this way. There's an order to it what should get washed first. Basically least greasy (think drinking vessels) first to most greasy like pans last.
This is exactly how my grandparents did their dishes, even in the 90's. My grandma refused to use a dishwasher!:)
Mine too. I thought she was crazy.
This is exactly what I have been curious about! Thank you!
I know this feeling when I came overseas in 1984 to visit my grandmother ...we were washing the dishes that way for all the time we were on holidays .....
Thank you for sharing another great video
We had major plumbing problems this week! Had to “go potty” in a bucket! Thankfully they sell toilet seats for 5 gallon buckets! Washed dishes outside with the hose! No baths or showers! We are not out of the woods yet! Plumbers coming back to dig up the front yard to install a clean out that will easily remove roots in the sewer lines!
Good luck getting your plumbing fixed! That sounds like a real pain. I hope everything goes well for you!
My mom had a dry sink downstairs in the basement. The top was cupboards to store food. I did not know they used to wash dishes in buckets long ago. Neat to know. Ty.
Love this video. It’s an education to see how people lived every day lives. Wanted to know if this cabin would be considered very well stocked for this era?
Yes, it was well stocked. More so than during the depression years in Canada. Born in 1929, I remember those years only too well. Water was carried from the lake, no electric lights. A one-room log cabin, 16' X 18', with a smaller addition added on later. Trees chipped down, sawed, then split to keep the fire going.
Winter was rough.
@@borwin98 I grew up in the country and I lived like this I was born in the 50s
Hi Ashley, was this Norther Ontario where you lived?@@ashleybosvik3031
Good question.
Look at the oldtime dish scruber. AWESOME.
I am so happy to have dishwasher and plumbing.
After reading Diana Gabbaldons books Im thankful every day for living this comfort that we have. A warm home, and warm water and all the luxury. Thanks for showing us how it was 200 years ago washing the dishes.
Two things. First, I love this video. I'm fascinated by the mundane aspects of history. I wish there were more videos like this. I want to know how everyday folks did things before the modern era. Second, was it common for people to add vinegar to the rinse water? My parents did this and they were very old school.
Vinegar is an acid. It would balance a base. Some use vinegar as a cleaning agent.
I use vinegar and water to clean some things in the house. My electric range top recommends it.
Reminds me of home, a log cabin, and water from the lake. We did have a large iron stove with a reservoir to heat water in. 1930's, northern Ontario.
The way Justine hefted that fry pan I won't be surprised to see it as her weapon of choice in a future skit😆
Lol😂
My foster mother once told me that in Italy where she was born to scour cooking utensils they would put on sand on a washcloth and use that.
On wilderness river trips we used the four bucket system, cold pre-rinse, hot wash, cold rinse and finally a dip in a bucket with a cap of bleach in it. It's necessary because of giardia in most streams and rivers in the US.
Very interesting! I just moved my mother’s drysink into my house. She had it for 60 years in her many homes. I’m so honored to have it.
It sounds very nice.
My grandmother had a double sink and used to wash dishes this way - of course, the sinks were hooked up to indoor plumbing, but she washed and rinsed dishes this same way you are.
that’s how we used to wash dishes at my grandma’s house. We had running water, but it was only cold water, so we had to warm it on stove. One bucket for all dishes - tea cups and mugs first, then cutlery, plates, and pots and pans last. Then the dirty water was going to the drainage outside. Oh, those were good times … slow life, no stress, but my view may be biased as I was 10 yo max (I’m 53 now)
That was fun to watch for because I remember my Grandmother doing dishes that very way when I was very young...She got her water from a pump at her Back door..A few years later , she got running water in her house..Thanks Justin and you always look so graceful, no matter what you are doing.. Blessings 🙏🕊️🌿❤️
Yes she does look graceful always doesn't she
As someone who utterly despises washing the dishes in any era, I appreciate the perspective.
This reminds me of doing dishes while car camping. Mom would have a final rinse of boiled water, with a first rinse of bleach and water, preceded by soap and warm water for well scraped dishware. While the first (soaping) didn't need a lot of water, the bleaching needed enough to get all edges angled below the surface, the last needed to be deep enough to dip and rinse off the bleach. [Soaps need warm/hot water. Detergents can work in cold water.]I am glad that you included the drying and after care. Salt can also be used as a scrubbing agent before washing.
Your channel is so peaceful lol. Whenever I feel an anxiety attack coming or a wave of rumination, I watch your videos to calm down and clear my head. ❤
I agree it is very calming, and educational too.
I Love modern conveniences ! I have had to live like that growing up in Argentina in the 70's and don't miss it at all ! ❤❤❤but kudos to you Christine for demonstrating how it was done !
Another great video! I had heard that at the end of the meal, you cleaned your plate with a crust of bread and then ate that bread. You got the use of every bit of the food. If times were really difficult, you would even lick your plate clean after using the crust of bread!
I have done thus many times.
Among my group, some do the cooking, and the others wash the dishes. If everyone cleans their plates, the wash water lasts a long time.
We always used a crust of bread, before licking the plate clean. Never any food left on a plate.
Licking the plate just sounds gross.
@@jenniferloftus2363 Yeah, it is.
@@jenniferloftus2363 Hello Jennifer. From our perspective it is somewhat gross. But we have been blessed to be in a country where we can afford to be selective as to what we eat. This has not always been the case. For some Native Americans their word for winter was "the starving time".
Many of the first colonists who came to this country literally starved to death the first winter.
One of the reasons that we study history is to understand how our ancestors lived. To understand the hardships they overcame to build the life we enjoy.
Thank you for your comment Jennifer.
May you have a long, prosperous, and happy life!
When you add to this the fact that most non city dwellers also made their own soap it brings a whole nother dimension to the laboriousness of doing the dishes, scrubbing and laundry,
In my small hometown in Norway, they wouldn't even use any soap for cleaning the dishes. When done, they would add some flour to the dirty water and then give it to the calves.
I lived in a truck a few year and did my dishes eveyday like this. It's cool to take you're time to do everything what you have to.
No shawl? Must not be as cold as it looks- I saw a little snow on the ground. I suppose if it's close by to the water. Not sure where this is but in here in North Dakota, we need at least something for bare arms. I use lard for my cast iron also.
These videos are so relaxing, thank You for posting them.
Thank you for all you do for us to understand how our forefathers lived, we so appreciate all the work you do to make these videos available to us! God bless youi!!
What a great vlog, thank you Justine, loved every minute of it x ❤️ thanks Ron for filming x ❤️
I absolutely love your videos both educational in the sense it answers a lot of questions I've had about how they did things back then and relaxing, definitely ASMR due to sounds and just watching you do the things you do! Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful videos it's like watching the words you read in book come to life!
Justine is the most practical!
These videos are so amazing! I say that if I were living in the 18th and 19th centuries, I'd never survive the day to day hardships, but if it was all I knew. I'd muddle through
Love your videos and I always season my cast iron .. they are part of the family . 😊
It’s the little things we take for granted 🦋
I lived survivor-style on a beach in Mexico for months at a time over the course of several years. We used salt water and castile soap for bucket #1, with sand as a scour, then rinsed in bucket #2 with a little bit of fresh water (we had to be very sparing with drinkable water because we had to drive 2 hours to obtain it). At times, our camp had up to 20 people and we never used plastic or paper plates or utensils.
Once I returned to civilization, I never took running water for granted again.
One of the most beautiful things I have ever experienced was one night, we finished dinner a little late (we usually ate while it was still light because we didn’t have electricity) and my friend Joann and I walked about shin deep to rinse the dinner plates in the waves. We wanted to at least rinse them off so it would be easier to wash them in the morning. As we dunked them, it looked like shooting stars were exploding off the dishes, our legs, and our hands. It was phosphorescent plankton, and it was so beautiful! We called all our camp-mates out and spent hours jumping into the waves and watching the light show. When you swim in the water, you look like a comet. It was AMAZING.
Getting ready for grid gone, I’m grateful that we have a well with the neighbors and that I’m equipped to do things the old ways and cook on in the chimney.
I use cast iron every day. I rarely use soap on them, but when it is needed I dry them on the stove then oil them. I prefer bacon grease, but olive oil works OK. My favorite ones are the ones I find at yard sales that some one's Grandma used. They are really very much better than the brand new ones...even after 7-8 years of using the new ones.
How many short cuts we have today. I think this way of life we see here taught our great grandparents persistence and patience. Whenever my daughter has a stain she can’t remove it’s always “Mum”!! When I’ve removed it she says how did you do that and I always say patience and persistence. But they want a spray or powder.that takes two seconds and no effort . 😂
This is just what I love about your videos. You always learn something new and interesting with every one.
Also taking dishes down to a creek and putting some sand in the bottom and scrubbing it with water also works really well. Just put near a fire when done to dry off.
Enjoyed the video Justine. We don't realize how easy we have with many household chores we do today. You take care and God bless.
You got me, I'll never complain about doing dishes again 😄 You have a beautiful river nearby! I figured you must take your dishes home after filming and put them in the dishwasher 😉
I have a lot of good sweet childhood memories of washing dishes in a double sink. My 3 sisters and I had a system of washing, rinsing, drying and putting them sway. We would sing songs and talk and its some of my favorite memories. We never had to fetch and heat our water though. Running hot water is a great thing.
That’s Awesome! The sound alone is worth a thousand words
Going to live"off Grid" and watching these videos encourages me! Thank you
Back when creeks were clean! I often wonder if they were even introduced to a dishwasher would they even use it? Mine doesn’t even get the dishes clean as this!
This is basically how I did dishes for much of my life. We had plumbing of course but we didn't have a dishwasher. We had a double basin sink in our apartment in New York. I still do my pots and pans this way since they need scrubbing and the dishwasher can't get them fully clean. This video was so so pleasant to watch. Satisfying and relaxing.
I still wash my dishes like this every day but I do have running water. I love washing dishes because it's relaxing to me.
Me, too, Liz! Plus once the water cools I water my plants outside with it. The soapy water kills aphids and other pests and fertilizes the soil, all in one. But I do have hot water from the tap. Makes a big difference.
I love the sound of a rushing stream! I could listen all day!
Thank you! I wasn’t sure how much abrasion was used to clean/scrub the dishes and how it was just generally done.
A lot of women used to drown doing dishes. Especially, in winter time. They would often slip on the ice into the water and because their garments were made out of wool, they would be pulled down immediately. So grateful for the running water we have. Even in modern day, it’s definitely a privilege.
I am extremely grateful for Dawn and Playtex rubber gloves. 😋
Watching the videos. Makes me appreciate food, Dishwasher, ect. More then I ever did
Where I live, we still wash dishes this way, but we squat down and the dry sink as she mentioned is kept on the ground. Now we've upgraded to standing but still use the same method. Usually, a smaller bowl is used in the 1st step, where we soap the dishes and wash the dishes with a wash cloth, usually from used lacy curtains or scrubs, then in the 2nd step , the dishes are dipped in a larger bowl (like the dry sink she mentioned), either the soapy dishes are cleaned by hand or cloth, then the 2nd step may be repeated once or twice. . This way water is saved. When the water starts getting greasy, the water from 1st step is thrown into the garden and the bowl (or dry sink) is refilled with clean water and replace the 2nd or 3rd step water.
This is how we managed growing up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. A bucket of water was constantly heating on the wood burning stove. Dishes, baths, etc. off the grid.
That's a lot like how folks wash dishes in various outdoor camping "hippy" events. There's a long table to which people carry their dishes. In front of it is a composting bucket where they scrape off as much as they can from the dish. Then there's five basins. The first two have soapy hot water where you do a pre-wash and a wash, then two rinses, then a final one in vinegar-water as a disinfectant rinse. Volunteers keep changing out the water frequently.
Theses videos are hypnotic and so relaxing and interesting. Such a nice change from our hyper culture.
What a beautiful yet trying time in our history ❤ Our ancestors were so strong!
In the 50s and 60s Mom had a double sink, but still washed dishes in the "dirty" side and rinsed them in the clean side. Her Mom had the same set up with a double porcelain sink, but no indoor plumbing. Water from the rain barrel was heated on the stove and used the same way that Mom did. My city grandmother washed in a stainless steel sink and then put the dishes into the dishwasher. They sat in it until it was filled and then she ran the load. Granmaw's modern way never had dishes as clean as Mom and Granny! I still wash from the dirty side to the clean rinse side!
Thanks for another lesson In frontier living! 🍽️
In 1990 I was 20 years old and I moved overseas by myself to the Canry Islands. The units I lived in had a laundry on the top floor (I had no washing machine). I used to handbasin all my clothes in their old fashioned laundry. It was just a room with a row of cement sinks and each one had an old fashioned grille for hand scrubbing your clothes clean. That's how I washed my clothes for 4 years.
Those ladies had hard work washing a lot of dishes, by carrying the water in heavy buckets. Thank you, Justine for showing us.
I grew up hand washing dishes and I continued it into adulthood. I’m now 32 and still hand wash dishes. Our dishwasher is storage for all my glass containers.
I wash dishes in a small white plastic dish pan and rinse and dry in the rack. When we lived in a property with a dry well.,I hauled 30 gallons water every day from town in milk jugs gallon size and put on a table outside in the sun. For a warm shower later. I had an electric stove and heat a large enamel pail to boiling for my rinse water and used a smaller bucket for my wash water, for-the dishes.Then used the rinse water to pour over my hands to rinse them off during the day.
Love it, Justine! I'm always amazed at running water and how we ever got by without it.
I remember growing up in the south we called all dressing "salad oil". And "salad dressing" was mayo.
I love this little cabin.
My siblings and I use to have to wash all the dishes by hand. I will never complain about it with a dishwasher. It's still a miracle product to me. My mom use to make us clean the tile/linoleum on our hands and knees. No idea why we didn't get to use a MOP.