The "Never Ending Story" of Dirty Dishes

That is a good attitude! Either way it works. Nice to see a man who can get his hands dirty, or is it clean?

@ataboy Yes, there is nothing worse than having to wash your hands AFTER you wash dishes. Could mean those dishes need another go round! Haha!

I think it's like shampoo, @BethieAnnie, hands get...dirty, clean, repeat. Hopefully ending on the clean note of course!

Oh yea, chopsticks..right?.....Ummm...no?...I could be mistaking! But imagine reclining and being fed by your pet robot with perfectly heated 98.6F fingers!, TEFLON coated self cleaning fingers all day long and just what you please to eat! I know you probably prefer to bite into wiggling meat, but there's no reason iBobby could hold it down while you did that too! Or does that ruin it for you?!

@ataboy ..It does not. Our food is difficult to eat with spoons and forks. Imagine a thin flat bread. You would roll it and with its help push some cooked vegetable on to the spoon, and then take a bite of rolled chapati (flat bread) and then open mouth again to push the vegetable in even as some food is already in there, even if bland without vegetables. Some how it does not work. The process gets even worse with stews. Or may be, I am kind of accustomed to eating this way now. I used to eat with forks and knives and spoons and well, nobody around me does. I would look so out of step with my surroundings. They will think I am a snob. Spoon yes, but forks and knives are rare. The positives? No clam is going to fly from the plate into the hands of a waiter and he gets to say "it happens all the time". (Pretty Woman).

@vandana7 Do you think a tool could be made for eating this sot of food, or are fingers just so versatile that it's not worth reinventing the wheel?

But, Marlina, you said that before I even posed my "dirty dish solutions" (no pun intended) What if I actually did have a good one!

Yes, that's the problem with dishwashers. I generally leave washed dishes for a day so they drain and air dry and just have to be put away.

@ataboy Just saw a tweet about Boston Dynamic's robot, which was doing some vacuum cleaning or "hoovering". Not quite Jetsons material though!

@EugenesDDen....I thought we would have robots to do all these things by now, where are all the long promised robotic helpers....Rumba! That's all we get...The thing literally and metaphorically sucks then it breaks in a few months. I want my dish cleaning or loading robotic hands mounted on the ceiling or Rosie from the Jetsons or something! Is that really asking too much?!

Once when I worked in an office, A4 photocopying paper was a useful substitute for plates!

@EugenesDDen I don't know different grades of photo copy paper. A4 sounds a little bit like the paper I borrowed from my daughter. It might have worked, lol.

@BethieAnnie The "A" series of paper sizes were developed during the French Revolution. They have an aspect ratio of \/¯2 . The convenience of this is that halving a sheet of paper, converts it to the next size down. Also images/documents can be reduced or enlarged to the next size without cutoff.

I had considered PTFE or silicone spray (which I use on my bicycle chain) I could coat the cutlery and dishes with that and then use an air compressor to blow off all food debris, or maybe get one of those compressed air hand driers which can be seen in public toilets.

@EugenesDDen That's actually not a terrible idea, although I can't believe I'm saying this! The PTFE drys solid and sticks well to either what you're using now or something you could construct, even adding a little tiny bit of silicon over the PTFE (although it probably wouldn't need it too) I mean, The PTFE on cookware is arguably dangerous (in theory) if it starts to get old and scratched up after repeated heat-cool cycles, but just thinking about plates first off anyway!...and pure silicon wont hurt you, although it probably has a lovely auto-garage smell/taste to it! You might even make simple plates out of two concentric large circular cuts of something sturdy, one slightly larger to give it a retractable lip, then it would be a perfectly flat surface, no bumps and slopes like a plate has in it's design. And I like the idea of the hand blower but crossed with a more powerful source of compressed air, and of course motion -sensing on - 5 second timer - off strategically oriented over the trash or the likes! Somehow, I can't see people as optimistic, as I almost am starting to convince myself into becoming! So then you might even complete the whole set, silverware and maybe even a punch bowl with glasses! There's no telling where you might stop! I don't know how I never "owned" one of those blowers when I was a lot younger! Something I guess I looked past, and so many uses! The Drive-In speaker set with new speakers was a nice feature I once had, I suppose the hand dryer would have added back seat air-conditioned output vents! Sorry, just wondering to myself how I missed that...but a little OT! But even if you try it for fun, it would be a great idea to market to campers and survivalists and the likes! Maybe make a plate out of two concentric pieces of fiberglass type of material that fit just tightly enough that the can be set as a lip, then either separated or flattened to be cleaned! ('caned-air' for campers of course!). So should I be expecting a link one day soon from your newest DIY blog idea! (that's my mixed feelings collage - but I think you could get it to work quite honestly!) I am hoping you are incorporated! Not that I could imagine any bacteria or anything remaining behind! Actually it probably wouldn't any worse than leaving the dishes air dry in the dark moist dishwasher! At least there will be less of any medically relevant mycoses budding into little yeast-lings all night long! You think you're going to try it maybe, or you just messing with me? I just thin it's crazy enough that it either works or it finds another somewhat similar application, at least! (I must ask so I know if I can steal his idea or not....shhh...you're talking out-loud again, you going to get myself caught!) Just let me know!

Quick, @EugenesDDen, I told you to keep some job applications on hand at all times...I may be misreading some "interest" over here!