Washing Dishes by hand.

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Yesterday I came across an interesting You Tube video where someone was following a housecleaning routine from the 1920s. Being a younger person, she hadn't really done dishes by hand before, having mostly used a dishwasher, and was a little confused by the instructions to do things in a particular order. The order given was silverware, glassware, plates and then pots and pans. Now, I was always taught glassware before silverware because you don't want any grease in the water getting on the glassware. One of the reasons for doing dishes this way is because the least dirty things are washed first and also glassware and silverware comes into direct contact with your mouth, so you really want them to be clean. The truth is that if you are doing dishes by hand you'll probably end up changing the water once or twice anyway. I think it's a sign of my age because my first reaction was "surely everyone knows this"? But then I realised that some people have possibly never washed dishes by hand.