Washing Dishes

By Lloyd Kahn on January 14, 2024

I made this video several years ago and it popped up today on www.democraticunderground.com, which seems to be a political blog.

Still doing dishes the same way…

About Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
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5 Responses to Washing Dishes

  1. My used scraps of wet-or-dry emery paper make quick work of a burnt pot. #400 still leaves a semi-shiny surface, but there are many possibilities. I rinse my dishes and air dry them, but sometimes get puddles that evaporate daily. The detergent build up in them is startling, due to the boundary layer of soapy water staying on everything without a scrub or a high-pressure spray to remove it.

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  2. It’s funny, I use baking soda for other cleaning jobs, but it never occurred to me to use it for grease on dishes, and I like that shaker approach.

    I lived in the UK for a year about 40 years ago, and we had a small electric water tank above the sink (attached to the wall). We’d fill it up from the tap with water via a hose that was attached to it and then then flip a switch–sort of like a hot water kettle, only larger. I thought it was a great system because it only made as much hot water as we needed for the dishes,

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  3. I still use the dishwasher, but city water has changed so now get a lot of residue. I am going to try the baking soda in the dishwasher to see if it might help. I use soda for hand cleaning things quite a bit but never thought about dishwashing.

    Sent link to one of the descendants and she said that was exactly how they did dishes in a Buddhist Monastery she stayed at in Kathmandu about 2019, including dishes over the sink to dry. First hand experience – they took turns doing dishes every day.

    I need one of those blue porcelain pots! Can you tell me the brand? Only place I have ever seen those (and the bowl) before was at the Muddy Pond Variety Store, Monterrey, TN. Small Mennonite community in east TN. They make GREAT Sorghum – working on my last bottle! May have to stop there again on the next trip east!

    Stealth.

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