15 Minute Challenges: The Kitchen Sink

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• Prep by gathering cup of tea/coffee or favorite beverage and turning on your favorite music.
• Set Timer.
• LOAD your dishwasher properly
  • Pre-rinse off large amounts of food (The newest dishwashers say they do a better job if you don’t scrape or rinse.)
  • Load bottom rack first
    • Cookie sheets/pots/pans around outside, then large plates inside of those & finish with small bowls in middle
  • Load top rack last
    • Cups between prongs
    • Plastic items
    • Don’t stack items
• CYCLE
  • HEAVY CYCLE: tea/coffee stained cups, dishes that have been sitting, burned on food even after hand scrubbing
  • NORMAL CYCLE: lightly used dishes/cups
  • DELICATE CYCLE: to be honest, I’ve never used this cycle but it is for delicate dishes.  I prefer to hand wash these.
  • SANITIZE CYCLE:  after a contagious illness, baby bottles & plastics
  • QUICK CYCLE: If you wash your dishes before putting them in the dishwasher, — I won’t name names — you only need the heat part of the dishwasher to sanitize.  This cycle does this for you.
• CLEAN sink, wipe down your countertops & sweep floor so kitchen is clean when wash finishes.
• UNLOAD
  • If you don’t have room for all of your dishes, that is another blog but editing what you don’t use or like will get you started.

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