This trivial gesture when you do the dishes is a bad idea! This leads to additional expenses, but also wasted time.
After cooking and enjoying a good meal, it’s always the same problem, you have to wash the dirty dishes. Even if you have a dishwasher, many times there is a pan, a large dish or fragile dishes left in the sink. This daily task everyone agrees: it is monotonous, boring, and sometimes tedious. To make the task easier, everyone has their own little habits, such as soaking dishes in hot water, using a brush rather than a sponge, etc.
Among these habits, one practice seems universal: putting a good dose of dishwashing liquid directly on the sponge. It is an automatic, almost instinctive gesture that we repeat without thinking. However, this popular method is not as effective as it seems. In reality, it wastes time and money.
Although for many, the more product you use, the more it foams, and the better the results will be, this is far from the truth. It is completely useless to use too much product, it is even counterproductive, for different reasons. By putting the product directly on the sponge, you not only waste product, but it also makes rinsing later difficult. It is for this reason that experts recommend another way of washing dishes.
The solution is simple. Instead of pouring dish soap directly onto the sponge, dilute it in a little hot water first. For example, you can fill a small bowl or container with hot water and add a small amount of dishwashing liquid. Then dip the sponge in this solution. In this way, the detergent is distributed evenly across the sponge, allowing you to use a smaller amount of product while maintaining its effectiveness.
Another reason to stop putting product directly on the sponge is that it wastes time and money. By using too much product, the sponge becomes soaked and generates excess foam. You will have to spend more time rinsing your dishes, but also your sponge. So you waste a lot of water.
If we think about the long term, this practice can represent a significant cost. A bottle of dishwashing liquid should theoretically last several weeks. However, by using the product inefficiently, you find yourself purchasing it more frequently. The same goes for water. If you wash the dishes twice a day, imagine how many liters of water are wasted. Even if the impact on your budget seems minimal on a daily basis, the accumulation over several months or years ends up weighing on finances.