Washing Dishes

The champion of getting chores done, you are a dynamo in the kitchen. Just listen to the suave way you handle that delicate china. It's as if you were inspired from the heavens to touch the kitchen sink like a master artisan, not unlike Leonardo Da Vinci, you render the dirty dishes into a pristine pile of fine art with such clear and complete genius. Only a handful of people to have walked the earth could come close to imitating your style. In some European countries the dishes are generally washed in a separate tub placed inside the sink. This practice may have started as a matter of hygiene, as the kitchen sink was the only sink available for all the household water. The clothes were washed in the sink; the water used to wash the floor went down the sink, and so it made sense to separate the dishwater from the sink. There were two other possible reasons: First, kitchen sinks tended to be very large in a time when heating water was considered to be a major household expense; a tub used less water. Second, kitchen sinks were usually made of hard ceramic; any contact between the sink and plates was likely to cause chips, but a tub could be made of more forgiving material.