Are you washing your dishes correctly? – Let’s talk about that. (cheerful music) Good Mythical Morning. – Hey, Rhett, how you doing in your home? – Oh, I’m so homely. – Well, at least you’re the one saying it and not me. I am of course still in my home, with all of us being in our homes, we’ve been cooking a lot more here at the house, which means that the dishes have been piling up! What’s the dishes situation like at your house, Rhett? – We have more of them than normal, because yes, we’re only eating in the house. – A lot more dish washing, do you have a system for washing your dishes? – If by system you mean taking the dishes and putting ’em in the dishwasher and turning it on, yes. (Link laughs) – No, that’s not what I mean by system. That ain’t a system, that’s negligence, man. Listen, I’m gonna help you out, and I’m gonna help you out today, because I am gonna show you the best, near I say the blest way to sud your cruds or to de-ish your dishes, it’s time for You’re Washing Dishes Wrong. Okay, Rhett, you’ve heard where lovemaking starts, where’s that? – In the heart? – No, in the kitchen. And do you know where dish washing starts? – In the kitchen? – No, it starts in the dining room, Imma tell you the same thing that I tell my kids, everybody’s gotta clean their own space, that’s where the dish washing begins. Did you get the dirty dish that I mailed you? – If this is what you’re talking about, that was wrapped awkwardly in the mail, yes. – Did you get the dirty napkin that I mailed you? – The dirty napkin that was with the plate, yes. – Okay, now when you’re cleaning your space, the thing that you need to do is you need to take your dish to the trash can, maybe you just bring the trash can to you here, just for the sake of proximity, and you use your soiled napkin to scrape everything off of the dish into the trash can, and then once you’re sure you’ve got everything, crumbs, sauces, all that type of stuff, you should have what appears to be a reasonably clean plate. This way, you actually don’t have to pre-rinse your plate before you destine it for the dishwasher. So you’re saving time, and you’re saving water. – Lemme just interject, I mean, typically you’re not dealing with a plate that was mailed over the course of a couple of days. So I do think that pre-rinsing may be required for this spaghetti sauce that has been on there for more than 48 hours. – All right, now let’s say you’ve moved to the kitchen, you got a pile of dishes, don’t panic, because I’m gonna guide you through how to do it properly with my six phase process of triage, load, wash, rinse, dry, return! Now let’s start with phase one, triage. Okay, Rhett, for triage, the principle is, you only wanna hand wash the dishes that the dishwasher shouldn’t, so step one, you wanna step back, and visually assess your mess. Now, don’t panic, the hand wash items will reveal themselves to you. Go to them. That’s big stuff, that’s bulky stuff, and that’s weird stuff. You wanna get your hands on those things, and you don’t wanna subject those to the rigors of the machine. What about wood stuff, what you wanna do with your wood stuff, Rhett? – You gotta scrub it. – That’s right, you gotta get your hands on your wood. – Right. – In order to make this more simplified, I have written a jingle that I will perform for you now. – Oh gosh. ♪ Don’t you ever ever ever put your wood in the machine ♪ ♪ It’ll break your wood if you put it in that thing ♪ ♪ Use your hands to get your wood clean ♪ ♪ Don’t you ever ever ever put your wood in the machine ♪ – Now you, Rhett, join in! ♪ Don’t you ever ever ever put your wood in the machine ♪ ♪ It’ll break your wood if you put it in that thing ♪ ♪ Only use your hands to get your wood clean ♪ ♪ Don’t you ever ever ever put your wood in the machine ♪ Yeah, that’s good. – I love the song, my only small piece of feedback is that when you said wood and thing, a lot of times I think of those as the same. – I’m glad you’re into the song, I’ll take that as a positive, now that you’ve triaged, your wood pile is there, you move on to phase two, load! Loading your dishwasher is extremely crucial, you wanna get as much stuff as you can in there, but you wanna space it such that everything is sure to get totally clean. This is so crucial, Rhett, that I have crafted a video, I mailed it to you, did you get that? – Yeah, I’ve got it on my computer here. – Okay, good, just press play, and get ready for something amazing. First off, all the utensils go in the utensil holder. – Right. – And you always wanna go handle side down, except for sharp things, which you wanna go sharp side down. And as you’re placing utensils in there, go ahead and sort them so that like utensils are in like zones to make it a whole lot quicker to put them away once they’re clean. Next up, all cups and glasses lip down on the top rack. And then, all plates, facing the same direction on the bottom rack. Now for these taller utensils that won’t go upright in the utensil holder, I like to put them laying down on the top rack on their sides, just make sure that they’re not too close together so they all get clean. Next, take your bowls and glassware and put ’em on the bottom rack, angled down but not flat. And bonus points for adding a couple of bowls on top of the tall utensils. Okay, you dirty little dishes, Daddy’s gonna give you a nice, hot steamy shower very soon. And there you have it, a perfectly loaded dishwasher. Oh yeah. Why are you making that face? – I gotta say, I’m on board for your system, I’m definitely not on board for your expressions on your face, or the way that you get in sort of a weird, sexually aggressive relationship with your dishwasher. – The dishes need to know who’s boss. – That part is bothersome to me. And you might be surprised to know that thus far, I follow a pretty similar system for loading. – You pre-sort your utensils? – I don’t do that. – Sneak in a few more bowls on top? – I haven’t experimented with that. But you’ve tempted me. – You know what, I have confidence that you can go that last 5% to perfection. And I’m here to help you do that, but the first thing you need to do is not start the dishwasher, you’ve gotta wait until you’re done with all the other steps first, in case you need to throw anything else that you happen to find along the way into that dishwasher, which brings us to phase three, hand wash. All right, first you want to set up your hand washing station, Rhett, so you wanna take the biggest bowl or pot that you plan on hand washing, you wanna go ahead and grab that, and oh, you got one. – You mailed it to me. – Oh yeah, that’s right. – I thought it was a bike helmet. – No, that’s going to be your basin from which you wash all of your other dishes. You don’t wanna fill up your whole sink, or half of your sink with sudsy water, because you might lose a finger digging down in there, so you’re gonna put hot suds in that thing, and then you’re gonna wanna take your brush, and wash the other side of your sink. – Say that again? – You’re gonna wanna wash– – You wash? – The rinsing side of your sink. – Your sink. – ‘Cause the last thing you want is to wash dishes and put ’em in a dirty sink. – My wife insisted that we get a sink that didn’t have a divider, so we’re already SOL I think. – Okay, well then that bowl becomes your divider, and I want you to wash the entire sink around it. And I should mention before you actually get to washing dishes, it’s a lot of hard work, so you wanna be as comfortable as possible. See photo from Davin. Look at him, he’s cleaning his wood by hand, good job, Davin. Now I don’t know if he sends you these photos, but Davin’s been sending me dish washing photos for years, I’ve got a whole zip file I can mail you. – You know what, I prefer he just keep sending ’em to you. – I mean, he’s in breathable attire, he’s not gonna get too flush, and if he does, you’ll know it. But if you wanna go a step further, you could just pull a Rhett. Now, I don’t see any wood in this photo, but if you had any, I’m sure you’d be hand washing it in this illustration. – I did not model for this picture, I need to keep the record straight here. This is an artist underestimation. – Okay, now that you’re totally comfortable, you’re gonna wanna start hand washing your dishes, so grab your dish brush, now I don’t mess with no sponges, ’cause they are gross. – Well that’s what I got right here. – You’re gonna wanna replace that thing at least once a week, dude. Now, when you start hand washing, you’re gonna grab your next biggest dish and wash that within your bowl, and then place it in the washed part of your sink face up, and then you’re gonna keep going through increasingly smaller items and wash those as you go, nest stacking them inside of each other facing up, in the rinse side of your sink. There’s a right way to do this, and there’s a wrong way to do this. – Have you ever washed a set of Russian dolls in this way? – No, but that is basically the principle that I’m working with because it really aids in the next phase. – I’ll mail you some dirty Russian dolls. – I’ll show you how to clean ’em properly, and then I’ll mail ’em back to you so that you can do it right from here on out. – Okay, good. – Now, as the dirty pile gets low, you’re gonna survey that pile to see if there’s anything else that you can fit in any nooks and crannies in the dishwasher, so that you don’t have to waste time hand washing it. And after that it’s time for phase four, rinse! Rinsing is so important I made you another video, so take a look. All right, to teach you how to properly rinse, I have enlisted the help of my eldest son. Lincoln? – I don’t wanna do dishes, but– – Of course you don’t, but when you do it the right way, there’s a satisfaction in knowing that you’ve done it. – Okay. – [Link] Now, as you can see, I’ve already done the nest stacked and washed dishes, all you gotta do is start rinsing. You’ve got your towel there. You need to grab onto the towel. You know how to do this, so turn on the water, and there’s a cascading effect, so you take the top of the stack, and rinse that. Hold on, hold on, don’t grab that. All you need to do is grab the top one and rinse it, and it will cascade to the next one, too much water, too much water. There you go. Put that in the middle of the, – Lincoln knows all of this. – [Link] There you go. Put that one on top of that one. Yeah, well, all the way, you can go all the way, and that way it’s gonna drain. Yeah, you go rinse that. Yeah, see, you’re stacking it. You wanna offset it a little bit. Now you got that biggie, offset that, see how you’re maintaining a lot of real estate for other things on the small towel? I didn’t see you rinse that one, is that one rinsed good? Is there any suds? Okay, you’re good, you’re good, you’re good. – [Lincoln] That one like that. – Rhett, you see how everything cascaded down like a chocolate fountain. Except it’s not chocolate, it’s water. And I’m not peeing in your mouth. Oh yeah, look at that, like that. Now hold on, don’t rinse my wood, I’ll do that myself. – Never rinse another man’s wood. – You know, Lincoln, I feel like this is a really good bonding experience. Don’t do that with the knife, don’t teeter a knife. Yeah, just flat. Lincoln, I really feel like this is a bonding experience, this is something that we’re gonna remember forever, and you’re gonna tell your children, my grandchildren, about how you learned how to– – You didn’t wash this very well. What’s that? – No no no, don’t show him that. And now all that’s left to do is dry! – Okay. – You like that cascading effect? – I appreciate it. – Me too. – You don’t believe in a dish rack? – No, a drying rack is just a cabinet without a door. And dish washing can be a family bonding experience, but sometimes it’s better to just do it all by yourself. Now on to phase five, dry. Now you’re gonna be tempted to let the items just dry all on their own, but leaving items to dry is just code for “I’ll let somebody else who’s not me “dry and put these away later.” I don’t fall for those tricks. Once you start a job, you wanna finish it completely, so you wanna dry each item, and then you wanna stack like items that go in the same destination so that you can save travel time in putting them away, which brings me to the final phase, phase six, return. And now you just put everything away. And I’m talking every single thing, look around your house, you will find other dirty dishes. Find them, put them in the dishwasher, then you can start that dishwasher, you can wipe down the countertops, and then you wanna grab that final basin which is your beloved bowl, and you know what, you just wanna maybe give it a warm smile. You’ve been through so much together, this is your moment to bask in the glory of a clean kitchen. You can also say something meaningful to your basin, give it a shot. – Hello, basin. I’m gonna name you Mason. – Stroke it a little. – You know, you arrived here very recently from the Neal home, and you’ll be returning soon, and there’ll be a little piece of me, on you forever. And of course that little piece of me that’s on you is gonna be immediately washed off by Link because he’s an absolute maniac when it comes to how well he washes things. – Yeah, so you’re gonna wanna wash that basin gingerly, you wanna rinse it gingerly, you wanna spend a little extra time drying and buffing it, and then you wanna put it away in its special location, knowing that you couldn’t have done it alone. And there you go, Rhett. You’ve made a new friend, you know what, I want you to keep that bowl. It’s my gift to you. – Okay, we’ll make it a popcorn bowl. – And this entire episode has been my gift to you. – Can I ask you, do you always do the dishes at your house, or do you ever let anyone else do them? Because you know, I found a new trick, and it’s called letting other people do the dishes. It’s even better than your system. – They just don’t do it right, so I usually have to step in. Yeah, maybe they played me. Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – Hi, my name is Tom from Valkenswaard in the Netherlands, I’m not wearing any pants, and it’s time to flip the Coin of Mythicality. – All right, before I toss the coin, we’re gonna donate $1000 to the CDC Foundation, the CDC Foundation is an independent nonprofit that mobilizes resources that support the CDC’s critical work, which saves lives and protects the health of Americans by controlling disease outbreaks, and other important work. 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