The Bite:
You'll bruise less if you use less - so skip prerinsing your dishes before you put 'em in the dishwasher...just scrape off any food into your compost bin or trash.
Wanna help avoid those painfully high water bills?
12.18.2008
Submitted by tmeronek on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 1:32am.
The Benefits:
- Cleaner than if you'd swabbed 'em with iodine. If you have a dishwasher made in the past decade, it's designed to handle food residue.
- Saving water supplies. Most faucets spout out 2 gallons per minute.
- Less work than putting a bandage on a boo-boo. Why wash your dishes before you, er, wash your dishes?
Personally Speaking:
Wanna Try:
- Resist the urge. Scrape off the big stuff and let your dishwasher do the dirty work.
- Kitchen Compost Crock - nifty, stinkless ceramic pot you can put on your counter or under the sink for collecting big food scraps until you get around to carting them to your outdoor compost or curbside bin ($24).
Cocktail Fact
Hickeys are a type of bruise caused by kissing forcefully enough to burst blood vessels beneath the skin.
Bang For The Bite
If 10,000 Biters with dishwashers cut out the prerinse, in a year we'll save enough water to fill about 487 municipal water towers.
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