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Why do Irish people use Plastic basins in Sinks?

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  • #92
    FTGFOP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    Nobody's mentioned rinsing the dishes after washing them. This makes me want my blue blanket.


  • #93
    TaraFoxglove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,057 ✭✭✭TaraFoxglove


    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    A bit of forward planning would help here. Check the washables first.

    Exactly. The few times I have forgot to chuck some liquid, I've used the bathroom sink or chucked it outside.


  • #94
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    newmember? wrote: »
    I'm .a little pissed off. I gave the explanation/reason in the 5th post and people are still sh*teing on without even giving me thanks.

    F*ck yis all.


    Sorry, we generally ignore new members. :p


  • #95
    TaraFoxglove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,057 ✭✭✭TaraFoxglove


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    Sorry, we generally ignore new members. :p

    I got thanked on, like, my fifth post. But I'm just awesome. :D


  • #96
    Lust4Life
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    I believe it is due to olden days when everybody needed to save every penny they earned. It was rare to own a home. And as a rental, one wanted to preserve every component of a rental, including the sink stopper, lest they be charged to replace it when they moved to a better home. A crazy notion, yes, but quite possibly the correct notion.


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  • #97
    MalteseBarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭MalteseBarry


    bnt wrote: »
    I've never done it (not Irish), but I can think of another reason: the metal of the sink has much higher heat conductivity than the plastic, so the water is likely to stay hotter for longer in the plastic basin. It's Science, People! :cool:

    I think its much more scientific, much more hygenic, and a much better use of my time to use a dishwasher.


  • #98
    ro09
    Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭ro09


    If you use the sink itself to wash dishes the dishes will scratch the metallic surface , it will look terrible but also there is space around the basin to alllow you to still use the tap if you want to otherwise without the basin your sink would overflow.

    Anyway dont mind 'some people' from the states they think they know it all about everything, that they are some sort of superior race.


  • #99
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    FTGFOP wrote: »
    Nobody's mentioned rinsing the dishes after washing them. This makes me want my blue blanket.




    Oh yes they did.

    I think some people react to "basin in the sink" like others react to "reinemachefrau" (see 13:40). :)


  • #100
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    MalteseBarry wrote: »
    I think its much more scientific, much more hygenic, and a much better use of my time to use a dishwasher.



    I wouldn't call it scientific exactly, but you're dead right. Thing is, nearly always a need arises for a kitchen sink. And when you have a kitchen sink you realise how restricting just one is.

    Go outside or off to the bathroom to chuck our dregs etc? Fret over sink stoppers? Amazing how people adapt to poorly designed kitchens as well as holding on to old domestic habits like they're cultural treasures.

    It's an odd thing about human nature, IMO. You might think that our domestic practices are relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of things. But let someone try to criticise our methods -- or worse, impose theirs -- and watch the sparks fly.


  • #101
    FTGFOP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Oh yes they did:
    wrote:
    Having "washed" the dishes in this putrid effluent, it is essential to pile them up on the crud-encrusted dish-rack buried under a mound of toxic suds rather than rinse them in fresh running water.


    That's not the kind of mention I was hoping for! :eek:


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  • #102
    sheesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭sheesh


    it's quiet simple: so we can run the tap before we put water into the kettle when we make tea.
    think about it.
    we have the dinner.
    take the plates etc off the table put it in the basin.
    if we didn't have a basin we would have to run the cold water into the hot wash up water.
    ;)


  • #103
    FTGFOP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    Grew up in a sink-within-a-sink household but have done well enough without since leaving home. I don't put the dishes in the sink until I'm ready to wash them so the above doesn't really come up. I can see how it would be handy though.

    Hate bending to reach down into the sink, I might get a basin and wash the dishes on the counter! Then rinse in sink. Then drain on draining board.


  • #104
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    sheesh wrote: »
    it's quiet simple: so we can run the tap before we put water into the kettle when we make tea.
    think about it.
    we have the dinner.
    take the plates etc off the table put it in the basin.
    if we didn't have a basin we would have to run the cold water into the hot wash up water.
    ;)



    I have.

    These ought to be standard. Why the fiddliest messiest option is standard is beyond me.


  • #105
    TaraFoxglove
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,057 ✭✭✭TaraFoxglove


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    I have.

    These ought to be standard. Why the fiddliest messiest option is standard is beyond me.

    My mammy is a sink-in-a-sink person but she's getting the kitchen replaced soon and the new one will have a double sink so hopefully that'll put paid to the basin, except for spud washing (which is understandable, you don't want to chuck soil down the sink).


  • #106
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I was just going to say am I of the only people who was brought up with two sinks side by side. Have only ever seen the 'sink within a sink' phenomenon in the Netherlands


  • #107
    Johro
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    Dutch_Druid wrote: »
    I was just going to say am I of the only people who was brought up with two sinks side by side. Have only ever seen the 'sink within a sink' phenomenon in the Netherlands
    Pics or gtfo.


  • #108
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    I grew up in Holland and we had the ancient polished granite one-piece sink and draining board until the house got a makeover and we were catapulted into the 21st century with a new stainless steel yoke with two sinks side by side and the small one for washing veg in the middle, complete with pull out tap that looks like a shower attachment.:p
    Then the parents sold the house and we moved to Ireland..


  • #109
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Johro wrote: »
    Pics or gtfo.

    Not in the habit of taking pictures of plastic basins inside sinks mate


  • #110
    Azureus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭Azureus


    http://www.iqcontent.com/blog/files/Irish_kitchen_sink.JPG

    Sorted.

    Never got this...had one i every rental place ive been in, and theyre still there... but I use the dishwasher!!


  • #111
    Cú Giobach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭Cú Giobach


    I have one of those big Belfast sinks and with a small basin in it it's like one of those la de da double sinks, oh the luxury. :)


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  • #112
    The Saint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,932 ✭✭✭The Saint


    Its beacuse people don't want to scratch or dirty their nice clean sink. Its like how some people leave the plastic on the furnature in case it gets a stain, or the nice crockery and cuttlery that only comes out once a year for Christmas.

    Basically, we're cheap.


  • #113
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    Or inefficient and habit-dependent at the very least.


  • #114
    tina2006
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭tina2006


    It is because we live in a limestone area so we have hard water. So if we were to leave water in a sink we get like a scum around the side, I learnt that in science today - I am 13!!!!


  • #115
    southcentralts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭southcentralts


    Washing feet, you cannot stand in the sink.


  • #116
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    I feel really sophisticated, I don't do this.


  • #117
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I hate this, I think it's really common for some reason and the basins always seem dirty to me.


  • #118
    fatfacee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭fatfacee


    its just lazy i say..


  • #119
    Archeron
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    The only thing I've seen basins used for is puking into when someone is too sick to get out of bed.


  • #120
    Missmiddleton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭Missmiddleton


    When we were younger my mam took all the stoppers away so me and the brother couldn't flood the place. A basin would overflow into the sink and the water would drain away, well thats why we did it in our house anyway.


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  • #121
    libnation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭libnation


    Plastic basins can end up stinking


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