 Hey everybody, I'm Lance Quakey and today I'm gonna show you how I try to do my dishes as quickly as possible Now dishes are one of the biggest headaches when it comes to cooking So one try to minimize them if you can but you know using more makes the cooking process quicker Easier and usually a little bit more Tastful, so if you got to use them, don't be afraid to use them now. I've got in the sink here I've got two pans that we used for dinner last night. They've been soaking overnight. That's our first lesson Water is your best solvent water is kind of like soap. It does most of the soap problems It grabs the stuff and then you can just wash it down the drain. What it doesn't do very well with is fat But when things stick to the pan Soaking is usually our best option. So I just made breakfast and I got some more pans That need a little bit of soaking. These are not too bad But I'm gonna show you like if I'm gonna do all these dishes. I'm gonna soak this for a little bit I'm gonna soak the spoon too, and then I'm just gonna put it over here to the side And right now I'm warming the water up again water is your friend But it's got to be it doesn't work as well when it's cold if you've ever gone camping and tried to Do your dishes when you're camping. That's kind of a good indication now. I've got some Oatmeal residue on the sides here, so I wanted to make sure that I at least got some water on there I don't necessarily want to fill the whole thing up because to me it feels like a waste of water What I can do is I can put this other dish in here to kind of fill it up slightly Just to take some of the volume away. Now water is warm. I'm going to literally roll my sleeves up And before I start I'm gonna make some space I have my coffee stuff here from the morning, but I don't want it to get in the way I want to be able to just move things right over there So first thing if it's something like this Now if I only put some honey on it. I'm not too worried about it. I'm just gonna do that scrub it with my hands Similar idea with this if I scrub with my hands I can actually feel if there's still food on there That's I don't really trust my eyes. I like to do that first now nice. These are really sharp You can do this carefully what I normally would do though is I would get my sponge I just like the little rectangular ones here Put some soap on there get it all in there and then I scrub from there I don't scrub directly on the blade because you're just gonna totally tear up your sponge Just be careful, especially when you do it this way because my hand is this way Don't push into the blade because if it cuts through there, it's gonna cut into your hand too Just something like that got to check the crevices Here because that's where food gets stuck But that one looks pretty good Same thing over here. I like to go really quick on that And then if I I'll visually check it and if it doesn't look quite right I'll try to touch it up later. I'm putting pretty good pressure on stuff like this though. It's been soaking it It's gonna not be too much of a headache yet But pressure is a good way to save some water and not you know more importantly save some time not do this forever If it's been sitting in the sink, I'll do both sides But if I kind of like if I was just storing salad in here, and then I took it apart I might not even wash both sides of that lid Here's our little tea thing here So this I like to just get the little stuff out of the way so I have space to work with And I go through that pretty quickly because life's too short It's also good to do dishes when You need some time to think This actually looks not too bad after last night I'm gonna put a little bit of water in there and turn my running water off because I don't really need it I need a couple minutes to actually scrub and what I'll do so it's easier to see is all put it over here So what I like to do is I Jam it into the side. This is a nice sturdy pan, right? I spent a little bit of money on this and It's held up really well I like to jam it into the side so that I know I can push really hard and it won't slide around on me I can predictably scrub it gives me better leverage So we're just gonna do that again Just like the knives you want to look out for these little riddits here because that's where stuff gets stuck If you get a lot of stuff stuck there, it's Just gonna cake on and it's your pants not gonna last this long And my soap, you know, I've been using the Sponge for a few minutes now, but my soap is still pretty good. So I'm not too worried about it I am using the rough side here on this pan to get stuff off. It's important to Try to not use like a steel wool kind of thing a little bit of this discoloration is not the worst thing in the world, but Scratching your pan with steel is kind of the worst thing in the world when it comes to dishes So we don't want to do that So yeah, like I can I can feel some of this stuff over here But I'm not going to spend too much time on that this to me is good enough And then my next tip is I'm just going to leave it sitting like this against my cutting board on the other wall Then I don't spend any time drying stuff How satisfying is that? Look at that. That's mostly clean. I'm getting a little bit of backup here. So I'm running the disposal Until it sounds pretty consistent and then I turn it off. I'm going to rinse This sink out here because I got a lot of food particles that are just going to get on my clean pan After I wash it. Okay, we're good and same idea. We're just scrubbing here Circular motions tend to do best But sometimes you just have better leverage when you're going back and forth So I'll still do that, especially if I got something that's really caked on It needs a lot of effort If you go real hard, you might be able to count this as cardio. I should have put my heart rate monitor on Because if I didn't track the workout, did it even happen? This one's not too bad now. Yo, to me I'm usually holding the handle and I I sometimes forget to wash it because I'm you know I'm trying to do as little as possible here to save time But when I cook stuff in here, you'll get splash and the splash will actually get on the handle So you do need to clean the handle to keep things from just Caking on I'll generally do the outside first and then I've got this adjustable head which helps a lot if you don't have that. I like the two hand something like this Just to get all the sides in now this I would say is totally fine I got pretty good beating everything looks nice and Fluid I don't see any food scraps. So I'm going to do the same thing drip dry and then Place it over here against the the other pan Now we've got other stuff here Something like this. I know it wasn't too dirty. I'm just going to rinse And throw it in the dishwasher I'm of the belief that maybe and I'm not going to need the dishwasher again. So I'm going to get rid of that sometimes I'll usually put the U tensils like a fork and a knife in there as well, but I knew they weren't that dirty. So I figured I would just do it myself Now here's the spoon My soap's getting a little weak. So I might have to reapply. Usually I don't But we have a quite a few dishes today And I'll even let some water Sit in here while I scrub the oatmeal can be kind of difficult because It does really cake onto the sides. It dries up So I've started to put too much water and almost undercooked my oats just so that Cleaning is easier. It's a trade-off that you can make if if you're okay with the taste I'm usually trying to make things easier and less concerned about taste I'm not the pickiest eater that there is And it's same idea. I gotta check the rim because when I tilt out the oats they get stuck on the rim sometimes And I don't scrub that super well all the time, but it looks pretty good Put it against the other pan We're gonna do this one now. Now the nonstick is actually pretty quick. You want to be very gentle When you're cleaning something like this. So use a bare minimum of pressure because otherwise you start to especially if you get Like steel like if you put steel wool on this you ruin it instantly If you you know dig a fork or cut something with a knife on there You ruin it instantly because the the seal of the whatever teflon or whatever That is the nonstick coating once You break the seal it just Stuff starts to get under there and it starts to just peel away And then it starts to get you get a really cheap one you get some nice little Nonstick coating flakes in your food I don't know what kind of macros that has It's a little precarious, but it seems fine. And then last one is the pan So this is another one that I really like to just leverage up against the side. I'll pre wet it And then come over here. I'll usually Go along these sides and we coat our pans our sheet pans in tin foil aluminum foil Uh before we use them because then you know, sometimes oil will seep under the tin foil and I'll still get on there But it makes it harder for things to burn on it makes it way easier to clean so normally I'm not really scrubbing for very long here and if I had one more pan to do I would Put more soap on this, but I'm just going to kind of milk this out as long as I can because this is our last one Pretty good rinsing here can be Somewhat of a challenge to not get everything super messy. I still have some food in here. So let's get that out of the way I like to use the adjustable nozzle because I don't know. It just lets me direct the water much better And so we're going to wash the rest of this up down I'm actually going to just leave this over here because I have the space Um, and then if the sink is really dirty, I'll take the rough side of the sponge and just kind of scrub a little bit Not too long. I don't want to spend my life cleaning, you know but uh If the food gets stuck on here you might get some smell and some Some some again caking on just like the pots and pans that become harder to clean the longer it sits and then uh Last things are I will squeeze out the sponge so that it's relatively dry I'll do one last go around with a wipe or with a water And then I'll grab a towel a paper towel. We have these reusable kind of paper towels And I will just uh seep up Anything that spilled along the edge And then I don't get this crusty stuff on my counter But that's it. That's uh how to clean a bunch of dishes as quickly as possible I think this has been my favorite way to clean this sponge This shape of sponge where you've got the rough and you got the soft And then just regular dish soap just sitting here works super well Hope you enjoyed All right, what should we call this dishes with lance maybe? That's it. That's what I like to do if you need something else to watch I've got a bunch of mobility circuits that you might like called limber up with lance