How often do you wash

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Up in the van?
 
Is this to do with conserving water?

For us it's usually after every "proper" meal, i.e. evening and breakfast.

But this can often includes dirty cups, teaspoons, the odd plate and other odds'n'sods that have accumulated and stashed (undercover) in the sink from 'on the road' stop-off snacks and lunches and tea/coffee breaks.

Also depends on whether we're parked up for any reasonable length of time, i.e. a day or more, or a brief stop while moving between destinations.

Unless we have to leave in a hurry (happens very infrequently, if at all) after an overnight stay, the washing up is always done before we hit the road.

... and also unless we're on the last leg home after a trip away, when often everything gets chucked in the sink and the lid down until we get home and everything is emptied out and dealt with then.

I will also do it when it looks like we're running out of clean plates and cutlery!!! :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::cool:
 
I go for a very minimalist approach. Using the same non stick plastic bowl each time. Wipe off any food into bin with paper towel. Splash of hot water into bowl and put spoon in. Wipe everything clean and dry with paper towel.

So once after each meal but it's not proper washing up with a sink full of hot water.
 
Firefox said:
I go for a very minimalist approach. Using the same non stick plastic bowl each time. Wipe off any food into bin with paper towel. Splash of hot water into bowl and put spoon in. Wipe everything clean and dry with paper towel.

So once after each meal but it's not proper washing up with a sink full of hot water.
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Same here
 
Well, we're mucky buggers compared to some then.

We have 4 crockery plates and 4 melamine, the 4 crockery ones are there so they can go in the oven or over a pan if it's a hot meal, but we do have a lot of cold meals in summer, 8 bowls of 3 different types, 4 mugs, 6 tumblers, and enough cutlery to start a café, two saucepans, two frying pans, (we don't eat much fried food) they are good for warming flatbreads with a little olive oil or just warming food and an assortment of tray thingies for the oven and a grill pan.

The pans get a splash of water and a dash of WUL, plates for toast or sandwiches get a kitchen roll piece and re-used, plates get wiped into the bin immediately after the meal, and may get re-used or into the WU bowl with some water and WUL so they get partly splash washed on the journey, cutlery gets rinsed and if ok re-used, 4 days is easy but can be longer in winter, but we do eat out so a week is not unheard of, what dictates the frequency is the saucepans, even though we wipe they are more stubborn so need washing usually, the frying pans wipe clean easily.

One of the reasons is to save on LPG, and of course, water, as WU is very wasteful of both, and not cheap to replace as you have to go looking for water which uses fuel which can be better spent, also the drain hole is always in the wrong place to actually do the job properly.

No doubt we'll get criticised but hey ho.
 
We like to use a moist antibacterial surface wipe on bowls and plates before we then wash them in the sink. This means any bits and grease go into the bin and don't go down the plug hole to build-up and possibly block pipes later.

The added benefit of this is that the actual sink wash can be done with a lot less water and at lower temperature.

In answer to the question of "How often do you wash up" ? - Typically immediately after every meal.
 
After each meal.
(Too lazy to walk to the campsite sinks)
 
Once a day or if we run out of mugs. Boiling hot water, antibacterial washing up liquid. We have a big bucket in the shower that it all goes into if desperate we have a second bucket, they just sit inside each other. Morning routine is make bed drink tea then drink more tea and eat breakfast then wash up. Then drink more tea.
 
Wash mugs? are you mad? you lose so much flavour that way, Liz waits until it is black before washing them.
 
No dog, I've tried but I can't get to the bottom of cups, I can do plates etc though, but I end up with gravy in my ears.
 
Paper plates where possible and cereal bowl and coffee cups washed up after each use well when I say washed it’s usually rinsed with a splash of hot water from the kettle and by day 3 it will be a big washing up of pans utensils and the like.
 
We have all China crockery can't stand melamine or what ever so wash up after using anything , bowl in the sink little water job done , ditch the water in the hedge or where ever poss. It is a bluepink job in our home if it needs doing we do it together, essence of wild camping we think always ready to move on,at short notice, Navy training I guess and hospital routine in my wife's case. We have 6 of everything plates, bowls cups mugs, side plates dinner plates , etc tried cutting down but went back to the 6 method lot easier we think,
 
If you have 6 of everything you're carrying too much stuff ;) ;)
 
WE use the plastic camping plate kit+ proper lightweight knives forks and spoons in a drawer & a wall rack holds the plastic type mugs on the wall upside down, washing up bottle holder on end wall at the sink, all sorted on the almost final rig out of the van.kitchen side.jpg
 
If on a site, we use the facilities. If out in the wilds or an an Aire, we use kitchen towel to clean the plates off and if it was a hot mean, small amount of water in the WU bowl and use that. Cold meals like sandwiches or even a dry salad, paper towel, antibac spray and wipe. Normally after every meal. But cups get left until they have been used two or three times.
 
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