While it's hardly a fan-favorite chore, taking care when washing your dishes is essential to ensure they get the deepest clean possible. Giving kitchenware a quick rinse and calling it a day can leave ...

Welcome to Ritual, Be Well Philly’s new column of essays about the low-tech, purposefully inefficient things we do that pleasurably slow us down. From taking the long way home to hand-washing dishes, ...

SEATTLE — What was once considered a chore can now spark joy in your kitchen with a new book from Author Peter Miller, "How to Wash the Dishes". The joys of dish washing are revealed with the right ...

Dishes soaking in soapy water in a sink - Studio Light And Shade/Getty Images Procrastinators will be delighted to learn that leaving dirty dishes in the sink to soak is actually a good dishwashing ...

I have never owned a dishwasher. My parents never used one, and my rental home doesn’t have space for one, so I have become pretty well versed at washing dishes by hand. Luckily, this laborious task ...

My mom didn’t teach me how to cook but she did impart a vital lesson behind washing dishes: Enjoy it. When I asked my mom how anyone could like it, she replied, “It’s not about the washing. It’s the ...

I’ve often said that the best job I ever had was washing dishes at a small Italian restaurant just after college. I say I washed dishes. I also bussed tables and prepped food and, at the end of the ...