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Affresh dishwasher tablets that’ll get rid of residue that ends up creating odor and buildup on your dishes
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A silicone sink strainer will save your poor old kitchen sink pipes
You know what I’m talking about. I own this and have NO dishwasher, so I do a whole bunch of hand-washing at my sink. This does a fab job of catching all the food bits (including the ones I thought I’d already raked into the trash) so they won’t go down the drain. And the silicone construction makes it easy to pop out and violently beat the metal part of the drainer against the side of my trash can to get out the food bits. Of course, I’m wearing dishwashing gloves when I’m doing this. But I still don’t want to touch the old gross food! Even through the gloves. TL;DR, your sink could really use this.
Plus a powerful dishwashing spray that, honestly, if you buy anything from this list, this should be it
I live in an apartment without a dishwasher, and I honestly use that as an excuse to order takeout food instead of cooking. But, as soon as I got my hands on a bottle of this stuff (regular Dawn is my go-to dish soap, BTW), I put it to use on both a saucepan I used to make homemade enchilada sauce *and* the casserole dish I baked those enchiladas, which had a ton of caked-on food. It really does work like I say it does! Like, scary well.