NO DISHWASHER? HERE'S HOW TO USE A COLANDER IF YOU HAVE A FEW DISHES.
If you have just a few dishes to wash and don't have 100 or room for a dishwasher, you can actually clean your pots and bowls and pans without touching the cold water or food and without as much scraping if you use a colander, the small round handled wire sieve you put your food in and the water flows out but the food stays in (or as your mamma mia used to say, it's a "lasagna go, water stop"). First scrape out the bowl of the easiest to clean stuff, soak the bowl in water with your sprayer. Put the colander/strainer on the base flat part of the bottom of the sink, better than sink strainers because it's substantial and has a handle. Pour the contents of the dish in the colander and then tap out the stuff from the soak in the trash bin, perhaps scrape the bowl. The soak causes most of the food removal by loosening it so it takes much less labor than scraping and hand washing. Soak, strain and scrape like this till the bowl is down to the shine, then add vinegar and dry with perhaps a paper towel (To save on paper towels you can use one of those bucket washing machines, so your rags are clean, good for the environment. The bucket washer costs under 100$). By using water to soak all the stuff out in stages, it's much easier than scraping and you don't touch nearly as much of the bad food.
To clean out the colander, after you tap out the food the final time, spray the colander with water or vino, let soak and then tap out the food remaining between the wires of the colander. Repeat if needed. If you have fizz on your TV and like the web more, Let it load, Let it load, Let it load if Christmas will be in mere months!
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