I'm very particular about my washing-up. I like to rinse all the suds off stuff after it leaves the washing-up bowl. (Otherwise you're just eating a mixture of soap & bits of food left in the water, mmmm lovely). It's easy enough at home, but when camping with no facilities I just get half a bowl of very hot washing-up water, position it under the jerry can tap & rinse everything off with cold water as it comes out.
Then it either drip dries or gets dried with a clean tea-towel.
Much as I would love a sink with tap, I think it would be too bulky & just encourage more water consumption. Camping is one of the few times I actually don't mind doing the washing-up.
We use two small tub trugs for our trailer tent (£2 each from Asda last summer) to carry to the wash-up block. One becomes the wash-up bowl and the other where we put the washed dishes and they carry the dishes so easily because they have good handles. Works well for us and much cheaper than the kitchen sink ;)
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That's great for a site with washing-up facilities.
Mind you, it's camping, we just get on with it & do our best. Not only is there a limit to what my car can carry, there's also a limit to what I am prepared to lug about. Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.
Quote: Originally posted by magsruby on 15/1/2012
That's great for a site with washing-up facilities.
Mind you, it's camping, we just get on with it & do our best. Not only is there a limit to what my car can carry, there's also a limit to what I am prepared to lug about. Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.
I know where you are coming from. We sometimes go touring with our vintage soft top landrover (including rally sites with nothing more than high usage public porta loos) which means all our camping stuff for 3 has to fit in a large wicker basket which we lock including water. Even our full kitchen set up amounts to the saucepan nest, 3 bowls and a standard Wilkos digital camera bag which holds everything else including 3 folding cups. The stove fits inside the saucepans. We lack nothing, its all just multi-purpose and or small - A brewery mesh designed for draining fruit makes an excellent collander. In this event we use 2 folding PVC buckets and 1 backpacker table, one bucket as a fire bucket and one for washing up with the table acting as drainer or table as needed...
Not quite so basic for a week's camp or for a more luxury weekend, but then our Sunncamp soft washing up bowl with mesh pockets and long carry handles, one PVC folding bucket for rinsing and the backpacking tables are all that is needed and far less to lug around...
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Topic: Kitchen sink for tenters?
) which means all our camping stuff for 3 has to fit in a large wicker basket which we lock including water. Even our full kitchen set up amounts to the saucepan nest, 3 bowls and a standard Wilkos digital camera bag which holds everything else including 3 folding cups. The stove fits inside the saucepans. We lack nothing, its all just multi-purpose and or small - A brewery mesh designed for draining fruit makes an excellent collander
. In this event we use 2 folding PVC buckets and 1 backpacker table, one bucket as a fire bucket and one for washing up with the table acting as drainer or table as needed...
