As the post-party glow of a long weekend wears off, we're left staring at a MASSIVE pile of dishes. Being a dishwasher-free two-person household, we get by with a small counter-top drying rack most of the time with little complaint. But these summer barbecue-heavy weekends kill us and totally screw up our standard wash-and-load method. Lucky for us, Martha gave us a nifty little tip for adding some extra space to dry our glasses. Jump below for the details...
Grab a dishtowel and a few pairs of chopsticks. Line up the chopsticks and stick your glasses (or anything else, really) on top. Ta-da! The air circulates, the glasses dry and you don't have to pile scary amounts of heavy bowls on top of your precious glassware....
Comments (13)
wah! thank you!
OMG, i needed this tip. I'm too cheap to by a dish drying rack and the glasses always get washed by hand.
Chopsticks aren't a bad idea... but I generally just use the knives I've just washed.
SUCH a great idea! Thanks Martha & AT...
So simple yet so genius! Thanks for the tip. I will definitely be using this one. :)
Martha as in Ms Stewart?
Bodum Pavina FTW! Best (albeit delicate) glasses ever. There's something to be said about an ice cube that can last for 2 hours (or more) outside of the freezer.
Shayna! We have the same Bodum IKEA glasses :)
Ahem, Bodum & IKEA glasses.
How funny. I was just on Crafting a Green World reading about recycling takeout bamboo chopsticks. This is a good one.
Yes, that would be Ms. Martha Stewart...
Sally- Apparently great minds think alike, eh? That's so funny!
Looks like my dish rack every nite after dinner :D
Except I tend to stack even higher with more precarious pyrex glass items. I secretly enjoy the challenge and yes even the occasional disapointments I hear from the livingroom ....*!cRasH!*
Our hard water here means I pretty much have to dry my glasses with a dishcloth if I don't want them to show watermarks. This looks so easy! I wish...