I’m 77 years old and this young man has taught me a thing or two. I love him and hope he keep up his sweet spirit and sharing his life with others. He’s a gem
The proper order to wash dishes was ingrained in me as a child by my mother and grandmother. Glasses first, eating utensils second, plates and bowls third, and finally pots and pans last. The use of cold water on the egg and oatmeal was stellar advice, as most people would instinctively use hot water.
I agree with the order of washing the dishes: from cleaner to dirtier/grissier. After I wash the glasses and utensils, I put plates into sink, one by one, each on top of the other but so each one fills with warm water. This will loosen the dirt and grease somewhat. Turn the water off. With soapy sponge I wash each plate and put it on the side. When all the plates are soapy, I put them back in the sink, under hot water and rinse each plate an put it on a dish strainer next to the sink. Then come the salad bowls and in the end pots and pans. I try to save water by not running it while I am busy soaping and scrubbing dishes, only for rinsing. That's why I do it in batches.
Wow ...this guy is like a university on life skills every young man and women needs to watch his videos ,will make this world a much better place for everyone
as a TYPE A OCD person that grew up in an erratic household I was never taught how to properly do these chores in a beautiful and meaningful way. Thank you HGTV and Rajiv for this wonderful series.
I get ya; my Dad once said, to me: You and Tim, raised yourselves😮I was shocked, but after thinking about it!😮we both had so many UCK-UPS! Had to learn the hard-knock, way.
After being married 10 years I figured all of this stuff out. But I still sat with a smile-resting-face and enjoyed all 14 minutes of Rajiv teaching me how to wash dishes. 😌
Me too. I’ve been managing my house for 50 years and I know how to do all of this (I was taught by my mom) but still I watched the whole thing. I love order and a clean house and that’s why I enjoy watching him.
Rajiv just approaches everything he does with such care, passion and fine detail, and with appreciation for how he’s learned what he’s sharing. As an educator I am in awe with every video I see. He is the epitome of good taste but in such an approachable and likeable way.
I have started getting rid of old cheap things and getting a smaller number of higher quality stuff. Some thrifted, some new. It turns out if something looks beautiful and works wonderfully I take care of it more and pay more attention to it. My ugly cheapo cooking sets from walmart were hidden in a drawer and thrown in the dishwasher. My cast iron, carbon steel, cooper and porcelaine I have out on shelves or hanging in reach or on my stovetop. I use them more than I did the cheap stuff and it lasts longer.
Rajiv’s videos are essential to millennials (myself among them) and gen z who were raised by a society valuing laziness/waste, but crave and miss the lost teachings of efficiency/simplicity ! Thank you for reviving the lost arts, Rajiv!
@Emma, I'm intrigued by your comment -- not having kids myself, it never occurred to me there were generations being raised without being taught how to do everyday tasks. But, rather than attributing it to the prior generation (I guess you're talking about Boomers?) being lazy, consider that modern appliances were new conveniences to homes in the '50s and even the '60s, and were the ultimate in lifestyle improvement. (No different from having the Internet and streaming services today.) And if turnabout is fair play, also realize that those older people are looking at the younger generations and complaining that they don't know how to entertain themselves without the latest digital device in their hand. Lots of laziness and waste there, too.
I love love love these videos. Simple tasks like these do require being taught. They're skills we can improve upon. This feels like my inner child being healed because of how gentle and unpatronizing Rajiv is. More of these, please!
My sister and I were just talking about this, it does feel like your inner child is healing reason I never learned to cook because I felt so bad I didn’t already know. He makes everything exciting
I've never been so inspired to Scrub dishes. I felt this video coming when I seen Rajiv's video with Barbara (I think) chatting about the design of a dish cloth. Rajiv makes the most simplistic chores or activities so elegant and meaningful. That makes me appreciate every task and item. Truly a treasure ☺️
I’ve always despised washing dishes and have been yelled at to do it completely different ways as a kid, and my god this just seems like it’d make my life easier. Felt like the dude was gently guiding me through it, behind my back, holding my arms and allowing me how to learn dishes in a semi-homoerotic way and I’M FUCKIN HERE FOR IT.
What so appealing about Rajiv’s approach to me is how thoughtful he is about doing the most mundane in order to save as much resources and energy possible to preserve all the utensils and tools in order to prolonged their usage. Now that is what sustainability is all about. Not about thousand dollar energy saving technology, “clean” dishwashing soap or “organic” spoons 😪🤔😤
Well, to be fair, it's about energy-saving technology and organic spoons, too. But yes, everyone should be being more efficient and working to prolong the life of products. "Disposable" is a dirty word.
@@leafandmachine, true, but not everything is meant to go into the dishwasher; for example sterling silver, fancy China with actual gold trim, crystal glassware, your kitchen knives and cast iron pans should not go into the dishwasher.
@@leafandmachine Filling the sink up with water to place dishes in {after dishes rinsed to get excess food off} is way more efficient and hygienic. My old home economics teacher wouldn't be impressed with this method.
That was exactly how I was taught and how I taught my kids! Another way to remember the temperature of water is cold on starchy foods, hot on greasy, sugary foods. Works every time!! Love watching this guy!!
I swear I could watch Rajiv do anything and he'd never cease to educate and entertain. While many of these skills seem basic, there are a lot of us who were never taught the proper way to do many essentials, whether it's because of appliances or services, or because the grown ups in our homes had no idea what they were doing or were impatient and/or unkind instructors. Rajiv, if you're looking for video ideas, I'd love one on ironing. I have childhood trauma around the chore (I'm being sincere; I grew up with toxic parent).
I learned the proper way to iron (there is a sequence, especially for shirts) from my Scandinavian mother. It made it so much easier. Now I don't even own an iron! I mostly hand wash my clothing, and hang things to dry (Inever use a dryer - they are energy hogs and ruin your clothes), and when things hang to dry any wrinkles hang out. If you use a washing machine, clothes get wrinkled if they are left in the washer after it finishes its cycle. So take them out immediately and hang them to dry.
@@janinafisher101 Giving the items a snap before hanging them helps reduce wrinkles too, and fluffs towels. Another trick I learned from a friend is to finger-press key points before drying, like button plackets, seams (I usually pull them gently to stretch them back out if they wrinkled), collars, cuffs, etc.
I love you Rajiv! So intelligent, FUNNY, humorous and kind-hearted. I just love you. And like someone else said, you could teach us how to watch paint dry and we would eat up every second. And then wash the dishes as instructed.
Rajiv makes excellent points here! As an avid hand dish washer I recommend this video to anyone and everyone as even myself have learned a thing or two after watching him do his magic. I highly recommend this is best way to keep your antique dishes well loved! ❤️ 💕
I never comment on RUclips videos but I just can’t resist showing my support for Rajiv. This is literally some of the best content on the internet at should never stop
I never thought I would be watching a video on washing dishes. Let alone enjoying it and actually learning things from it, but here I am. Rajiv delivers again!
Thank you Rajiv! My mother started teaching me to wash dishes when I was 7, and to this day, at 54yo, I still wash dishes by hand, and in the exact order you demonstrated. There is nothing worse than pouring a glass of my favorite beverage, only to see an oil slick floating on top 🤮. It's so refreshing to see a young adult who has such a passion for all things vintage. I love your videos and tutorials 🧡
You speak to my love of taking care of a home. Just found your channel this weekend and binge watched it. I love to discover young people who believe in organization and cleanliness. It’s rare these days and I am in aww of the depth of your talents. More videos please.
Hey Rajiv! Great shows! Noticed you had a red plastic scraper for the pan… They make them in sustainable bamboo now. Also, consider keeping some of the “news paper” type junk mail as part of the removing grease process of the cast iron pans.
@@hgtvhome I have happily watched all of those episodes already, so the purpose of my comment was to request even more content from Rajiv! Daily content would be ideal! But I'll take what I can get. 😊
@@vivian9803 that'd be nice, but then it'd be made flashy, pushing products & probably turned into some kind of reality content. 😒 I feel like the intimacy would be lost.
I agree with everything here except for one thing..I generally don’t get to the dishes until the end of the day because I’d constantly be in the kitchen preparing food, then washing dishes, on repeat. So, to save time (it really does I promise), I run cold water over the plates and bowls and they stay wet with any dish soap I use to wash my hands throughout the day and then the food easily wipes off and I put them in the dishwasher at the end of the day and in the morning they go in the pantry and it’s ready to be loaded again the next day. Being a mother of 2 life also happens when we all get sick and chores just don’t get done so don’t feel like you have to be perfect all the time. Love these videos!
Definitely a series on painting by Rajiv! Such a wonderful Luxe renaissance personality. Plus washing dishes in 24 c gold bangles without a care in the world.
Turns out I am a dish washer pro. 😄😁🤘 I already follow all the rules told in this video. 🧡 I use a cotton dish cloth and after one or two days (I don't have greasy cast iron pans) it goes into the laundry at 60°C to kill germs. Always a fresh dish cloth and some of them I have for 20 years now. And when they start looking too used for the kitchen, I use them for cleaning the bathroom sink or wiping out the washing machine after a cycle and then..... I cut them up or leave their actual size and use them for cleaning the bike or for rubbing wax or oil into wood. 😉 Then they go into the trash. However as a German I fill the sink with water and wash most of the dishes in there starting with glasses and silverware and my expensive knives to protect the wood and the blade and then getting to the dirtier things like pans and pots. Sometimes I change the water when it gets too dirty but nothing wrong with that method as your dishwasher does the same thing. 😉 We were told to save water as long as I remember and not wash our dishes under running water. But this is up to you and a regional thing.
Oh, and I have a little suction cup basket thingy on my tiles behind the sink to put the sponge in. So air can get to all sides of it and makes it dry faster. Hence no smell.
He turns the tap off while he's scrubbing. If you want to rinse off the dish washing liquid, which is recommended, it's actually quite water efficient.
this was actually helpful, I've honestly never thought about the water temperature re: eggs and oatmeal! just wanted to note for anyone reading this, you can actually clean cast iron pans with dish soap. probably best to not do it with a newer one, or one that you're trying to (re) build up seasoning on, but generally it's okay, once it's well-seasoned.
I laughed when I saw your video’s title, but I know so many young people that have zero life skills so after watching your video my laughter turned to admiration. I’m sure I’m old enough to be your grandmother, but I applaud your efforts to educate folks. My sister is only four years my junior, and she washes everything in cold water. I was shocked. Somehow she didn’t get the same life lessons I received as a child. I love your attention to details that most young folks skim right over. Your love of all things old and hand crafted is admirable. Enjoyed your video. I did notice you omitted the utensil with egg on it, and washing out the sink when finished. Old eyes can still be eagle eyes. LOL
I’m elated I discovered this channel. What an awesome human being. I feel inspired again and pulled out my art supplies. I basically always surrounded myself solely with things that bring me joy, so I share a connection to his philosophy 💕🥰 love it
I second @benwrex comment about watching a vid from Rajiv on watching paint dry. Rajiv can certainly pull any situation together to make things interesting ☺️
I love this series. I'm actually planning to purchase Discovery Plus for more videos like this. What I learned: 1. Rinse any residue first 2. Wash from cleanest to dirtiest 3. Use cold water for things like oatmeal and eggs Please never discontinue this series. I enjoy watching and learning more things I feel like I should have been taught earlier.
My husband asked why I was watching this. So far every video he has made has been educational, inspiring and entertaining. I love how he has learned so much and willingly shares it with us.
Love this guy, his style, his sense of humor, his genuineness, and his pure love of life! Thank you Rajiv for being so inspirational, so generous with sharing your simple but powerful wisdom, and for demonstrating how one can apply a sense of purpose and meaningfulness to everything, even washing dishes!
Rajiv is SOOOO adorable! I’m gonna save this video and send it to my daughter when she moves out to make sure she knows how to clean dishes like a grown up 😁
These are the exact instructions my parents gave me as a child when they taught me to wash dishes. You took me back to the dun of being taught to do something the grownups did. 😊🍽🚿
I love watching your videos. There are whole generations that are clueless to the things my generation grew up knowing. Continue spreading your advice!
When my grandfather taught me to wash dishes 50 years ago he said you wash the things that go into your mouth first like glasses, cups and cutlery, then you wash saucers, plates and bowls and only then do you wash pots and pans and implements that you used to cook with, this will ensure that the things you put into your mouth are washed with the cleanest dishcloth and they will never smell of old food. A little bit of lime juice or white vinegar will get rid of any egg or fishy smell. I still follow these rules to this day. I learned a lot today about water that I never knew, thanks Rajiv.
I love your videos and will reseason my rusting cast iron pan first thing tomorrow. You are so much fun to watch and learn from. I loved the making the bed video a lot too.
I feel better now that I realized that I do all these things already. In our home as kids, we had our turn to wash dishes or get the table ready for diner. I wish to implement those things with my own kids as well. These are basic essential knowledge that everyone should have. Please do more content like this 🙏🏾
You can save the bacon grease and use it for cooking. For example, when you have to soften onion for a soup and it calls for butter, add a little of the bacon grease for extra flavour!
Proud of you Son...you share your experiences which are in my opinion the epitome of best practices for the young to do their best ....well done, you make your mama proud too so all mothers 💕🌿🕊🪔
It's interesting to me how "common sense" leads us to do things the right way. Love this video Rajiv... it's reminded me that for generations in my family we've been doing things in the right order.
I seem to never live in a place that has a dishwasher, but I find washing dishes meditative. I have only wanted a dishwasher back when I hosted Thanksgiving, but even then, everyone chipped in with cleanup. I still learned a bit with this even though I always wash by hand.
73 and I'm in awe. I have always used hot water to clean egg. Well first I soak the bowl or dish in hot water. I never let food sit in anything while I eat diner, but his way of using cold water worked and that never seemed intuitive to me.. thanks Rajiv, shows you are never too old to learn something new.
I love watching Rajiv. The points about when to use cold and hot water were new to me. I appreciated that he washed his dishes without filling the sink with water to "save water." He has inspired me to go wash my dishes.
I've been washing dishes for over 40 years and this young man is 100% correct in everything. My dishwasher has been broken for 3 or 4 years now. I don't mind doing the dishes.
Very helpful hints. We watched a movie in Home Econ. back in HS.... MANY years ago about washing dishes. The one trick I never forgot from it was when you are putting dishes into the drainer, start from the back, and work your way towards yourself. No idea why it stuck with me, but it did.
Finally someone who does dishes like me. Rajiv you truly are bring the art of doing things right back in style. And you doing it in an entertaining and enjoyable way. I could watch you for hours!
So many of your things, I have in my own house as well, it's such a pleasure to see you use them like I do. I'm a painter and printmaker. I think it must be a love of honesty in materials and good craftsmanship that is the uniting thing with so many makers of stuff. Oh, the dish cloth thing: when I travel, instead of the usual souvenirs, I buy dish cloths, tea towels, spices, wooden spoons and the like. I use them daily, so it's a reminder of Brussels, or Puerto Vallarta, Alaska, Lyon, etc. Nothing matches, but the quality is always really good. I so enjoy your videos, please never stop!
Great video Rajiv. And don't worry about being too complicated. This is the age of Internet and I/we can watch segments of you video over and over until we understand and remember everything that you say. I do the dishes intensively and still learned a few more things just by watching this video, as: 1. Wash the cleanest things first. 2. Use cold water on all things with eggs on it. 3. Use hot water on cooking pans. 4. Use paper towels to get rid of most of the grease on any kitchen utensil. 5. Get rid of remaining fat on cooking pans by putting them back on the stove and to sterilise them. 4. Use a fibre dish cloth as your primary dish washing tool (many RUclipsrs give this advice). Excellent Rajiv!
I have a book that was used by my Aunt's Home Economics class in the 1940's and I learned so much from this book when I was in Elementary school in the late 60's and yes, it mirrors what Sir Rajiv demonstrated!!! 😊
@@momowhatagwaan5970 Greetings, "Young Folks at Home",and probably a subtitle that I can't recall just now. I haven't looked at it in years; stored somewhere, lol I want to look for it now.
I have dreamt of having a dishwasher for 20 years and finally I can enjoy not washing the dishes. But watching you I feel how you put your whole soul into washing your beloved belongings. How inspiring...😊I wouldn't believe I will be glued to the screen, watching somebody doing the washing up.
Hi Rajiv!!! Excellent advice!!! One thing that I noticed was that your sink does not have a screen catch all. Friends family are filled with plumbers. They told me to always have a tight screen cup on every drain. You will be shocked by the amount of little food bits that sip past you as you rinse the dishes. You will never need a plumber for a clogged sink drain after utilizing these! Love 💕 your videos!!
Master class in dish washing the sensible way, beginning with the less dirty dishes and progressing on to the heavy duty stuff. The tips on when to use cold water and when to switch to hot water was very useful. Also the merits of using a dish cloth versus a scrubber, otherwise those obstinate bits of food would remain stuck inside the scrubber, resulting in unpleasant odour. Who wants a dish washer.? Washing dishes by hand is a pleasure by itself. Calming! Loved every minute of this video. Thank you Rajeev for taking the trouble to show the steps to follow, to simplify dish washing.
I love everything about you, Rajiv. Handing you a tidbit from a microbiologist for whom I used to babysit. Dr. Gauthier taught me that the hottest tap water will never be hot enough to kill microbes (sanitize) and that COLD water hardens soap and helps to remove more of it from your dishes. "That's more important," she told me. I've been rinsing in cold water ever since. (I also have a little vinegar mixed into my dish soap, which also helps pull soap away from dishes ... makes them sparkle! Apologies if you've already done a video on that! 🤣)
I grew up with no dish washer and learned to wash dishes exactly like this, I hope all young people today will take care and learn this lesson. Thank you💕
There's that beautiful carved wooden board that they teased us with in the Homeboy ad! I know Rajiv made it himself, and I know they filmed it, but are they ever going to let us see how it was done? Release the Homeboy footage!
Thanks Rajiv, I was taught the order: glassware, silverware, crockery, cutlery, saucepans, frying pans, baking dishes. I’ve remembered it since I was a child, thank you for sharing your reasoning for washing up in the way you have demonstrated. It’s so sensible.
This video reminded me of 7th grade home economics class. We were taught the order to wash items but not about the cold water on eggs and oatmeal. I will have to remember that one. It is such a pleasure to watch Rajiv enjoy what some think are mundane tasks or a task to relinquish to a machine. I have only had a dishwasher twice in my life and it is not a necessity for me. I enjoy washing and drying them myself. Much easier when you are a single person than a family, though! But even growing up, it created memories of fighting over whose turn it was to wash the dishes and who would dry! Keep the videos coming, Rajiv!
Your store of knowledge is amazing! I'll share something I learned - at the restaurant where I work we used to wash our own kitchen towels. They got very greasy as you can imagine. One night, a load of towels came out of the dryer and were tossed into a hamper to be put away the following day. Six hours, HOURS! later the security cameras recorded the towels spontaneously bursting into flame. The fire damage was minimal, but the smoke damage took months to deal with! So smart to mop up grease with paper towels! I also always rinse my dish rags with very hot water and a bit of soap before I hang them to dry.
this was the first video that got me hooked on Rajiv... I was contemplating about buying a dishwasher... but after seeing how Rajiv washes dishes, I decided to enjoy the simplicity of washing dishes with a dish cloth. Thank you Rajiv!
This is my first time watching one of your videos and I just wanna say thanks! I'm terrible at washing dishes (always have been) and for the first time I have a really crappy dishwasher that doesn't work well. I'm trying to be better about keeping all my dishes clean, so this was very helpful!
I just spent 14:25 minutes watching a grown man wash dishes... and I enjoyed every second of it
Have you seen him wash a wool sweater?!? lol Equally as enjoyable!! I love all these videos! He’s fabulous!!!
He has such a pleasant personality. I really adore him
😂tell me about it.
Well that make two of us 😂😂
Incroyable mais vrai!!!
Rajiv is the gentle parenting father I've always wanted
I agree, and now I'm 61, I realize the same thing.
He has his own RUclips channel now 😊
This is why you should let him adopt kids :) 🏳🌈
THIS
I would watch a video on Rajiv Surendra teaching us how to watch paint dry.
Truly! I love listening to the cadence of his voice, and how he enunciates every word without making it seem like it’s any effort.
@@Immaculately.vibing Yes exactly! He shines.
Same
Lol so would I
More than once!
I’m 77 years old and this young man has taught me a thing or two. I love him and hope he keep up his sweet spirit and sharing his life with others. He’s a gem
The proper order to wash dishes was ingrained in me as a child by my mother and grandmother. Glasses first, eating utensils second, plates and bowls third, and finally pots and pans last. The use of cold water on the egg and oatmeal was stellar advice, as most people would instinctively use hot water.
I agree with the order of washing the dishes: from cleaner to dirtier/grissier.
After I wash the glasses and utensils, I put plates into sink, one by one, each on top of the other but so each one fills with warm water. This will loosen the dirt and grease somewhat. Turn the water off. With soapy sponge I wash each plate and put it on the side. When all the plates are soapy, I put them back in the sink, under hot water and rinse each plate an put it on a dish strainer next to the sink. Then come the salad bowls and in the end pots and pans.
I try to save water by not running it while I am busy soaping and scrubbing dishes, only for rinsing. That's why I do it in batches.
appreciate your comment, also like to wash similar items at the same time. pots always last as they're often the most odious.
I was taught the same order of washing
Wow ...this guy is like a university on life skills every young man and women needs to watch his videos ,will make this world a much better place for everyone
Wow I'll definitely be trying the cold water trick! Thanks!
as a TYPE A OCD person that grew up in an erratic household I was never taught how to properly do these chores in a beautiful and meaningful way. Thank you HGTV and Rajiv for this wonderful series.
I get ya; my Dad once said, to me: You and Tim, raised yourselves😮I was shocked, but after thinking about it!😮we both had so many UCK-UPS! Had to learn the hard-knock, way.
Give this man his own show.. he’s brilliant
He _has_ his own show!
Oh nice, what is the name of his showing? 👏
More like, he need a channel or something
@@nunyabiznes33 I have great news for you. he has just started his own channel this year!
@@drids. actually saw it after making the comment and subbed. He need his own, just in case things with the network change.
After being married 10 years I figured all of this stuff out. But I still sat with a smile-resting-face and enjoyed all 14 minutes of Rajiv teaching me how to wash dishes. 😌
Me too. I’ve been managing my house for 50 years and I know how to do all of this (I was taught by my mom) but still I watched the whole thing. I love order and a clean house and that’s why I enjoy watching him.
This man is a national treasure.
Agreed
A Canadian national treasure. 🥰
Rajiv just approaches everything he does with such care, passion and fine detail, and with appreciation for how he’s learned what he’s sharing. As an educator I am in awe with every video I see. He is the epitome of good taste but in such an approachable and likeable way.
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What I LOVE about Rajiv is that he treasures all his treasures and therefore takes the time and effort to keep them pristine.
I have started getting rid of old cheap things and getting a smaller number of higher quality stuff. Some thrifted, some new. It turns out if something looks beautiful and works wonderfully I take care of it more and pay more attention to it. My ugly cheapo cooking sets from walmart were hidden in a drawer and thrown in the dishwasher. My cast iron, carbon steel, cooper and porcelaine I have out on shelves or hanging in reach or on my stovetop. I use them more than I did the cheap stuff and it lasts longer.
I love how Rajiv turns everything into a type of conscious meditation. Bliss.
Rajiv’s videos are essential to millennials (myself among them) and gen z who were raised by a society valuing laziness/waste, but crave and miss the lost teachings of efficiency/simplicity ! Thank you for reviving the lost arts, Rajiv!
You’ve put it in such perfect words
Also Gen X....had no clue about cold water for eggs & oatmeal. Also good refresher on the cast iron tips👌🏽
@Emma, I'm intrigued by your comment -- not having kids myself, it never occurred to me there were generations being raised without being taught how to do everyday tasks. But, rather than attributing it to the prior generation (I guess you're talking about Boomers?) being lazy, consider that modern appliances were new conveniences to homes in the '50s and even the '60s, and were the ultimate in lifestyle improvement. (No different from having the Internet and streaming services today.) And if turnabout is fair play, also realize that those older people are looking at the younger generations and complaining that they don't know how to entertain themselves without the latest digital device in their hand. Lots of laziness and waste there, too.
Very well said. I’m in that boat and I agree.
I love love love these videos. Simple tasks like these do require being taught. They're skills we can improve upon. This feels like my inner child being healed because of how gentle and unpatronizing Rajiv is. More of these, please!
My sister and I were just talking about this, it does feel like your inner child is healing reason I never learned to cook because I felt so bad I didn’t already know. He makes everything exciting
I've never been so inspired to Scrub dishes. I felt this video coming when I seen Rajiv's video with Barbara (I think) chatting about the design of a dish cloth. Rajiv makes the most simplistic chores or activities so elegant and meaningful. That makes me appreciate every task and item. Truly a treasure ☺️
I’ve always despised washing dishes and have been yelled at to do it completely different ways as a kid, and my god this just seems like it’d make my life easier.
Felt like the dude was gently guiding me through it, behind my back, holding my arms and allowing me how to learn dishes in a semi-homoerotic way and I’M FUCKIN HERE FOR IT.
What so appealing about Rajiv’s approach to me is how thoughtful he is about doing the most mundane in order to save as much resources and energy possible to preserve all the utensils and tools in order to prolonged their usage. Now that is what sustainability is all about. Not about thousand dollar energy saving technology, “clean” dishwashing soap or “organic” spoons 😪🤔😤
Dishwashers are way more water efficient
Well, to be fair, it's about energy-saving technology and organic spoons, too. But yes, everyone should be being more efficient and working to prolong the life of products. "Disposable" is a dirty word.
@@leafandmachine, true, but not everything is meant to go into the dishwasher; for example sterling silver, fancy China with actual gold trim, crystal glassware, your kitchen knives and cast iron pans should not go into the dishwasher.
@@leafandmachine sure but electricity requires water to run no?
@@leafandmachine Filling the sink up with water to place dishes in {after dishes rinsed to get excess food off} is way more efficient and hygienic. My old home economics teacher wouldn't be impressed with this method.
That was exactly how I was taught and how I taught my kids! Another way to remember the temperature of water is cold on starchy foods, hot on greasy, sugary foods. Works every time!! Love watching this guy!!
I swear I could watch Rajiv do anything and he'd never cease to educate and entertain.
While many of these skills seem basic, there are a lot of us who were never taught the proper way to do many essentials, whether it's because of appliances or services, or because the grown ups in our homes had no idea what they were doing or were impatient and/or unkind instructors.
Rajiv, if you're looking for video ideas, I'd love one on ironing. I have childhood trauma around the chore (I'm being sincere; I grew up with toxic parent).
I learned the proper way to iron (there is a sequence, especially for shirts) from my Scandinavian mother. It made it so much easier. Now I don't even own an iron! I mostly hand wash my clothing, and hang things to dry (Inever use a dryer - they are energy hogs and ruin your clothes), and when things hang to dry any wrinkles hang out. If you use a washing machine, clothes get wrinkled if they are left in the washer after it finishes its cycle. So take them out immediately and hang them to dry.
Seconded on the ironing
@@janinafisher101 Giving the items a snap before hanging them helps reduce wrinkles too, and fluffs towels. Another trick I learned from a friend is to finger-press key points before drying, like button plackets, seams (I usually pull them gently to stretch them back out if they wrinkled), collars, cuffs, etc.
he has his own channel now and has one video on it about ironing
I love you Rajiv! So intelligent, FUNNY, humorous and kind-hearted. I just love you. And like someone else said, you could teach us how to watch paint dry and we would eat up every second. And then wash the dishes as instructed.
Rajiv makes excellent points here! As an avid hand dish washer I recommend this video to anyone and everyone as even myself have learned a thing or two after watching him do his magic. I highly recommend this is best way to keep your antique dishes well loved! ❤️ 💕
i have never trusted dish washers. I mean i need to touch an feel the thing in my hand and pat it dry
Rajiv has such a nice calm way about him. He’s so relaxing.
I never comment on RUclips videos but I just can’t resist showing my support for Rajiv. This is literally some of the best content on the internet at should never stop
I never thought I would be watching a video on washing dishes. Let alone enjoying it and actually learning things from it, but here I am. Rajiv delivers again!
Thank you Rajiv! My mother started teaching me to wash dishes when I was 7, and to this day, at 54yo, I still wash dishes by hand, and in the exact order you demonstrated. There is nothing worse than pouring a glass of my favorite beverage, only to see an oil slick floating on top 🤮. It's so refreshing to see a young adult who has such a passion for all things vintage. I love your videos and tutorials 🧡
I’ve been without a dishwasher for many years and didn’t realize how much more I still had to learn! Thank you, Rajiv!!!
You speak to my love of taking care of a home. Just found your channel this weekend and binge watched it. I love to discover young people who believe in organization and cleanliness. It’s rare these days and I am in aww of the depth of your talents. More videos please.
No it's not rare. Stop being bitter.
@@canesugar911 look everyone knows its not rare but it makes me feel like the worlds specialest boy when people compliment me for washing my dishes
Hey Rajiv!
Great shows! Noticed you had a red plastic scraper for the pan… They make them in sustainable bamboo now. Also, consider keeping some of the “news paper” type junk mail as part of the removing grease process of the cast iron pans.
May this series never end!
Crazy to find someone as excited about washing dishes and cleaning as I am. There is a right technique to cleaning everything!
I love ALL of Rajiv's videos. Hey, HGTV, why aren't there more of these?! 😊
What about his own show?
How if be goes on tour?
Hi! You can watch all episodes with Rajiv here: ruclips.net/p/PLPBX4CwI7bw_UYpWmsBj6x7NYkgn2sjb7 😊
@@hgtvhome I have happily watched all of those episodes already, so the purpose of my comment was to request even more content from Rajiv! Daily content would be ideal! But I'll take what I can get. 😊
@@vivian9803 that'd be nice, but then it'd be made flashy, pushing products & probably turned into some kind of reality content. 😒
I feel like the intimacy would be lost.
I agree with everything here except for one thing..I generally don’t get to the dishes until the end of the day because I’d constantly be in the kitchen preparing food, then washing dishes, on repeat. So, to save time (it really does I promise), I run cold water over the plates and bowls and they stay wet with any dish soap I use to wash my hands throughout the day and then the food easily wipes off and I put them in the dishwasher at the end of the day and in the morning they go in the pantry and it’s ready to be loaded again the next day. Being a mother of 2 life also happens when we all get sick and chores just don’t get done so don’t feel like you have to be perfect all the time. Love these videos!
Definitely a series on painting by Rajiv! Such a wonderful Luxe renaissance personality. Plus washing dishes in 24 c gold bangles without a care in the world.
I cannot believe I just watching this guy wash dishes! Rajiv, this world needs more of you! Man after my own heart!
Don’t we all need a friend like Debra in our lives!
Never heard of these "Debra's dishcloths" whatever....
Why is this wonderful man so delightful to watch??? He is so interesting, no matter what he does.
Turns out I am a dish washer pro. 😄😁🤘 I already follow all the rules told in this video. 🧡 I use a cotton dish cloth and after one or two days (I don't have greasy cast iron pans) it goes into the laundry at 60°C to kill germs. Always a fresh dish cloth and some of them I have for 20 years now. And when they start looking too used for the kitchen, I use them for cleaning the bathroom sink or wiping out the washing machine after a cycle and then..... I cut them up or leave their actual size and use them for cleaning the bike or for rubbing wax or oil into wood. 😉 Then they go into the trash. However as a German I fill the sink with water and wash most of the dishes in there starting with glasses and silverware and my expensive knives to protect the wood and the blade and then getting to the dirtier things like pans and pots. Sometimes I change the water when it gets too dirty but nothing wrong with that method as your dishwasher does the same thing. 😉 We were told to save water as long as I remember and not wash our dishes under running water. But this is up to you and a regional thing.
Oh, and I have a little suction cup basket thingy on my tiles behind the sink to put the sponge in. So air can get to all sides of it and makes it dry faster. Hence no smell.
He turns the tap off while he's scrubbing. If you want to rinse off the dish washing liquid, which is recommended, it's actually quite water efficient.
Do you just wash the dishwasher cloths by themselves in the washer? Or do you wait until there are enough of them? 😅
this was actually helpful, I've honestly never thought about the water temperature re: eggs and oatmeal!
just wanted to note for anyone reading this, you can actually clean cast iron pans with dish soap. probably best to not do it with a newer one, or one that you're trying to (re) build up seasoning on, but generally it's okay, once it's well-seasoned.
I laughed when I saw your video’s title, but I know so many young people that have zero life skills so after watching your video my laughter turned to admiration. I’m sure I’m old enough to be your grandmother, but I applaud your efforts to educate folks. My sister is only four years my junior, and she washes everything in cold water. I was shocked. Somehow she didn’t get the same life lessons I received as a child. I love your attention to details that most young folks skim right over. Your love of all things old and hand crafted is admirable. Enjoyed your video. I did notice you omitted the utensil with egg on it, and washing out the sink when finished. Old eyes can still be eagle eyes. LOL
Yes, I noticed that too!
You can tell WE EAGLE EYES are over age 60🧐😅😎🥰🍷
I’m elated I discovered this channel. What an awesome human being. I feel inspired again and pulled out my art supplies. I basically always surrounded myself solely with things that bring me joy, so I share a connection to his philosophy 💕🥰 love it
I second @benwrex comment about watching a vid from Rajiv on watching paint dry. Rajiv can certainly pull any situation together to make things interesting ☺️
I love these videos from Rajiv that elevate the routine. I feel like they're character building somehow
I love this series. I'm actually planning to purchase Discovery Plus for more videos like this.
What I learned:
1. Rinse any residue first
2. Wash from cleanest to dirtiest
3. Use cold water for things like oatmeal and eggs
Please never discontinue this series. I enjoy watching and learning more things I feel like I should have been taught earlier.
Thank you.
One of my Grandmothers taught "Home Economics " at the college level.
You just taught what she taught to me.
04:11, Saturday, 14 May 2022
My husband asked why I was watching this. So far every video he has made has been educational, inspiring and entertaining. I love how he has learned so much and willingly shares it with us.
Love this guy, his style, his sense of humor, his genuineness, and his pure love of life! Thank you Rajiv for being so inspirational, so generous with sharing your simple but powerful wisdom, and for demonstrating how one can apply a sense of purpose and meaningfulness to everything, even washing dishes!
You like him because hes like a cute puppy!If an old fat bald man would do the same,you would not like it!
yo that's deep
Rajiv is SOOOO adorable! I’m gonna save this video and send it to my daughter when she moves out to make sure she knows how to clean dishes like a grown up 😁
These are the exact instructions my parents gave me as a child when they taught me to wash dishes. You took me back to the dun of being taught to do something the grownups did. 😊🍽🚿
How does he make everything sound exciting and fun? Lol love it
I love watching your videos. There are whole generations that are clueless to the things my generation grew up knowing. Continue spreading your advice!
When my grandfather taught me to wash dishes 50 years ago he said you wash the things that go into your mouth first like glasses, cups and cutlery, then you wash saucers, plates and bowls and only then do you wash pots and pans and implements that you used to cook with, this will ensure that the things you put into your mouth are washed with the cleanest dishcloth and they will never smell of old food. A little bit of lime juice or white vinegar will get rid of any egg or fishy smell. I still follow these rules to this day. I learned a lot today about water that I never knew, thanks Rajiv.
Yes! And you can also boil vinegar on the back burner while cooking fish to stop a fishy smelling kitchen.
I love your videos and will reseason my rusting cast iron pan first thing tomorrow. You are so much fun to watch and learn from. I loved the making the bed video a lot too.
Rajiv will never send you down a wrong path. I love all his videos.
I feel better now that I realized that I do all these things already. In our home as kids, we had our turn to wash dishes or get the table ready for diner. I wish to implement those things with my own kids as well. These are basic essential knowledge that everyone should have. Please do more content like this 🙏🏾
You can save the bacon grease and use it for cooking. For example, when you have to soften onion for a soup and it calls for butter, add a little of the bacon grease for extra flavour!
Life is art with Rajiv. Just love the attention and love to even the most mundane things. This man is mindfulness in action.
Rajiv makes the world better. I can watch his videos all day. He makes the world kind and interesting.
Proud of you Son...you share your experiences which are in my opinion the epitome of best practices for the young to do their best ....well done, you make your mama proud too so all mothers 💕🌿🕊🪔
Rajiv is one of the rare individuals who can make mundane things interesting.
It's interesting to me how "common sense" leads us to do things the right way. Love this video Rajiv... it's reminded me that for generations in my family we've been doing things in the right order.
I seem to never live in a place that has a dishwasher, but I find washing dishes meditative. I have only wanted a dishwasher back when I hosted Thanksgiving, but even then, everyone chipped in with cleanup. I still learned a bit with this even though I always wash by hand.
i've never had a dishwasher either.
i tend to wash as i go.
73 and I'm in awe. I have always used hot water to clean egg. Well first I soak the bowl or dish in hot water. I never let food sit in anything while I eat diner, but his way of using cold water worked and that never seemed intuitive to me.. thanks Rajiv, shows you are never too old to learn something new.
I love watching Rajiv. The points about when to use cold and hot water were new to me. I appreciated that he washed his dishes without filling the sink with water to "save water." He has inspired me to go wash my dishes.
I've been washing dishes for over 40 years and this young man is 100% correct in everything. My dishwasher has been broken for 3 or 4 years now. I don't mind doing the dishes.
Sending to my teen and 20 something daughters. Perfect for teaching them the basics 😊 Thank you!
I'm so proud of myself for doing almost all the tips already I use the same method !!!
Very helpful hints. We watched a movie in Home Econ. back in HS.... MANY years ago about washing dishes. The one trick I never forgot from it was when you are putting dishes into the drainer, start from the back, and work your way towards yourself. No idea why it stuck with me, but it did.
I just wanted to say you have lovely things. Your sink, counter top, faucet, dishes, cutlery, kettles - I love it all.
This guy is genius! Love him!!
I’m 61 and just learnt how to wash efficiently from Rajiv. Thank you !! I really love your videos.
Finally someone who does dishes like me. Rajiv you truly are bring the art of doing things right back in style. And you doing it in an entertaining and enjoyable way. I could watch you for hours!
So many of your things, I have in my own house as well, it's such a pleasure to see you use them like I do. I'm a painter and printmaker. I think it must be a love of honesty in materials and good craftsmanship that is the uniting thing with so many makers of stuff.
Oh, the dish cloth thing: when I travel, instead of the usual souvenirs, I buy dish cloths, tea towels, spices, wooden spoons and the like. I use them daily, so it's a reminder of Brussels, or Puerto Vallarta, Alaska, Lyon, etc.
Nothing matches, but the quality is always really good.
I so enjoy your videos, please never stop!
I learned a lot. Especially about the cold water to egg pans and oatmeal pans, cooked things pans. Thanks.
SAME! I can't believe I'd never given this a second thought before! CRAZY!
Yeah it's very informative
I feel so relaxed listening to Rajiv teaching me how to wash dishes with a Jazz music background. I don't know how to pull it off. Magic.
Who doesn't adore this man? Wish he lived next door to me! Deborah's kitchen cloths are perfect too.
these videos. would be great for school kids to learn life skills.
I love watching Rajiv's videos. Please keep them coming!
I’m 59 years old, grew up hand washing dishes for 30 of those years, but I’ve never realized that there was a method to washing dishes. Thank you.
this man needs a show... !!!
Great video Rajiv. And don't worry about being too complicated. This is the age of Internet and I/we can watch segments of you video over and over until we understand and remember everything that you say.
I do the dishes intensively and still learned a few more things just by watching this video, as:
1. Wash the cleanest things first. 2. Use cold water on all things with eggs on it. 3. Use hot water on cooking pans. 4. Use paper towels to get rid of most of the grease on any kitchen utensil. 5. Get rid of remaining fat on cooking pans by putting them back on the stove and to sterilise them. 4. Use a fibre dish cloth as your primary dish washing tool (many RUclipsrs give this advice).
Excellent Rajiv!
I have a book that was used by my Aunt's Home Economics class in the 1940's and I learned so much from this book when I was in Elementary school in the late 60's and yes, it mirrors what Sir Rajiv demonstrated!!! 😊
What’s the book name?
@@momowhatagwaan5970 Greetings, "Young Folks at Home",and probably a subtitle that I can't recall just now. I haven't looked at it in years; stored somewhere, lol I want to look for it now.
@@reginaadams7931 thank you very much
@@momowhatagwaan5970 ...guess what it's on Amazon amazing, however is was not available. At least you can see the cover and it mentioned the author.
I have dreamt of having a dishwasher for 20 years and finally I can enjoy not washing the dishes. But watching you I feel how you put your whole soul into washing your beloved belongings. How inspiring...😊I wouldn't believe I will be glued to the screen, watching somebody doing the washing up.
Hi Rajiv!!! Excellent advice!!! One thing that I noticed was that your sink does not have a screen catch all. Friends family are filled with plumbers. They told me to always have a tight screen cup on every drain. You will be shocked by the amount of little food bits that sip past you as you rinse the dishes. You will never need a plumber for a clogged sink drain after utilizing these! Love 💕 your videos!!
I always have one, too. It really catches a lot of gunk!
Just gave the dish cloth a try and I have to say dishes look 100 percent cleaner compared to washing with a sponge. Thanks Rajiv!
Master class in dish washing the sensible way, beginning with the less dirty dishes and progressing on to the heavy duty stuff.
The tips on when to use cold water and when to switch to hot water was very useful. Also the merits of using a dish cloth versus a scrubber, otherwise those obstinate bits of food would remain stuck inside the scrubber, resulting in unpleasant odour.
Who wants a dish washer.? Washing dishes by hand is a pleasure by itself. Calming!
Loved every minute of this video. Thank you Rajeev for taking the trouble to show the steps to follow, to simplify dish washing.
Wow this is wonderful. I hate washing dishes and this made it such a peaceful and lovely activity.
Purely watching this to not feel alone & crazy in the dish washing world. I love you Rajiv.
I love everything about you, Rajiv. Handing you a tidbit from a microbiologist for whom I used to babysit. Dr. Gauthier taught me that the hottest tap water will never be hot enough to kill microbes (sanitize) and that COLD water hardens soap and helps to remove more of it from your dishes. "That's more important," she told me. I've been rinsing in cold water ever since. (I also have a little vinegar mixed into my dish soap, which also helps pull soap away from dishes ... makes them sparkle! Apologies if you've already done a video on that! 🤣)
There’s a sense of calm and gentleness in his videos like Mr. Rogers lol
Yesss!
I grew up with no dish washer and learned to wash dishes exactly like this, I hope all young people today will take care and learn this lesson.
Thank you💕
There's that beautiful carved wooden board that they teased us with in the Homeboy ad! I know Rajiv made it himself, and I know they filmed it, but are they ever going to let us see how it was done? Release the Homeboy footage!
Thank you! I’m 68 years old and I learned things from your video. My cast iron and I thank you!!
Thanks Rajiv, I was taught the order: glassware, silverware, crockery, cutlery, saucepans, frying pans, baking dishes. I’ve remembered it since I was a child, thank you for sharing your reasoning for washing up in the way you have demonstrated. It’s so sensible.
Rajiv is able to make the simplest and most prosaic things... magical.
This video reminded me of 7th grade home economics class. We were taught the order to wash items but not about the cold water on eggs and oatmeal. I will have to remember that one. It is such a pleasure to watch Rajiv enjoy what some think are mundane tasks or a task to relinquish to a machine. I have only had a dishwasher twice in my life and it is not a necessity for me. I enjoy washing and drying them myself. Much easier when you are a single person than a family, though! But even growing up, it created memories of fighting over whose turn it was to wash the dishes and who would dry! Keep the videos coming, Rajiv!
You took the words out of my mouth…I also didn’t learn about hot water and eggs! I believe home ec was mandatory in the 1960s and shop for the guys!
Your store of knowledge is amazing! I'll share something I learned - at the restaurant where I work we used to wash our own kitchen towels. They got very greasy as you can imagine. One night, a load of towels came out of the dryer and were tossed into a hamper to be put away the following day. Six hours, HOURS! later the security cameras recorded the towels spontaneously bursting into flame. The fire damage was minimal, but the smoke damage took months to deal with! So smart to mop up grease with paper towels! I also always rinse my dish rags with very hot water and a bit of soap before I hang them to dry.
I love everything this man does! I hate doing dishes but I still watched this video because I knew he'd make it fun
this was the first video that got me hooked on Rajiv... I was contemplating about buying a dishwasher... but after seeing how Rajiv washes dishes, I decided to enjoy the simplicity of washing dishes with a dish cloth. Thank you Rajiv!
This is my first time watching one of your videos and I just wanna say thanks! I'm terrible at washing dishes (always have been) and for the first time I have a really crappy dishwasher that doesn't work well. I'm trying to be better about keeping all my dishes clean, so this was very helpful!
Basic principles of infection prevention and control. My line of work. Enjoyed the video!
I'm a nurse and I thought the exact same thing!