There is a point, I remember quite distinctly me asking this question in the past and receiving a decent answer that made me feel foolish, but it eludes me now.

Try getting rid of it and do the washing up without, you'll soon realise.

>>439026
Whatever it is I haven't realised it yet.

I've never used one but I think the idea is you can rinse stuff off down the side of the bowl without getting the dirty water into the bowl.

Reduces noise and if your plug doesn't have a tight seal it holds water. Ultimately though I think its just so you can use the sink without having to do the washing up.

>>439025
I mentioned that I had one earlier in the year and was roundly mocked for being poor. If you find this explanation then do let us know.

If you have one of those sinks with a separate little rinsing compartment next to the main sink, it's not as necessary. But it makes life a lot easier to be able to tip the dirty water out and refill it without having to dig right down and pull the plug, and being able to rinse things without the water overflowing- When I do the washing up I like to keep the tap running so I can rinse the soap suds off whatever I've just washed.

>>439029
If I saw someone with a plastic bowl in their sink I'd think they were a poor person, at the very least mental poverty.

>>439031

Povvo here, what do rich people have? Porcelain? Ivory?

>>439032
A butler.

>>439032

A sink large enough that you can rinse without needing to have a moving container.

>>439034

You need a double sink, otherwise you're just rinsing into the washing up water.

Also non-povvos have a dishwasher.

>>439035
>otherwise you're just rinsing into the washing up water.
What's wrong with that?

>>439036

Either you're rinsing in hot water and wasting a load of energy, or you're rinsing in cold water and cooling down your washing up water.

>>439037

That's fine, I can wash up just as well with water that's very slightly less warm.

>>439038

Or, you know, spend a quid on a washing-up bowl.

>>439039

Or, you know, not bother.

It's for collecting fetid, greasy water and food debris to soak your dishes in, of course.

>>439024
So you can remove it and the dirty dishes to get access to the sink, or at least when I had one that's how I used it. You ever tried to fill a pint glass with water from a sink full of soaking pots? It doesn't work.

It's very clear that this thread is divided into two stark categories of lad: Spoilt posho manchildren who went straight from mum and dad's house to having their girlfriend-cum-nanny do the dishes for them, and hard road-worn working class men who have known the toil of rolling their sleeves up and doing their own.

>>439043
Jokes on you, I've never had a girlfriend.

>>439043
If you just did the washing up when it was dirty there wouldn't be anything in the way of you getting water whenever you want it.

>>439043
Having a dishwasher or a middle sink means you're a posho now?

>>439046
Just wait until they find out about your 40-inch TV. That'll send 'em apoplectic.

>>439024
Most people don't have sink-plugs in their kitchen. Also, some people have really big plug holes. And, kitchen sinks are quite big, and so I imagine there is a lot more water used if you fill the entire sink up whereas I guess with a bowl you need at least a third less, but I would like to see some measurements. I think the (hot) water will cool down faster if its in the metal part of the sink, too. So enough reasons.

Do people still wash-up in the bowl though? I haven't done it for years, though having recently got a smart meter and seen how much power the dishwasher uses when it's on, I might start doing it.

>>439051
You can get a rubber plug with a handle for about a quid, if that.

>>439051 Running a mostly full dishwasher is substantially cheaper than repeatedly running a sink of hot water to do the same washing. The dishwasher only has to get one, maybe two bowlsworth of water hot, then sWhooshes them round for ages (with evil detergents that your hands couldn't survive). It then runs a heater for a while to dry stuff, but, energy-wise, they're pretty good.
Haven't been without one since shared house days. Just bung stuff in, run it when stuff runs out or it gets stinky or it's a sunny day and the solar panels will cover it.
One day, I'll just get a second one and alternate, no more unloading. Some stuff will get washed unnecessarily, but that's zero cost. Stuff will go in & out of rotation. Life will (continue to) be good.

>>439049
Only working class plebs have giants tvs, everyone knows that mines is 49 inches

Do people really dry their dishes? You can leave it out and it dries.

>>439055
Probably easier to do it all at once.

>>439055
Feels a bit minging to have your plates and cutlery sitting on a damp plastic shelf that's never cleaned. OPs pic is especially horrifying as the end of his spoon is proper touching that bit where a puddle of stagnant water can collect (assuming it doesn't already pool in the teaspoon - bloody animal!)

I'll leave awkward things like glasses to air dry but there's an odd satisfaction in drying a plate. I'm usually watching something on my laptop as I go so I don't mind at all.

I always find those light blue cloths a bit weird. You want a dishmatic.

>>439059
Full agreement - those things are just excellent.

>>439059
I can buy and bleach a pack of dishcloths for a at least 3 months. How long do those things last?

>>439062
Long enough.

>>439062
You're missing the fact the handle is hollow and holds cleaning fluid - your manky dishcloths simply can't do that.

I bought one for my final year uni flat in the first week, and the half French lass who lived with me had a thing for duck confit once a fortnight, and removed the washing up bowl to "wash up", placing an already congealed roasting pan of duck fat into the sink. I called her out on it the first time, having cleaned it in front of her, but the ring of fat was disgusting, and took cream cleaner to fully remove. I left her to deal with it after I did so the first time. Despite being disgusted, I think the point came across after two months.
Mucky bitch. She's one of those chakra environmentalist types too.

>>439071
A paper kitchen towel or two to wipe off the fat (and bin it) solves that problem. The only thing soap should remove is the final film of fat.

>>439072
Point is the lass was thick as fuck. And half French. Filthy bastards.

>>439071>>439073
A lot of students have no idea about housework. My friend lived in an all female house share and there was constantly skiddies in the toilet, shaved hair in the bath tub, dirty pots in the sink, dirty clothes all over the bedroom floors and just about every carpet was sticky to walk on.

>>439074
What's the problem?

>>439075
Not all us hoard women's toenail clippings.

>>439076
You should take it up as a hobby.

>>439077
My preferred hobby is going onto obscure imageboards, making a single reply and then watching on as it leads to other posters pointlessly bickering over it for hours.

>>439075

Problem clearly is they are first to blink in a game of chicken and they were rightfully treated like the prison bitch after the first time.

I'm surprised that nobody's said that the purpose of a washing up boil is to be sick into. It's perfectly portable, fits snugly beside your bed, plus you can hold it between your legs whilst you're sitting on the toilet when it's coming out both ends.

>>440318

Everyone had a Sick Bowl growing up. Ours was the mop bucket, which doesn't bear thinking about - I was too young then to recall now if this bucket was in regular mop service, or retired just for vomit collection - I suspect the former.

They stop you getting a scummy tidemark, so the trade off is a smaller area in which to do the washing up, including an area to rinse off, but no quick and simple wipe up after you wash.

I prefer to use one if the sink isn't a double, simply for the space you can make to rinse suds off. Had a flatmate at uni who would routinely use way more washing up liquid than necessary, then simply stack the sudsy plates on the side, not even in the rack. Stupid cow.

>>440318

I don't think I've vommed once since I stopped drinking. Is it normal to go more than a decade without puking?

>>440324
Yeah doesn't sound unreasonable. I can't think of a time since I was a child that I puked without drink or drugs being involved.

>>440324>>440325
You need to experiment with food well past when it should have been eaten.

>>440326
"need".

>>440326
Povvo.

>>440327
You've got to build up your resilience levels.

>>440327
"sneed"

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>440318

I've never understood people who will opt to vomit into a sink, over the toilet, that is the real mental povvo in our society.

>>440331
Sometimes the toilet's too far away, as I found out when I had norovirus. After the first bout, I don't think I left the area of the bathroom for the next 3 days.