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Do you wash up straight after a meal, or leave it until later?

Up until the early 1900s, poorer households had a fairly easy time with dishwashing because there might have been only a few dishes in the entire home. Personal tableware wasn’t used; instead, people ate straight from the cooking pot or placed food in wooden serving dishes or on boards. All it took for dishwashing was each person licking their wooden spoon clean and tucking it into a gap in the log wall to dry. Cooking and serving dishes were scrubbed using a pot brush made from small twigs or thin roots gathered and tied together from the surrounding forest.