====== Dishwashing! For the True Heroes of the Flow! :) ======


Dishwashing at the House of Tea is an essential way of helping the tea flow. One of the major bottlenecks in the tea flow is the lack of clean/fresh cups!

As essential for the tea flow, it is also important that it is done properly, so everyones' health and well-being be preserved to our best effort.

For this purpose, there are some usages to know and precautions to take:


<WRAP box round center important 700px>IMPORTANT: in order to minimize risks of contamination, we adopt the strict following protocol:
  * ONE OR TWO PERSON(s) WASH(ES) ONE ENTIRE BATCH of cups, instead of everybody attempting -sometimes slopily- to wash theirs, in order to minimize the "number of hands" in the wash, and potential for mistakes.
  * Dishwashing is made USING DISPOSABLE GLOVES.
  * No food-stained or other non-tea-related greasy items be left in the soak/wash, in order to make the wash easier.
  * We attempt to change the dishwashing water(s) as often as possible. See [[how to help]] with the water cycle.
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===== A Dishwashing (work-)flow for the tea cups =====

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=====Teapots deserve a special treatment!. =====

Teapots should not be considered "dirty" once used, and **do not need to be washed like the cups** (it would actually be cumbersome and inefficient with such setup).

So in order to recycle/refresh the teapots:
  * fill them with approx 1/5-1/4 of boiling water that you carefuly "rotate" inside for a few seconds. 
  * discard the water in the used water disposal container.
  * eventually wipe their handle with hyrdo-alcoholic gel if it reassures you. 
  * put back in the inventory of clean items.

(the same applies to tea strainers!)
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Our dishwashing consists of 4 different stations/boxes + 1 drying rack:

==== 1/ soaking ====

This is where it all begins! :)

All used cups are left in the soak box.

It is composed of **liquid Marseille soap**, which has very strong anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties.

==== 2/ wash ====

It is composed of **Sodium Bicarbonate** (aka "Natron" or "baking soda"), in rather strong proportion (about xxxx per liter?), thus making a very basic solution that will kill/wash everything, while leaving no unpleasant taste or smell.

Scrub with dedicated sponge.


==== 3/ rinse ====

A rinse in fresh/clear water.

==== 4/ dry ====

Cups are disposed on the drying racks. We hopefully can change the table cloths on which they rest regularly often that they dont stay soaked.

If energy is available and/or if clean cups are immediately missing, they could eventually be hand-dried...