Sunday, December 23, 2007
Why I Won't Live in England #5 - Plastic Tubs in Kitchen Sinks
Anyone I know would agree that a plastic kitchen sink is cheap, nasty and unhygenic - which is why 99% of kitchen sinks are made from stainless steel.
In England the norm is also a stainless steel kitchen sink, but they have a strange habit of sitting a plastic tub in it.
What is really sad is that they don't know why!
Except that, this is just what we do - it's what our parents and grandparents did, so we do it as well. The is the same mentality as people who work in coal mines "because my dad did, and so did his dad". It's a mentality I'd rather not come across in my day-to-day living, so England is not for me.
Back to the tub - it is so bloody pointless:
- it reduces the size of the washing-up area
- it hasn't got a plughole!
It's much harder to pour water out of the tub than it is to pull out a plug. Plus, when I wish to quickly rinse something under running water, or wet a cloth, the water sits in the tub, rather than running down the drain.
Supposedly it is a relic of the days when water was carried in from outside...
WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Labels: kitchen sink, plastic tub
