Can anyone recommend a general purpose dish cleaning tool for an older person with failing vision?
My mom washes dishes by hand and she's leaving food stuck to some of them. Yesterday I found a fork in the drawer that looks like it was put away dirty. One of the tines had yellow-brownish food stuck to it. It looked like peanut butter, but it wasn't. Mostly she leaves small specks stuck to a plate or a coffee mug. This is understandable because it typically requires feeling them to know they're there. Her sense of feel is failing to, I guess. But this thing with the fork is completely unacceptable - it's disgusting. I don't know how she missed that. I saw it in a dimly lit kitchen. I don't think her eyesight is that bad, she just went to the eye doctor! Honestly, I'm not sure how much of this is a vision issue. I suspect she's rushing through the cleaning because she doesn't want to do it.
She uses a dish rag and I'm thinking that she needs to use something else that has more scrubbing power that will work on all dishes. If she can't even see the food stuck on the dishes, then using a scrubbing pad as needed won't work. She needs a general purpose scrubber for ALL the dishes.
Any suggestions?
I did hear something about using soap and baking soda in the dish water for added cleaning power. I'm not sure if that would do the job alone or not.
Any advice would be appreciated. Using a dishwasher is not an option.
My mom washes dishes by hand and she's leaving food stuck to some of them. Yesterday I found a fork in the drawer that looks like it was put away dirty. One of the tines had yellow-brownish food stuck to it. It looked like peanut butter, but it wasn't. Mostly she leaves small specks stuck to a plate or a coffee mug. This is understandable because it typically requires feeling them to know they're there. Her sense of feel is failing to, I guess. But this thing with the fork is completely unacceptable - it's disgusting. I don't know how she missed that. I saw it in a dimly lit kitchen. I don't think her eyesight is that bad, she just went to the eye doctor! Honestly, I'm not sure how much of this is a vision issue. I suspect she's rushing through the cleaning because she doesn't want to do it.
She uses a dish rag and I'm thinking that she needs to use something else that has more scrubbing power that will work on all dishes. If she can't even see the food stuck on the dishes, then using a scrubbing pad as needed won't work. She needs a general purpose scrubber for ALL the dishes.
Any suggestions?
I did hear something about using soap and baking soda in the dish water for added cleaning power. I'm not sure if that would do the job alone or not.
Any advice would be appreciated. Using a dishwasher is not an option.