Reader Brian Simboli laments: “Ah, I have yet, qua family dishwasher, to
find a really efficient way to wash chopsticks.”
Well, here’s my technique.
(A) Grasp bunch of chopsticks by thick ends.
(B) Scrub thin ends with dishwash brush, simultaneously moving the holding
hand so that different sides of the chopsticks are contunually being
presented to the brush. (This needs some practice. It’s a kind of kneading
motion.)
(C) Now place bunch of chopsticks between palms.
(D) Rub palms back and forth vigorously and parallel to each other, so that
chopsticks are subjected to mutual frication. This makes a characteristic
and not at all unpleasant noise, somewhat like the rattle of ma-jong tiles.
(E) Repeat step (B) under running faucet, to remove last traces of food
residue.
I do not myself scrub the holding (thick) ends of the chopsticks, as this
seems to me over-fastidious. There are different schools of thought on this
point, though….