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Originally posted by SteveDallas
Dumb question I've always wondered about: How do you wash dishes while camping? Assuming a source of water (say, from the spigot helpfully provided by the campground at each site  ), how do you dispose of the dirty dishwater in a site-friendly way?
Or do you just do everything with paper utensils??
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Tactics I've used:
If you're carrying fresh food, save the bread for last to scrape out bowls and the cooking pot. Save the cleaning for home.
Or take some TP or paper towel, wipe clean and pack it out with your garbage.
Otherwise, use some detergent and boil water in the pot - that usually gets rid of most of the crap on the inside. Then, as Bruce said, pour it down the outhouse potty hole. Some parks have sump holes, which are just plastic drain pipes leading to underground decomp pools. Take say, a paper plate (or two) and poke a bunch of little holes ... pour the water through (slowly) - particles will collect on the plate while water dribbles into the sump (cooking water is pretty much harmless, just want to keep food particles off the ground that would otherwise attract bears, wolves and jersey devils).