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> > I would assume air drying is better UNLESS you use a newly laundered tea towel every time OR the air in your kitchen is full of soot, fly spray, cigarette smoke, or airborne anthrax spores being secretly piped into your house by a malicious neighbour.
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> How about flys, earwigs, dirt, mice, more dirt, ants, spray for ants, more dirt, mice droppings, bait for mice, more dirt, and, oh, did I mention the dirt?
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> Anyway, I solved the problem (a bit extremely): I'm moving out.

I assume you're talking about moving out because of having messy housemates, rather than abandoning your home, belongings and stack of dirty dishes completely and fleeing the country under cover of night. It could get expensive if you do that *every* time you have too many dirty dishes in the sink.