Ciprian Cornea (Romania) -a Master student of Mathematics & Computer Science- and Yuzhong Lin (China) -a PhD candidate with Architecture, Building and Planning- are both amazed at the way in which Dutch students do the dishes.

Ciprian: “Doing the dishes involves several phases. The first phase of the way the Dutch do this is similar to ours: you take the object to be washed in your hands, you submerge it in water containing a dishwashing liquid, and you wash it. At that point the difference becomes visible: you have finished after the washing! When surely it is one of the most important phases of washing up that after having washed it you rinse the object with clean water. Only then you get rid of the dishwashing liquid containing all the bacteria of the dirty dishes. You skip that final phase. Is there a reason to do so?”