Here's how I do it:

1. Cook, eat, rest.
2. Heat filtered water in big pot.
3. Add a few drops of dish soap to warm water in pot.
4. Gather dirty dishes. 
5. If the dog is with us, he gets to clean off the crumbs from the plates.
   If we're without a dog, crumbs get scraped into small pile on a plate and
   burned, or buried in woods with dirty dishwater.
6. Walk off into the woods with warm soapy water in pot, dirty dishes, and
    nalgene of clean filtered water.
7. Clean dishes in soupy water using a scraper/sponge. 
8. Pour dirty water in small hole in ground. 
9. Rinse dishes, pot, and sponge with clean water from nalgene.
10. Carry back to camp and put clean dishes out to dry on rocks or logs. 
11. Shuffle cards for cribbage.

Pretty simple.  No dish pan.  It's just how I do it, but I'm sure there are as good, or better ways. 

Some might be disgusted by the role my dog plays in this operation.  Guilty as charged. 

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