Dig licking plates before going into dishwasher - ick or not

I mean on the hygiene front – they probably will be sterilised, however have you never taken something out and there’s a bit of food left on there?! It’s not 100%

Besides the hygiene thing (theoretically should be fine for the most part), it’s just an unappealing visual for someone I guess. We let our dog lick peanut butter off the teaspoon after we’ve dolloped it sometimes, but wouldn’t do it if we had guests round for brekkie! 🙈🤣

That’s gross. DP used to let his dog do this and I refused to eat at his house because of it. I was too embarrassed to say why but there was no way I was eating from a dog plate! It also makes you wonder what other disgusting things they think are ok.

My dog has never licked another dog's ass either. They sniff, not lick.
And people do lick other people's asses.

YABU for describing a dog licking dirty dinner plates as "pre washing"

Are you my MIL OP?

In addition to plates, she allows her dogs to lick between her toes and any bleeding wounds she has on her body- oh yes, at the dinner table with guests there too! 😱

I don’t put the pots, pans etc on the floor for the dogs before loading in the dishwasher, but the littlest dog does try and climb in whilst I’m loading it and licks the things she can reach, draw the line at the clambering in but it doesn’t bother me if she manages to lick a few bits before I shoo her away.
It just seems a little odd to me to encourage your dog to eat off human plates etc not from the germ aspect but because don’t they then expect to be able to eat off of everything, get excited when they see normal plates?

I have a dog but never allow him to lick plates that humans use. If he has any scraps they go in his bowl. I know that a dishwasher will kill any germs but I still don't like the idea. When you consider that they lick themselves in the most intimate parts of their bodies and greet each other by sniffing bottoms, the very thought of it is enough to make anyone feel sick.

I think it’s grim, which surprised me a bit because I always wash the cats dishes in the dishwasher which is pretty much the same thing.

This thread has been enough for me to decide I'm never eating in any dog lovers home again.

I don't know which is worse OP who does it and doesn't or the posters who acknowledge it's do disgusting they only do it in private.

I didn't realise so many people are so disgusting. Absolutely vile.

It is objectively grim. Just because it's not harmful, doesn't mean it's not still a disgusting thought. Dogs eat shit FFS.

Having said all that, I do occasionally let our cats lick the bowl if I've been making tuna mayo before I put it in the dishwasher. But I am aware that this is also rank, and for that reason it is a dirty secret that I would never ever do it in front of guests. I can't believe you did! if I was a guest in someone's house and they did this I'd be knocked sick.

I have never seen a human run up to a strange person in public and lick their ass. Never known a human to eat fox shit either. It's really not the same thing.

No, toddlers are even worse. they touch their bums and bits, then touch everything in shops.

Kids are more gross.

Oh yuck. Even if rationally they were sterile it would still turn my stomach.

Dog owner and the dogs never lick a plate. Any appropriate leftovers is scraped into their bowls. Partly because I hate the idea of dogs licking plates but also we don’t allow feeding from plates and we don’t allow begging at the table either.

I usually run the dishwasher on an eco wash. I give the dog bowls a hand wash but will occasionally shove them in the dishwasher by themselves on a hot wash.

Agree - dogs have different dietary requirements from humans, and not everything (by a long shot) is going to be good for them, especially if they get to lick plates frequently. It's also good for them socially to keep a degree of separation between them and the family.

filth 🤮

I agree. This is disgusting.

Disgusting 🤮

Not going to kill anyone, but many many people will find it completely disgusting. As I do.

Scrape the leftovers into the dog's bowl.

I don't care how much my cognitive mind knows the plates are clean from the dishwasher, I still find it completely gross and it is unnecessary, as dogs have their own bowls.

That is how I feel, it may make sense scientifically but my stomach is squirming thinking about a drooly doggy tongue slurping all over a plate

Disgusting. I would not eat from your kitchen having seen this

If a plate needs to be 'pre-cleaned' before it goes in the dishwasher, then the dishwasher probably isn't cleaning it as well as it should.
I recognise that it might well clean properly but it still feels really disgusting. I'd not eat at yours if I saw it. I'd not try shame you over it but I'd avoid invites in future.

Plenty of people on here saying YABU don't wash their hands every time they use the loo, their families don't either, their homes are covered in snot their small kids wipe on every available surface, lots of them wear their shoes indoors, yet they're choosing to be precious about dogs licking plates before the plates are washed at 90 degrees in a dishwasher. Total non-issue.

I am 50 50 on this one. I have done it for years, also the dog bowls went in the washing machine, as does the tortoise drinking bowl and I am still alive.....but on the basis of what the eye doesn't see, I probably wouldn't have done it in front of a guest. but meh, no great loss if she is that snotty.