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Drew79 · 2025-06-24T20:42:24+00:00

When hand washing, interested in how many people either - Wash dishes then rinse with clean water, then put on the drainer to dry Or Wash dishes and put on the drainer with soap suds and dirty water still on them? I don't like the idea of eating and drinking from something that's got some cleaning chemicals left on it, but my partner says I'm being fussy!

Whyx · 25/06/2025 13:50

This refers to dishwasher detergent so I appreciate that washing up liquid may be different but this is the reason I have always rinsed all my hand washed dishes. Also I can taste residue sometimes which is unpleasant.

Dishwasher detergent interferes with gut health

AmelieSummer25 · 25/06/2025 13:44

1984Winston · 25/06/2025 13:41

I rinse, my husband doesn't 😬 so I re wash everything he washes up 🙄

Oh I'd have had a lovely new patio by now!!

1984Winston · 25/06/2025 13:41

I rinse, my husband doesn't 😬 so I re wash everything he washes up 🙄

AmelieSummer25 · 25/06/2025 13:39

RaininSummer · 25/06/2025 10:09

I don't rinse very often though probably should. It's tricky to do unless you wash under water which seems wasteful.

What do you find 'tricky'?

I just stack the soapy dishes at the side, then run the hit tap & rinse & place in the drainer, it would be easier if I had a 1.5 or 2 sink, but I don't at the moment. May do when I redo the kitchen?!

AmelieSummer25 · 25/06/2025 13:36

Flossflower · 25/06/2025 10:00

If I have a bath I use the shower nozzle to rinse my body off afterwards.

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Apparently that makes us 'odd' 🤣🤣I'd have said 'clean' myself!

AmelieSummer25 · 25/06/2025 13:33

UndermyShoeJoe · 25/06/2025 11:00

But in a bath you are just sitting in your dirt be that sweat, dead skin cells any actual dirt. It’s no different to the washing up in the fact it’s just a bowl/bath of water you’ve put something dirty into and hope that makes it clean.

Without rinsing it’s just bubbles and dirt.

Bubble bath isn’t even great for cleaning relaxing maybe but a deep cleansing clean no.

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Totally agree!!

AmelieSummer25 · 25/06/2025 13:32

OntheBorder1 · 25/06/2025 10:46

Well I don't know how you shower, but I'm generally not standing directly under the shower head when I lather so of course I have to rinse off with water. The difference between showers and washing dishes is that washing dishes is akin to being in a bath - i.e. you are in a bowl of water. Which you are not when showering.

If you would have a bath and then follow it with a shower all I can say is - how extremely odd

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Well, I think 'odd' is a bit rude, but I'm happy to wash myself & my dishes differently to you & consider my way more hygienic 🤷🏻‍♀️

if you consider just swilling about in soapy/used water good enough for you/your dishes, fine, you do you, for myself I don't consider either properly clean 🙅🏻‍♀️

PractisingMyTelekenipsis · 25/06/2025 12:34

Drew79 · 25/06/2025 10:39

Again, read the conversation, it was side talk about people who don't wash things properly, not about rinsing...

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No it wasn't. The original comment that people are replying to says My DM doesn't rinse the dishes and everything I take "clean" from the cupboards is covered in a film of grease
That implies it's the lack of rinsing that's the the issue.

UndermyShoeJoe · 25/06/2025 11:00

OntheBorder1 · 25/06/2025 10:46

Well I don't know how you shower, but I'm generally not standing directly under the shower head when I lather so of course I have to rinse off with water. The difference between showers and washing dishes is that washing dishes is akin to being in a bath - i.e. you are in a bowl of water. Which you are not when showering.

If you would have a bath and then follow it with a shower all I can say is - how extremely odd

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But in a bath you are just sitting in your dirt be that sweat, dead skin cells any actual dirt. It’s no different to the washing up in the fact it’s just a bowl/bath of water you’ve put something dirty into and hope that makes it clean.

Without rinsing it’s just bubbles and dirt.

Bubble bath isn’t even great for cleaning relaxing maybe but a deep cleansing clean no.

OntheBorder1 · 25/06/2025 10:50

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 25/06/2025 09:28

I think rinsing is very important - the dishes aren’t clean if they’re covered in suds and remnants of the dirty dish water.

It’s only in the UK (maybe only England) where this is considered acceptable

I don't live in the UK and as I've already said I've never seen anyone rinse their dishes.

BarnacleBeasley · 25/06/2025 10:50

When I was a student I shared a house with a boy who didn't rinse. When he put a pan of water on to boil, it would be full of bubbly washing-up liquid scum. That's when we agreed not to use each other's pans.

I have always hated washing-up bowls too, so now I have a 1.5 sink so I can rinse in the small one. However, I actually find it more wasteful to fill up a whole sink with water to do the washing-up, because if I put the plug in and then start washing under the hot running tap, I'm normally done (and rinsed) before the sink is full, unless there's absolutely loads to wash.

OntheBorder1 · 25/06/2025 10:46

AmelieSummer25 · 25/06/2025 09:10

I don't really have baths. But when I did I'd shower after & wash my hair.

why is showering different to washing dishes, same principle rinse the soap off.

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Well I don't know how you shower, but I'm generally not standing directly under the shower head when I lather so of course I have to rinse off with water. The difference between showers and washing dishes is that washing dishes is akin to being in a bath - i.e. you are in a bowl of water. Which you are not when showering.

If you would have a bath and then follow it with a shower all I can say is - how extremely odd

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Drew79 · 25/06/2025 10:39

ImFineItsAllFine · 25/06/2025 10:20

If there's still grease after the washing stage, a water rinse isn't going to solve that. Oil/grease just repels water, hence needing washing up liquid in the first place.

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Again, read the conversation, it was side talk about people who don't wash things properly, not about rinsing...

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Drew79 · 25/06/2025 10:37

RaininSummer · 25/06/2025 10:09

I don't rinse very often though probably should. It's tricky to do unless you wash under water which seems wasteful.

I just put the tap on a slow
Trickle, rinse each plate after ive washed it.

Cutlery I'll wash and stack in a pint glass, then when full I'll run water into the glass to rinse them as a bunch. Hardly uses any water.

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ImFineItsAllFine · 25/06/2025 10:20

Drew79 · 24/06/2025 22:20

Yep
Someone recently had hand washed a pile of stuff, a baking try slid off the pile and hit the floor, there was enough oil on the underside of it to cook a batch of potato wedges..

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If there's still grease after the washing stage, a water rinse isn't going to solve that. Oil/grease just repels water, hence needing washing up liquid in the first place.

Zanzara · 25/06/2025 10:18

Thirty odd years ago, my cousin was doing cancer research in the States. She told me back then that it was known that washing up liquid was a carcinogen, so I have always rinsed when washing by hand.

Also, as a Coeliac I do not want to use tableware which has been soaked in a glutenous soup in the bowl. EVER. Please rinse your washing up, people!

And no, this is not a British thing. It's an individual thing.

RaininSummer · 25/06/2025 10:09

I don't rinse very often though probably should. It's tricky to do unless you wash under water which seems wasteful.

GentleSheep · 25/06/2025 10:07

OntheBorder1 · 25/06/2025 09:08

The plastic bowl is surely a UK thing? That is something I think is weird.

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I think it must be. I grew up in another country and had never seen a plastic washing up bowl that lives permanently in the sink. When I encountered it upon moving to England I thought wow that's so strange, a plastic bowl that gets food debris on it and then must be cleaned, what's wrong with using the actual sink itself? I could never understand it and don't use one. I'm still not sure what it's for!

Flossflower · 25/06/2025 10:03

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 25/06/2025 09:28

I think rinsing is very important - the dishes aren’t clean if they’re covered in suds and remnants of the dirty dish water.

It’s only in the UK (maybe only England) where this is considered acceptable

Most people in the UK do not consider it acceptable!

Flossflower · 25/06/2025 10:00

OntheBorder1 · 25/06/2025 09:05

When you have a bath do you empty it then refill it with clean water to rinse yourself?

Having a shower is a completely different thing.

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If I have a bath I use the shower nozzle to rinse my body off afterwards.

Womblingmerrily · 25/06/2025 10:00

I put washing up liquid on sponge and squeeze.

Hot water in sink.

Scrub pan/baking tray (most stuff goes in dishwasher)

Plunge in sink. Drain.

Change water when murky.

My SIL disagrees and probably thinks I'm disgusting. I don't really care.

Not dead yet.

Pianoaholic · 25/06/2025 09:53

We don't have a dishwasher as our kitchen is pretty small.
We always rinse, we have a washing up bowl of water at the side of the sink which all the soapy things get dunked in and then put on the drainer. I thought we were OCD with this, but it seems not!
In spring/summer we put the rinsing water on the garden, so we're not 'wasting ' water.

Gall10 · 25/06/2025 09:51

Maybe if dishes are coming out covered in soap suds you might be using too much fairy liquid!

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 25/06/2025 09:44

I rinse under cold running water.

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Drew79 · 25/06/2025 09:44

IsItTheBlackOneOrTheRedOne · 25/06/2025 07:56

RINSE! Whenever I am given a glass at someone’s house who can’t wash up properly I’m 🤮

People, wash and rinse your dishes.

Glad to see that the vast majority here do actually rinse!

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