Washing up

[WeeAgnes]

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When you do the dishes by hand, do you

Soak everything in a bowl/sink full of soapy water
or
Wash each item individually, under running water (no bowl or sink plugged in)

Just being nosey as we went away last week with extended family, and each family group had their own preference.

Soapy water, but then rinse under running water.

Surely you run a bowl of nice hot soapy water, wash everything within that hot water with your cloth or sponge, then rinse the suds off and pop on the rack to dry.

Fill the bowl, wash glasses and cups first as they’re usually cleaner, rinsing the soap off each one or they’ll streak. Soak plates and bowls. Wash pots and pans last and change the water if need be.

The only thing I soak is my porridge pan.

Otherwise I agree with pp who say fill a bowl with hot water and some washing up liquid and wash, giving each item a rinse to get the suds off. And yes I try and wash the glassware first.

Run the water over a squirt or two of washing up liquid to sink half-full.
Add the glassware dishes first (dishes/pans have been pre-rinsed in sink water).
Wash each item, give quick rinse to glassware, if necessary.

My DH fills the sink, adds the( pre-rinsed dishes), and then runs the warm water on low continuously as he washes, rinses, washes, rinses... I see that as more of a waste of heated water, and in fact water itself, but say nothing as at least he will do them!

Fill the sink with water and fairy liquid. Take each item and wash it in the suds, put it on the draining board and OH dries it. No rinsing under the tap.

Open door of magic box, put in dirty crockery, cutlery pans etc. Add tablet, close door and switch on.

@closethedooronyourwayout
Your way is exactly how we do it,
and my cousin's family does it the way your DH does it.

Same. It makes me very happy.

Neither! I rinse everything. Put the plug in, starting with the cleanest and working to dirtiest, run tap on low continuously, squirt detergent on item, wash, rinse. By the time you get to the pans, the sink is partiallx full and you can turn the tap off, wash them and the rinse individually.

A mixture of both depending on how many dishes there are. If there aren’t too many then I wash them under the tap.

If not the usual procedure is to rinse and scrub them immediately after eating so that all visible dirt/food is gone. Then hot water and washing up liquid in the basin. Cutlery and glasses first. Water is changed once or twice or more often if needed and every item is thoroughly rinsed under running water. I do not trust people who don’t rinse their dishes. I hate having a drink at someone’s house and tasting soap because they don’t rinse their cups.

I've never rinsed any of my dishes in 40 odd years and nothing tastes of soap.

I will never understand why you’d want to leave soap suds on your dishes.

Anything that needs it gets rinsed and put in the washing up bowl. Washing up liquid and very hot water.
Leave it cool a bit.
Scrub everything. Rinse each item before putting it on the draining board.

Rinse the excess off each item first. Then scrub each piece individually with a soaped up sponge/scourer. Rinse each item with hot water. 90% of my stuff goes in the dishwasher.
A million years ago when I lived in UK it was all in a washing up bowl and plonked on drainer, no rinsing involved whatsoever, but I had to change it in my adopted country as people were appalled that I didn't rinse dishes and shocked I had a plastic bowl in the sink too. It made me think and I decided they were right, before then I never knew that washing up bowls and not rinsing were purely a British thing!

I do it the Asian way. Wash under running water. I don't have a basin.

Yes, 100% dishwasher when we at home.

Rinsing when hand washing is a must.