To think my moher in law does not know how to do the washing up...

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Ok, i dont know if it's only her or not. A friend of mine told me that this is quite common in uk but, to me, it makes me sick. (i am not British)

My MIL does not rinse the plates, glasses or saucepans under running water but she puts them to drain covered in foam. Very often these are still greasy (also because she tends to wash the glasses as last thing when the water is already dirty) and then she dries them with a cloth instead of letting them dry in the air.

I repeat a friend of mine told me this is the british way (i am not british) but i dont believe her because i have seen other friends that instead rinse and dont dry with cloth.
I dont want to offend anyone, but could u tell me if this is very common? Thanks

i let the dogs lick the plates clean

Those of you who dont rinse, why not?

I am just curious as to why you would let the soap suds dry in on your dishes?

We have a dishwasher. But I do wash some stuff, and this is the procedure (and I am a known germophobe):

1. Take Special Black wash up brush and wash the sink with antibacterial washing up liquid.
2. Fill sink with hot water and Fairy liquid.
3. Wash dishes
4. Rinse under running hot water
5. Airdry

(6. Sometimes wipe dry, with fresh clean towel)

My sink is washed in Clorine weekly. I am BAAAD for the environment, but I believe it keeps my sink, drain and pipeworks neat and sparkly.

Yeah but who wants to eat and drink soap residue?

You are just making extra unnessecary work for yourself Quint.

And soap isn't sterile ...

Paisley, I still had to eat off those plates! And it was barely camping, it was a luxury caravan. On the one sad occasion we went proper camping, I used disposable plates.

Actually I am wrong.

And bubbles pick up dirt.

Sorry!

Although as long as they roll off the plates it doesn't really matter if you give them a push by rinsing or just let gravity do it does it?

They're still going to come off...

I suppose I don't bother because I don't generally notice their being bubbles on them when I put them in the rack.

And the few that there are roll off on their own easily enough...

I'm no germphobe (see my house for further evidence ) but if there's enough soap in the water to bind the grease then there will be a soap residue on the dishes, and if there's inadequate soap to bind the grease then there will be a grease residue. So lots of soap + rinse = genuinely clean plates.

It is gross not to rinse glasses and cups especially. My Mum does not rinse glasses and when I go to get a drink of water all I can taste is washing up liquid. I end up rinsing it loads of times to get rid of the taste

My parents do this too - in fact they much prefer to run a bowl of soapy water, wash up several dozen plates, pans and so on ... then give glasses a quick dunk in the resulting liquid, which is by then a greyish brown stew of food residue and scummy bubbles.

I don't imagine rinsing would at that stage make much difference!

DH thinks British people don't rinse stuff because mixer taps are rarer over here than elsewhere, so people my parents' generation are used to the idea you can't get the right temperature out of the taps and would need to run a bowl of water.

Soap is not sterile!!!!!
And the soap' s molecules link to the grease so if u dont rinse boh the soap and grease stays there.

No, i have not opened this to slag off my mil but only because i think it is not hygienic. If people do it this way, i think they should change it. Hope no one will get p.off.

I always rinse after washing up as someone once scared me with a washing up liquid/stomach cancer link (am easily scared!!)

Then leave to dry on drainer.

(But put 95% of it into the dishwasher.)

My MIL washes everything thoroughly, then puts it in the dishwasher!!! SUCH a waste of time, but she's adamant it will block the dishwasher plumbing otherwise! At least stuff is clean I suppose!

I think there is a bubble medium. If there are no bubbles there is not enough soap in there to wash the dishes.

But if your plates are covered in loads of bubbles you are using too much washing up liquid imo.

I don't like the idea of soapy residue on my dishes (and i could taste it once when someone else washed up, i didn't see them do it so didn't know beforehand re rinsing or not, it was a true blind tasting!)

so i wash dishes in hot bubbly water, rinse under a running hot tap and then leave to air dry. glasses/cups first, then plates, cooking utensils, pots and pans. I find the idea of doing her glasses last in a bowl full of scummy bits from plates/pots etc actually more boak-making than not rinsing.

if have big load and need to make more room, will occasionally dry with a clean tea towel which immediately goes to utility room to join the laundry mountain pile.

ps my mum never rinsed, yes we never got ill, but she swears Fairy etc was much milder in her youth and now it is much stronger/chemically wiffy, it affects her hands more (gloves mother? nope) and so she is now rinsing as she thinks they have changed the formulation to suit our more germphobic culture. Could she be right?

I was always taught to wash up in scalding hot water... luke warm water does not clean dishes... and thats all I do.

And the waterford crystal never goes in the dishwasher.

I'll carry on doing it my way thanks ..I do chuck a jug of clean water over the pots on the draining board sometimes ..but dp washes up more than me ...don't really care how he does it

Its not hygienic to pick your nose, but some do it.

Its not hygienic to scratch your bare ass but some do it.

So many thins are not hygienic but if we all was anal about what was or is unhygienic we would never leave the house and all be wearing rubber gloves.

too true Fabby, and everyone would be dropping like flies as they would have no natural immunity to anything.

I have a dishwasher too .

At school our Home Ec teacher taught us to wash everything in a particular order:

Cutlery
Glasses
Bowls
Plates
Pots.

If I have to wash up in the sink I can't do it in any other order and cringe when someone does it not in that order .

I chuck the cutlery in first, and that sits in the bottom until I have finished the rest.

Incidentally.. no matter how much you feel around the bottom of the bowl.. how come there is always one stray knife or teaspoon lurking there when you empty the bowl... lol!

Charliesmommy Noooooooooo!!! You have to wash the cutlery first...

why cutlery first milngavie? i would have thought that glasses, that have only contained liquids, would be cleaner than cutlery that has cut through/touched food/plates, so glasses should be done first? also they would show streaks etc much more than anything else so need to be done in the cleanest water possible?

do you want to dig your notes out of the attic and check for us???