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

Don't wash up very often. (DH does that). When I do do I wash plates in extremely hot water then rinse in double sink. Usually the knives and forks are relaxing in the bottom of the sink.

Then I put in fresh water and wash glasses and rinse in double sink and leave to drain.

DH washes EVERYTHING under running water. Then he fills the sink up with hot water and washes everything and then rinses.

It drives me nuts so I can't watch. I just imagine the complete waste of water and imagine getting an excess water bill every three months.

Better to rinse first than to wash dishes in water with bits of food floating in it .

These threads crack me up.

Honestly, after they've been washed, dried and put away, they sit in a cupboard. Which isn't sterile. Which lives in a kitchen. Where grease flies through the air.

The hygiene argument is about as fanciful as the 'you must sterilize baby bottles in a home sterilizer' argument.

I have seen this too OP, not so much in peoples houses as most have my friends have dishwashers but every toddler group I (I often put myself foreward to do the dishes for that reason or places I have workes in, people just briefly put their cup in soapy water and strait onto the draining board.

Soap is nice and smells nice but to my knowledge, it does not make it sterile.

With anything particularly mucky I rinse it under hot water before washing and/or tip the dirty water from sponging it into the sink rather than back inside the washing up bowl. I like the idea of rinsing afterwards but couldn't bring myself to leave the tap running all that time. And if our kitchen was big enough to have a second washing up bowl next to the sink it would be big enough for a dishwasher.

Chocolate, I use a little container (like sandwich box) of soapy water to rince my sponge between dishes. I "sponge soap" all the dishes and then rince them with hot water. There is no need to let the water running during the entire process, just for the rincing bit.

Soap isn't sterile LaWeasel!

I'm British but I don't use a bowl...I use the sink alone as it gives more room.

I wash the dishes in soapy water and then rinse them in the little rinser sink under hot water....I let them air dry as I think tea towels are rank.

I use eco friendly washing up liquid and very hot water.
I wash cutlery first, then glasses & cups and then plates and finally suacepans etc.

I only rinse off the glasses. I leave everything to air dry.

And yes I think this is quite common.

I am not British but married to a Brit and it is a common thing for Brits to do. I personally find it disgusting and even though DH was bought up wuthbthis method he now thinks it is disgusting too and always rinses! Each to their own but I don't like it - rinsing is much better in my humble opinion

I'm with you OP!

I don't get why you were asked why do you care - this is AIBU and that could be said for a lot if the threads here! She cares because it is something she doesn't like and is entitled to care if she wants!

A thread about washing up. LOL!

And it is not the first one either!

pmsl. The stories I could tell! My mother brought us up in total squalor. How I am alive is beyond me!!!

It's a very economic way of washing up, she uses far less water.

i don't rinse either. use scalding water, changed several times, items are washed in no particular order and left to air dry.

none of my glasses have ever tasted of soap, surely the water would foam up a bit if there was still soap left on it?

however if i have washed something individually, sqirting the washing up liquid straight onto it, then it is rinsed.

All you people that leave to air dry don't you have dcs that you use to do the drying up. I do it is one of there weekend jobs.

Also I dont rinse due to the fact that we are on a water meter so try not to waste water.

Yes I am one of the strange people in the country who doesn't have a dishwasher. I am the dishwasher in our house.

When arrived in Britain, I was very surprised to see that most of my friends were doing the washing-up without rinsing. Also surprised by the baths without a showerhead in houses with no showers...

....... But, but but, the soapy dishes come STRAIGHT out of the washing up bowl, with residue of food and stuff, not just soap suds!!!

I guess, it is like having a bath and not rinse the soap off with the shower head after....

I never really like to have a bath, it is like sitting in my own dirt. Not that I am ever dirty no. Oh no, not a dirty girl, me.

If you rinse under running hot water, why don't you just wash under the running hot water in the first place? What a waste of water!
Agree with Kara, I rinse glasses and anything that is covered in a mountain of bubbles, everything else air dries and the bubbles just slide off if the water is hot enough.

This reminds me of home ec classes where we were taught how to wash up,btw I'm only mid 30s

I always rinse.

Always have shower (if i have bath-very rare-
i need to shower first)

When we were camping in the desert, and water was scarce, we of course had to do the dishes after we had been cooking our meals. We had one bowl of water with fairy liquid, and one bowl with a hint of clorine. We washed the dishes in the soapy one, and DIPPED the clean dishes in the bowl with clorinated water.
We were told it was VITAL to rinse the soap and gunk out to avoid spreading infection and staying healthy. NO airdrying with soap suds on. The soap might slide down the plate, but all other micro organisms would stay on the plate.....

I am picturing many MNetters not rinsing their hands after washing them. Same principle as not rinsing the dishes....

Seems downright odd to me ....

I agree with your friend that it is " the british way" I was horrified when I first came to England (nearly 21 years ago) I worked in a residential home and all of the ladies that worked there (about 6) washed up this way. I ended up havign to wash everything again before I would use it. (Thankfully they got a dishwasher)

My x landlady was similar and the other lodgers son didnt understand why I rinsed the plates first.

Perhaps it is a generational thing?

I usually don't rinse (no one in my family ever did), I use gloves, very hot water & leave to drain dry.

I wash up in following order:
Glasses
Plastic stuff
Plates, cups etc
Cutlery (which has been soaking at bottom)
Then pots pans etc

I have started to rinse some stuff since DD was born - mainly her cutlery, cups & stuff.

DP rinses but it drives me mad - instead of filling small 2nd sink with hot water & rinsing there, he will run the hot tap for the entire washing up time (he's slow so this takes ages) which drives me crazy - waste of water & energy IMO. Rinse if you must but use the half sink please.

Also he will wash up pots first etc - bonkers, so I can't take his "gotta rinse of we will all die" ethos seriously at all. DP's Mum only uses the dishwasher at Xmas & never has a dirty dish on her bench. Also, she never leaves the house!