to be pretty sure this is the wrong way around?! Washing-up scuzziness/cleanliness

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Disclaimer: Yes, I have a full and exciting life, but I don't want to make you feel jealous, so instead of telling you all about it, I shall instead make up a totally banal and boring problem so that you may feel patronizing towards me instead. Or, alternatively, so you may judge me and my extended family as scuzzy dirtbags.

Anyway:

My parents wash up by running a bowl of hot soapy water and washing everything in there. DH and I wash up by putting soap on a cloth and washing each item under hot running water, then rising the soap off. When mum say me do it my way (out of habit) she wrinkled her nose and commented 'I don't know how you think you get things clean like that!'. Mate came over today and commented the same thing, although she runs a bowl of hot soapy water and rinses each item in hot water after it has been washed in the bowl.

Which of us is right, O wise and slightly bored ones? Is there some kind of lurgy you can get by never fully immersing your crockery in hot water, as my mum obviously believes? Or is everything she washes going to taste of fairy (not that I've actually noticed this, but I want moral high ground, please)?

Welsh - seriously?! That is wonderful trivia. And kind of weird.

Bowl of hot soapy water. Leave to soak. Go and watch rubbish telly programmes. Return to bowl. Empty out scummy water. Clean dishes with a cloth under fresh running hot water.

So a combination of both really.

pans with crusty burned bits get to soak first.

Not in the bowl though, by the side of dirty dishes and filled to brim with hot soapy water. Let water go from first lot of dishes, empty soaked-up crusty bits (now soggy and bleurgh) then run fresh water to wash pans.

I never realised how particular I was, I think I need a life!

I want my dishwasher back!!!

We are clearly kindred spirits rhonda.

If you find a life, do let me know how?

I did a project on the anionic properties of washing up liquid when I studied Physics.

Have you stopped laughing yet?

The washing up liquid really does "grip the grease and holds it in the water" to quite Persil.
So you don't need to rinse after...

Oh, and Fairy is really the best. Shops on brands are the least anionic.

I always buy fairy, wash up in a bowl of soapy water, leave on drainer to dry and NEVER towel dry - if you did miss a bit of dirt it can be transferred from one item to the next on the tea towel - most common way of catching DV.

I always rinse plates before putting in bowl though, to see floating food is just vile

ha LRD. It's amazing how much I have enjoyed this thread.

Oh dear help me!

Another bit of trivia....

An ex boyfriend took me to meet his parents and ..... 7 dogs.

Guess how they'd rinse their dirty plates?

Go on, guess....

Btw, I don't think it wastes water - we have a combi boiler by the sink and you can hear when it fills up. I've never noticed it do much different when mum washes up here, from what it does when DH or I do.

Quote Persil

OMG you must be using so much water! It's not an unlimited resource...

A cloth?

The irritating items that don't go in the dishwasher get the Diska treatment chez Pru.

Under running water though. Whats the point of washing things in a bowl of water that's just going to get manky as soon as the first dirty dish goes in.

mummynic I am both deeply impressed and somewhat disturbed. I shall cite you as my scientific authority from now on.

welsh - ewww! I had a boyfriend whose mum did that. Bleugh.

leave on drainer to dry and NEVER towel dry

Have been telling my mum this since watching an episode of Record Breakers when I was a teenager (no idea why it was being discussed) and Sheryl Baker told us lazy interested teenagers the one thing we'd always wanted to hear!

"oh sorry mum, can't dry the dishes - Sheryl says we'll die from food poisoning"

Funnily enough, it is rare I dry my dishes BUT I have to dry cutlery because if you don't, you will get coldsores (my nan told me that so it must be true!)

My Mum Does it Poc's way. She's pretty militant about it too.

I bow to MummyNic's scientific knowledge of this matter.

Ah, there we differ then rhonda. I have to dry glasses to make them all sparkly but I do wash the tea towel pretty much each time (and don't leave it hanging on a radiator afterwards for two weeks unlike some people I could mention.)

I hate the hot soapy water approach.

My parents and housemate do that. Quite commonly there is still bright orange oil from curries on all of the 'clean' plates in the cupboard from where they were sitting on one another in the sink, then the bottoms of the plates weren't cleaned and ergh Glasses are dipped in the dirty, hot, soapy water but not touched with a sponge. My sisters and I have been known to buy disposable plates instead of eating from our parents

Mine and DPs new housemate is shocking with washing up. He has a 'herbal tea' four times a day yet only rinses the mugs so there is grey crap over all of our mugs now. Along with the chilli flakes dried onto the pans from his stove top 'tea', the cheese dried onto the plates and squashed rice stuck to the bowls.

Our last housemates were similar in the cleaning standards. I do soak things, and could understand if things were rinsed and/or the bowl refilled with clean water, but it never is...

Then they always leave the sponge in the left over, dirty water in the sink. Really?!

We're moving out in March. I'm counting down the days.

Fairy and never dry dishes, always air them

Not much water shortage here in Scotland

mummynic did you do a study about how much water each method uses? Cos I could do with that one. How does one go about commissioning studies to win AIBU threads?

bowl of hot soapy water then rinse under tap.
cuttlery in to soak first
then wash glasses
then the rest of the dishes cleanest to dirtiest
then the cuttlery

but dishwasher is def best.

LRD - it disturbs me that I remember every detail of it... Quite a few years on
Even worse... I PICKED that as my research topic and... Thoroughly enjoyed it

I once did a presentation about Marigolds.

Perhaps we should have worked together!