To think it's disgusting to wash up without rinsing?

[olimpia]

Just that really!
I really can't understand how seemingly clean people lather their dirty dishes and just put them to dry without rinsing the foam off. All the germs and soap residue are left on the plates surely?

Yuk. Revolting!

My Grandmother taught me to change water and rinse in hot. Then in 70's we had a dishwasher

I wash then rinse in hot water and air dry on the rack. Sadly we have no dishwasher. I'm also foreign and the fact that many people over here do not rinse their dishes after washing them was a big shock to me when I moved here.

My MIL keeps plates sitting in scummy water in a dirty bowl in the sink and then washes them and does not rinse them. It is vile. Most of the dishes in her house are sticky and often have bits of food on them. I try to discourage her from washing up when she stays at ours as I usually can't stop myself from re-washing them.

I hate ironing though and try to keep it to once a month or less.

Not rinsing is a sacking offence and I make that plain to any staff member upon engagement.

Well done

This has to be the most boring and ridiculous thread I have ever seen on here. FFS...

But do you rinse, YorkshirePudding?

The first time I visited my in laws I thought I was going to be sick when I saw them washing the dishes in a sink full of dirty soapy water and then just putting them on the side to dry!
I had never seen it before and I thought it was disgusting... Refused to eat or drink anything else if it wasn't "rinsed" by me or DP... When we started living together I got my husband to wash the dishes and then rinse them in hot water, he can't stand the thought of not rinsing everything now LOL when we visit his parents he always offers to make some tea so he can rinse the cups if they hadn't been in the dishwasher

Had this conversation with my Mum who shocked me by not rinsing my dishes when she came to stay! She said that when fairy liquid type soap was invented one of the plus points was that you didn't need to rinse (I assume you did with type of soap before). I still asked her to rinse!

I think the sheet changing threads are more boring than this one.

We ain't had one of those for a few weeks.

Rinsing?

idon'trinseface

WYP - then why did you click on it??

I rinse dishes - all of them. All of you saying 'No I don't, but I do rinse glasses so they sparkle (etc) does the logic bypass you that the same grime is on all of your dishes, you just can't see it!! I only have one sink and it's a little more of a faff than it was with two but not the end of the world.

I don't have a dishwasher because I think they're vile things & you can always taste the chemical on cups etc, yuck.

I shower after having a bath. I have long hair so I wash it in the shower... but I'd rinse off in the shower even if I didn't.

I iron tea-towels, linen for guests, only sometimes for us, pants if they're there and are suitable material, so mostly cotton boxers...

...think that about covers it

It is totally disgusting and dirty not rinsing. In most other cultures it is unheard of not to rinse - I have found it to be quite a British thing?

Not rinsing - GROSS! Especially with cups and glasses. Ewww

Oh sod off with your disgusting dirty and gross.

Jeez, is this a best housewife competition or what?

Personally, I find rinsing in chemical laden tap water pretty disgusting and gross. I rinse mine in the flowing pure mountain stream at the end of my garden.

I also found this to be the most shocking thing when I moved to the UK. I have never heard of any other country where people do this.

Now I know, however, the blame lies with all those dodgy Home Ec teachers.

Ah but Chipping do you wash your towels after every use?

I did not grow up in England.

I am a rinser (naturally) and don't do baths, just showers.

Have to be known to take sudsy dishes that my English MIL washed in our house off the dishrack and rinsing them. Happy to say I have converted my dh to a rinser. But he still has baths (occasionally).

Indeed 'glasses, cutlery, plates'. Change the water if necessary, then 'dirty things'.

I think she meant saucepans, etc.

But if not rinsing is soooo disgusting. What do you wash up with? Gold dust? The thing you do the washing up with has more germs than the water. No one has ever died from eating off an unwashed plate.

Tufty, sadface is back

saddirtywaterface

Probably this is not the right thread to confess that LittleDog is allowed to lick plates clean, before they're washed, without rinsing.

No shes really back they have split up

sadface

Oh, do you mean the Eastenders woman? I want to call her the Elvis woman - no idea why.
Where?