To wish that people would learn how to wash up properly (FFS)

[SaggyOldClothCatPuss]

DS17 has just done the dishes. halleilujah I have just got half way down my large glass of Ribena, glanced down the glass and discovered that I was also drinking the solidified remains of a recent glass of milk!

Yes! Dh seems to think just giving glasses a dunk in the water is 'washing up'

Note to DH: rinsing under the tap, even if it is the hot tap, is not washing up.

Drink the milk, rinse the glass, store in sink to be washed up properly, later. Its fecking simple!

Oh god DH is awful at washing up, one reason why I insisted we got a dishwasher in the new house.

He would pick up all the cutlery in one go, dunk in the dirty soapy water (for some reason he would only use one bowl of water) and rub the sponge over all the cutlery, then place on draining board. It would be completely filthy and if I told him it was still dirty....I was nagging Argh!

Ewww.

DH is fine, but I do wish my parents didn't wash glasses in the scummy remains of the washing-up bowl (no rising in their house, either).

Bleugh.

I do get fed up with DH thinking you only need to wash the top/inside of bowls and plates - fine, but not if you've stacked them so the bottom is covered in grease and bits of food!

This is why I couldn't live without a dishwasher.

thank go for my dishwasher, i would have been sick if half way through a drink i found the milk from poor washing up.

I let the youngsters wash up their dishes because it's a good principle. Then, when they've decamped, I do them again. Properly. They seem to have a blind spot for crusted egg or smears of fat. Well crusted or smeared anything to be precise.

My dear parents like to "help" by washing up when they stay here, but they've had a dishwasher for twenty years or something so they don't really remember how, and everything ends up with a thin film of grease

So now I say to leave it - because it is quicker to wash up than rewash.

We have a dishwasher ffs so only a few things like tall glasses, pans and recycling even need hand washing.

And don't get me started on people DH who can't load their own dishwasher sensibly.

I am baffled by the non-rinsers of the world.

I can taste the remains of washing up liquid in the food they prepare. It's just rank to leave bacteria-ridden suds on your plate and just drain them

My dd is also 17 and cannot wash dishes to MY STANDARDS either.

Scummy glasses and unclean fork tines.

It makes me howl. So I do the dishes and she does other chores which I hate (cleaning the bathroom, hoovering etc)

You have to rinse under boiling hot running water.

Anything else is rank.

Does that not shatter glasses, getorf?

I rinse most things under hot water but I wouldn't put a glass in boiling water, I'd assume it'd break.

Oh dear lord dirty crockery and cutlery: my personal hell.

Thank god for dishwashers, but even without them I'm pretty good. Backs of plates - that's the bit many hand washer-uppers miss.

And as for stinky germy dishcloths...aaargh!!!

DH doesn't rinse anything, it drives me mad. At least he washes up, I guess...

Oh, his parents don't either, so that's where he gets it from.

No malensky, it's fine, never had a glass crack (I smash them all the time from being too heavy handed though).

I think rinsing, if washing by hand is essential. Dh isn't a rinser either. Pre dishwasher (thank god we've had one for years now) he used to leave sopping great lakes where he'd 'wiped' the worktops and Not Wrung Out The Dishcloth. Blimey

1. Buy a dishwasher.
2. Manually, glasses first, then knives and forks, then plates, then saucepans etc.

What is so difficult?

And and ...I once saw him drain some potatoes into the washing up bowl water. You just can't get the staff these days I tell you

YY to this!! We have one of those sponges with the soap in the handle, and housemate was moaning about how shit it was and how it never gets the grease off... I pick it up shortly after he'd finished in the kitchen, and there's no fucking wonder it didn't clean anything!! He'd "washed" a plate that had crumbled feta cheese on it, and he must have not even rinsed the plate first, just stuck the sponge on and smeared it a bit, because there was mashed bits of feta over the whole of the sponge (not to mention the plate that he'd "washed) and he'd just left the sponge like that, and put the plate away to dry with cheese smears all over it!!

Rage, rage, rage.

My DH doesn't wash up properly nor does my 16 yr old SD. They are of the opinion that cutlery doesn't need washing. Just take it out of the washing up water.

Thankfully for me the DSDs like to leave me their great big piles of manky crusted on plates and glasses that have been left for weeks in their rooms washing up to do, so I don't have this problem.

I really should thank them for saving me from worrying about how they would actually do the washing up