To think you dont rinse dishes after washing them??

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Just had a blazing row with "D"Bro over rinising dishes after washing them.

I went to put a plate I was washing on the drainer and he roared at me for not rinsing it

Who is the weirdo here?

If you only have a single sink a bowl is required in order that you can pour water from soaking pans, dregs from mugs etc don the side into the sink as you wash uo. It also protects the sink from scratches and marks, especially if you have a ceramic sink. Also less likely to break things as previous poster said. Can be thrown when worn out too and much cheaper to replace than the sink.

Who explained the emulsifying thing? I have no idea what you're referring to
If you have no idea then I assume you've more or less not been trying to read other people's posts and have been having an argument with yourself... put that together with the tone of your posts throughout this thread, and it would seem you're only here to try to be a goady fucker.

As for the person who thought it all dripped off, have you never heard of evaporation? And do you not realise that both evaporation and dripping leave a residue?

I probably wouldn't have realised that evaporation left a residue until I moved to somewhere with the hardest water on the fucking planet. I have to remember not to leave any half-full glasses of water around for more than about 12 hours, or they all have a lovely, very thick, crusty, white line inside that won't come off without inviting vinegar to the party.

Smiliassenseofsnow - can I ask you again to tell me who explained the "emulsifying thing" to me prior to your post telling me I didn't understand it on page 8. I have re-read the thread and still don't get what you mean. Just the name of the poster and page number if you can't quote. Thanks.

What happens to all these bits of food you rinsers have floating around in your washing up water? Do you empty them down the plughole with the water, so they can help to block up the drains?

ElinorRochdale, I scrape most of the food off into the bin but inevitably there will be sauce and other bits of residue on the plate, which is why I then wash it. When I rinse the plate after washing then yes, anything on it will go down the drain, as will anything in the washing up bowl.

If you don't rinse, what do you do with the dirty washing up water? Do you empty it down the drain? Or, if you have a machine, does the water from that empty down the drain?

Rinse, wash and rinse again. YABU.

I have a catcher for larger bits that I then empty in the bin.

But it's not the bits that are the problem. It's the droplets of fat and the tiny bits of food that do dissolve in water. Which means that the water left on the plates is dirty.
And if you change water frequently when washing, then that's almost rising and just as "wasteful".

Personally, I prefer to wash under running water with bits of soap on the sponge. Wash and rinse in one go.
I hate washing in stale water.

We scrape all the bits of food off our plates into the waste food bin, give everything a quick rinse with our very hot water, and then stack for either dishwasher or washing up. I imagine the saliva has gone, as have the residues of mustard etc.

If I dry - which I generally don't as I hate tea towels except for drying my hands or protecting things from high heat - then I use kitchen paper. Much more efficient than some grotty dish rag.

I dont really see how plate scraping is relevant? Even if you're the superest scraper in the world, stuff on the crockery still goes into the water. You cant scrape off saliva.

What is wrong with a washing up bowl is that all bar one of the people I know who use them have them in their sink all the bloody time, gathering the remains of tea that's been tipped away, milk from children's unfinished cereal etc, and then leave them festering, growing every type of mildew and bacteria imaginable on the base and up the sides and leaving grime to encrust the sink for anyone to see if they tip the filthy washing up bowl out (which by then also has dirty cutlery in it, ready to be washed in said disgusting washing up bowl...). Rather unsurprisingly, therefore, I associate washing up bowls with people who are not very hygienic! As for having a ceramic sink in a kitchen of all places... Just, why?... Why would anyone deliberately install a sink in a kitchen of all places that had an easily scratched or broken surface, or was made of hard enough material that it would break a glass if one was dropped into it? As for food remnants from washing up, kitchen sinks tend to have types of plug that catch the food remnants so that they can be scooped out of the sink instead of going down the plug hole. People who use washing up bowls don't tend to use their plugs, so are more likely to block their sinks with food waste when they tip their washing up water away down the sink (which is what most of them do)...
My other pet hate is kitchen taps that you have to use your hands to turn on. How do you wash your hands if they have raw meat juices on them without contaminating the taps?
This is fun. If I can think of anything else to be disgusted by, I'll be back.

"You won't die from drinking your own pee. Yet most people who don't rinse probably wouldn't do it. "

^^lol! This exactly sums it up IMO

Only on MN...

Some people must spend a helluva time washing up with all this rinsing! If I wash plates (which I don't because they go in the dishwasher), but if I do, I rinse off food/gravy etc so I don't have to keep changing the washing up water, dunk them in v hot slightly soapy water and that is it. Air dry and put it all away.

There's a lot of drama on here...; so many yuks, disgustings, disease, gunge etc. I'm surprised some of you lot eat in other people's houses being that their plates might be shock horror unrinsed! Do you put up with washing up brushes etc? And what about hands picking up plates and stacking them?

These things just don't register with me, my family are healthy and I'm not changing!

Pre dishwasher and with a family of 7 .....

Pile the crockery into the sink, biggest at the bottom, cutlery around the side. Plug in.
Pick up two pieces of crockery, scrub, swap, scrub, stack.
When stack getting precarious, pairs, rinse swap, rinse, onto rack to dry
when crockery done, do cutlery, rinse 6 at a time.
Pans into full sink and scrub
drain
rinse
onto rack

one sink of water, 3 course meal for 7
all RINSED

Fresta I am not sure,but I have it if I go to a customer's house and drinking out of a glass!Honestly, not sure why.

I'm wondering why these people who claim not to be fussed bother with washing up liquid? They are obviously fussed about something. Otherwise, why plaster their plates and cups in chemicals in the first place?

Or maybe they just want their hands that do dishes to be as soft as their face?

I don't rinse.

Do 'rinsers' have a shower after a bath?

Do 'rinsers' have a shower after a bath?

But of course, even if it's mostly just rinsing off all the suds. Otherwise it's just grim.

But I really don't care about rinsing after doing the dishes at my place, nor do I want to spend a lot of time doing it.
That is what I have a dishwasher for. Which rinses at the end.

I'm not sure what rinsing after a bath has to do with drinking cups of Fairy Liquid flavoured tea.

It may depend when you have your bath and what you do after it.

You could end up licking or sucking a lot of bath gel off your loved one.

Yes, that's true. I do occasionally think dh tastes a wee bit soapy!

I am a rinse and have a quick shower after a bath.

Rather a wee bit soapy than a bit wee, though.

Rather a wee bit soapy than a bit wee, though

Depends what prev you are!

Perv nor prev shitty autocomplete