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?

Exactly - I'm not bothered about the hygiene aspect so much, I reckon a few germs are good for you, but I don't want to drink out of cups that taste of soap and grease.

Its got nothing to do with being healthy, just being clean.
My Great Gran smoked from the age of 12 and drank half a bottle of sherry a day. She lived until she was 99, it doesn't mean I'll be copying her any time soon.
In any case my parents taught me about rinsing and they managed it without hot running water until I was 3. They also rinsed DSIS and I after shared baths.

I rinse as well. But then I'm a foreigner. I stick all the cutlery in a pot, pan or bowl - whichever has been used for cooking, poor hot water in it, wash everything and put it in the sink by the side of the pot. When cutlery is washed, I wash the pot and then rinse everything under the running water. Then stack the plates in to the sink, poor hot water on, wash them and rinse under running water. Then cups etc.
I also do the "squeaky clean test" during rinsing and if anything doesn't squeak, I wash it again. In my experience some plastic bits or tefal pans don't get clean if washed in a bowl with a drop of WUL. You only get pieces of food off, but grease stays.
Yes, I'm a bit anal when it comes to washing up. That's why I'm doing it myself. There's only one other person who can wash up to my standards and she lives in my home country.

Pour* ffs!

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It was cozietosies' post:

cozietoesie Sun 27-Dec-15 18:15:48
It's just that washing up is like bathing. You use something to emulsify the fat and various bits and dilute them with water. If you rinse, you get rid of the diluted residue.

After which you posted about the temperature of the water used to rinse, or similar, which completely ignored the point of using emulsifier. Emulsifier gets the fat off the items. You then need to rinse the water with the emulsified fat droplets away, so they don't sit on the plate while the water evaporates off it. The heat of the water used when emulsifying the fat in the first place, or indeed when rinsing, is pretty irrelevant.

The temperature of the water has everything to do with the efficacy of the cleaning process. Have you ever tried to wash greasy pans in cold water? The hot water increases the movement of molecules and the emulsification of the fat making it more easily rinsed. Everyone knows hot water cleans more efficiently than cold.

Owning a washing up bowl doesn't make you any more or less clean than than a non washing up bowl owner. You can have a minging sink. I keep mine in the cupboard and get out to wash up with. Why would I want to have to go through a whole massive pile of dishes making sure there was no liquid in anything first when I could just get the bowl out? Also, if I do end up washing something really gritty I can pour the water from the bowl outside so I don't block my sink. Many other advantages to a washing up bowl and I have the option of not using it too!

I always rinse and air dry. I don't fill up one of those plastic tub things either. I wet stuff as I scrub, the stuff beneath gets wet at the same time. I turn off the tap until I rinse. As I rinse, some dirty stuff in the sink gets wet so I don't need to run the tap again for cleaning. I never leave the tap running, my dishes always sparkle. I now understand how the girl I went to uni with did the washing up so fast, and why it was always left covered in rank bits of food.
I think smearing a tea towel round everything at the end makes it all dirty again.

Do 'rinsers' have a shower after a bath?

In all seriousness you can get a uti if you don't rinse!

Dishwasher user but if I do handbags I always rinse. Always. Or else the tea and coffee would taste of soap like it does at DSS' s house.

Ha ha! A UTI from not rinsing? I've heard it all now!

Always rinse. If I'm in a non-rinser's house who would disapprove of the running tap then I at least have a second bowl of water without soap that stuff gets dipped in.

I lived in a country for a while where hot water in the kitchen was unknown, and still had sparkly plates (black gloss! What was I thinking) because I washed and rinsed under the running cold (well, coldish - was a tropical country, so never actually freezing) water.

DP even rinses glasses out of the dishwasher because he says he can still taste the detergent if he doesn't (I think he's imagining it - and I can taste if he stirs my unsugared tea with his sugared tea spoon)

fresta you seriously haven't heard before that doctors advice to rinse off kiddies after a bubble batch cause of uti risk?
What do you think leaving soap down there will do?

I don't generally rinse after a bath but I do rinse my hair in clean water if I've washed it in the bath. If I got in the bath covered in gravy I'd rinse too, probably. If I got in a bath where the water had already been used for half a dozen other people, also covered in gravy if definitely rinse.

I'm a slob - my house is held together with duct tape and dog hair.

Despite that, I always rinse dishes and shower after bathing. Anything is else is gross!

clippityclop you drink tea and coffee out of handbags?

In Japan if you want to use communal baths (hot springs) you shower and clean yourself thoroughly first and then you get to soak in the bath.

Makes sense.

And how did people manage before showers? My dd never had a uti, one blob of shower gel in a full bath is cry diluted.

YABU. I always rinse.

The temperature of the water has everything to do with the efficacy of the cleaning process. Have you ever tried to wash greasy pans in cold water? The hot water increases the movement of molecules and the emulsification of the fat making it more easily rinsed. Everyone knows hot water cleans more efficiently than cold.

That is why I said it was 'pretty' irrelevant. The important thing is that there is emulsifier in the water. You're also agitating the water with your hands. We're not comparing leaving a bowl of washing up in freezing cold water to a bowl of washing up in hot water, here. The poster was going on about water from a freshly boiled kettle. For rinsing especially, that is completely unnecessary. Why would you need the rinsing water to be hot when you've already got the grime off the plates and in the washing up water?

Whats with all the talk about greasy glasses? Mine are never greasy cos I do them first. I'm a non-rinser with a washing up bowl and a ceramic single sink. I don't see a need to rinse unless I've used too much WUL and there are too many suds. I put my WUL into the water, not onto the plates or sponge.

As for earlier talk of ingesting chemicals, well we do it all the time. Such as in table salt or indigestion tablets to name but two very common things. In fact, water itself is a 'chemical' if you really want to be fussy.

Yes to all that, hannonie.

I don't pile my dirty things in the bowl, either. I stack them on the side and dunk and scrub them one at a time, leaving the dirtiest things until last. Less likely to break things doing it that way. My clean things never have streaks or grease or bits of anything stuck to them.

Ugh, scuzzy not to rinse. I don't want washing up liquid left on my plates etc. thanks.

YABU. I rinse, DH doesn't and it drives me crazy. I don't want all those chemicals in the DC's.and my stomachs.