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?

I try to rinse as much as possible. It's bloody hard with a single sink and separate taps, I'm either cold fingers or hot burned fingers.

I use hot hot water to wash, after rinsing off the muckiest of dishes, start from cutlery, to glasses and cups, to plates, to pots and pans. For some reason I leave plastic bowls etc until last, probably should do them before plates or after if they are dirtier. Water gets changed at least once because it either gets too mucky and greasy, or cold. Rinsing I sometimes do at the end with a jug of hot water.

I hate dishes though. And folding and putting away clothes. And mopping. And hoovering. And housework.

I haven't RTFT because I fear it is 13 pages of people saying they rinse dishes.

I was never taught to, but started rinsing when I bought some lemon-scented washing up liquid. Cups of tea/coffee/water always had a disturbing slight lemon flavour due to residual washing up liquid. Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!

I love these threads... I always fare badly on the "washing towels" and "cleaning toilets" ones, but I can proudly stand with the dish rinsers.

A woman did some dishes for me the other day, and of course I was very grateful, but I was most perplexed when I started putting them away, to find bits of food and soap residue.

I think it must be a cultural thing. And no I don't alway rinse my body after a bath, but I don't consider myself truly clean on those occasions either.

I can't take anyone seriously who talks about the chemicals. Water is a chemical ffs.

start from cutlery, to glasses and cups, to plates, to pots and pans

Tut, tut. Glasses are always first. Everybody knows this.

It seems some of those that rinse don't use a washing up bowl, and are therefore using more WUL when they put a bit on each plate. So I can see why they might think there would be loads of WUL left but I use a tiny bit in a whole bowl, I would need to use much more to wash up without a washing up bowl.

And YY to glasses first, whilst the water is clean and hot enough to dry the glasses without streaking them.

Ha! Hand wash. I'd rinse my handbags too.

Have you considered what people used before washing-up-liquid was invented?

I don't rinse (apart from wine glasses). Having washed up for over 40 years I cannot recall ever tasting fairy liquid on my dishes when I next use them.

Oh God AllMyBestFriends - you've opened another can of worms there with the washing up bowl! There'll be a bunch of posters wincing and going "Ugh, you use a washing up bowl, how unhygienic!" etc. soon enough

I use a washing up bowl as well as rinsing my washing up, btw.

Do non-rinsers rinse their hands after washing them? Or rinse off the shower gel? If so, why?

Ah, but where do you leave your dishcloth Thumb?

Can some one explain what is wrong with a washing-up bowl?

nothing wrong with a washing up bowl per-se. but some people leave it to fester and grow mouldy instead of cleaning it as well.

I don't use a dishcloth, I use a sponge job with the green scratchy stuff on the other side. But it has a hole in it so I can hang it off the mixer part of the tap to dry

The wiper that I use for surfaces gets pegged to the cutlery drainer, so it hangs to dry as well. (It's one of those foam jobs, that soaks up all the liquid)

eddie - I can't because I use one but there are plenty of people on here who think it's minging to have one, not sure why.

Do non-rinsers rinse their hands after washing them? Or rinse off the shower gel? If so, why?

I apply soap directly to my hands. I don't apply wul directly to the plates. I put it in the water and dunk the plates in. If I then use the washing up water to wash my hands, I don't rinse them. I give them a shake and dry them with a towel.

And I'm still failing to see how, if plates are washed properly, there can be bits of food still clinging to them. If your hands, clothes, whatever, were still dirty after having been washed, you wouldn't say it was because they hadn't been rinsed properly, would you?

Yes, yes, Elinor Rochdale. If I was washing my hands in a sink of water, of course I wouldn't rinse them.

I'm surprised that so many people wash-up by hand. According to my daughter I am the only person she knows that hasn't got a dishwasher.

I don't have a dishwasher. When I had a new kitchen fitted, I had space for either a dishwasher or a tumble dryer. I chose a tumble dryer. Alternative would have been to have a two in one washer dryer, but at the time I hadn't heard very good things about them.

Before wul was invented, I think people just used soap, didn't they? Ruth Goodman will have covered it in one of the 'Farm' programmes, I'm sure.

I'd rinse hand washed plates, cutlery etc after washing, otherwise it's all soapy. If this is enough to cause a "blazing row" though I think the OP and family need to sort out their anger issues, especially given the poo-nappy on the car thread.

In the 1950s my aunt used washing soda for the dishes. my friend's mum started using Squezy about then. It was very new!

There's nothing wrong with a pristine clean washing up bowl that only goes in the sink when you are washing up, then gets cleaned and put away. There is everything wrong with a filthy plastic bowl sitting in a sink with bits of food, tea, stale milk and anything else people have tried to chuck down the sink when the stupid bowl was sitting in the way, in, around and under said bowl, plus filthy cutlery sitting in the filthy tea-milky water that has started to collect in the bowl, because nobody can use the taps without water getting into the bloody stupid bowl (which is so filthy and disgusting that nobody wants to move it anywhere else...). And having the bowl sitting next to the sink is only marginally better when you can see the grime and filth encrusting the outside and inside of the bowl, because nobody ever cleans it, just bizarrely thinks it is a good receptacle in which to clean everything else... I have known a LOT of people use their washing up bowls in this way, or to store several day old filthy cups, etc, in, and only one person actually only get the washing up bowl out when they want to do the washing up. That's why I hate washing up bowls - because too many people either seem to think their purpose is to store filthy cutlery and cups in so that they don't have to bother with washing them up, or just can't be bothered with the finer details of keeping their washing up bowl clean and out of the way when it is not in use and unhelpfully clogging up the sink.

Yuk, yuk, yukkitty, yuk.

My washing up bowl is probably cleaner than much of the rest of my kitchen, and it's usually cleaner than the actual sink, which is full of the bits of tea and dirty cups and plates you mention. Why would I want to use my sink to wash up when I can use a nice clean washing up bowl from the cupboard!

(The sink gets cleaned after the washing up has been done and the washing up bowl cleaned and put away!)

Ooh, no - I can't be doing with dirty things left lying in the sink! More yuk...

Neither can I, but it's not me that leaves them there!

DH once strained a pan of potatoes over the washing up bowl, which was also half full of cold water and some dishes that he was 'soaking'.

He thinks that my offer of washing up lessons is a joke. It's really not!

But mainly, having a washing up bowl means that I can remove the bowl to pour something down the sink, I can wash and cook at the same time.