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 confess to leaving my washing-up bowl in the sink with dirty cups and cutlery in it.

I have a sink and a half sink, bowl in the sink, everything gets drained and rinsed and tipped down the half sink. My parents had a big old enamel sink so the bowl didn't take up all the space, so you could usually tip stuff down the side of it without problem.

Not sure I could cope with a single sink with a tight-fitting bowl!

My washing up bowl is clean and lives in the cupboard, it doesn't fester.

However, 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' ?? So what? What exactly is wrong with this? Sometimes burn't on food needs soaking off doesn't it? What harm will draining the potato water over it do? I would have thought the boiling water will help the removal process? My lasagne dish certainly needs soaking before washing!!!

I sometimes think fellow MNetters live in a sterile bubble rather than a house. It's no wonder so many are scared of germs, they have no immune systems due to the sterilty of their environments. I bet you are the same people who carry antibacterial wipes everywhere to disinfect the paths in front of their DCs.

I didn't realise putting the washing up bowl in a cupboard was a thing. Shouldn't it just stay in the sink, where the washing up is?

I don't own one btw.

I put in the cupboard under the sink, so that when not in use I can use the sink properly for draining the veg etc without it in the way gathering dregs of things.

I wash lettuce and potatoes from the garden in the sink. I don't want a filthy washing up bowl sitting in the way.

Horror of horrors, however, I often don't bother with washing up liquid at all when I wash up - I only use it for really greasy cooking receptacles and to help remove burnt on food. You don't need to try and sterilise your home environment if you don't leave filthy things lying around for long enough to create a health hazard in the first place.

Gosh. It's washing up bowls now. Mine is clean (bleached it this morning) and it is in the sink all the time and I refuse to put it away after using it, which is often. Nothing hangs around in it as described above.

I have one and a half sinks, and a waste disposal so everything gets shoved down there, tea leaves, food, everything.

No fretting, angst and sterile bubbles here. I have a life to live instead! I think there is a heck of a lot of judging on here and I will stand up loud and proud and say "I am Roussette and I have a washing up bowl in the sink all the time!"

And an empty bleach bottle!

You should not leave the washing up bowl in the sing. I dry up after use. I do have a big ceramic sink. I hate the look of grey metal sinks.

Seriously are people comparing leaving a bowl in the sink to not rinsing their dishes? Am sure one is far worse and its not the bowl.

I love ceramic sinks, they come up lovely and shiny and clean with little work, they don't retain any stsins and look great in a traditional looking kitchen. You just have to not wash aluminium pans in it. A stainless steel sink always looks scratched, stains easily from tea and coffee and looks wrong in farmhouse style kitchens. Those plastic type sinks look even worse and are always stained!

This thread has annoyed me because of the attitude towards water! Rinse your dishes by all means but don't pretend you aren't wasting water when you're throwing more water down the drain than some humans have to drink! And as for the 'we don't have a water shortage' argument... um yes we do that's why we pump water to parts of the UK that have less water than parts of Africa and just because there's a lot of rain and places are flooding doesn't mean there is plenty of clean water!

I use the water for rinsing things clean to wet the dirty stuff in the sink below. I turn the tap off in between use and never leave it running.

Good lord, my stainless steel sink is naff now! Shame! not losing sleep over it being naff it's lovely and shiny too, no stains. not that you can see the main part of it as it's covered in shock horror, a plastic bowl

You don't have to use more water to rinse - just don't fill the sink before you start washing up: rinsing things under the tap just goes into the washing up bowl and the tap is switched off when you aren't rinsing. By the time you've finished, the sink is only as full as it is when some people have only just started.

Yes roundabout that's what I meant. I think you can actually use less water doing it that way. I hate water waste, or any waste, drives me mad.

I am getting overly involved on this thread, especially considering I have a dishwasher now.

Auntie. Even in third world countries people rinse their dishes.

Also, parts of Africa are really quite rainy, so 'less rain than parts of africa' isn't saying much. It isn't all godforsaken desert

OP, I've avoided posting here for days. But I have to tell you - rinsing, that's the best way.

does everyone fill a bowl or sink of soapy water and wash that way or does anyone here get soap on scourer or sponge wet items under tap then soap them up one by one? Well mum always did it like that and all Asians i know do it like that. maybe its how they did it in south asia due to a lack of water ie have to go to village pump or walk miles for some water? Afte that its rinsed. i don't think its dirty but i guess germs would be killed better if soaked for a while in hot water?

Well i recall in school home economics they used a sink full of soap water no rinse. my friend decided to bypass and wash how her mum does. Teacher flipped, she shouted so load class came to a standstill. she said "do you wash up like that at home" i thought please say you do to save the embarrassment. But she said "yeah my mum does it like this and we rinse under the tap much cleaner" lool Thankfully the teacher let it go after that.

i use soap water in sink but always rinse after quicker than doing it one by one as my mum did and less water wasted, she ran tap constantly. most my stuff goes in dishwasher now, I'm a 2 year dishwasher convert i hate hand washing but some items need it :(

to be fair though i think sinks by default should be twin ones. its hard to rinse by conserving water, otherwise you have to pile it on counter top or get another bown, to avoid ruining the countertop (i do lol), then refill sink or bowl with clean water.

very ott for him to shout at you though, tell him to do the bloody washing.

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Rinse your dishes by all means but don't pretend you aren't wasting water when you're throwing more water down the drain than some humans have to drink

But using the water to rinse off dirt and soap isn't wasting it - and, like raindrop, I rinse so the water runs off back into the washing-up bowl.

I think there are infinitely more wasteful things that people in the UK do in relation to water - e.g. weirdos who insist on washing towels every time they get used.

I have horrible, horrible memories of when we used to have to help with washing up at school. The kitchen staff did the washing by dunking everything in the sink without scraping it properly, swishing it around and then stashing it on the draining board for us to dry. We regularly found ourselves wiping off soapy soggy food remnants as they took it distinctly amiss if we put the plates and cutlery back to be re-washed. Maybe that's what makes me fairly fanatical about rinsing now.

On saving or wasting water, the pp earlier on who didn't rinse but changed water frequently during washing is probably using as much as someone who rinses.

Besides, water is mostly a local or regional problem. We saving water or wasting in Europe has an effect on local water availability not in the Sahara desert.
Most of our water is wasted by rivers.
What we are wasting when using too much water is the energy and resources to purify.