To think you dont rinse dishes after washing them??

[foxessoxes]

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 really really want to save water, the 'other way' is to put all the crockery in a drainer - spaces between it all- then use a kettle of boiling water or a few jugfuls of hot water- and pour it over the plates etc. Hard to get to every surface but far better than not rinsing at all.

Seriously Belle, no she doesn't!

Washing plates in the sink is more akin to having a bath with bubble bath. I don't rinse after having a bath (although I suspect MNetters will).

V.good point. Out of interest, do dish-rinsing MNetters also shower after having a bath with bubble bath? Logic dictates that they should.

I'm not from the UK, and for us foreigners not rinsing is one of the British cultural stereotypes, like left-hand traffic, carpet in the bathroom and separate hot and cold water faucets.

do dish-rinsing MNetters also shower after having a bath with bubble bath?
No, but then I do not eat meals off my tummy

Well going bu this thread most golkbin the uk rinse (unless all the non rinsers are hiding at their sheer mankiness!)

I always airdry too!

YABU. I usually try to rinse the washing up ever sice my dad got me worried as a child about washing up liquid being possibly carcinogenic. It makes sense to me not to leave washing up liquid residue on items that you are going to directly eat off or drink from. Not worth a row overe though !

Always rinse!!

I rinse too.

I rinse after washing up and I shower after taking a bath. Anything else would be disgusting😦

Out of interest, do dish-rinsing MNetters also shower after having a bath with bubble bath?
absolutely. would make my skin peel off otherwise

No I don't shower after having a bubble bath, because that's not the same as possibly ingesting fairy liquid off an unwashed glass or plate !!

But do you rinse mince?

Sorry meant to say and unrinsed dish or plate !

Out of interest, do dish-rinsing MNetters also shower after having a bath with bubble bath?

If I've washed my hair and soaked for ages, yes I do. Just a quick rinse. I think bubble bath probably tastes better than Fairy Liquid.

I don't rinse. Waste of water. It's bullshit to say you need to to avoid ingesting poisonous washing up liquid

When times were hard and I didn't want to use the immersion heater:

1. Boiled a kettle for hot water to wash dishes/cutlery, added some cold water so could wash comfortably with gloves on
2. Washed items and placed in drainer
3. Boiled another kettle and carefully rinsed dishes/cutlery in drainer
4. Lovely clean and almost instantly dry items, no need for tea towel
5. Used a fresh kettleful for washing/rinsing glasses Now I have a dishwasher, but if I wash anything by hand I rinse in the same way. This since about 1975.

Always rinse plates, else they're covered in dirty washing up water or bubbles. DH doesn't and we disagree over it. Not often, as we have a dishwasher so problem solved.

I don't dry anything either. Hate tea towels.

I'm a level 12 warlord at being a slattern and even I rinse my dishes after washing them.

Fortunately I now have a dishwasher so my slatternly ways can continue.

What an odd thread, I have never heard of anyone not rinsing! I think it's disgusting not to rinse

I don't rinse. Waste of water. It's bullshit to say you need to to avoid ingesting poisonous washing up liquid

Are you on a water meter?
Or do you live where water is short?

Do you apply the same principles to bathing and personal hygiene?

Can you post a link to some research showing that drinking washing up liquid is safe?

My DM and the rest of the family don't rinse, my MIL didn't rinse. I have since I went to university, where everyone did and having thought about it, it seems a hygienic thing to do, so I have ever since. My DS argued with my DM who visited today and washed up, why don't you rinse he asked. Wastes water she replied, which costs money.

I was brought up not rinsing but through living with others now rinse. I guess it comes from when you had to heat water to wash -didn't have hot running water or it was limited. (My mum remembers having a tin bath in front of the fire...in fact having a bathroom put in)
If you are in catering and handwashing up you are supposed to have two sinks - one for hot soapy water and the other for as hot as you can stand clean water to rinse. And then air dry if possible.
I have a dishwasher but if whatever reason I have a lot to handwash I wash it in soapy water and stack it in the half sink. Then when it is all done or if I need to change the soapy water (is dirty). I fill the sink with hot water to rinse them off -then would add washing up liquid to that to do the rest if nec.
I use Ecover washing up liquid though - you can drink it neat - so not worried about soap residue...more than you are rinsing off any food debris too.

How much soap do you people use?! (I am assuming you don't lick your cutlery or plates. but perhaps you do?) Tasting soap? Honestly! Rinse/don't rinse - it's really not possible to taste any soap residue either way, unless you are using far too much soap in the first place!

I always rinse.