Washing up

[SundayMondayHappydays]

Hoping to settle a difference of opinion... Do you rinse the dishes under the tap as a last step when washing up?

@thepointt because we do everything with running water. It's deemed as unclean not to do so. That's why I mentioned it.

Are you on the coronation Street page by and chance 😂

@RLABC as in every single Muslim? Have you asked each one?

Used to - but now we have a dishwasher so everything goes in that. If it's not dishwasher safe then it doesn't stay in my house! I loathe washing up.

@RLABC @thepointt I thought there was a cultural aspect to this too actually in that there are Asian people and British people in our family - all the Asian people wash with running water, all the British people wash in a bowl and don’t rinse

I don’t mind washing in a bowl but like to rinse in clean water

I don't fill up the sink with water first...I pour washing up liquid on a sponge, scrub everything down and then rinse everything off with hot water. Gets things much cleaner than using the same bowl for everything.

@thepointt Of course not, don't be silly In the predominantly Muslim country that I live in, it is the norm. Every Muslim person I know does it this way too. I don't know anyone of another religion that does do it.
Can I just ask, what's got your goat about my post?

The shoehorning in of religion

I do, dp doesn't

No. And it really irritates me when people insist you have to do this.

And if you think having a bath = "sitting in your own muck" you have not understood how soap works.

I have South African Friends who think it’s disgusting not to rinse but IME British people don’t really care that much so there is an element of culture, rather than/ as well as religion

Not Muslim and feel the same way about baths, the rare occasion I have one I rinse under the shower after.

Dishes I generally pour a jug of hot water over them on the rack

Very rarely wash up as that’s what the dishwasher is for but I’ve never seen anyone, friends or family, use a bowl or fill the sink up. Isn’t under running water the normal way to do it?! One bowl that everything goes in to doesn’t strike me as particularly hygienic but maybe I’m missing something. And I’m not Asian and grew up in the Home Counties- it’s definitely not just a Muslim thing to wash up this way!

And if you think having a bath = "sitting in your own muck" you have not understood how soap works.

Soap cleans you but doesn’t get rid of any dirt or bacteria that might have been in the water

Having said that, I don’t mind having a bath without rinsing in the shower! 😃

Nope and neither did my parents and still alive to tell the tale.

I rinse them. I wouldn’t want soapy plates and cutlery, yuck.

@thepointt No "shoehorning in of religion" intended, I was merely trying to explain why I do what I do now and not what I used to do.
@bridgetreilly Soap cleans the body (see, I do understand) but taking a bath still means you're sitting in your own (soap) muck, in my opinion.

Soapy not soap

Dishes done in bowl of hot soapy water. Only rinse if excessively bubbly. No one has died so far

I always do a hot water rinse after washing, can't bear to leave the suds on.

I would never have thought to rinse the bubbles off! People do that?

No, I can live with suds. Washing dishes under running water strikes me as the biggest waste of water

Yes. I'm Irish catholic, that's why 😀

Washing dishes under running water strikes me as the biggest waste of water I put the water on the garden.

I was dishes using a sponge with hot running water and rinse them off before drying. I have never seen anyone wash pots in any other way?