WIBU- washing dishes under running hot tap

[Naughty1205]

Just a heated discussion between dh and I now. Who fills their sink with hot water to wash the dishes and/or who washes each item under the running hot tap? I've been told that no one does it my way and he's gone off in a huff. Just curious!

I use the dishwasher. If I were washing dishing by hand and someone commented on the way I was doing it, I would invite them to do it themselves.

I do it exactly how you do. Your husbands way is incredibly wasteful. I've grown up in parts of Australia with strict water restrictions and like a pp said, we were taught from a young age to never leave the tap running.

pots etc don't go into it.

Why would you not put pots in the dishwasher?

I was going to mention Australia too actually, Zippetydoodahzippetyay

You're made aware of water consumption everywhere, and quite rightly!

Running tap (never understood washeing dishes in dirty water

Wait until you hear what that bath in the bathroom is all about!

Just a cream coloured washing up bowl here, for everything.. always has been,always will be..I have never heard so many variations of washing up, as on here ha ha.

Why on earth aren't you using the dishwasher? They use far less water, ours uses 11 litres per cycle, which is about half a sinkful, or 2 minutes of a running tap, by what's been said above.

I don't understand about 'things not going in the dishwasher'. Everything goes in there here or else it doesn't get used. The only exception is the odd burnt on roasting thing, but they usually go in after a pre-soak.

We have a dishwasher so don't have that many dishes to wash by hand but I definitely leave the tap running to rinse the dishes after I wash, otherwise they'd still be covered in food particles and washing up liquid residue.

I know some some please don't rinse them. They're probably the same people who dry the dishes with a tea towel that's been washed with their underwear on a 20degree wash using non bio detergent.

I’ve never heard of the running tap method. How do you use washing up liquid?

It must use so much water, especially if you are washing everything up, not just the things that don’t go in the dishwasher.

We are complete slatterns in this house, because unless we have been doing extra baking or something similar, we only do one lot of washing up a day. We do have a dishwasher so most things go in there, but I just stack up what doesn’t go in during the day, and then do the washing up after our evening meal. When MIL comes to stay she can’t stand having anything waiting by the sink and so keeps washing things up. Drives me mad as I think of the waste of water.

How do you use washing up liquid?

I have a scrubber with a plastic handle that holds dish soap. It comes out as you use it.

Running hot tap, but we use a dishwasher, so if I'm washing up it is one or two items (usually baby DCs lunch bits) and takes about ten seconds, so running a full sink of water would be wasteful in that scenario

Those of you who are worried about floating bits of food etc in the water, don't you scrape your plates? I scrape all food residue into the bin, then start with the cleanest stuff first and rinse everything in hot water before putting them on the drying rack. Never had issues.

@Nextphonewontbesamsung I do exactly the same as this. It seems the perfect compromise to me.

I rinse the plates etc under the tap while waiting for the hot water to come through (combi boiler) just to get the worst of the stuff off then wash in the sink.

Dh does this and if really pisses me off but I’ve given up. I’ve finally got him to turn off the tap when cleaning his teeth so that’s a victory. We don’t use the washing up bowl. Most goes in the dishwasher. I usually have a pan, which isn’t really dirty - eg cooked pasta, which I clean with very little water and use as my washing up bowl to wipe sides down and wash dishes. I rinse everything before leaving to drain.

I mostly use the dishwasher. Bit when I do use the sink I wash up in half a bowl of hot soapy water and individuals rinse under a slow trickle of cold caught into the bowl (not permanently running). By the end the bowel is 3/4 - full. The rise should always be cold water as it supports less bacteria than water from your hot tank.

I wash in a bowl but rinse under a cold tap.

I wash with just any water that's in the sink. I don't plug it in or anything and just rinse the dirt and soap under running water. But leaving the tap running is incredibly wasteful.

Sink full of water and a quick rinse under cold tap (not continuously running).
Those saying the water is dirty, you start with glasses and move up the dirtiness scale. Also, what do you think soap is for exactly?

Fill sink with hot water otherwise you are using much more hot water which is expensive to heat. It's wasteful.

It’s best to let partners do chores their own way imho.
Washing under running water is not that wasteful if the tap is turned off between items.
Too, OP how would you feel if your partner said your way was unhygienic and left soap scum on the dishes? You’d feel they were being unreasonable.

Those who say a dishwasher is less wasteful, wouldn't the increase in electricity to run it offset any environmental benefit from using less water?We are trying to reduce to waste we produce at the minute and are making more and more changes. I'd seriously look into buying a dishwasher if the are better for the environment and reduce waste.
They use litres and litres less (when you think of the amt of dishes in a dishwasher and how much water changes go into a basin for that amt of dishes) so I do use it as much as possible instead of washing up but yes you're probably right with the electricity. I don't know what the solution is

The cost of our dishwasher is only 12p each cycle, electricity use is really low. I don’t know if all ate like that.

I use running tap . OH doesn’t . Mine are always cleaner . His always has food on them when he’s done , I’ve never known any different as a child that’s how we all did it .

Dishwashers don't use much energy per cycle, round a unit or two. Don't forget you've also got to heat the water when washing up by hand, and the quantity will be larger when comparing a full load worth of pots.

www.independent.co.uk/environment/why-you-should-use-a-dishwasher-instead-of-cleaning-by-hand-10229612.html

Says use the dishwasher.