To rinse a plate with water alone

[CrayonCritic5]

I’ll preface this with an acknowledgment that I’m a little slovenly at times, due to low energy due to health issues. I’m not the kind of person who cleans their sheets every week! And I know that many of you will have high standards when it comes to cleanliness.

I recently spent some time staying with a friend and I made us some smashed avocado for our breakfast. I scooped the inside of the avocado onto a plate and then smushed it. After transferring it to the breakfast plates, I rinsed the plate with water to remove the residue and placed the plate on the drying rack.

Seeing this, my friend told me to use washing up liquid. Then every time I went to wash anything up for the remainder of my week-long stay my friend would each time tell me to use washing up liquid, which of course I was always planning on. It got really irritating, as if I needed training on how to function in a household. They mentioned it so much that I have a feeling they will continue to mention it even now that I’m not staying there.

In the case of the avocado plate, it was completely fresh, not a meat or animal product, hadn’t been eaten off of, and wasn’t sticky. In my opinion washing up liquid wasn’t needed either for the purposes of loosening the food coating or for antibacterial reasons.

So tell me, is it reasonable to rinse a bit of avo off a plate with water alone. Or, am I a completely unhygienic disgrace?

And one by one, every single one will somehow get jammed shut with a potato masher. You will never find out how you came to own so many potato mashers. Not knowing will drive you insane and one day you'll wander into the sea to die muttering about potato mashers.

Edit: your obituary will note that one of the drawers was, in fact, jammed with a spaghetti spoon instead, and everyone will wonder if knowing that fact would've been the thing that could've saved you.

Sorry but if I saw you do something like this I would not trust you hygiene wise. Sorry but that is how I feel. The fact that you did this so casually and normally would really make me think what else you do.
It's food, plate needs to be washed.

In my new kitchen fitted a few months ago, I had as many deep drawers as I could. It’s so much easier to find things than in a floor cupboard. So as well as pans, I have all my crockery and casserole dishes in a drawer, all my Tupperware type containers and cake tins and another one full of appliances like slow cooker, hand held mixer etc. I even have three narrow cutlery drawers, one for cutlery, one for foil, clingfilm, plastic bags etc and a spice drawer fitted with some sloping shelves so I can see everything.

I love my drawers!

It's not right to cut corners when it concerns hygiene, in others' homes.

Am I the only person that's wondering why this is an issue? Wash the plate or rinse the plate. No one cares if they're not getting food poisoning. Not sure why the fuck this question is getting g asked

I'm the same, everything gets washed in hot soapy water - even the recycling items! It's nothing to do with hygiene for me, I just think dishes should be properly washed.

Kitchen drawers for plates, pans, dishes are fantastic. I would never go back to cupboards.

I’ve got two big pan drawers, they are fab wish I had more.
But yeah wash up properly it takes a second with one of those sponge things with the fairy in the handle.

That’s quite the exaggeration! I think they just preferred their plate to be clean.

@tuvamoodyson
Merely saying it's no big thing. Oily avocado or not, it's not like a plate full of something seriously stinky or messy like a curry.

I did say something to that effect but the comments continued

It’s getting asked because the continued comments from my friend made me feel like I’d commited a mortal sin so I wanted to check the general consensus. I thought that was clear enough in the post.

Don’t apologise, you do you. However I feel you are insanely over the top.

Yup.
Hot soapy water is required.
Anything less is so slovenly and grim.

Given other people here have said it’ll do the job, your opinion is over the top.

By that logic everyone who said dirty plates need washing is over the top 🤷‍♂️

Your friend definitely handled it all wrong, not a gracious host at all.

I have this silent battle with my MIL - in every other respect her standards are much higher than mine and I'm sure she's appalled by the general levels of dust and mess in my house. But I can't stand how she washes up - under a cool running tap, no soap. The stuff is never visibly clean. So I try intercept her and if I can't I put the stuff from the draining board into the dishwasher or into my next load of washing up. I don't tell her every single time to use soap.

I think it's fine. You won't die from washing a plate just with water. You only need washing up liquid if it's really dirty or had raw meat on for example.
At work I just rinse my coffee cup out with water at the end of each day. I only give it a proper wash with hot soapy water about every six weeks 😂.

Cool, you do you then hun.

You asked, got a response, didn’t like it, and continued to not do basic things properly.

It makes no odds to me how clean or not you choose your home life to be.

You can lick yesterday’s leftovers off the floor for all I care, makes no difference to me. Pretty sure we don’t move in the same circles so the odds of me eating at your place, or you at mine, are precisely zero 0% 👍

Which is fine if it’s only you that’s using it.

Sorry OP, I’m with your friend on this one, YABU

Unless it's a glass of water I wash everything up.

But it wasn't your house which I think is key here. Do what like at home. It takes two seconds to drip one drop of wul on a sponge and wipe over.

This and I'm not a clean freak. Anything "wet" should be washed up properly apart from a pan of water with a boiled egg that hasn't cracked.

I would have used washing up liquid for an avocado plate and I'm definitely not a clean freak!

I wouldn’t personally but I’ve thought about it 😂
I’m sure it’s fine though