That hand washed dishes should be rinsed with clean water?

[Drew79]

When hand washing, interested in how many people either -

Wash dishes then rinse with clean water, then put on the drainer to dry

Or
Wash dishes and put on the drainer with soap suds and dirty water still on them?

I don't like the idea of eating and drinking from something that's got some cleaning chemicals left on it, but my partner says I'm being fussy!

Oh my gosh yes! That's the way I wash up too, learned from the Brownies handbook. What a memory!

And I always rinse.

It's not soap though - it's detergents chemicals, additives, all sorts of stuff.

My DH does an excellent job licking the plates.

I never rinse. To be honest I think the dishes out the dishwasher taste more of detergent than hand washed and not rinsed. When I was pregnant I couldn’t drink out of any glass washed in the dishwasher as the smell (which I could only smell whilst pregnant) made me feel sick. I was fine with my hand washed and un rinsed glasses.

Wash and rinse under the hot tap. I don’t like the idea of a mucky basin of water getting dirtier and dirtier.

Me too. And the dog licking above … then no rinse… 🤢

My home dishwasher doesn’t do this but I often notice it with restaurant glasses and especially when pregnant.

Well most the time I soak the plates, forget them. Then need to empty the water out and start again., so are clean.

Don't have a dishwasher. Love washing dishes. As hot as humanly possible. Rinse in hot water before drying on drainer.

This is why I am wary of eating at peoples houses with dogs /cats unless I’m familiar with their hygiene practices. 🤢

OP, I rinse - everyone I know rinses as well. Growing up I had some friends who didn’t rinse and I just didn’t get it. The plates would be there on the drainer just so soapy and I’d think why?

Oh, this post reminds me of being at my bf’s house the other night. We shared a beer and my glass definitely smelt and tasted like fairy liquid… yuck!

I don’t want to offend anyone but when I first moved to the UK I was shocked to see that people here didn’t rinse their dishes. Shocked! I have no idea why people like eating soap!

Some people use ‘water saving’ as an excuse for not washing dishes, but it doesn’t use that much water:
step 1- get your dishes wet. Then turn the tap off (or use a bowl)
step 2 - put fairy on a sponge and wash each dish
step 3 - wirh all dishes in the sink, turn water on to rinse them (or use clean water in a dish bowl). If rinsed under the tap, it won’t need that much water as they’re all in the sink.

If you’re feeling guilty about your water usage reduce your showers by a minute or 2 (or don’t dull yours baths).

Or continue eating delicious fairy liquid

I’ve noticed that in the adverts sometimes they don’t rinse, because they want that shot of suds sliding down clean plates. Grim!

I have a dishwasher so scrape plates and put them in there, but I have some glasses that need handwashing and I always, always rinse.

When I wash my water bottle I am very paranoid that they aren’t rinsed enough inside!

Never wash the car, don't have a hot tub either. Lots of ways ppl waste water & see as perfectly legitimate but get in a tizzy about rinsing plates lol.

Also don't leave the tap running when I brush my teeth cos Sesame Street told me it was draining the water out of a fish pond & that's bad.

I’m probably not the person to ask.

Before I owned a dishwasher I would boil the kettle, put stainless cutlery in washing up bowl first, pour over boiling kettle water then add cold - just enough to get the cutlery washed and out by gloved hands and so it wouldn’t crack the plates or glasses!

I like a good sanitary routine! As I’ve got older, however, I’ve come to accept we can actually handle quite a bit that falls short of sterile!

No dishwasher, no rinsing either!
I just leave everything all soapy.

Am I worried about death by soap bubbles?
Nope......its the microplastics that'll getcha!

I don't consider washing off chemicals to be wasting wster

Never rinsed either. Never been an issue and frankly couldn’t be arsed even if it had occurred to me. My plates aren’t soapy or dirty and life is really too short, as are resources.

I can always tell if someone has forgotten to rinse.
No dishwasher, very hot water to wash then rinse each item under the cold tap as I go.
I don't leave the tap running though, so it's a stop-start process.

The cutlery gets rinsed a handful at a time

Why don’t you tell her how disgusting she is? That is just so beyond disgusting.

Ok. Never been ill from detergent residue. Happy now?

Definitely rinse!

Get a dishwasher

Interesting to read so many my SIL/MIL etc doesn't rinse.

If only men could wash dishes.

We rinse and then leave to air dry. However we don't think we'll die from fairy liquid residue and I can't fathom the meaning of the poster whose MIL (of course) doesn't rinse and she attributes a layer of grease to this? Very odd.

What? You had taps. It doesn’t matter what temperature soap is rinsed off them with. That’s bizarre!

You're right and he's full of shit.