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!

How often have you told your mother in law she’s disgusting out of interest?

I had a boyfriend who would do this but just put wet plates away. You’d take one out and water would run down your wrist and I used to wash things before I used them. An ex, weirdly.

Always rinse. The water bill says I am a below average user as well

This is one of those topics that is very divisive on MN! I wash my dishes under running hot water with detergent and then rinse till the soap is gone, then put in the drainer. Otherwise soap suds remain and I can taste that residue. I think it's a good method but no doubt someone somewhere disagrees!

Of course it isn't. If people knew what kind of toxic crap was in dish soap they might think differently. Formaldehyde and phalates, even ammonia in some cases, just to name a few. Gross.
Besides, dish soap emulsifies the grease and dirt but rinsing is what removes it.

It has never occurred to me that I could get sick from not rinsing dishes, but the taste of and smell washing-up liquid on plates is vile.

I rinse because the amount of hand washing I do is minimal - I bought my first dishwasher almost 26 years ago, when I was 21, and I have had one ever since. If I was hand washing lots of dishes, I may not be so methodical. I also leave things to drain, before finishing with a tea towel. I am no germaphobe, but I do have a healthy dislike of dishcloths and tea towels which have been used more than once.

My mother-in-law always had a stinky, damp, grey dishcloth somewhere near the sink, which was used for everything from washing the dishes to cleaning the worktops, and anything in between. I keep a supply of face cloths and terry tea towels in my kitchen drawer, and they go out for a wash each time they are used.

I agree. All these posters going on about the soapy taste, unless you have very strange washing up liquid in the UK that is a load of nonsense.

As a pp said, the dishes out of a dishwasher often have a funny taste about them, never noticed it from hand washed dishes.

People who waste time and energy on this - just weird.

I thought everyone rinsed the soap. The Fairy adverts where they dipped the plate into a big tub of soapy water and pulled it out gleaming and spotless to stack away confused me as a kid as I thought they were missing some vital steps there.

That's so gross. Worse, I had a roommate in my youth who used the dish cloth to wipe her toddler's ass, then briefly rinsed it in the sink the dishes were soaking in. After I saw that I offered to be the exclusive dishwasher in the household.

I would never use a cloth twice either. They grow moldy when they sit there damp. I air them outside if I can't wash them right away. I have a dishwasher but I do hand wash delicate things.

Same here. No outside tap so car gets a 3 bucket wash, plants watered from the water butt, no pool, no pressure washer, just a shower (no bath) and I rinse washing up by turning the tap on for each item. I don’t think it’s my household running the reservoirs down.

I always rinse, but then I don’t fill a sink to wash dishes, i’l squirt with washing up liquid and wash individually (in reality plates in dishwasher but pans / trays I wash like this. I don’t like idea of dishes washed in dirty water, and you definitely need to rinse when washing in a bowl of water like that.

Exactly the way I do it. I wil admit it's partly because the sink is often too gross to wash them in.

We always did at Brownies. One bowl with soapy water, one for rinsing.

Always rinse! To not do so if fucking rank

My ex always washing up like I do now, and he used to say how gross it was having them all a sink full of dirty water so I really struggle to wash up like that now. And yes, you’d need a clean sink to do that, which mine often isn’t either. Have been spoilt with a dishwasher the last 5yrs or so, but prior to that I always washed up by hand.

Definitely rinse! Very hot water in the bowl after scrubbing with soap. I cannot comprehend how anyone stand not to rinse the soap and grime off.

I have a dishwasher but having it removed as I'm sick of loading and unloading and then finding I have to wash things again.

People who are saying they don't rinse because they are saving the planet they fill bowls full of water to wash the dishes, water is still being used. Why not skip the bowl filling step and use that water to rinse after washing

But generally people wash up how they've seen washing up being done in their household and think this is the correct way

I only rinse glasses. Nothing else. I don't have a dishwasher. I dry up soon after.

Wrong. Not washing up at all or letting the pets do it for you is rank....
Not rinsing is just a choice, makes no difference.

What about the fact dishwashers use rinse aid? I am not sure that gets rinsed off as apparently one of its purposes is to help dishes dry.

We wash up under a running tap. Cleaning everything in one bowl of what becomes dirty water always grosses me out.

Same as baths. You’d still need a shower after so might as well just shower to start with.

I don’t rinse , my stuff isn’t greasy.

Never heard of people ‘not rinsing’ I.e. not washing their plates properly. Is that for real? Grim.

I don’t understand why everything would be greasy either. When I was a child I was told you washed things in order. Glasses/ cups first, then cutlery, then crockery, then pots/ pans / trays.

I’m assuming folk with greasy films must be washing greasy plates/ pans.

in the good old days, domestic science taught us wash then rinse under the running water. some things stick