Do you rinse the soap off your dishes etc?

[maggiethecat]

I cannot understand why people think it's ok to wash dishes and barely dip them into a bowl of water then proceed to dry them covered in soapsuds! (Does it add extra sparkle?). I've noticed the reaction of foreigners to this practice and wonder if this is uniquely acceptable to the British?

I do exactly the same as morocco

The right way to wash up is to rinse, then wash with hot water and washing up liquid, and then rinse in clean hot running water.

Washing up bowls full of soapy vile food-contaminated water are just vile imo.

If it's a British thing it's not the norm for all Brits. Not mentioning class or anything.

It will still be dirty water though, by the time you get to the end of all the washing up.

I have always washed my dishes and rinsed them with clean water. My in-laws think I'm strange but I hate being given something to drink with soapy bubbles on top because the glass/cup hasn't been rinsed properly.

What PrincessToadstool says.

[sigh]

detergent (ie washign up liquid) keeps the grease in solution in the water and stops it being deposited back onto plates
so 'dirty' water still gets things clean

I need to see the science behind this - wheres the evidence, eh?

funnily enuf- i was thinkng about this topic a few weeks ago- - - i just dont get it!
leaveing soap is a very british thing. I gotta wash and rinse in piping hot running water- - - to simply soak and rinse in same filthy water- is not clean at all!!

People at work do this- they cant understand why i take them all out the bowl and wash and rinse!

I wash my stuff twice when i know its not been washed by moi!

eeeeeeeeeeeeek

Do the "people" at work get ill more than you Jules?

I'm British and I can't understand anyone not rinsing.
You wash your hair, your rinse it.
You wash your clothes, you rinse them.
You wash your car, you rinse it.
You wash your dishes, the things you eat your food off, and you leave them covered in dirty soapy water.

Mrsbadger, that may be true, but if you put a dish covered in washing up water on the draining board to dry, the water will evaporate but whatever was in it (old food, detergent) will be left behind on the dish.

I always rinse. I thought this was uniquely inefficient of me - glad to see I'm not alone. I always feel v guilty about the water wastage, but I find the guilt less troublesome than the worry that there are remnants of fairy liquid/last night's dinner in my cup of tea.

it's definitely a british thing. Not as in "all brits do it" but as in "only brits do it", if that makes sense?

we foreigners are shocked by it (although not as much as carpet in the bathroom and separate taps for hot/cold water).

i just don't know why anyone would choose to eat or drink soap residues...

Suspect it goes with traditionally poor British plumbing and uncertainty about how much hot water is available.

Mysticmasseuse, not many of us have carpet in the bathroom any more. Or separate taps. We're slowly coming out of the dark ages.

Although I grew up with a carpeted bathroom and it did feel cosier.
My own gorgeous new bathroom (see profile for pics) has painted floorboards.

also of course it is linked to the separate taps innit- if you can only rinse with icy cold or scalding hot water it doesn't seem very appealing....

Lyra carpets in the bathroom may be disappearing along with avocado suites but any house/flat refurbished beofre 2000 will have separate taps with 90% probability!

(and no bidet, but i may be pushing my luck here )

(lovely new bathroom Lyra by the way!)

Thanks masseuse
I've never managed to work out how to use a bidet. A house I rented had one and it never got used.

Lyra - it's just a question of balancing on the bog while you pop both feet in

In answer to the OP, I don't do washing up, we have a machine to wreck the china for us

DH has a pash for having a bidet in our house here in Oz - a bit tricky cos they seem to have mostly gone over to using electrical water jets that attach to the main loo - that won't be any use for bathing DS or soaking knickers in, will it?

Slight hijack - we once stayed in a hotel room in France in a very small town (more of a lorrydriver's stop than anything) and the room we had contained a freestanding shower unit and a bidet. No loo, no handwash - just those. And the bidet waterjet was at the front end, not the back. We came to the conclusion we had the prostitute's room...

lisby - -- ive not known anyone at work to get ill more than me- - -only been there a few months !LOL

enuf of suds talk - - everyone who dont do it already- start to rinse!!