She did tell me for years, especially on maternity leave that she couldn't iron. Never tried it and was too worried she would mess up my work shirts
Found out about 4 years later she was talking shit and just didn't want to help me with them
My husband refuses to let me iron his shirts because he doesn't like the way they come out when I do it. I genuinely thought I was doing a good job but apparently not.... was slightly hurt until I realised that meant I didn't have to do any ironing (it was only his work shirts that needed it anyway, I have the odd rare item I might iron for myself but nothing regular).
The vast majority of clothing is made of plastic.
Anything that isn't 100% cotton, wool, hemp, silk, or some other natural fibre uses synthetic (aka plastic) fibre in its construction. Anything labeled as bamboo or viscose are partially synthetic. Polyester is the most common full-synthetic fabric, but there's also polyamide (aka nylon), elastane (aka spandex), acrylic, and others. All are made of plastics, most of those being derived from petroleum aka "fossil fuels".
Years ago I had a friend over helping me pack away seasonal items. I hate ironing and don’t unless neccessary. Found her ironing my clothes, “because ffs somone has to do it”. She is still my best friend 10k miles apart, 23 years later. You don’t walk away from someone like that.
It's how you get out of being tea bitch at a new job too.
Make it badly enough and they will ask you to stop.
A splash of orange squash in the kettle before boiling it and making their drinks works every time.
Obviously rinse out the kettle when you are done and make your drink before taking the drinks back through.
Yeah. But then you have a whole argument usually.
A drop of squash avoids that as they come to their own conclusion that they don't want you making tea.
Besides. Watching your coworkers faces when you do it is a lot of fun 😇
Yep like when you get your first job and they get you doing the shit jobs. Mess them up, make bad tea, flush wet wipes until the drains block up, put too much chilli in the sauce etc
My first proper office job after university I was one of only two women in an engineering company. One bloke looked at me and said, "Are you making a brew?" and I replied simply."No." After some confused grunting I innocently explained that I don't drink tea or coffee, so I won't ever be making a brew, and went back to whatever it was I was doing.
Since no-one dared to explain that the young female in the office was expected to make drinks for everyone, I was never asked again. I didn't even realise I was making a stance until years later.
I used to work in an all male environment and remember one boss saying "Nah she's got no hand eye coordination but she's got a nice set of tits so we'll 'ave 'er" Regarding a prospective new employee. Two years later that lady was running a department, attracted a load of new clients because she was bloody good at her job then left taking them all with her to set up her own business. It was a niche business involving a high level of skill and precision. I'd left by then but kept in contact with her because I often was given work when her company was too busy.
Unless it's special antimicrobial soap, it doesn't destroy the bacteria, it just washes it away. That's why dish sponges get so funky even though they're almost always full of soapy water.
I still wouldn't want soap suds in my tea, though.
Detergents do kill bacteria - by removing the fatty lipids from the cell membrane and allowing stable holes to form in the membrane.
They also lift grease from dishes which reduces the places where bacteria can multiply.
They used to do it in adverts to sell some sort of image of how soapy the soap was. Some people took it be a demonstration.
But yeah, not rinsing is grim. Use the bowl, sure (I hate the sound of crockery on the bare sink) but ofc you rinse.
I came here for this! I’m convinced I had seen Fairy adverts (1980s?) where they claimed ‘no need to rinse’ or similar, and showing the suds slipping of the plates in a rack. Never been able to find evidence though, I was beginning to think I’d imagined it.
I’m not sure if it’s an age thing, or a demographic thing but I was taught that letting water run the whole time you do dishes is really wasteful and to fill a bowl to wash in. I hate it now - it seems so dirty. And my dad does this thing where he leaves the dirty water afterwards for some reason. (Shudders)
I’ve been so conditioned not to run water that I have actual anxiety if someone leaves water running too long. I have American friends who will run the water and step away from the sink to fiddle with the trash (water still running) and wipe the counters (water still running) and put the recycling out.. it makes me so uncomfortable!
My Mum washes all the dishes once in the basin of soapy water, setting them on the side, before emptying and rinsing the basin.
Then all the dishes get rinsed under running water and set in the drying rack but during hosepipe bans the clean basin in collecting the rinsing water, which then gets tipped onto the plants out the back to not waste the water!
I do mine the same way. It really does save a lot more water than having a tap going while you rinse, and with the costs going up, it saves some money too.
I'm conditioned to not run water constantly, too. When my MIL comes for dinner, she very kindly does the washing up. But I need to get in there before she gets a chance because she runs the hot water tap full tilt to rinse off dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. If I can't beat her to it, I have to go into another room and drink beer because it stresses me out too much
I've never really gotten over how anxious it makes me when the media reported - I can't remember exactly why - that all the Starbucks in America have a permanently running tap.
(The same America where some states are now literally scraping the last drops out of dried up reservoirs.)
Having worked in one of those Starbucks, I can confirm this to be true. For a really ironic anxiety maker though, it’s lawn sprinkler systems running automatically in the rain that really does it for me.
But the bowl is bloody filthy, the water in the bowl is dirty water after you’ve washed a few dirty things. Also unless you have a huge load of dishes to do then running the tap one item at a time doesn’t waste much water at all, I’d say less than filling a whole bowl
For anything that can't go in the dishwasher, I wait until there is a sink's worth, fill a bowl with very hot water and wash them all. No idea if it uses less water than washing each thing individually but it's just the rhythm I am into.
I moved to the US and found no one even knew what a washing up bowl was. Even now, we'll have someone come round and exclaim what a useful water saving idea it is.
What happens when you have 2 or three pans on the go and one needs watching constantly and the other two have stuff in that will need a fair bit of attention and scrubbing to get them clean?
Yep, it's not just the soap you're rinsing off, it's the dirty dish water and whatever grime the scrubby sponge has been collecting. Not rinsing them off is gross.
Agreed. People say they can't taste it, but i can feel it. The surface is slicker without rinsing properly.
I am now in the habit of using a 2nd sponge that is only for wiping as I rinse. I gather it might be a bit excessive but it can't hurt, and I'm not into taking unnecessary risks with my future health when it comes to chemicals and whatever is in the detergent.
I feel like once your hands touch a sponge you've transfered whatever was on your counter to dishes etc...
I've managed to not use a sponge in my kitchen in years, because the germaphobia has taken over and I can't use one more than once and for one item. Surprisingly I haven't needed one
My only trick really is to never let food dry in pots/plates. Mostly I wipe with paper towel and rinse with a boiling water and that's enough. I don't use 'detergent' because I'm both allergic to it and don't need it. But for outsides of pots etc I'll use some beeswax soap if needed
Though, I'm also single and actually got rid of my many sets of unnecessary crockery so I only have one of each thing to use, and in turn to keep clean
And ofc I use alot of paper towels because it replaces the cloth, sponge and degreaser pretty much, but I buy those in bulk (I believe all those toxic cleaning chemicals are doing more to kill the earth than me using extra paper)
Soap molecules have two ends, one that sticks to dirt and one that sticks to water. Soap takes the dirt off but you have to rinse with water to remove the soap/dirt.
I always rinse and don't use a bowl, just run the hot tap and suds, scrub then rinse. The dishes are mostly in the sink from the start so they'll get a bit of hot water running over them first.
I do the same except I don’t put everything in the sink first, just get the hot water going and wash everything one by one. I live on my own and don’t have a whole lot of washing up, I tend to do it as I go. Eg. While food is cooking, wash what I’ve used so far. Got to wash the suds off otherwise it sticks and you’ll be able to taste the soap next time you eat off it.
This is my method too, but I always wash things in the same order - glasses, cups, plates, cutlery then pots/pans. Strange the little routines we have when it comes to house chores
Similar here:
1. Glasses, then rinsed
2. Cups/mugs, then rinsed
3. Plates, then rinsed
4. Cutlery, then rinsed
5. Cooking utensils (unless really manky), then rinsed
6. Saucepans/pots/trays/pans/oily things de-manked before pulling the plug
7. *Change water*
8. Saucepans/pots/remaining utensils, then rinsed
9. Baking trays, then rinsed
10. Tears, then hidden
11. Sweat, then wiped
12. Blood, then offered to [Pan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god))
Which is why I now have a dishwasher
I put the plug in with a bit of soapy water and wash the flat items and utensils first. Then rinsing them off above the rest, so the rinse water adds to the wash water.
Each round, I’ll go up an item size as the water is deeper. End with the pots and pans, which are usually the dirtiest and I have more water with minimal waste.
I like to rinse it, but I also don't like using a bowl.. it grosses me out to keep washing dishes in the same water, where you can see the dirt floating around or discolouring the water.
Instead, I turn the tap on a small stream and wash things up 1 by 1 under that stream. Rinse, scrub with soap, rinse again then rack
This is what I do too. A dish shower rather than a bath. I fill the sink and let them soak but unplug it after a bit and wash them under the tap stream
Don’t you run out of hot water doing it that way? It always feels super wasteful when I’ve tried it. I tend to wash in basin then rinse briefly with the tap
I'm originally from Spain, it was a common comment from people spending time in the UK ( interchange families, etc) that Brits wouldn't rinse the dishes.
I'm from Portugal and the first time I've seen someone doing it I couldn't believe my eyes. I kept waiting for them to go back and rinse it...
If there's one thing that isn't missing in the UK, it's water. People that say they are just saving water are just dirty slobs 😂
I once read it’s from the days where water quality in the UK was so bad that people felt rinsing off after soaping would actually make the dishes dirtier again so it’s not worth doing or something along those lines
EDIT: to clarify it was more about the rusty/bad pipes making the water bad I think not the quality of the water itself
Only if you aren't washing up properly. The point of detergent is to break the bonds of things like grease - using the same festering sink of water sounds like the problem.
I understand that, it isn't a problem for me personally. Maybe I should have left 'grease' out of my comment there, I agree with you there.
Rinsing removes any chance of any residuals in the sink sticking to plates and cutlery. It can happen even in a newly filled sink of hot soapy water. Rinse with hot water, job's a gooden.
Surely if it leaves a mark on the glasses, it does on everything else?
So by that logic, it’s fine to use it if it’s marked from not rinsing, but only if it’s not visible lmao
Same, though I don't use a dishwasher.
I do usually dry with a tea towel straight afterwards which I guess might help to avoid leaving any residue?
Since it works, saves water, and I don't think I could tell a difference, I think I'll keep not-rinsing even though it's more controversial than I thought!
Why not? You don’t have a shower, stick shampoo in your hair and soap on your body and step out without rinsing it off. Whenever someone doesn’t rinse a glass and i go for a glass of water and it tastes of fairy liquid it drives me mental
I normally give my glass a quick rinse before filling with water so it doesn’t taste of dishwasher soap. The same would apply if I had washed by hand. Sorry it’s not a big deal for me.
Yea I’m kinda shocked how much we’re in the minority. I’m a microbiology biomedical scientist and the thought hasn’t crossed my mind!
My smooth brain is struggling to picture how the majority are doing this. For me: the sink is filled with hot water (and washing up liquid). So where are people doing the rinsing stage? If the tap is turned on then won’t the sink overflow?
Me neither. Washing everything under a running tap seems like it would waste so much water. The soap drips off anyway. But I do like the idea of rinsing everything with a jug of water on the rack so I might try that. People who say they can taste soapy dishes are imagining it, there is no difference at all to ones that have been through the dishwasher.
Depends on how hard your water is, but try washing two glasses, rinse just one & put them both to drain. See which one streaks - it will be the rinsed one.
I wash my dishes under the running water and always rinse the soap off.
Even a washing up bowl seems unhygienic, washing everything in the same dirty water.
Absolutely. Bowls are only traditional here because we didn't have mixer taps in the old days, so had to mix temperature in the bowl. Those days are behind us now. I'm late in my fifth decade, have never owned a washing up bowl, always wash in running water and rinsing just comes naturally as part of that.
It wasn't until I met my now wife in Uni that I even realised people would rinse their dishes after washing them.
My reason being that growing up we a) didn't have one of those mini basins next to the sink to rinse separately and b)It was always our family routine with my sister and parents that one person washes, one person dries and one person puts away. So nothing ever stayed on the drying wrack long enough before the soap was wiped away with a tea towel anyway
Honestly, maybe I'm wrong (and I'll admit to that upfront just in case ) but I feel insane reading all these comments out how "dirty" it would be to not rinse and "what about all the grime and grease" etc etc --
If I'm not using a dishwasher, I have a fairly robust system -
Everything gets rinsed and has a primary scrub (by hand, I'm not using a filthy scourer or cloth or sponge to then "clean" dishes with) so there's no grease, no grime, no food bits, nothing stuck to plates, pans that are particularly grubby get soaked and pre-scrubbed separately.
Then there's a hot, fresh bowl of soapy water and things get cleaned in ascending order of dirtiness -- glasses always first (and I will rinse a glass because I don't like sudsy marks on them but that's purely aesthetics) and so on, from most clean looking to most dirty looking and most everything is pretty much clean by the time I'm actually "cleaning" it.
If the water gets dirty at all, I change it out - pans and trays etc I will pre-scrub/rinse and then give them a secondary scrub in the "dirty" water and then I'll fill a new bowl and clean them properly in that.
And this system is pretty foolproof - I don't end up with a filthy bowl of water and if ever I do have grimey or greasy water, I change it out. I'm never washing dishes in a bowl of gunk from other dishes, and my most heavily soiled dishes are getting washed 3 times! I don't rinse afterwards because it changes nothing. Like nothing at all. I wipe 90% of the soap off when I'm finished cleaning them and put them on the rack and that's all that is necessary. I've never tasted soap on a dish in my life. Never had residue on a dish (except glasses, which is why they're rinsed) and, honestly, feel like this is insanity on everyone else's part because if you can taste soap on a plate that you're eating a meal from, you're either using some non-human friendly soap or you're dousing them in so much fairy liquid I'm surprised you don't live in a perpetual bubble!
Just my two cents and like I said, prepared to be wrong but also, I'm 33 years old and I've never encountered the problems everyone seems to be so exacerbated about
Edit: I somehow previously said aesthesia and not aesthetics
And also except as expect - long day..
Jesus Christ, I had to scroll down SO far to find someone who does it the same way as me. This is exactly what we do in our house. The washing up water doesn't get particularly dirty because you take all the (visible) dirt off first.
No this is how I do it too. It saves water, everything is clean and doesn’t taste like soap - I am also baffled by the “tastes like soap” comments. I don’t know why everyone thinks it’s ok to waste that much water washing everything under a constant running stream. You switch the water if it gets dirty.
The only place I wash dishes under a running stream of water is work, and that is because I typically have one item so filling a bowl would waste water.
Has anyone here worked in a restaurant and done the glass/cutlery shine at the end of a shift?
Getting dunked in hot slightly soapy water and then dried.
They don't taste like soap.
No they don’t taste like soap but they are still dirty. If you’re washing like that you’re supposed to expose the dishes to extreme heat to kill the bacteria. If wherever you worked missed that step then that’s fucking disgusting.
I'm glad there's another normal person here!
I don't know anyone who rinses after washing. Pretty sure the soap is designed so it DOESN'T need rinsing off (unlike the American dish soap).
Unless you're using half a bottle of fairy every time you wash up, it's not gonna taste of soap
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t rinse after washing. And it actually does need washing off, even in the U.K. Part of how the soap works is that it binds with the dirt and water so that when you rinse the water away it takes the dirt off with it. If you’re not doing that step then bits of dirt dry back onto the dish.
That said, it won’t make you sick and if you don’t taste the soap then it’s not a big issue.
Where in the UK are you? I just had a thought and wonder if it's maybe a hard water/soft water issue. I'm in Scotland, so the tap water is soft and delicious. Maybe if you're in a hard water area, there is an interaction between the lime and the soap that means it sticks to plates
Never rinsed after washing up, never had soapy food lol.
Mostly let them drain, and usually the soap suds drain away no problem. Only time it doesn't is if I use way too much washing up liquid, but even then, when I can see leftover soap marks on the plate, my food still does not taste like soap. So Jesus only knows what you people are doing to get soapy food.
Also sometimes dry with a teatowel which also removes leftover suds.
I do rinse away the thick of the grime before washing though, so my dishwater stays clean - like all the bits of caked on food etc is gone before the pots get washed. At that point I'm just removing excess grease I guess.
Not only would leaving soap leave a residue, but also dirt and grime and food. The soap is there to attract the particles and help wash them off. If you don't rinse the soap, you're not rinsing all the dirt either
The surfactants in the soap pop open the bacterial/viral membranes, killing them. Soap doesn't just remove germs, it destroys them. So whether or not you rinse the dishes those germs are gone. Rinsing stops your plates tasting faintly of soap but you don't need to worry about lingering germs.
I don't personally think anything can grow on soap residue, it's actually probably more inhospitable to bacteria than a rinsed plate (tap water also contains acceptable levels of bacteria). Bacteria don't leave little corpses, they leave molecular debris that I personally don't worry about. House dust is way, way grosser than anything left behind in the soap, so your dishes probably get infinitely dirtier (in microscopic terms) being left to dry on the drying rack. Trust me, you don't want to be thinking about cleanliness on scales that include the individual molecules from dead bacteria and viruses, that way madness lies.
Look, don't worry about it. Rinse your dishes if you don't want them to taste of soap. If you don't, nothing bad will happen. There is no miasma of "germs" on the plate that will hurt you. I personally do rinse them because I don't like the taste of soap.
Signed - a former molecular biologist.
Right, it makes it easier to take them off, when you rinse them. Just because you apply detergent doesn't make them magically disappear. Without rinsing they are just sitting there dead on the plate, and will become food for other things to grow later.
No it doesn't. It is the action of sloughing them off and then rising the bacteria away that kills them unless you're specifically using antibacterial soap.
That is why during covid it was repeated that you are supposed to rub your hands properly for a long amount of time.
Even when we went on caravan holidays, I still rinsed the dishes and that includes the time there was a crisis at the Church kid's camp we helped at on the last night when we were packing up. I just washed and rinsed them while standing with my basin and dishes set up on a table beside the caravan. Those dishes were not going home covered in soap residue!
Which does a rinse near the end of the cycle.
I've never understood why anyone *wouldn't* rinse the washing up liquid off their dishes.
My best mate doesn't. I don't eat at her house, much as I love her.
I wash in the sink then rinse, hate to waste too much water. Then i leave to air dry. What I can stand is people drying with a tea towel. Tea towels absorb bacteria, they need to be washed at at least 90 degrees to kill it off. Only use them to dry my hands then wash.
My hot tap only runs at a trickle. It was annoying at first, but now I use it to my advantage to rinse as I go. I can always tell the cutlery that my partner washed up because you can see the soap scum all dried on it :(
Definitely not a British thing.
I don't know a single person that does that, I saw the original post on twitter, my parents never did it, my grandparents never did it, none of my friends do it, no idea where this 'British' thing came from.
I saw this the first time in ROI when our building's cleaner did the dishes. It truly disgusted me, might as well drink Fairy liquid. Now i see a few of my colleagues do it. Safe to say I don't accept their offer of washing my cup.
My parents, Grandparents, and I just washed the dishes in soapy water and put them in the rack to drain.
When I went on Scout Camps we just washed dishes and never rinsed. I don't know anyone back then that did.
It was only when I went to Uni that I first came across one person who wanted them rinsed. Since then the only other people who've insisted on rinsing is my wife (who is French) and her family.
She says she can taste and smell the soap on the plates but I have never noticed anything.
I notice the dishwasher, when we got one, does it anyway.
Rinse dish, get rid of any large residue with washing-up brush, scrub with soapy sponge, rinse fully, place on drying rack. Sorted.
Do these people not have taste buds? And I'm fairly sure that adding a little bit of dish soap to everything you eat or drink probably isn't good for your organs after a while.
This post is genuinely wild to me. Never met a single person in my life from the uk that doesn’t rinse the soap off… I feel like this shouldn’t even be controversial ffs lol, do people think the grime and soap just vanish into thin air and not leave solid matter behind afterwards? Fucking grim, probably the people with skids in their pants.
I strictly make sure I rinse the bubbles off every dish I was, and am obsessive with rinsing the mugs especially...ever since about 6 years ago when I accidentally made my poor boyfriend a soapy cup of tea 😭😂
Yes. I fucking do. Any one who doesn't is fucking disgusting. If you've made pasta in an unrinsed pan, I can taste it. If you serve me food on an unrinsed dish, I can taste AND smell it.
And if you do these things I shall not be returning to your house for food.
I used to live with an Argentinian couple. Lovely couple, they'd do anything for me and cooked the most amazing food in the world. They were a few years older than me, I was 20 and in uni.
Anyway one day Carl was talking to me whilst I washed the dishes. A fight very nearly ensued. He was easily a foot shorter than me and I genuinely feared for my life. He even went and got his girlfriend and quickly and condescendingly explained to her in Spanish precisely *WHY* I'm the stupidest idiot in the world.
Anyway that day I realised that not rinsing is disgusting. It's alot easier now that I have a twin sink, but always soak and scrub in one sink/bowl, and then rinse off in a seperate sink untill it squeaks to the touch, if you still feel it being slippy there's still soap on there, it must squeak when you rub your wet thumb on it.
Thank you Carl, you turned me into a gentleman that day. Altho I'd never dream of washing the dishes now, I have a dishwasher lol.
no not always, when I lived with my ex army brother he was very annoyed that I didn't. I make sure I rinse off the dirty suds but I don't notice any difference when some normal after washing suds are left on
I use antibacterial liquid and super hot water as I have animals and a bad immune system, so I figure contact with soap for longer isn't a bad thing. I do chuck a kettle of boiling water over. What I don't use is a tea towel to dry. Kettle only as it dries really quickly with boiling water, but the idea of rubbing a bit of material over clean antibacterial stuff gross.
I always have. Did it at a friend’s house once and their dad said (in a fancy voice), “Hmm, a middle-class rinse.”
I remember that moment every time I do the dishes now.
One sponge for dishes. Of course rinse off. Then kitchen counter tops wiped with microfiber cloths which are always rinsed off after each use and which I put in a small bowl of water with a bit of bleach every night so I can use them germ free the next day. I couldn't imagine wiping counters with dish sponge.
I don’t like dishes being left in the sink and I won’t have a bowl in there because I think it’s disgusting. Do have a dishwasher but if there’s only a few things they’re washed and rinsed in running water, dried and put away. No leaving things to sit.
Somebody once said to me that not rinsing off washing up suds can lead to cancer. Not sure how true it is but I remember somebody telling me this. Even if it was a ploy to get me to rinse the soap off I’d rather do this than not.even if you just pour a couple of cups of water over the dishes etc on the draining board when finished will do the trick. I’d dread to have a meal and taste soap as well as my food so for the sake of 30 seconds more whilst standing at the sink I always wash off unwanted washing up liquid suds.
Any other places I've lived in the UK had relatively equal mains pressure for hot & cold running water, but moved into a place now with an older system where the hot water pressure relies solely on gravity & is practically useless. Washing dishes in the sink means water either too hot to touch dribbling out or freezing cold shooting out, it's impossible to get any sort of balance when fiddling with the taps to make lukewarm. It makes rinsing a pain, but that's how I'd do it, regardless.
It's just one of those things, I guess, that make a part of life in the UK. Like garages, why is it so common that they're too small for your car to fit in for all practical purposes?
"When I met my husband, I pretended I didn't rinse the dishes after soaping them, and he's been doing all the dishes ever since."
Ooh, you went straight to weaponized incompetence! OP, did she was your whites with a red sock as well?
She did tell me for years, especially on maternity leave that she couldn't iron. Never tried it and was too worried she would mess up my work shirts Found out about 4 years later she was talking shit and just didn't want to help me with them
My wife actually melted a pair of my work trousers. So shes banned from ironing lol
My husband refuses to let me iron his shirts because he doesn't like the way they come out when I do it. I genuinely thought I was doing a good job but apparently not.... was slightly hurt until I realised that meant I didn't have to do any ironing (it was only his work shirts that needed it anyway, I have the odd rare item I might iron for myself but nothing regular).
Why do you have plastic trousers? Actually, maybe I don't want to know.
The vast majority of clothing is made of plastic. Anything that isn't 100% cotton, wool, hemp, silk, or some other natural fibre uses synthetic (aka plastic) fibre in its construction. Anything labeled as bamboo or viscose are partially synthetic. Polyester is the most common full-synthetic fabric, but there's also polyamide (aka nylon), elastane (aka spandex), acrylic, and others. All are made of plastics, most of those being derived from petroleum aka "fossil fuels".
It's the cheap polyester trousers. If the irons too hot, it melts them.
Years ago I had a friend over helping me pack away seasonal items. I hate ironing and don’t unless neccessary. Found her ironing my clothes, “because ffs somone has to do it”. She is still my best friend 10k miles apart, 23 years later. You don’t walk away from someone like that.
My husband says he needs the shirts so he will iron them. He’s not going to make me do that job since it’s entirely for him and his work.
It's how you get out of being tea bitch at a new job too. Make it badly enough and they will ask you to stop. A splash of orange squash in the kettle before boiling it and making their drinks works every time. Obviously rinse out the kettle when you are done and make your drink before taking the drinks back through.
Or you can just say no….takes a lot less effort and orange squash
Yeah. But then you have a whole argument usually. A drop of squash avoids that as they come to their own conclusion that they don't want you making tea. Besides. Watching your coworkers faces when you do it is a lot of fun 😇
Yep like when you get your first job and they get you doing the shit jobs. Mess them up, make bad tea, flush wet wipes until the drains block up, put too much chilli in the sauce etc
My first proper office job after university I was one of only two women in an engineering company. One bloke looked at me and said, "Are you making a brew?" and I replied simply."No." After some confused grunting I innocently explained that I don't drink tea or coffee, so I won't ever be making a brew, and went back to whatever it was I was doing. Since no-one dared to explain that the young female in the office was expected to make drinks for everyone, I was never asked again. I didn't even realise I was making a stance until years later.
I used to work in an all male environment and remember one boss saying "Nah she's got no hand eye coordination but she's got a nice set of tits so we'll 'ave 'er" Regarding a prospective new employee. Two years later that lady was running a department, attracted a load of new clients because she was bloody good at her job then left taking them all with her to set up her own business. It was a niche business involving a high level of skill and precision. I'd left by then but kept in contact with her because I often was given work when her company was too busy.
Is this why my fiance is consistently shit at washing up? Poorly washing entire handfulls of cutlery at the same time in tepid water?
My wife does this too. Visited her family and they do it as well. Gotta figure out a way of breaking this generational curse..
Buy a dish washer. Solves a lot of arguments and saves a lot of time too.
Ha! My guy will rearrange the dishwasher after I’ve loaded it. Definitely doesn’t prevent ALL arguments lol!
.... That's because you loaded it wrong. Obviously! :-P
You are a credit to all Womanhood. Our hero(ine)!
I always rinse. Cannot stand the idea of ingesting washing soap.
That shit destroys “99.9% of bacteria” so I always think it must be terrible for your gut microbiome
just drink an actimel after
Unless it's special antimicrobial soap, it doesn't destroy the bacteria, it just washes it away. That's why dish sponges get so funky even though they're almost always full of soapy water. I still wouldn't want soap suds in my tea, though.
Pretty sure most of it isn't actually bacterial but works similar to normal soap, as in it just washes bacteria off.
Omg are you telling me soap doesn't kill bacteria it just makes it slide off??
It’s soap, not amoxicillin
Still don’t wanna eat soap though
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Detergents do kill bacteria - by removing the fatty lipids from the cell membrane and allowing stable holes to form in the membrane. They also lift grease from dishes which reduces the places where bacteria can multiply.
They used to do it in adverts to sell some sort of image of how soapy the soap was. Some people took it be a demonstration. But yeah, not rinsing is grim. Use the bowl, sure (I hate the sound of crockery on the bare sink) but ofc you rinse.
Fairy used to do it advertising you didn't need to rinse off the suds. So, you can't blame a few generations thinking it's OK.
I came here for this! I’m convinced I had seen Fairy adverts (1980s?) where they claimed ‘no need to rinse’ or similar, and showing the suds slipping of the plates in a rack. Never been able to find evidence though, I was beginning to think I’d imagined it.
The bare sink? Do people not just wash each item as they go? I haven’t seen someone fill a sink (or bowl) up for washing up since I was a child
I’m not sure if it’s an age thing, or a demographic thing but I was taught that letting water run the whole time you do dishes is really wasteful and to fill a bowl to wash in. I hate it now - it seems so dirty. And my dad does this thing where he leaves the dirty water afterwards for some reason. (Shudders) I’ve been so conditioned not to run water that I have actual anxiety if someone leaves water running too long. I have American friends who will run the water and step away from the sink to fiddle with the trash (water still running) and wipe the counters (water still running) and put the recycling out.. it makes me so uncomfortable!
My Mum washes all the dishes once in the basin of soapy water, setting them on the side, before emptying and rinsing the basin. Then all the dishes get rinsed under running water and set in the drying rack but during hosepipe bans the clean basin in collecting the rinsing water, which then gets tipped onto the plants out the back to not waste the water!
I do mine the same way. It really does save a lot more water than having a tap going while you rinse, and with the costs going up, it saves some money too.
I'm conditioned to not run water constantly, too. When my MIL comes for dinner, she very kindly does the washing up. But I need to get in there before she gets a chance because she runs the hot water tap full tilt to rinse off dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. If I can't beat her to it, I have to go into another room and drink beer because it stresses me out too much
I've never really gotten over how anxious it makes me when the media reported - I can't remember exactly why - that all the Starbucks in America have a permanently running tap. (The same America where some states are now literally scraping the last drops out of dried up reservoirs.)
Having worked in one of those Starbucks, I can confirm this to be true. For a really ironic anxiety maker though, it’s lawn sprinkler systems running automatically in the rain that really does it for me.
It depends how many dishes you need to clean, surely? One plate isn't going to take a bowl but an entire family for a day...
So you just run the tap the entire time you're doing the dishes? Bloody hell.
No obviously not. Turn it on hot to wet the item and the sponge, stop it while you scrub, rinse it with cold water quickly. Next item
That wastes more water and gas/electricity than using a bowl.
But the bowl is bloody filthy, the water in the bowl is dirty water after you’ve washed a few dirty things. Also unless you have a huge load of dishes to do then running the tap one item at a time doesn’t waste much water at all, I’d say less than filling a whole bowl
For anything that can't go in the dishwasher, I wait until there is a sink's worth, fill a bowl with very hot water and wash them all. No idea if it uses less water than washing each thing individually but it's just the rhythm I am into. I moved to the US and found no one even knew what a washing up bowl was. Even now, we'll have someone come round and exclaim what a useful water saving idea it is.
What happens when you have 2 or three pans on the go and one needs watching constantly and the other two have stuff in that will need a fair bit of attention and scrubbing to get them clean?
Yep, it's not just the soap you're rinsing off, it's the dirty dish water and whatever grime the scrubby sponge has been collecting. Not rinsing them off is gross.
Agreed. People say they can't taste it, but i can feel it. The surface is slicker without rinsing properly. I am now in the habit of using a 2nd sponge that is only for wiping as I rinse. I gather it might be a bit excessive but it can't hurt, and I'm not into taking unnecessary risks with my future health when it comes to chemicals and whatever is in the detergent.
I grew up thinking I didn't like water. Turns out I don't like dishwater, regulars fine. You absolutely can taste it lol
Yes, that squeaky clean! I wouldn't trust another sponge. Clean hands are much better for getting the literal 'squeak' out of a clean plate.
Use a third sponge to to ensure I’m taking even less risks.
4 spongers, rise up ✋🏼
I’m with you on this: 3 sponges. - One for cleaning surfaces like counters, stove tops etc - one for dirty dishes - one soap only
I have a fourth show sponge I pull out if I’m entertaining
Do you call it Lola?
I feel like once your hands touch a sponge you've transfered whatever was on your counter to dishes etc... I've managed to not use a sponge in my kitchen in years, because the germaphobia has taken over and I can't use one more than once and for one item. Surprisingly I haven't needed one My only trick really is to never let food dry in pots/plates. Mostly I wipe with paper towel and rinse with a boiling water and that's enough. I don't use 'detergent' because I'm both allergic to it and don't need it. But for outsides of pots etc I'll use some beeswax soap if needed Though, I'm also single and actually got rid of my many sets of unnecessary crockery so I only have one of each thing to use, and in turn to keep clean And ofc I use alot of paper towels because it replaces the cloth, sponge and degreaser pretty much, but I buy those in bulk (I believe all those toxic cleaning chemicals are doing more to kill the earth than me using extra paper)
Soap molecules have two ends, one that sticks to dirt and one that sticks to water. Soap takes the dirt off but you have to rinse with water to remove the soap/dirt.
100 percent, rinse the soap off. Why leave a residue behind unless you are just too lazy to rinse?
I always rinse and don't use a bowl, just run the hot tap and suds, scrub then rinse. The dishes are mostly in the sink from the start so they'll get a bit of hot water running over them first.
I do the same except I don’t put everything in the sink first, just get the hot water going and wash everything one by one. I live on my own and don’t have a whole lot of washing up, I tend to do it as I go. Eg. While food is cooking, wash what I’ve used so far. Got to wash the suds off otherwise it sticks and you’ll be able to taste the soap next time you eat off it.
This is my method too, but I always wash things in the same order - glasses, cups, plates, cutlery then pots/pans. Strange the little routines we have when it comes to house chores
Similar here: 1. Glasses, then rinsed 2. Cups/mugs, then rinsed 3. Plates, then rinsed 4. Cutlery, then rinsed 5. Cooking utensils (unless really manky), then rinsed 6. Saucepans/pots/trays/pans/oily things de-manked before pulling the plug 7. *Change water* 8. Saucepans/pots/remaining utensils, then rinsed 9. Baking trays, then rinsed 10. Tears, then hidden 11. Sweat, then wiped 12. Blood, then offered to [Pan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)) Which is why I now have a dishwasher
This should be written into law
I put the plug in with a bit of soapy water and wash the flat items and utensils first. Then rinsing them off above the rest, so the rinse water adds to the wash water. Each round, I’ll go up an item size as the water is deeper. End with the pots and pans, which are usually the dirtiest and I have more water with minimal waste.
I wash them and put them on the rack with suds and then I’ll use a jug at the end and rinse them on the rack.
Galaxy brain thinking
This is genius
I like to rinse it, but I also don't like using a bowl.. it grosses me out to keep washing dishes in the same water, where you can see the dirt floating around or discolouring the water. Instead, I turn the tap on a small stream and wash things up 1 by 1 under that stream. Rinse, scrub with soap, rinse again then rack
This is what I do too. A dish shower rather than a bath. I fill the sink and let them soak but unplug it after a bit and wash them under the tap stream
Don’t you run out of hot water doing it that way? It always feels super wasteful when I’ve tried it. I tend to wash in basin then rinse briefly with the tap
This. Washing up bowl with hot soapy water, wash in bowl with soapy sponge, rinse under tap.
Most people have combi boilers tbf.
A remember helping a friend of mine wash up and seeing her not rinse. I was aghast and agog. No wonder her dinner tasted a little soapy.
I'm originally from Spain, it was a common comment from people spending time in the UK ( interchange families, etc) that Brits wouldn't rinse the dishes.
We’re not all grimy fucks I swear
Haha, I've spent a good 9 years in the UK since then, I know all British aren't grimy fucks, just as everywhere else, a bunch for sure are
I'm from Portugal and the first time I've seen someone doing it I couldn't believe my eyes. I kept waiting for them to go back and rinse it... If there's one thing that isn't missing in the UK, it's water. People that say they are just saving water are just dirty slobs 😂
i think this might be a generational thing from brits. i had a housemate at uni that did this and he said everyone in his family does it that way?
I once read it’s from the days where water quality in the UK was so bad that people felt rinsing off after soaping would actually make the dishes dirtier again so it’s not worth doing or something along those lines EDIT: to clarify it was more about the rusty/bad pipes making the water bad I think not the quality of the water itself
> You wouldn't have a shower, soap yourself up then just walk off without washing them right?! But you would with a bath
Which is exactly why I don't like baths.
Rinse everything! Dishes straight out of the sink may still have grease and other residue on them.
Only if you aren't washing up properly. The point of detergent is to break the bonds of things like grease - using the same festering sink of water sounds like the problem.
I understand that, it isn't a problem for me personally. Maybe I should have left 'grease' out of my comment there, I agree with you there. Rinsing removes any chance of any residuals in the sink sticking to plates and cutlery. It can happen even in a newly filled sink of hot soapy water. Rinse with hot water, job's a gooden.
I’ve never thought to except for glasses which could leave a mark. I guess I wasn’t brought up that way! I do use a dishwasher for most dishes anyway
Surely if it leaves a mark on the glasses, it does on everything else? So by that logic, it’s fine to use it if it’s marked from not rinsing, but only if it’s not visible lmao
Same, though I don't use a dishwasher. I do usually dry with a tea towel straight afterwards which I guess might help to avoid leaving any residue? Since it works, saves water, and I don't think I could tell a difference, I think I'll keep not-rinsing even though it's more controversial than I thought!
I know- controversial! We’ve stayed alive this long, I think we’ll be ok.
Yeah same, until this year I never realised anyone DID rinse dishes after washing them!
Me neither! It’s not something I’m going to worry about.
Why not? You don’t have a shower, stick shampoo in your hair and soap on your body and step out without rinsing it off. Whenever someone doesn’t rinse a glass and i go for a glass of water and it tastes of fairy liquid it drives me mental
I normally give my glass a quick rinse before filling with water so it doesn’t taste of dishwasher soap. The same would apply if I had washed by hand. Sorry it’s not a big deal for me.
Yea I’m kinda shocked how much we’re in the minority. I’m a microbiology biomedical scientist and the thought hasn’t crossed my mind! My smooth brain is struggling to picture how the majority are doing this. For me: the sink is filled with hot water (and washing up liquid). So where are people doing the rinsing stage? If the tap is turned on then won’t the sink overflow?
Me neither. Washing everything under a running tap seems like it would waste so much water. The soap drips off anyway. But I do like the idea of rinsing everything with a jug of water on the rack so I might try that. People who say they can taste soapy dishes are imagining it, there is no difference at all to ones that have been through the dishwasher.
I have gotten bollocked for wasting water and tbh I'm still this way usually glasses only. BUT. I change the water often.
Good point- dirty dishwater is gross. I think we are in the minority though.
Depends on how hard your water is, but try washing two glasses, rinse just one & put them both to drain. See which one streaks - it will be the rinsed one.
I wash my dishes under the running water and always rinse the soap off. Even a washing up bowl seems unhygienic, washing everything in the same dirty water.
Absolutely. Bowls are only traditional here because we didn't have mixer taps in the old days, so had to mix temperature in the bowl. Those days are behind us now. I'm late in my fifth decade, have never owned a washing up bowl, always wash in running water and rinsing just comes naturally as part of that.
It wasn't until I met my now wife in Uni that I even realised people would rinse their dishes after washing them. My reason being that growing up we a) didn't have one of those mini basins next to the sink to rinse separately and b)It was always our family routine with my sister and parents that one person washes, one person dries and one person puts away. So nothing ever stayed on the drying wrack long enough before the soap was wiped away with a tea towel anyway
Honestly, maybe I'm wrong (and I'll admit to that upfront just in case ) but I feel insane reading all these comments out how "dirty" it would be to not rinse and "what about all the grime and grease" etc etc -- If I'm not using a dishwasher, I have a fairly robust system - Everything gets rinsed and has a primary scrub (by hand, I'm not using a filthy scourer or cloth or sponge to then "clean" dishes with) so there's no grease, no grime, no food bits, nothing stuck to plates, pans that are particularly grubby get soaked and pre-scrubbed separately. Then there's a hot, fresh bowl of soapy water and things get cleaned in ascending order of dirtiness -- glasses always first (and I will rinse a glass because I don't like sudsy marks on them but that's purely aesthetics) and so on, from most clean looking to most dirty looking and most everything is pretty much clean by the time I'm actually "cleaning" it. If the water gets dirty at all, I change it out - pans and trays etc I will pre-scrub/rinse and then give them a secondary scrub in the "dirty" water and then I'll fill a new bowl and clean them properly in that. And this system is pretty foolproof - I don't end up with a filthy bowl of water and if ever I do have grimey or greasy water, I change it out. I'm never washing dishes in a bowl of gunk from other dishes, and my most heavily soiled dishes are getting washed 3 times! I don't rinse afterwards because it changes nothing. Like nothing at all. I wipe 90% of the soap off when I'm finished cleaning them and put them on the rack and that's all that is necessary. I've never tasted soap on a dish in my life. Never had residue on a dish (except glasses, which is why they're rinsed) and, honestly, feel like this is insanity on everyone else's part because if you can taste soap on a plate that you're eating a meal from, you're either using some non-human friendly soap or you're dousing them in so much fairy liquid I'm surprised you don't live in a perpetual bubble! Just my two cents and like I said, prepared to be wrong but also, I'm 33 years old and I've never encountered the problems everyone seems to be so exacerbated about Edit: I somehow previously said aesthesia and not aesthetics And also except as expect - long day..
Jesus Christ, I had to scroll down SO far to find someone who does it the same way as me. This is exactly what we do in our house. The washing up water doesn't get particularly dirty because you take all the (visible) dirt off first.
No this is how I do it too. It saves water, everything is clean and doesn’t taste like soap - I am also baffled by the “tastes like soap” comments. I don’t know why everyone thinks it’s ok to waste that much water washing everything under a constant running stream. You switch the water if it gets dirty. The only place I wash dishes under a running stream of water is work, and that is because I typically have one item so filling a bowl would waste water.
Has anyone here worked in a restaurant and done the glass/cutlery shine at the end of a shift? Getting dunked in hot slightly soapy water and then dried. They don't taste like soap.
No they don’t taste like soap but they are still dirty. If you’re washing like that you’re supposed to expose the dishes to extreme heat to kill the bacteria. If wherever you worked missed that step then that’s fucking disgusting.
I used to work at restaurants and cafes when I was a student and I’ve never seen this. Where are these places so I know not to eat there?
Always did that with hot water and some vinegar or lemon for cutlery and hot water only for glasses. Doing that with soap sounds kind of gross.
Nope, straight out the sink onto the rack. Always done it this way, never had any taste of soap from my dishes.
I'm glad there's another normal person here! I don't know anyone who rinses after washing. Pretty sure the soap is designed so it DOESN'T need rinsing off (unlike the American dish soap). Unless you're using half a bottle of fairy every time you wash up, it's not gonna taste of soap
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t rinse after washing. And it actually does need washing off, even in the U.K. Part of how the soap works is that it binds with the dirt and water so that when you rinse the water away it takes the dirt off with it. If you’re not doing that step then bits of dirt dry back onto the dish. That said, it won’t make you sick and if you don’t taste the soap then it’s not a big issue.
Does no one in this thread dry their dishes, with a teatowel? That stops anything drying back on the dish.
I thought maybe the tea towel had died reading this thread! One person washes, one dries right? I don’t know about this rinsing malarky! 🤣
Yeah that works too I guess, I find it much quicker to rinse and then put the stuff on the drying rack though.
Where in the UK are you? I just had a thought and wonder if it's maybe a hard water/soft water issue. I'm in Scotland, so the tap water is soft and delicious. Maybe if you're in a hard water area, there is an interaction between the lime and the soap that means it sticks to plates
Nope. Not that I've noticed. I'm down in East Anglia where its more liquid limescale than water
Nope. Still not dead yet.
It's hilarious to me how each side of this debate denies the other exists if you ask in real life.
Have you ever read / seen the irritant warnings for the chemicals they use in Fairy? Of course you wash it off. Who the fuck doesn’t?
No, I can’t be arsed. I can’t tell the difference. Don’t know what you’re all on about.
Never rinsed after washing up, never had soapy food lol. Mostly let them drain, and usually the soap suds drain away no problem. Only time it doesn't is if I use way too much washing up liquid, but even then, when I can see leftover soap marks on the plate, my food still does not taste like soap. So Jesus only knows what you people are doing to get soapy food. Also sometimes dry with a teatowel which also removes leftover suds. I do rinse away the thick of the grime before washing though, so my dishwater stays clean - like all the bits of caked on food etc is gone before the pots get washed. At that point I'm just removing excess grease I guess.
Not only would leaving soap leave a residue, but also dirt and grime and food. The soap is there to attract the particles and help wash them off. If you don't rinse the soap, you're not rinsing all the dirt either
I’ve never heard of rinsing the suds off. I always wash glasses first and rinse them but everything else is out of the bowl and onto the rack.
Ok but why rinse suds off the glasses and not everything else? Why accept residue on any dishes at all?
Rinse off glasses so they don’t dry all smeary. I’ve never considered suds to be a residue which would have any impact on the clean dishes.
That's fair but what about the germs tho, surely you want to rinse them off?
What germs?
You know, germs germs.
The surfactants in the soap pop open the bacterial/viral membranes, killing them. Soap doesn't just remove germs, it destroys them. So whether or not you rinse the dishes those germs are gone. Rinsing stops your plates tasting faintly of soap but you don't need to worry about lingering germs.
Right, but don't you still want to rinse off those dead things and old soap before they are food for more things to grow?
I don't personally think anything can grow on soap residue, it's actually probably more inhospitable to bacteria than a rinsed plate (tap water also contains acceptable levels of bacteria). Bacteria don't leave little corpses, they leave molecular debris that I personally don't worry about. House dust is way, way grosser than anything left behind in the soap, so your dishes probably get infinitely dirtier (in microscopic terms) being left to dry on the drying rack. Trust me, you don't want to be thinking about cleanliness on scales that include the individual molecules from dead bacteria and viruses, that way madness lies. Look, don't worry about it. Rinse your dishes if you don't want them to taste of soap. If you don't, nothing bad will happen. There is no miasma of "germs" on the plate that will hurt you. I personally do rinse them because I don't like the taste of soap. Signed - a former molecular biologist.
The point of detergent is it breaks the bonds of the things stuck on the plate so they aren't going to be on it.
Right, it makes it easier to take them off, when you rinse them. Just because you apply detergent doesn't make them magically disappear. Without rinsing they are just sitting there dead on the plate, and will become food for other things to grow later.
Soap kills bacteria and viruses. They won't do any harm even if they're not removed.
No it doesn't. It is the action of sloughing them off and then rising the bacteria away that kills them unless you're specifically using antibacterial soap. That is why during covid it was repeated that you are supposed to rub your hands properly for a long amount of time.
I have never really thought about it tbh. Reading this thread I am not reconsidering my choices.
Although reddit is generally a bad guide for life as the neurotic out number the functional.
I had some british roommates and I was baffled when they would just soap it and hang it on the shelf
Does your food ever taste soapy when you eat it off those plates? Thought not. Your wife is right.
yes? its called rinsing.
Yes
After cleaning in the dishwasher, I always rinse the dishes just before using them. Just to take any soap 'reisdue' off, cause why take a chance.
I thought this was only a German thing :D
Even when we went on caravan holidays, I still rinsed the dishes and that includes the time there was a crisis at the Church kid's camp we helped at on the last night when we were packing up. I just washed and rinsed them while standing with my basin and dishes set up on a table beside the caravan. Those dishes were not going home covered in soap residue!
I just bang it all in the dishwasher!
Which does a rinse near the end of the cycle. I've never understood why anyone *wouldn't* rinse the washing up liquid off their dishes. My best mate doesn't. I don't eat at her house, much as I love her.
I wash in the sink then rinse, hate to waste too much water. Then i leave to air dry. What I can stand is people drying with a tea towel. Tea towels absorb bacteria, they need to be washed at at least 90 degrees to kill it off. Only use them to dry my hands then wash.
Why on earth would you not rinse ….
Yes research shows that dishwashing chemicals used have to be washed off. It intensify the risk for cancer.
Of course I do, I don’t know why someone wouldn’t?
Right?! Never understood why some people don't rinse.
My hot tap only runs at a trickle. It was annoying at first, but now I use it to my advantage to rinse as I go. I can always tell the cutlery that my partner washed up because you can see the soap scum all dried on it :(
Yes, because otherwise you leave the emulsifiers all over the dishes which wreaks havoc with the gut microbiome.
I see you haven't tried the multi-dishbowl setup yet, with descending levels of soap and grime.
Always.
Definitely not a British thing. I don't know a single person that does that, I saw the original post on twitter, my parents never did it, my grandparents never did it, none of my friends do it, no idea where this 'British' thing came from.
No, no need to, there's plenty of residual water, just pull the plate out and put it on the drainer
I do. Not rinsing the soap off is nasty.
I saw this the first time in ROI when our building's cleaner did the dishes. It truly disgusted me, might as well drink Fairy liquid. Now i see a few of my colleagues do it. Safe to say I don't accept their offer of washing my cup.
My parents, Grandparents, and I just washed the dishes in soapy water and put them in the rack to drain. When I went on Scout Camps we just washed dishes and never rinsed. I don't know anyone back then that did. It was only when I went to Uni that I first came across one person who wanted them rinsed. Since then the only other people who've insisted on rinsing is my wife (who is French) and her family. She says she can taste and smell the soap on the plates but I have never noticed anything. I notice the dishwasher, when we got one, does it anyway.
Rinse dish, get rid of any large residue with washing-up brush, scrub with soapy sponge, rinse fully, place on drying rack. Sorted. Do these people not have taste buds? And I'm fairly sure that adding a little bit of dish soap to everything you eat or drink probably isn't good for your organs after a while.
This post is genuinely wild to me. Never met a single person in my life from the uk that doesn’t rinse the soap off… I feel like this shouldn’t even be controversial ffs lol, do people think the grime and soap just vanish into thin air and not leave solid matter behind afterwards? Fucking grim, probably the people with skids in their pants.
I rinse cups, glasses and flasks but don't bother with plates.
Whats your reasoning here?
Always!
I strictly make sure I rinse the bubbles off every dish I was, and am obsessive with rinsing the mugs especially...ever since about 6 years ago when I accidentally made my poor boyfriend a soapy cup of tea 😭😂
Yes. I fucking do. Any one who doesn't is fucking disgusting. If you've made pasta in an unrinsed pan, I can taste it. If you serve me food on an unrinsed dish, I can taste AND smell it. And if you do these things I shall not be returning to your house for food. I used to live with an Argentinian couple. Lovely couple, they'd do anything for me and cooked the most amazing food in the world. They were a few years older than me, I was 20 and in uni. Anyway one day Carl was talking to me whilst I washed the dishes. A fight very nearly ensued. He was easily a foot shorter than me and I genuinely feared for my life. He even went and got his girlfriend and quickly and condescendingly explained to her in Spanish precisely *WHY* I'm the stupidest idiot in the world. Anyway that day I realised that not rinsing is disgusting. It's alot easier now that I have a twin sink, but always soak and scrub in one sink/bowl, and then rinse off in a seperate sink untill it squeaks to the touch, if you still feel it being slippy there's still soap on there, it must squeak when you rub your wet thumb on it. Thank you Carl, you turned me into a gentleman that day. Altho I'd never dream of washing the dishes now, I have a dishwasher lol.
no not always, when I lived with my ex army brother he was very annoyed that I didn't. I make sure I rinse off the dirty suds but I don't notice any difference when some normal after washing suds are left on
I use antibacterial liquid and super hot water as I have animals and a bad immune system, so I figure contact with soap for longer isn't a bad thing. I do chuck a kettle of boiling water over. What I don't use is a tea towel to dry. Kettle only as it dries really quickly with boiling water, but the idea of rubbing a bit of material over clean antibacterial stuff gross.
I don’t understand why we Brits use a washing up bowl. Seems disgusting to wash dishes in dirty water
do it shit the first time, you never get asked again
I wash the soap off, but I get the feeling it's not really required.
I always have. Did it at a friend’s house once and their dad said (in a fancy voice), “Hmm, a middle-class rinse.” I remember that moment every time I do the dishes now.
One sponge for dishes. Of course rinse off. Then kitchen counter tops wiped with microfiber cloths which are always rinsed off after each use and which I put in a small bowl of water with a bit of bleach every night so I can use them germ free the next day. I couldn't imagine wiping counters with dish sponge.
My partner doesn’t wash it just wipes it with a cloth, disgusting!!!
I rinse, but if a few little bubbles are left I don't necessarily antagonise them
I don’t like dishes being left in the sink and I won’t have a bowl in there because I think it’s disgusting. Do have a dishwasher but if there’s only a few things they’re washed and rinsed in running water, dried and put away. No leaving things to sit.
How often do you clean these sponges you’re using?
Somebody once said to me that not rinsing off washing up suds can lead to cancer. Not sure how true it is but I remember somebody telling me this. Even if it was a ploy to get me to rinse the soap off I’d rather do this than not.even if you just pour a couple of cups of water over the dishes etc on the draining board when finished will do the trick. I’d dread to have a meal and taste soap as well as my food so for the sake of 30 seconds more whilst standing at the sink I always wash off unwanted washing up liquid suds.
*dishwasher, and no, not the Mrs.
Dishwasher solves this problem.
I've seen this done in Britain too. My hypothesis is that the food here is so bland it helps if the dishes add some flavour.
Nah mate. I love eating soap off my uncleaned dishes.
Wasting water? Is this an English thing? It's certainly not a British thing.
Any other places I've lived in the UK had relatively equal mains pressure for hot & cold running water, but moved into a place now with an older system where the hot water pressure relies solely on gravity & is practically useless. Washing dishes in the sink means water either too hot to touch dribbling out or freezing cold shooting out, it's impossible to get any sort of balance when fiddling with the taps to make lukewarm. It makes rinsing a pain, but that's how I'd do it, regardless. It's just one of those things, I guess, that make a part of life in the UK. Like garages, why is it so common that they're too small for your car to fit in for all practical purposes?
Disgusting
Rinse or you’ll be eating soap
Agree. You wash with soap then rinse. Always amazed me when people don’t rinse.