Washing up shocker

What's one of those, please?

The OP did say it was just a lighthearted observation🙄

I couldn't give a damn what the Americans think, nobody ever suffered in our home from not rinsing the before drying.

Some people cannot sacrifice any more space in their kitchens for a dishwasher, even a slim one.

I have got into the habit (don’t know why) of swishing my tea mug out with boiled water before making a cuppa.
Bit like warming the pot I suppose.

Dishwasher, everything goes in it.. Had one for all my married life, can't remember when I last washed up post meal . My children don't know any different.

Wash, rinsed and leave to drain then give a polish with the drying up cloth before everything is put away.

If we have visitors we use the dishwasher. Then things need to sit on the work surface for a few minutes so they dry off completely.

This reminds me of a conversation with a Finnish student about British bathing habits - did we rinse the dirty water off ourselves before getting out of the bath ?

I didn't think the Americans had draining boards.

A lot of households now are on a water meter so rinsing uses more water. I put the dishwasher on a couple of times a week when it is completely full. There are just the two of us now and fortunately we have a couple of dinner sets and enough cutlery to get by by not using the dishwasher more frequently. I tend to hand wash saucepans and baking trays etc, hot water and squirt of liquid not too many suds so fine

This reminds me of a time I was invited to my daughters now ex boyfriends parents house for Christmas dinner.

I offered to do the washing up, I had nearly finished when the boyfriends mother turned to me and said .... I use that washing up sponge for the cats dishes!!!!

Why it was on the draining board I don't know! I just assumed it was what she used.

I have always rinsed everything; dishes before they go in the DW (so DW won't get clogged up with food particles) and any hand-washed dishes. Can't bear to see soapy, bubbly plates and cutlery left on the draining board. DH doesn't rinse, and I'm itching to rinse them myself (I've asked him many times to rinse, but it falls on deaf ears!). To me rinsing just makes sense - not only do I not want to ingest the soap chemicals, I don't want to eat off a plate that has been washed in not too clean water (only the first things you wash will have been washed in clean water).

Bought first dishwasher in 1987 and EVERYTHING goes in it. Glasses, chopping boards, pans the lot. High temperatures to kill all the bugs and proven to be more economical.

Spencer2009

Why wouldn’t you rinse the soap off, it would make the food and drink taste disgusting

It really doesn't . People wouldn't do it if that were the case.

A small squirt of Fairy Liquid into a large bowl of water is massively diluted, and the amount that sits on a given plate after draining and/or drying must be miniscule.

Have always washed and rinsed under running water, after leaving to drain if anything does need need a quick dry I use a paper towel. Not very environmentally friendly but hygienic.

I wash up, then drain on the plate rack, then leave to dry.
I don’t see the need to rinse or dry with tea towel.
All crockery etc put away next morning.
Everything perfectly clean and dry.

The only thing I do rinse are pots and pans for some reason.

Why wouldn’t you rinse the soap off, it would make the food and drink taste disgusting

Always rinse.

Years ago an article suggested that residue of washing up liquid could build up inside the body and cause a fatty liver. Can't recall quite how this manifested itself, but we have always rinsed anything hand washed before drying. Our cutlery has to be hand washed as it is old and can't cope with corrosive dishwasher tablets.

I neither rinse dishes before washing them, which in the 1970s suddenly became the only correct way of washing up in Denmark, rinse dishes after they have been washed or use a dish-washer.

I was up as I was taught as a child, a basin of hot water with a little washing up liquid and wash glasses first, then cultlery, then plates and saucepans last. Change the water if necessary, and dry dishes as soon as they are washed.

I honestly thought all Americans used dish-washers and that only Muslims rinsed dishes (7 times) after washing them. Shows how little I know.

I thought rinsing dishes went out when detergents became usual - we rinsed dishes when we used soap flakes and washing soda in my early childhood, but never after that.

I doubt anything much is hygienic, unless a kitchen is scrubbed down like an operating theatre after every use.

I've never thought of my washing up bowl as a menace. Even if you use a sink and put contaminated cutting boards with plates the result would be the same.
If you disinfect the washing up bowl regularly and the sink and rinse dishes after washing there shouldn't be a problem.

My DH upset a very fastidious relative who would only use paper towels to wipe surfaces and chopping boards.

He pointed out that the paper mills which produce them are very far from hygienic.

That was a four year old report though.

Professor Hugh Pennington, from the University of Aberdeen, one of Britain's leading infection experts, said: "I would like to get rid of washing-up bowls altogether. They are an absolute menace."

Professor Pennington said that placing chopping boards and knives teeming with germs together with plates and glasses in a plastic bowl created an ideal environment for the spread of bugs.

Colleague Professor Sally Bloomfield, from King's College, London, said there was a high risk of salmonella being transmitted from chopping boards to plates in the washing-up bowl.

The experts said disposable paper cloths should be used instead of tea-towels that could easily spread infection.

They also recommended using "good old fashioned bleach" in the kitchen rather than newer anti-bacterial products that were only vaguely effective.

Thousands of cases

Last year there were more than 17,000 reported cases of salmonella poisoning in England and Wales and 55,000 cases of infection by campylobacter, a common bug that causes stomach upsets.

Estimates for unreported cases pushed the number of salmonella infections up to more than 50,000 and campylobacter to more than 400,000.

Viruses were responsible for a vast number of infections, possibly amounting to more than three million cases.

Professor Pennington said: "One in five of us each year will get diarrhoea.

"To me, that's a public health scandal, because it's preventable."

He said it was best to get rid of the washing-bowl and instead use the whole sink.

I only think that washing up bowls would be “rife with germs” if they weren’t cleaned and disinfected regularly. Otherwise, they’re no more of a problem than a sink would be, as it, too, needs regular wiping and disinfecting, otherwise it, too, would be rife with germs.

Regarding the rinsing, things I wash by hand get a quick follow up rinse after washing (glasses, sharp knives, pans), everything else goes in the dishwasher, for it to deal with.