Washing up shocker

Always rinse when hand washing. Chemicals in washing up liquid not good

When I lived in Turkey, my Turkish friends thought it was disgusting to wash up in a sink/bowl as the water used for the later dishes would be contaminated. Dishes should be washed and rinsed in running water and left to drain, using a tea towel to dry dishes is unhygienic as you don't use a fresh cloth for each item. Funny how we all do things differently.

No dishwasher just my arthritic hands! So plastic bowl in sink, hot water run in & Fairy Antibac. Wash mugs & plates first then whatever used for cooking. Wash cats bowls next. Then fight my tortoise for his dish & tiles under his lamp as I always have to put him to bed! Then finish with his bits. Leave hot tap dribbling to top up water & rinse as bowl fills! Easy peasy living alone with just the cat & tortoise for company! Takes 10 mins even with my dodgy hands. More time to get back to my book!

Always rinse. Thoroughly . Do not wish to consume more chemicals. Saving water is all very well but protecting your body from even more nasties far more important. Waging up liquid is a petroleum derived product. Ugh

Washing up liquid

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Interesting thread! I’m in the U.S, and was always taught to rinse off the soap. I’ve had horrible stomach aches the few times I’ve accidentally ingested dish soap. Must be using too much perhaps?

The scientists who work for the Companies in the Washing-Up liquid 'field' have to take into account that many people don't rinse. It can't be that dangerous or they would simply bad "Bitrex" to it, in order to 'force' people to rinse .
When it's thought about, drying the crockery& utensils wouldn't remove the washing-up water residues from the surfaces, unless they were polished until they were bone-dry.

I'm sure I read somewhere that washing up bowls are rife with germs.

I wash mine out with some hot soapy water then rinse.

I've got a horrible sink, so if I put a bowl in it, they both end up horrible.

kircubbin2000

I do rinse but I had to hold my tongue last week when a well meaning visitor insisted on washing up.

This made me chuckle!

If anyone offers to wash up in my house, I say: "No, it's my meditation." It really is! Something about the system and order I do things in....

My son-out-law gets it 😁

hollysteers

eazybee

Does not rinsing affect the taste of the food eaten from the plates? I have never noticed it.
I think Americans would do better to examine the content of the food they eat rather than criticizing other countries washing-up.

This. Americans on the whole, are huge!

I think obesity is a worry for the UK, too, to be honest.

When an American says he is going to wash-up he means he is going to take a shower. I found this out when I offered to help my American son-in-law!

My girl used to stac everything up in a certain order, and it had to be washed that way.
She would get all angst ridden if anyone meaning me disturbed the order.

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.

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.

That was a four year old report though.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Always rinse.

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