Washing up shocker

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

I didn't think the Americans had draining boards.

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 ?

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.

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.

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

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

The OP did say it was just a lighthearted observation🙄

What's one of those, please?

I rinse before loading the dishwasher, however there are only two of us most of the time so the dishwasher does not go on every day and I can't bear the though of soiled dishes festering away until the dishwasher is full. I have extra crockery so I can do this without running out. My stainless steel pans and enamel trays can go in the dishwasher but my non stick pans are always hand washed, rinsed and dried. We have a water softener too which makes washing up liquid hard to lather. I suppose it depends on whether you live in a hard or soft water area.

MissAdventure

What's one of those, please?

I've forgotten .

They used to be a thing before BOTS took over GN and reduced everything to 'I saw', 'I read', 'I heard'.

I hope they return and we can all start having fun and thinking for ourselves meow and then.

If you dont rinse, they taste of soap!😅😝

I’ve never heard of this before! Not rinsing soapy dishes??? Yuk.

I like to wash dishes even though I have a dishwasher, but it definitely helps to have two sinks or the capacity to wash and rinse and air dry, if not drying immediately. You need to get rid of the soap!

I sometimes can taste the fairy liquid at certain houses.

My parents never rinsed the washing up. All items plonked in a bowl and washed in what then became dirty water, and then not rinsed.

It seemed OK to me but when my boyfriend (now husband), who was from another country came round and saw this he was appalled. From then on, I have always rinsed, and cringe a bit when I see people who don't.

Having said that, with the lax meat production practices in the USA and their heavy consumption of ultra processed food (and I acknowledge we have definitely gone that way too), perhaps there are more important issues to address.

Just an observation - I looked after a young man once who had been mysteriously paralysed, and gone blind. A series of hospitals and specialists couldn't diagnose why this brilliant young man in his early twenties (he'd been working on his PhD when it happened, but had gone travelling round the world the year before) was now in a wheelchair and in constant pain, incapacitated. At length his parents decided to give him a measure of independence by buying a bungalow for him where he could live on his own, with carers coming in (yes, his family were pretty wealthy but no amount of private doctors had been able to help.) Mysteriously, he hadn't been in the bungalow long before he began to improve, and before the year was out he was back to full health, sight restored, driving a car and working. It eventually turned out that the cause of all his problems was an intolerance to some substance(s) in the dishwasher tablets that his parents used. Once in the bungalow, his carers just washed up by hand using Fairy Liquid and rinsing. His parents had got the dishwasher during the years he was away at university, degree, postgrad, and then travelling; but when doing his PhD he moved back home. Makes you think!

I always wash then rinse, I would hate the taste of washing up liquid !!

My dil who is from another country is disgusted by our methods and washes things under a hot running tap. She won't take a drink in my house but brings her own.

Honestly- you can’t taste soap on unrinsed dishes . As I said, I favour the machine and Mr Dog likes to hand wash, so we have dishes cleaned using both methods in our cupboards. I defy anyone to do a taste test and identify the ‘soapy’ ones.

I hate having dishes on the drainer, and if there were any merit in arguing that I could taste soap on the plates I would use it, but it’s just not the case.