Washing up shocker

I can imagine a family of long faced people, huddled around a table, pushing the food around, and looking glum.
"I wish one of us would rinse the washing up..."
"Yes, me too..."

I have a tiny kitchen so I use my dishwasher, packed to the gunnels.

😂. I must learn to close the kitchen blinds, Miss A.

But next time you’re looking in, just knock and you can conduct the taste test.

I'm coming in for dinner.
Chicken in a detergent sauce.

You can definitely taste fairy. I think some people put in far too much detergent and also when washing clothes. I hate sitting near someone who stinks of fabric conditioner.

Oh we had this one a couple of weeks ago.

MissAdventure

I'm coming in for dinner.
Chicken in a detergent sauce.

My signature dish.

why do people keep calling it 'soap' it is a liquid made specifically for washing dishes ect for which you need just a drop!
soap conjurers up a bar

MissAdventure

I'm coming in for dinner.
Chicken in a detergent sauce.

That would be a good meal. No need to wash up at all, as the detergent sauce would mean the plate was already clean!

I can honestly say that in my nearly 70 years I have never eaten from a dish or drunk from a cup and thought to myself ‘Hmm, this item has not been rinsed after washing up.’

I’m in general pretty sensitive to smells, I can smell a dirty towel or dishcloth from a hundred feet away but unrinsed dishes? Nope. Though now I’m going to go round everywhere sniffing the crockery and cutlery.

It's happened to me at church dos when some enthusiastic volunteer has filled up a bowl with too much fairy and left cups to drain.

Wait. What? I've never heard anything about how Brits wash up. I'm fascinated. Don't count this Yank in that bunch. I love learning about how different things can be "across the pond"!
xxoo

Rinse & drip dry on a rack, but mostly dish washer

Babs03

We used our dishwasher a lot but are aware that it uses a lot of electricity to run so in order to cut back on energy bills we tend to wash up in the sink now, is only the two of us so is not much to do, but when we have the family back or friends for a meal we do use it.

I’ve read quite a few times that it is cheaper to use the dishwasher than wash up by hand- who knows🤷‍♀️

Mt61
I’ve also read that it’s cheaper to use the longer duration economy setting because the water doesn’t need to be heated up so much. But then the instructions add
It is essential that you use a hot water program regularly to prevent the dishwasher becoming contaminated with residue or bacteria.
The thought of the dishwasher accumulating residue and bacteria to be shared with the next wash keeps me using it once a day on the main cycle.

"Professor Pennington said that placing created an ideal environment for the spread of bugs." but you don't put them in all together into a plastic bowl! For one thing, there wouldn't be enough room in the plastic bowl for all the items used in preparing, cooking and eating a meal!

If it can go into the dishwasher it does. That leaves the good glasses that would be spoilt in the machine, any plastic bowls or jugs that have been used for preparation and and are so light that they would fly around in the machine, and any pots and pans that are too big for the machine plus large chopping boards. (small plastic chopping boards go in the dishwasher)

I wash glasses first and dunk them briefly into rinsing water before drying them or putting them to drain, then plastic bowls etc, and chopping boards.

Even before I had a dishwasher, I would never have put "chopping boards and knives teeming with germs together with plates and glasses in a plastic bowl"

The cleanest things are handwashed first, the dirtiest and most likely to contaminate are washed last, and the hot soapy water is changed when it gets mucky or greasy. Things are rinsed either as each is washed, or several things at a time. Thee is no chance for the bacteria on, say, raw meat to contaminate glassware or crockery or cutlery.

Yes, you can tell professor Pennington doesn't do much washing up.

It was just the first of many results google threw up.

I may add that I don't think I have ever suffered from food poisoning, either in my 50 years of married meal-making or in my twenty-five years of life before that, when my mother didn't own a fridge, let alone a machine to wash the dishes!

Our cold food and milk used to be kept in the coal bunker.

Ours was kept in a bowl of cold water, with a damp cloth over it to cool it by evaporation, the whole thing in a north-facing larder.

Reading Professor Pennington, I am left amazed that the human population has managed to grow so large and, despite current problems, to be so healthy and live so long.

On his warnings, we would all be ended by infection from a not too clean, clean fork before we were 5.

I suspect the problem is that of people who work with problems get everything out of proprtion. I have a friend who is a personal injury lawyer, who deals with lots of cyclists who have been injured in road accidents and according to her cycling is just about the most dangerous occupation that anyone can get involved with. The problem is she only knows cyclists who have had accidents. The many millions who cycle each day perfectly safely never come her way. I think Prof. Pennington's involvement in all the dreadful things that microbes can do you, has made him unable to realise that most of us get through life without being life threateneingly ill every time we do not wash a fork properly.

Ah, that's the rub.
What is properly?

MissAdventure

Ah, that's the rub.
What is properly?

Does it matter?

Not in the slightest.

Mt61

Rinse & drip dry on a rack, but mostly dish washer

Me too.
I only put the dishwasher on when it’s totally packed, so maybe once every few days.