Washing up shocker

Rhinestone

We are so depressed over here across the pond .Harris ran a wonderful campaign . Mexico elects a Jewish Woman and we elect a felon . There are lots of anger and tears here . I fear for my grandchildren especially my granddaughter . There were lots of people who didn’t vote , who were uneducated and never listened to the debate or any speeches. Some just voted party. I’m physically ill today from all this . We cannot take four more years of his lying , hate and racist remarks along with his misogyny. Many want to leave the country . We need lots of support here today

You’re probably on the wrong thread, Rhinestone, because this one is about washing up, but sending you virtual hugs and . I can understand your distress. Best wishes.

Hands use zero, Macadia but you still have to heat the water!

kittylester

*Babs03*, I think it has been proved that it is much cheaper, and more ecologically sound, to use a dishwasher than to wash up by hand.

Yes KittyLester, a dishwasher uses far less water than washing by hand. That part has been proven. I don't know how how much electric they use but hands use zero.

AGAA4

I always rinse then leave to dry. Don't want washing up liquid residue, left on plates, in my food.

Same !

Wonder why the OP is concerned what other countries think about how some Brits wash up..I'm sure there's many Americans who don't have dishwashers

Rhinestone

We are so depressed over here across the pond .Harris ran a wonderful campaign . Mexico elects a Jewish Woman and we elect a felon . There are lots of anger and tears here . I fear for my grandchildren especially my granddaughter . There were lots of people who didn’t vote , who were uneducated and never listened to the debate or any speeches. Some just voted party. I’m physically ill today from all this . We cannot take four more years of his lying , hate and racist remarks along with his misogyny. Many want to leave the country . We need lots of support here today

and hugs…

Americans use what they call soap for washing up. Presumably it’s actually detergent the same as we use.
Also what we call wiping they call scrubbing.

Babs03

Apparently Americans are shocked by how we Brits wash up -tbh I don’t think is groundbreaking just a lighthearted observation. The thing is they cannot get their heads around the fact that many of us don’t rinse off the soap/suds from our dishes before leaving them to drain, apparently everyone rinses off the dishes before leaving to drain stateside.
Personally I do rinse off the soap before draining but have a grown daughter who doesn’t but she doesn’t drain, she dries the dishes immediately.
So how do you wash up?

I find it hard to accept criticism of what the US perceives as our inadequate washing up habits from a nation who have just elected a sex-pest convicted felon with delusional fantasies as “leader of the free world”.
Our kitchen habits pale into insignificance.

We are so depressed over here across the pond .Harris ran a wonderful campaign . Mexico elects a Jewish Woman and we elect a felon . There are lots of anger and tears here . I fear for my grandchildren especially my granddaughter . There were lots of people who didn’t vote , who were uneducated and never listened to the debate or any speeches. Some just voted party. I’m physically ill today from all this . We cannot take four more years of his lying , hate and racist remarks along with his misogyny. Many want to leave the country . We need lots of support here today

Was all pot then rinse straight away and dry.

I always rinse, dh does not.

I can remember butter and milk standing in a saucer or bowl of water in the pantry covered with a teacloth with its edges in the water so it stayed damp and the water evaporation kept the butter or milk cool.

Many years ago my parents had caravan for holidays and that had a fridge that worked purely on water evaporation. It looked like a block of plaster about 18 inches -2 ft cube, which encased a small metal cupboard about a foot cube. In the top of the plaster was a shallow dip, which you poured water into and it permeated through the plaster, evaporated and kept the contents of the box remarkably cool.

Later when I had what was, laughingly called, a 'studio flat',(one room with kitchenette and shared bathroom), the kitchenetts had no fridge and the caravan fridge was excavated from a corner of the garage and sat under the sink in my kitchen. It was very effective, especially in hot weather.

Nope, as true as I'm riding this unicycle...
Our milk, bacon and things like that were kept in an airtight box in the coal bunker.

It usually just had the milk in it, and it would have been rare to have any other stuff.

It was just to the side of the door.

My Nan used to do the milk in a bucket of cold water thing, I remember that.

MissAdventure

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

Our coal bunker and larder were next to each other.
The difference was the larder had a door off the kitchen and the coal bunker had a smaller door reached from outside the house.

Milk was kept in a pail of cold water in the larder until we got a fridge.

MissAdventure

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

You’re making it up now, admit it!😂

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.

Not in the slightest.

MissAdventure

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

Does it matter?

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

"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.