Do you rinse ?

I am married to someone who knows and we rinse hand washed dishes. He considers that we may ingest some washing up liquid from the dishes and not totally spotless tea towels. We don't wipe them up anyway. They are left to dry naturally.
For those who say ' life is too short to rinse' why shorten it even further then, by eating washing up liquid.

Worse than washing up liquid residue, is getting a cup some ejit in a cafe or such has bleached the cups but not rinsed the bleach smell off.

Rinse
They'll take on taste of washing up liquid if not

Since I bought my first dishwasher in the early 1990s I havent hand washed anything. The whole lot goes into the dishwasher, glasses, pans, bread boards, knives - absolutely everything. No need for tea towels, washing up brushes, washing up liquid etc. Dishwashers use less water and less energy, wash cleaner and the dishes come out dry.

This thread makes me want to go out and buy disposable paper plates.

.....while we're on the subject of teeth, my pet peeve is people who spit out watered toothpaste while brushing and don't rinse the bathroom sink after they're done.

I thought at first this was about teeth!

I always rinse the washing up - I hate the taste of washing-up liquid and I want everything to be clean.

I don't rinse when I clean my teeth (thought I ought to share this because of my mistake) This made me think and I realise that this is a comparatively new change (past couple of decades) because I didn't know you shouldn't before that.

I always rinse in hot water and leave to drain. Never dry up after watching a hospital film about germs and how quickly they multiply on kitchen cloths of all sorts.

Of course you should rinse. How awful that some people on here think that you don't need to. Yeugh!

Don't know, I have a dishwasher and anything not put in there just gets swilled under a hot tap.

I do not wash my copper saucepans in the dishwasher but soak them in the sink with washing up liquid in the water until the following morning. They then get a quick brush to loosen all the food bits stuck to the sides and then rinsed to swill all the detritus out of them.

The two dishwashers are used alternately so that one is holding clean china etc and the second one fills up with dirty dishes.

Any handwashed items, baking tins, saucepans etc do not get a rinse by me.

I have two dishwashers for all the china, glasses and cutlery.............and there are only two of us at home

I try to rinse if I can only because years ago someone mentioned they thought that washing up liquid may contain carcinogens... never found out the truth.

Hand washed pots always rinsed.
Dishwasher pots always rinsed before being put in the dishwasher.

Luckygirl Who needs a tea towel after rinsing in hot water they can then go on a drainer and in next to no time the heat has done the drying for you,
Beats having a mountain of tea towels to wash and dry and more economical too.



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I worked as a nanny in Sicily in my twenties. My boss was an English professor at the local university. She told me not to use Fairy liquid without rinsing properly as it is full of chemicals. They had a dishwasher. Probably my first experience of such a time saver.

Always rinse! Otherwise the tea towel gets extra wet with all those suds!

Amongst the rinsers then, who is correct? Those using hot water, or those using cold?

My husband was absolutely horrified to see that my parents never rinsed the dishes when doing the washing up. Since it had always been done that way at home, it hadn't occurred to me that it was slightly odd to leave the residue of washing up liquid on all the dishes. But once I did think about it, I agreed with him - it is likely to be unhealthy.

Now I always rinse, and so does my Mum. I do use a tea towel but change it every two days.

We do have a dishwasher but there are always items that are easier washed by hand.

I was told that not rinsing was a health hazard!

Always rinse. I can't believe the traces of washing up liquid can be good for you so I get really annoyed if things aren't rinsed. It is just about the only thing that I am insistent about.

No....waste of time.

I was happy leaving bubbles on washing up as my DM did until I was told that washing up liquid was better not consumed. Since then I've rinsed, preferably with hot water, and left the dishes to drain. I only use a tea towel if I need something immediately or if the draining board/rack is piled high. This sometimes happens if I wash up at other people's houses.
My dishwasher always gets used when I have several people here for a meal or a weekend. Alone I only use it if I've got at least half a load from batch cooking or baking.

Absolutely have to rinse, and better to air dry I believe.

I rinse thoroughly. I use a dishwasher, but also wash certain items by hand. I don't like the idea of soap (chemical) residue being left behind and mixing with my food or drink.

I have a dishwasher so crockery is rinsed automatically. However I often hand wash my favourite wooden handle knives which I use for fruit and veg and always rinse in Cold water - too mean to use expensive hot water! I do the same with hand-washed saucepans as I don't want lots of soapy bubbles with my cooked veg and pasta etc! I didn't know washing up liquid might possibly cause problems. I'm off to read the ingredients on my bottle of Persil. BTW I HATE it when folk allow their pets to lick humans' crockery! Yuk.