Do you rinse ?

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.

No....waste of time.

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.

I was told that not rinsing was a health hazard!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We do not have a dishwasher - usually only two of us at home so when the last one broke we did not replace it and haven't missed it. The only thing I miss is how clean a DW
makes glass.

I rinse pre-wash as I can't bear washing up in what becomes a murky soup and I keep the cold tap running in our double sink and swish again to get rid of excess bubbles. We usually leave things to drain unless we have visitors coming - then I like a nice uncluttered look!

TWO pages of this?

Jane - Your last point about 'life being too short' - Well said!!