Following on from the "softly softly" thread, a question for you.

Slovenly person that I am I bung nearly everything in the dishwasher. Without rinsing .
Only exceptions are the best glasses and the roasting tins.

We always rinse off everything before stacking for machine washing as neither of us can get down low enough to clean out the dishwasher. Well, I suppose we could get down because of gravity but getting back up would be impossible.
We rinse everything off anyway even for washing up by hand as it is much more pleasant without the floaters.

I always rinse first then rinse off the soapy suds with hot water, I thought everyone did that.
So using a dishwasher is probably more economical chez nous.

Regarding dogs licking plates as you load. I count that as a pre-wash.

It sounds to me like the sense of washing up the dirtiest stuff first.
I do have a dish washer. The delight for me of that is you can often get away with washing up once a day and you get all these lovely dry pots to put away.

PS Last of all we rinse any recycling stuff.

Goes without saying that we scrape and rinse before washing up! Couldn't be doing with "bits" floating about in the water!

Bleurgh/Yuk emoticon!

That is the way we wash up too. No dishwasher, think we are too impatient for one of those as well as not having enough crockery! Always clear as we go, can hear Mum's mantra ringing in my ears as I write that!

Yes, same order, although I do have a dishwasher now.
However, DH doesn't (despite several reminders) so I sometimes have to wash up again
And he will wash plastics after greasy things and the grease sticks to the plastic so I have to re-wash them.
Then he leaves a bowlful of washing up water there ....
[grrr]. I think it's all a ploy so that I ban him from washing up.

Interesting! We don't have a dishwashing machine, but do have 2 big sinks. We usually soak things first, in cold water (after wiping the surplus off à la Bags).
Then in hot water - glasses first,then cutlery,plates , and last cooking pots.
I once knew someone who had 2 sinks - she used the first one for hot soapy water and the other just hot water for rinsing the soap off the pots etc. But can't be bothered with all that.

I rarely hand wash now but when I do, it's glasses, then I put in the plates/bowls & cutlery, pulling out the cutlery last of all.

Then it's cooking dishes followed by saucepans. I'd usually have a sink of fresh water by this time, though.

I rinse or wipe off any food scraps first.

If we use glasses, which is rare, then those are done separately and dried by MrBags because, if left to drain by themselves like everything else, they jump off the rack and smash themselves on the floor.

Otherwise, the cutlery goes in the bottom of the washing up bowl while it's filling with v hot water (too hot to out your hand in), then big plates, then smaller stuff. Get that stuff except the cutlery (first in last out) out the way then serving dishes. Then cutlery, then pans last. I wipe messy pots and pans with kitchen paper (that goes in the food recycling bin) before they go in the washing up so the water doesn't get too icky.

Chopping boards I do as soon as I've finished with them before we eat.

merlot that made me , reminded me of when I helped out when a friend had a stroke, their 2 labradors and their cocker spaniel were especially helpful in that way!

Alas, we don't have a dishwasher, when we bought this house (unfinished new build) we had previously rented places with very limited kitchens. I looked at the wonderful run of units/cupboards in this kitchen and just thought of all the lovely cupboard space, and was reluctant to break up the "run", so to speak, so told the builder not to leave a gap for a dishwasher, bloody idiot that I am! I could have had an integral one put in, hindsight, 20/20 etc

Phoenix, the way you described is the same way I do it. I wish I had a dishwasher though.

My Granny told me that you wash the cutlery first as the water is hottest. Then the glasses etc. These days everything except the aluminium saucepans goes in the dishwasher.

This is how I do it:

Open dishwasher door.

Remove a couple of clean plates that have probably been done at least three times.

Stand on one leg and shove in all the dirty stuff. My other foot has to ward off two Jack Russells who would otherwise climb in and lick the plates clean. This usually means DH thinks they've been done and swears he's helping by putting them back in the cupboard.

Grovel about under the sink looking for the dishwasher tabs.

Forget to switch it on.

Make myself scarce when DH can't find his favourite mug and reckons we're living in the dark ages - harrumphing and flouncing off to his shed when I remind him they didn't have dishwashers in the dark ages! This is after he's taken his mug out and washed it by hand so he can take his coffee with him.

Such fun

When I wash up, which isn't often as I now have a dishwasher, it is usually in the same order as you do it Phoenix.
I think it must have been the way I was taught at home as a child.
Not that my brother had the same training. It wasn't a man's job according to my (Italian) mother. He soon learnt otherwise when he got married!

I bung all in the dishwasher , even the lasagne dish , might soak it for a while