delighted mine too end up on the surfaces now and again, and I am going to be hung drawn and quartered for this I bleach them down.
:eek::eek::eek:!!!
Seriously though, have a look at the Bio D stuff - apparently good for disinfecting but kind to every living thing in the whole universe!
ooh I never thought of not rinsing after washing dishes. I like to rinse because it gets rid of the bubbles on my plates!
As a mere man, I wash and dry up without rinsing whilst the items are still hot from the water. I rinse before using them! Reason....to remove residue and whatever dust may settle over the time of storage.
Shock horror! I also use a tea towel over 2 days at least!
There....someone who is contrary to usual practice.
One of my female friends insists on rinsing everything when here, and uses copious amounts of water (hot!) and leaves to drain. It develops into an interesting discussion with plenty of laughs!
Can't help thinking of the water meter spinning away, and the waste of a valuable resource.
GV
I let the dish washer worry about my dishes, it saves on the worry about rinsing and drying...
Hello Mere Man.. Interesting practise!! (have I spelt that wrong?).. Your method fills me with intreague.. I have to my that the tea towels in my house are sometimes out for longer than a day!!:D
I actually was brought up in a house where my mother rarely if ever cleaned the bin or the wall next to it, never cleaned the inside of the oven and didn't seem to notice the grime that attached itself to the skirting boards etc. I used to call it the house of grime. I still flinch when I visit. It's not helped by the fact that her partner refuses to believe that it hurts to have dirt around.
We have our cutlery standing in a vase coz we lost our drawers due to installing a dishwasher.. so we regularly eat dust as party of our diet. Although I think I would prefer to eat dust to washing up liquid. Silly isn't it really, if we were living as some do in the world, I am sure our constitutions would be much stronger, instead of worrying about each type of bacterium we come across.
I usually leave to dry, but my Mother insists on drying them whenever she is here !
What is it about women of an older generation who seem unable to see a plate on a draining board without grabbing a tea-towel??
Although we usually use the dishwasher these days, I always rinse under running water - AND insist on washing things in the right order, starting with glasses and ending with pans. This despite us not being exactly prizewinners when it comes to being houseproud (don't look at our hob!).
I was once appalled when my late uncle did the washing up in water that was dark brown because he had tipped in the remains from a coffee pot, grounds and all. When I questioned him about it, he said it was an old army trick (he was at El Alamein) and it cleaned the glasses and dishes. Er, not in my house thanks (I'm a non coffee drinker).
I completely agree - it's disgusting!
I give all of my dishes a pre-wash before their main wash - this makes sure there's no large food particles left on them. Then there's the main wash, where I wash everything thoroughly in scalding hot water. This if followed up by rinsing everything in a second bowl of scalding hot water to make sure I get rid of detergent and grime.
The trouble with this is that the rinsing water gets full of all the detergent and food particles that had been left on the plates. To make sure these go away I always do a second rinse in scalding hot water (seriously people, it's disgusting if you only rinse once).
Then I always drip dry because tea towels are disgusting and full of germs. The only thing is that the drip tray needs to be clean too. Even after the second rinse there's still some food particles and detergent left on the plates, so every time you leave plates to drip dry the rack itself becomes contaminated.
I stop this by pre-washing, washing and then double rinsing the drying rack between every wash up session. People forget how much detergent and how many food particles stay on dishes even after rinsing - it can have serious implications on your health.
Hi, Essex. Not sure if the original posters will join in, since the thread is five years old. Still - what are your thoughts on the amount of water used by your method?
As for health, that depends on the washing up liquid that you use (if any). Some of the eco ones you could probably drink without doing yourself too much damage. (Tastes pretty awful, however.)
So, Essex, you use 4 lots of washing water for the dishes (pre-wash, main wash, first rinse, second rinse) and then 4 washes of the drying rack (again pre-wash, main wash, first rinse and second rinse). As Crowan indicates, that's a lot of water being used (and a lot of energy to heat it).
Sure, it makes sense to rinse off the suds as those are what has got hold of the dirt, and it makes sense to ensure the working surfaces are clean before you start, but that just requires a quick wipe down with a soapy cloth/sponge followed by chucking a bit of water over it to rinse those suds away, then when washing, just rinsing off the suds after cleaning quickly under the tap, down the side of the bowl to keep the suds away from the clean dishes. Any heavy dirt/grime on the plates is scraped off before washing (fingers are wonderful things 😉 ), so no need for a pre-wash. After washing dry the dishes while they're still hot with a clean tea-towel (it should still be clean from last time if all it's done is dry clean dishes 😉 ) as then any water film left on them will quickly evaporate from the heat. When finished quickly rinse the sink down, giving it a clean with soap or cleaner if it got dirty.
Using Eco products generally makes them less toxic, though as Crowan says, I wouldn't recommend consuming them as a rule. However, there's still the old saying that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and you get more germs from kissing someone. 😀
All Love and Reiki Hugs
Well I know that everybody in my family do not rinse crockery and cutlery, but I do. I have no desire to ingest detergent traces. Detergent bubbles are in fact detergent plain and simple because they will remove grease. Everything gets rinsed with fresh hot water. Talking of which, my boiler heats the water to 65°C but then arrives at the kitchen tap at 55°C. To wash up I must use gloves and the hot water is to remove bacteria. Finally everything is left to air dry because as previously pointed out, tea towels can retain bacteria. The same goes for dish cloths, never use them, another germ carrier. I wash- up with a non abrasive layered sponge which gets discarded after 2 wash-ups. Counters get wiped over with anti-bacterial liquid using a sponge cloth. BTW I wash-up in the sink, never can understand why people limit the space by using a bowl.
Rinse.......... then leave to dry!
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Well I know that everybody in my family do not rinse crockery and cutlery, but I do. I have no desire to ingest detergent traces. Detergent bubbles are in fact detergent plain and simple because they will remove grease. Everything gets rinsed with fresh hot water. Talking of which, my boiler heats the water to 65°C but then arrives at the kitchen tap at 55°C. To wash up I must use gloves and the hot water is to remove bacteria. Finally everything is left to air dry because as previously pointed out, tea towels can retain bacteria. The same goes for dish cloths, never use them, another germ carrier. I wash- up with a non abrasive layered sponge which gets discarded after 2 wash-ups. Counters get wiped over with anti-bacterial liquid using a sponge cloth. BTW I wash-up in the sink, never can understand why people limit the space by using a bowl.
Hello pip48. This is a pretty old thread - the last post was 2 years ago.:)
Well I know that everybody in my family do not rinse crockery and cutlery, but I do. I have no desire to ingest detergent traces. Detergent bubbles are in fact detergent plain and simple because they will remove grease. Everything gets rinsed with fresh hot water. Talking of which, my boiler heats the water to 65°C but then arrives at the kitchen tap at 55°C. To wash up I must use gloves and the hot water is to remove bacteria. Finally everything is left to air dry because as previously pointed out, tea towels can retain bacteria. The same goes for dish cloths, never use them, another germ carrier. I wash- up with a non abrasive layered sponge which gets discarded after 2 wash-ups. Counters get wiped over with anti-bacterial liquid using a sponge cloth. BTW I wash-up in the sink, never can understand why people limit the space by using a bowl.
Welcome to this forum by the way. 🙂
Hello pip48. This is a pretty old thread - the last post was 2 years ago.:)
I didn't realise it was an old thread! I was wondering why it had so many posts, i.e. thought it was a new one. 
dishwasher? 😉