Posted on 06/10/2018 12:20:04 PM PDT by fwdude
Stop Everything. Some People Don’t Rinse the Soap Off Their Dishes!? [Title only]
I have been looking at ways to streamline my life and had the initial question of how many individual rinses (of water-trapping untensils) is necessary to get all of the significant soap off of hand-washed dishes. Do some research, I discovered that British cultures DO NOT even rinse. An old landlady from England would rinse all her soapy dishes in the same tub of water, which I thought was gross.
What say you? Do you rinse at all, and if so, how many times do you swish fresh water around a pot/pan before you put it up to dry? Does it matter. Is there any scientific recommendation?
(That commercial might have been distressing for claustrophobic individuals too, as they pictured the bubbles being confined in that tiny drain pipe, heading down, down, down...)
Pardon?
Soap is thousands of years old.
In Kalifornia the Oligarchs have just outlawed such things as rinsing dishes, dishwashers perhaps even washing period.
quarter car-wash...
Now they are required by the EPA to recycle the water.
Four more quarters can be added for a bit of clean water rinse.
Of course all can be washed in the same SOAPY water. The key is to ensure to replace the water once the suds turn to scum on the water surface. No suds? No washee dishes therein.
In my little corner of England, when hand-washing I always rinse under a running hot tap (faucet), and I do the same when taking stuff out of the dish-washer - I distrust the artificial shine of those dw ‘rinse-aids’ even more than the detergent! But, I admit, I may not be ‘following the herd’.
Exactly the same with me.
Had an electric dishwasher, hated it.
In younger days growing up without much female adult supervision we routinely washed the dishes and then towel dried them without rinsing. Not sure why we didn’t rinse. I think there was no place for that to occur since the sink was full of dishes and water already.
Nonetheless we did not ever seem to get sick much so maybe the soap got wiped. Or like someone said, back in the days of phosphates in the dish soap it didn’t matter.
Are the Brits getting sick a lot? I guess it’s probably a nice healthy idea to rinse but maybe not the horribly gross and dangerous thing to do.
#65 Try Bob’s Big Boy
That hamburger patty has no hamburger in it.....
This place is about 3 miles from me next to a Target I go to sometimes. Always thought of trying one but not now.
Closure reason: cockroaches
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/06/09/what-restaurants-were-closed-due-to-a-health-hazard-in-the-san-fernando-valley-may-27-june-2/
Ok.... let me qualify. Yes the Babylonians and likely the Romans and the Chinese had some product involving animals fats mixed with ashes that likely can be called 'soap' since they used it for washing the human body. But go back and read the lead in to the discussion..... in this piece, we are talking about washing dishes. So, I thought the point should have been apparent that when I said that "soap is a very recent invention", it was dishwashing (or liquid detergent) soap that was being referred to since that was the point of the discussion. And THAT is indeed a very recent invention... provided that anything under 200 years can qualify as recent. In fact, Wikipedia seems to indicate that the manufacturing of liquid dish detergent didn't commence until the middle of the 20th century so actually less than 100 years... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwashing_liquid
My dishwasher has a grinder in it. I don’t rinse the dishes off first. Just make sure the large chunks of food are gone.
We have a boat with no dishwasher and the only thing I use that is not disposable are pots and pans. Paper plates and cups all the way!
If nothing else, that will give the “soap s****”
So THAT’s why English cuisine tastes so terrible. It’s not the cooking; it’s the soap scum on the plates.
A friend of mine worked his way through college at a chain restaurant. Whenever we go out to eat at a diner or chain eatery now, he orders an extra glass of water and soaks both of our utensil sets in it, then polishes them with a napkin.
Can you find any record of ‘soap’ being used for washing dishes? Good luck....
There are "soap savers" that were used to keep the bars of soap from getting lost in the dishwater. Even the British Navy made soap to wash the dishes while at sea back in the 1700s.
So the idea that washing dishes with soap is something new is simply not true.
I wash and rinse my dishes before I put them in the Dishwasher.
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