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What is your opinion about hand rinsing dishes? (Surprising revelation about other cultures)
Katesurfs.com ^ | August 25, 2015 | Katesurfs

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?


TOPICS: Food; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: dishes; handwash; rinsing; soapy
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I dunno… sounds like you are making an extrapolation for which you are asking me to spend a bunch of time to do research to support your position which is based on vague references. I thought it sounded like you had some specific details right at your fingertips…. doesn’t sound like it.

Even if I concede that this piece was about the broader definition of ‘soap’ as opposed to ‘liquid soap’ (which it wasn’t), I suspect that there is basically nothing there to find. Were there some wealthy or royalty trying to use something? Perhaps but this certainly wasn’t the norm… just soaking and using hot water was the norm. For some locations, they might have used ashes, sand, vinegar and for some reason, I seem to recall some clever ways they tied horsehair together for scrubbing purposes… and then they likely washed them with hot water.


161 posted on 06/10/2018 7:16:21 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Albion Wilde
Nicolai Tesla would polish his utensils 3x before eating.

So, for him, it was six utensils, using a fresh napkin each time, that's 18 napkins before he even took a bite, and had need for one.

162 posted on 06/10/2018 7:20:56 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: gigster

“I wash and rinse my dishes before I put them in the Dishwasher.”

I myself put them in cabinets until I use them again.

Freegards


163 posted on 06/10/2018 7:26:57 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: gigster
I wash and rinse my dishes before I put them in the Dishwasher.

Why? Waste of water and time.

164 posted on 06/11/2018 6:21:49 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: Hugin

Not everything is dishwasher safe.


165 posted on 06/11/2018 6:24:02 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: fwdude; All

What I’m getting from all these comments is that rinsing is a good idea, but that perhaps I’m OVER rinsing. My purpose in posting this is to find out how much rinsing is required, and whether I can get by with less thorough rinsing so as to save water and time.

I’ve been rinsing with cold in the interest of energy conservation but will now go back to hot. I know the dishes dry in a fraction of the time with heated dishes in the drying rack.

Still cannot stomach the idea of not rinsing soapy water off.


166 posted on 06/11/2018 6:40:46 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: hecticskeptic
I gave you the book you could read to find out. You asked for proof I gave it to you.

Here is more, in the book "American Housewife" from the early 1800's there was a admonition NOT to use soap to scrub your good china. If people are not doing something there is no reason to tell them to stop it.

Now your contention that liquid soap is some kind of new invention is, once again, just plain wrong. The first soap was in liquid form, that was why they kept it in jars. It was only later that we learned how to make solid soap.

167 posted on 06/11/2018 8:15:54 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: Calvin Locke
Nicolai Tesla would polish his utensils 3x before eating.

Wow -- sounds like Jonathan Swift's descent into severe OCD or dementia. Just goes to show how important it is to accept people warts and all, because in spite of their quirks, many have much to offer mankind.

168 posted on 06/11/2018 8:21:14 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Trump is a real estate genius because he lives rent-free in so many heads.)
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To: InterceptPoint

I am told that most of the work is done by the dishwasher soap. The water if filtered to meet EPA requirements.


169 posted on 06/11/2018 8:25:35 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: madison10

I use the bottom rack of an old dishwasher. Works so well!!


170 posted on 06/11/2018 8:26:59 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: fwdude

I overrinse. With hot, hot water. with just the two of us here most of the time it takes a week to fill the dishwasher, so I use it as a draining-drying rack most of the time.


171 posted on 06/11/2018 1:25:46 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: fwdude
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.

Millions and millions of people risked everything, even their lives, to cross the stormy seas to reach America and the New World …

… to escape the horrors of European food and hygiene.

172 posted on 06/11/2018 1:32:22 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: meadsjn

lol!!! No doubt.


173 posted on 06/11/2018 1:50:48 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: fwdude

In the Scouts we teach a 3 basin wash:

1 basin for rinse water
1 basin for wash water (bleach)
1 basin for rinse water

Air dry, no towels.


174 posted on 06/11/2018 1:53:07 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: madison10

What about hand wash and put in the DW for the dry cycle only?


175 posted on 06/11/2018 1:59:54 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

I hardly ever use bleach since it kills the septic system I have.


176 posted on 06/11/2018 2:01:21 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: Fhios
I fill a large pot with hot soapy water and leave the faucet going off to the side. I wash in the pot and rinse under the faucet and then put the dishes in the rack to dry. You don’t need to turn the faucet on full force to give a good rinsing.

Yep. Rinse water is hot, same as wash water.

177 posted on 06/11/2018 2:03:55 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: fwdude

That would be good IMO. I do not have a dishwasher so doing dishes by hand is the only option.


178 posted on 06/11/2018 2:18:17 PM PDT by madison10
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