Posted on 06/10/2018 12:20:04 PM PDT by fwdude
Why do you need soap? What did everyone do 'before soap was invented'? Soap is after all a recent very invention.... Basically, hot water is all that is needed although there are some tricks that can make it work a bit better.
Not rinsing? Ugh.
The dangerous microbes lurking on the surface can lead to all sorts of intestinal sicknesses.
The reason for washing anything with soap-—then rinsing-—is that the soap facilitates the removal of bacteria, microbes, germs that have collected.
Dishwashers Rinse. So do I!
The soap is the best part.
Yes, I’m a mild germaphobe as well, and would be concerned about eating at the home of certain people for whom household hygiene is... a little wanting.
This is my biggest beef in eating out at your average sit-down restaurant: dirty tables and utinsils. I stopped eating at Chili’s, both because of the liberal bent of the parent company and because the disgusting tile-topped tables always had “leftovers” stuck in the joints between tiles. Routinely you find dried food between fork tines. I’d use my slice of lemon as a quick wash and then wipe if I couldn’t get quick enough service before the food.
What a funny world we live in. I mean, do they rinse their clothes or bodies or hair after the soap has done its job?
I use the dishwasher some and hand wash some. I first get food etc.off then wash with soapy sponge, then rinse in hot running water. Til the plate (top and bottom always) squeaks! That’s how my grandmother taught me. The squeak meant the soap was gone:;)
Children are eating soap these days.
My guess is that if you are washing dishes you are way ahead of the crowd.
i hand wash and rinse. Of course u rinse the soap OFF. ewww.
We just got a new diswasher. The old one was 10 years old, so buying one was a new experience.
I guess these days there is a filter that measures how clean things are by how clean the water is. That is, if you rinse off your dishes going into the dishwasher it will not be as effective.
I know, it sounds counter intuitive. And I checked it out. I guess its true. I still cannot convince my wife about that.
I have rinsed soapy dishes in a tub of clear water before. It works OK if you don’t over soap.
Yeah maybe dish soap is different stuff.
I read a story where a chick gets mad at a bartender for giving the bar rag to a guy to clean a cut out. the bartender says something like ‘Whaddya mean the rag is dirty? Been sitting in soapy water for three weeks!’
Freegards
It’s said when you make love to a woman, you’re making love to everyone she’s ever had. I suppose eating from unrinsed plates is like eating some of every meal the plate ever hosted.
Yes, but with every rinse, the rinse water gets soapier.
Same as my grams...job wasn't finished until they squeaked.
I seem to recall reading something back in the 80s about dish soap residue possibly causing stomach problems; it may even have mentioned cancer. The reason it stuck with me was because I was living with a woman who didn’t rinse her dishes, and I had never witnessed that.
We have a dishwasher, and everything is scraped/rinsed before it goes in. Before that, we always washed and rinsed.
I have a dishwasher but it hasn’t worked in 20 years. Mr. B’s excuse for not fixing it is the lime in the water will cause it to break down again. Yeah, one guess who hand washes the dishes and who doesn’t.
I don’t understand the new fad for having only one kitchen sink. How do they wash dishes when their DW breaks? How do they get anything done in the kitchen? Nothing but double sinks makes any sense, imo. One side for the soapy water and rinse water in the other.
Growing up, we had a sink of soapy water and a sink of clear water and we washed and rinsed.
I have a sink of soapy water and rinse each piece with the sprayer.
Towels are germ catchers. A German neighbor would towel dry her dishes and they were always getting sick. Told her to let them air dry and surprise! they weren’t sick anymore.
Otto and Olga, my two doxies take care of all my dish washing.
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