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Washing up question
When you wash up do you rinse off the washing up liquid or leave
it on the plates?
It drives me mad to see people leaving the suds on stuff and just popping it into the drainer.
Let DiS decide! Which way is best?
When you wash up do you rinse off the washing up liquid or leave
it on the plates?
It drives me mad to see people leaving the suds on stuff and just popping it into the drainer.
Let DiS decide! Which way is best?
Well
I put the washing up liquid in the sink, whilst the taps are flowing. It then turns into (technical term) 'bubbles'. I then put it into the drainer to DRAIN.
I then dry it up and put it away.
Maybe I have an OCD thing going on with this. I can't handle it, I wash everything again at work because they're all dirty "non-rinsers"
If you're constantly rinsing, then the sink fills up too quick
and it wastes water.
It is wasteful
That is the only flaw in my otherwise amazing washing up technique!
Assuming there are absolutely no women around to do it.
I just throw the plates in the bin. Life's too short.
LAD!
Thanks
I was lying though to make people like me.
I rinse. I RINSE DAMMIT.
Are you Greek? All the evidence is saying yes
???
I just use paper plates and throw away after they've been soiled
the key is to go easy on the washing-up liquid in the first place
i don't rinse, no
I leave my bowls to drain the right way up.
*bowels
What's the advantage to rinsing?
sometimes, you just gotta party
leave them on the drainer.
never put them away.
Steps:
1. put washing-up liquid on wet sponge;
2. wet items to be washed with hot water;
3. clean items with sudsy sponge;
4. rinse items thoroughly with hot water;
5. place items in rack to air dry.
My opinion is that if you fill a sink/washing-up bowl with hot water and washing-up liquid and wash things in it, you're effectively washing the later items in dirty water.
The detergent keeps the dirt in the water.
I still feel dirty
Always rinse
Yes of course. I don't want my food tasting of washing up liquid.
Do you wash items that have had contact with raw egg / runny yolks separately in cold water to stop that smell? I do.
Also, start with glasses
then do mugs, then less dirty crockery and cutlery and finally move up to really dirty stuff and pans.
All waste food is scraped off into the Tower Hamlets food recycling bin.
another fun day at theo hq
No, all cutlery gets thrown in the bowl to soak (a hangover from when I worked in a retsaurant).
Then glasses, bowls, plates, pans, as you say.
I "rinse" my plates in so much as I dunk them back in the water to get the suds off - I don't rise them seperately.
I often do that but not until after the glasses and mugs have been cleaned.
Why would your food taste of washing up liquid?
Do you not dry your dishes?
Nah, rinse and leave to dry on the rack.
i rinse a bit, but i quite like watching the suds drip off on the rack.
pervert
How long do you sit and watch that for?
Until they're dry
as long as it takes
meanwhile, at meths head office....
White people=retarded dishwashers
Explain your racist self!
honkies are the only fuckers that insist that :
rinsing is wasteful and that putting plates on racks with chunks of shephard's pie is fine; then they proceed to just wipe the dirty suds and bits of food off a dirty dishcloth, and then they refuse sex for wasting water.
Actually by honkies I mean Brits; and by Brits I mean Northerners; and by Northeners people from Yorkshire.
what? Why the hell would you end up with chunks of food on your plates?
If your sink is full of bits, it's time to change the water. Fuck rinsing.
The trick is to only partially fill the sink (pretty shallow), and change the water once or twice as necessary. Also: you should have scraped off all the bits of food before going into the sink.
Yorkshire the county?
Uh-oh.
I hope this catches on as slang.
Retarded dishwashers is a much better catch all term than honkey.
New Plan B record, 'I'm just a retarded dishwasher with a dream'.
Is this because white people hire black people to do the washing up for them?
DISHAWASHER'S FTW
SHIT
Surperfluous apostrophe and letter 'a'
Dishwashers
NSFW
All offices have dishwashers don't they?
I don't think I've ever worked somewhere without one...
THREASMASH
The real issue here is that no one dries up anymore. Lazy fucks.
I would've thought that it's more hygenic though
and easier
Yeah, but unless you have a drainer the size of guernsey,
or only wash up a bit at a time, you're always gonna have a messy kitchen with dirty plates stacked up at one end and suddsy/rinsedy plates draining at the other end.
I HATE having a messy kitchen.
How many pots, pans and plates do you use for each meal?!
I find mine fit comfortably on one drainer. COMFORTABLY.
You tiny-drainered motherfucker.
Beans from the tin FTW!
Depends. Can potentially end up with as many as 3 saucepans, a mixing bowl, another bowl
or two (if de-skinning tomatoes), pestle and mortar, food processor, chopping board, knives, whisk, wooden spoons, plates, knives and forks and glasses.
My draining rack can't cope with that.
Nice rack
Wash as you go!
No need to thank me.
Oh, I try to, but sometimes it's not possible to stay on top of it all.
^ a lot of this.
i have to wash things as i go. its how i am.
i've always thought there's something
a bit picturesque about a row of plates stacked neatly on the drainer.
well towels are a breeding ground for germs aren't they
not a problem if you have an endless supply of clean towels, but that's not the case in most houses i've lived in. tends to be 33 or 4, and you never know 100% that they haven't just been used on the ground or something. i err on the side of caution.
i've toyed with the idea of using kitchen paper towels, but generally i just leave them to air-dry
* 3 or 4
33 would be a nice amount.
Heh
33 or 4. With no in between.
we've got about 10 tea towels I think.
I don't understand when anyone uses a tea towel to wipe the floor or a surface.
I also don't understand why, when your squeegee gets old and dirty but has a bit of life in it, you bring out a fresh clean one in order to do the dishes.
At this point you have a nice fresh squeegee and an old dirty one. Why does everyone pick up the NICE CLEAN ONE to wipe down a kitchen surface? Use the old one!
And then the old squeegie becomes the one for cleaning the tiles and stuff.
If air drying is good enough for my balls
they are good enough for my Thomas the Tank Engine soup bowl.
And I treasure my TTTE bowl and I'll never let it get dutty
Rinse rinse rinse rinse rinse
Replace spongey thing.
Don't leave it thick side down.
"Thick side down"?
The spongy bit, as opposed to the scrubby bit. Everyone's using sponge scourers, right?
People who don't rinse out their sponge scourers after washing up are worse than the Hungerford massacre.
There's nothing worse.
Rinse item pre applying sponge, apply sponge to nearly clean item, lather up, rinse, rinse sponge, don't leave it thick side down.
^perfect washing up.
this is a good point. how do YOU wash up?
personally, i leave the tap dribling/running, applying a bit of washing up liquid to the sponge when needed. if washing a pan, i use the same technique but also pour a bit of liquid in the pan while the water tumbles into it. YES, I WASTE WATER
i'll describe my old flatmates way if want? its quite wacky.
Is anyone still awake?
do you want the method or not?
it had better be good.
ok he does this:
fills glass/cup standing in the sink with hot soapy water, then bungs the cutlery in there to soak. then uses the water in the glass to dunk the sponge into, and then apply to soapy water to dirty dishes. a bit like using a sink in a sink, if you will.
soapy.
somehow I feel robbed of my time.
try washing up as i have described
and then we'll see who's robbing who
I'm trying to decided
whether you would be the world's best or worst boyfriend.
on the washing up front: the best.
lets not talk about the other fronts.
It's not the world's most difficult decision.
oh mr relationships
I like your technique
It's one that I too have adopted.
Go on, I'm on the edge of my seat.
People Who
think the drain is a bin.
also, the key is to have the water close to boiling.
to the point where you have to wear gloves. no worries about using 'dirty water' then.. the water will be so hot any germs will be killed. get the job done quick before the water cools down. when you put the plates on the drainer there should be literally steam rising off them.
Innit.
When you turn away from your sink it should be a bit like walking out of a dry ice cloud to the front of the stage on a 70s episode of Top of the Pops.
should jimmy saville be there?
Simon Bates.
And a dance troupe in the background doing a choreographed routine with a spectacular 'inserting hand into the pint glass' manouevre.
..and then panicking when they realise it's now stuck to their fist.
The 'lightly tap it on the edge of the sink to loosen it' blues.
don't think I could put up with having scantilly clad dancers around AND mr bates
what with all the Master Bates jokes that would go on, well one but it would get repeated too much, just like totp 2 really.
jeez. Think people are a bit TOO anal about germs.
We're fucking covered in bacteria.
You might be, you long-haired hippy.
Howard Hughes had the right idea.
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/GeneralissimoFurioso/burns.jpg
You know what kills me
that advert with the soap dispenser that you don't have to touch.
'Never touch a germy pump again'.
It's almost screaming 'Don't touch anything. YOU'LL DIE!'
Can I just point out
that I'm really happy with the direction this thread has taken. I liked the bit with the dry ice and top of the pops!
If you rinse with fairly hot water
then the items dry a lot quicker. And i think they're less likely to leave those annoying hidden puddles of water that can drip on you when you're putting things away.
fill bowl with hotwater
leave tap running cold water on in the little drain bit at the side. As you wash items, pass them under the tap to get all the suds off, leave to dry in rack.
If you do it the other way you sometimes get your food tasting of washing up liquid.
SUB QUESTION
Does the hot water in washing up serve any sterilisation/hygeinic purpose,or is the sole reason hot water is used to loosen dirt off easier? This is a debate that has lasted long into the night in the labmonkey household and I,for one,would finally like a definitive answer.
science, lesson 1:
hot particles move quicker than cold ones.
I think science lesson 1 involved more sand
Only if the water is very hot
Remember, if the bacteria can survive anionic surfactant and scalding hot water, it deserves a crack at the title.
This is another one of those WUT? moments when I literally didn't get what the fuck was being discussed until halfway down the thread.
We're talking about freaks that keep the tap running and rinse EVERYTHING before racking up rather than just using the water in the bowl, yeah? Loons the lot of 'em.
How to wash up properly (and by that, I mean the way I do it):
1. Wang the tap on so it's getting decently hot.
2. Sqez some liquid into the sink (bowl optional).
3. Do cutlery. Knives, then forks, then spoons, then other.
4. Do crockery. Plates, then small plates, then bowls. Wipe off any major suddage on the way to the rack.
4. Do pans. Small then medium then big (cos you can stack them within each other, upside down).
5. Do baking trays, then other random bits.
6. Do mugs.
7. Do glasses*, and give 'em a decent rinse under a gently running cold tap.
8. Do containers due for recycling.
9. Wipe surfaces.
10. Squeeze sponge well.
11. Let water drain water away.
12. Leave to air dry.
*glasses would get done first if we had a small middle sink to run the cold water into, but we don't so they don't.
If the bowl is optional,
then surely the first few stages are:
1. put water in the saucepans/bowls/rince off plates.
2. tip water down plughole
3. as per your no. 1 etc.
The monkey method
1)Open dishwasher door
2)Place all items inside without rinsing and barely scraping plates
3)Put on highest, hottest setting and press start
4)When finished, empty filter and put on again (as nothing will be clean due to not scraping all food off plates)
5)Remove items on a ‘what I need basis’
6)Buy new dishwasher in 2 years due to lack of care and reckless abuse/new saucepans etc every 6 months due to ruining them by washing in dishwasher.