Do You Rinse Your Dishes?

Sorry, nothing personal meant! But, what if this was in a restaurant? And the person before you had some kind of virus/infection and you caught it? People get E Coli from unwashed hands even in cooked food. (There was an incident a year or two ago where the guy making a birthday cake at a supermarket didn't wash his hands and everyone got sick from the cake at the party.) Do you rinse your hands when you wash them or just dry them with soap on? I can't understand why anyone would leave the soap in? What about clothes? Do you just put it in the soapy water and then hang them to dry? I'm pretty sure the answer is "no" to both of those (and the other examples I mentioned), so why would you do it with dishes? Just because you don't get ill from something doesn't mean it's healthy. And I'm not one of those omgineedhandsanitizer all the time people or germaphone. Just prefer not to eat soap and old food.

DH rinses and I rinse, so no domestic quibbles.

At the building where I work, however, there is a community kitchen with one of those soap-filled bucket things in the sink.

I always ignore it, soap up whatever I am washing using a sponge or a brush, and then rinse it under running water.

I try to do it when no one's around because I feel like I will be met with disapproval for wasting water or something.

Sharing dirty soapy water with family members is one thing, but with strangers in an office building... Eww.

Ditto to both of these comments.

My inlaws don't, but I do and my husband does (because I asked him to.) It is truly not that much more work.

Sharing dirty soapy water with family members is one thing, but with strangers in an office building... Eww.

Oh, gosh, yes.   

I asked the boy this question a few days ago and I loved his response:
"Of course I rinse the bubbles off, dries faster that way."

Economics all the way. 

  What is it with the no rinsing over here.  That was one weird thing to me when I saw a friend washing dishes and not rinsing.  I swore I wouldnt eat at her house again 

I rinse and re-rinse.  My water bill is probably highter than most, but I don't even care.

What is it with the no rinsing over here.  That was one weird thing to me when I saw a friend washing dishes and not rinsing.  I swore I wouldnt eat at her house again 

I have no idea really - I'm British and I grew up with watching my family not rinsing dishes. When it came to washing my own dishes, I just did what everyone else around me did (or didn't do in this case), which was not rinsing. The first I heard of the rinsing vs. not rinsing debate was here on UK-Y a couple of years ago .

As someone else said, why just dishes? Why not your body or your clothes?

You would save much more money and save electricity if you got rid of the rinse cycle on your washing machine.

The place where my hubby and I met in Ireland (and where we visit every summer) is really lax and hippy and lax in a lot of ways except for the kitchen.  Everything gets washed in hot soapy water (the water is changed frequently) and rinsed in hot water.  Once I saw two German ladies washing and skipping the rinsing and I kicked them out of the kitchen because I couldn't communicate to them that they *must* rinse.  It only takes a second to do it.

the housemate that was banned from washing also washed in cold water. He said it is what his mother used to do (she wasn't allowed to rinse either, but we played the your a guest and 80 so we can't let you game.) That may have had something to do with the grease and crap left on them. Everytime he'd go out we'd do a dishes inspection and re-wash the icky ones and when he'd be gone for longer than a day or so we'd re-wash all of the dishes in the kitchen. My husband mentioned it to him once and showed him and now everytime we see him he shows us his nice clean rinsed dishes lol

Ooh just had to chime in here.  I work in a primary school kitchen and although we rinse all the kids' plates, bowls, and silverware in a boiling vat of water, all the other dishes (like the pots and pans we cook and serve in, the utensils we use, etc) gets washed in a big sink of soapy water and then just stuck on the strainer to drain off.  At first I could fathom how a kitchen could not rinse.  Now I realize there is just no way to do it, no separate sink, and no time anyway.  So all those unsuspecting little kiddos are eating soap with all their dinners!

Out of curiosity, how do all you rinsers rinse?  I was so adamant about rinsing when I first got here and would run each dish under the tap over the sink of soapy water, which meant every few rinses I would have to let water out and add more soap, not to mention burn my hands on the scalding hot water or else use the cold tap and make my dishwater cold.  Since working in the kitchen, I have begun to just wash them all, throw them in the strainer, then when the sink is empty I rinse each one before I dry it and put it away.  We are considering buying a double sink soon because our landlord is redoing our kitchen early next year, and we hoped we could put it in at the same time, but then I don't know where my washer would go.  Wondered how you rinsers solved these dilemmas!

I'm in the rinsing camp. I rinse the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher.

Not rinsing soap out of clothes=Stiff, itchy clothes
Not rinsing shampoo out of hair=Itchy, dry scalp
Not rinsing dishes=No negative effect experienced

So there's my reasoning, I think I've probably eaten/done a lot more offensive things than letting soapy water drip off the dishes I eat off from    But to each their own.

My BF is the second most obsessive cleaner I know, (the first being his Mum!!) you could eat off his bathroom floors. He doesn't rinse his dishes either, which, oh, he learned from his Mum.

Not rinsing soap out of clothes=Stiff, itchy clothes
Not rinsing shampoo out of hair=Itchy, dry scalp
Not rinsing dishes=No negative effect experienced

So there's my reasoning, I think I've probably eaten/done a lot more offensive things than letting soapy water drip off the dishes I eat off from    But to each their own.

Indeed!!  To each their own!!!   

My mum-in-law thinks I make double the work for myself by rinsing the dishes after I wash them. She insists that no one here rinses the dishes. She says that they wash, cloth dry them, and put them away. But then on an episode of Come Dine with Me, I saw 2 of them rinse their dishes. Sooooo....

Do you rinse your dishes? 

Do your in-laws?

I just wash and drain, don't rinse. DW rinses.

My BF has one of those HORRIBLE wash bins for the sink and refuses to get rid of it. He fills it up with hot water, puts some soap in it, then just puts the dishes in, scrubs and leaves them on the rack to dry. Ew ew ew! He won't listen to me when I explain that he's washing all of the dishes in their own filth. And then not rinsing to top it off...

Ha ha! Sounds just like me.....except DW doesn't make a thing about it. She mentioned something on the first visit when I was washing up and said "aren't you going to rinse those", but apart from the occasional comment she doesn't say anything. I'm sure she'd prefer me to rinse, but I'd prefer her to put the washing machine on spin rather than the clothes coming out dripping wet so they end up taking longer in the dryer!
I guess some things you just have to live with and let go!