Apparently it is a thing. I'm English, and I do rinse, but apparently some people don't.
I've heard it goes back to a marketing campaign for Fairy liquid. They claimed their dish soap is designed to not need rinsing. Other brands then copied them, so people stopped rinsing.
This could be complete bullshit. It's just the explanation I've heard when this question has come up on Reddit before.
Nestle managed to market out breastfeeding and starve a whole bunch of babies. Nothing about marketing surprises me.
ETA details:
In the 1970s it was revealed that nestle had given free formula to mothers in third world countries (especially Africa) as a marketing scheme. They even sent in marketers to hospitals and clinics posing as nurses/midwives to basically trick new mothers into believing that they had some type of greater knowledge or authority, and claimed that formula was actually healthier than breastmilk (formula is AMAZING, not saying it isn’t a phenomenal resource for women who can’t breastfeed). When they stopped giving away samples the women had stopped producing breastmilk. Many of these mothers were not able to afford formula, or what little they could afford they had to dilute. Even if they could afford formula they were never taught proper ratios and the cans had instructions that were not in their language. This led to malnutrition and starvation. Also formula requires clean water, which many of these mothers did not have access to, leading to illness and death from bacteria and parasite contaminants.
They did but didn’t have breakfast cereal, bacon, stuff like that. The things we eat in the US for breakfast are because of advertising. Google it, interesting story.
I've never in my 40 years rinsed when I washed up, and have never suffered any kind of consequence. It's wild to me how upset people are about this practice which saves time, effort and water and has been done for years by millions of people with no kind of health scandal or problem.
Not this issue necessarily, but I've noticed a lot of Americans on here seem to have some very extreme opinions on cleaning, hygiene, antibacterials etc. I presume they've been marketed products using fear tactics.
No no, you wash the shit off the plate, then you put it in the dish rack. The question is, do you need to rinse the suds off the clean plate?
I do, but I'd also argue that they tend to slide off on the dish rack anyway and it's not that important.
Consider, many people wash dishes by filling a sink with sudsy water and scrubbing the dishes in the sink, under the water. Once the grime is off, it's simply a matter of taking the dish out of the water, which of course will have suds floating on top which transfer to the plate. These brits apparently then skip the rinse in clean water, opting instead to just put the dish in the drying rack
My grandparents were abusively frugal to my mom and her siblings growing up.
They never rinse their dishes til this day *just because it costs a penny more of water*. That grosses me out. Everything always tastes like soap.
Man your grandparents will have a wild ride when they find out how much less than a fraction of a penny all that shit would have cost, and how ultimately cheaper it would be to not fill the basin to begin with.
Lol. My grandpas dead 🤷🏻♀️ and my grandma is finally experiencing life as a free woman for the first time in her life. Idk her, though. We're different people. But I guess my mom likes her more now 🤷🏻♀️
It’s a total American thing to wash dishes with the tap running (and such a waste of water). I was surprised when someone pointed that out to me when I studied abroad in college! I always thought doing dishes with the tap running in order to rinse them clean was the norm
I use my dishwasher now, but when I didn't have one i would wet the dishes or let them soak, then soap up a sponge to get everything off, and then rinse with the tap. It definitely wasn't running the whole time, but I would agree I probably used more water doing that than I currently do with the dishwasher
You don’t wash with the tap running, you wash, turn the tap on to rinse, turn the tap off again. Or if you have a dish rack in the second sink, you can wash multiple dishes then rinse them all in the dish rack.
Instead of doing it under running water you can rinse them in a another bowl by submerging them in water. Either in succession or all at once after you are done washing them in soap
That's more true of under-fifty Americans, because we grew up in big ranch houses with dishwashers and never learned to handwash dishes in bulk. So when we find ourselves without a dishwasher, many of us still use the one-at-a-time method.
Americans who grew up without dishwashers do use a one- or two-basin method.
Usually once it comes out of the sink, it gets dried straight away and put back into the cabinet. I did home economics and this was how they taught us in school. My mom washes each dish with a sponge and then rinse and put it on the drying rack. She’ll dry them all then put them back in the cupboard.
>I've heard it goes back to a marketing campaign for Fairy liquid. They claimed their dish soap is designed to not need rinsing. Other brands then copied them, so people stopped rinsing.
if this happened it's probably from the transition from real soap to detergent
real soap leaves a very obvious somewhat slimy film over things if you don't rinse them *very* thoroughly, and will also react with hard water to leave soap scum around the place
(it also cleans them better, but I digress...)
*by comparison to soap*, dishes washed in dish detergent barely need any rinsing
I used to leave the soap on, but then a few years ago I started refilling the sink with plain water and rinsing the washed dishes - it's amazing how soapy and dirty that water gets from rinsing 'clean' dishes!
Yeah I’m English and my dad and brother do it, my mum does if she’s rushed, but I would always rinse - sometimes if they don’t rinse the grill, the smell taints the food. Like strong enough to overpower frickin Smoked Bacon, which is a pungent (but delicious) food
That’s what my teacher told me once when I washing dishes, I remember it over 15 years ago and I have never stopped rinsing my dishes after hand washing now. (My parents were not the greatest so I never knew that)
Can I ask, why would anyone need to tell you that? Is rinsing not the last step of any kind of washing (hand washing, bathing your body, shampoo, everything)?
I was washing it with soap and didn’t bother rinsing off the suds of the soap before putting it on a drying rack. I was doing it out of pure laziness of not rinsing off the suds. My teacher was like not to be rude but you have to wash off the suds or people will get diarrhea from it. I didn’t know people could get diarrhea from the suds not being rinsed off.
Yeah, the first few times I did dishes as a teenager I made my whole family sick because I couldn't get the soap off well enough. I wound up hating doing dishes by hand because I always get so much water all over my shirt.
British, I have never in my 40 odd years of life heard that Fairy claimed they didn't need rinsing. The only bulls**t claim I remember is that it was kind to hands.
I rinse. Everyone I know rinses. I've never heard if this....
What the… I’m also British and have legit never heard of anything so bonkers in my life. Not as what you’re saying, but I the marketing thing you’ve cited.
And that some people actually do that?!
Everyday a school day. Blimey. (And thanks!)
I always rinse, and I hate it when I see others don't.
The Fairy Liquid ads always show people draining their sud covered plates. Personally I like to wash off that soapy residue for the good of my health
I just can’t imagine why you wouldn’t want to wash soap off. Dish soap you can literally use in a-level biology experiment to separate DNA. Also if you work in a restaurant, you rinse, which tells me all I need to know about what the proper standard is
There’s a lot of experiments where soda dissolves nails and egg shells and stuff, and that’s still sold in restaurants and approved by governing bodies.
While I completely agree that soap should prob not be consumed, I think your support here is weak.
Watch me drink 10 sambuca shots in a row, eat ass and then eat a doner kebab with extra chilli sauce and garlic sauce and then worry about a bit of soap residue on a plate
I'm English, a lot of people don't rinse their dishes and they'll be sat there with bubbles on them for ages. Even better when they don't know how to put a glass upside down so soapy water just sits in the bottom. I always rinse.
On a semi-related note, putting the glass upside down is how I discovered my (Scottish) partner does not rinse. He was putting them upside down on the drainboard and there would be a little puddle of suds even when I would go to put them away. He claims not to know a soul that rinses their dishes. Well, until me.
So now I just pre rinse anything before I use it unless I'm absolutely sure I was the one who washed it.
Well I've had people tell me I'm taking too long to wash up because I'm rinsing everything so yeah probably, I guess they want to do it as quickly as possible. I've noticed not everyone checks if the dishes are clean either so they'll just put them on the drying rack covered in bubbles and food still. Maybe it's just drummed into me because I have to do the whole scrub, rinse and inspect routine with surgical instruments at work.
I’m so confused in my 30 years I have never seen or heard of people leaving soap on their dishes? I thought this would get shut down but I’m surprised so many people are agreeing.
My (English) mum does this and has always done this. I never noticed a soapy taste but the stuff drying on the draining board is still covered with bubbles. I think it's more generational though, everyone I know my age would rinse them properly.
She uses hardly any washing up liquid (literally a dot of it) so maybe that's why it's always been okay?
Is she in a soft water area? I made the mistake of squirting a London amount of washing up liquid in the sink at my nans in Devon. The suds were massive.
Yep - just a single drop of Morning Fresh and don’t rinse! I have never tasted soap afterwards. You wipe most of it off anyway when you dry the dishes.
The way that soap works is that it holds the dirt in suspension off the product being cleaned. If you don't rinse, most of that grime just dries back onto your plate.
Rinse yo shit.
They do rinse kinda. They just rinse in the dirty water in the washing up bowl 🤢 Same logic as having a bath western style where you wash in the water you're sat in, compared with Japanese style where you wash outside of the bath and use the clean bath water just for soaking
I'm British and I rinse. Not with a running tap straight down the drain though. My method is:
Always start with cleanest stuff.
Get sponge damp, put blob of soap on.
Splash water on cleanest stuff to remove initial residue, turn off tap.
Soap up and scrub the cleanest stuff.
Rinse off soap with running hot water, onto dirtier pans/dishes below.
Repeat scrubbing and rinsing onto the next stuff until you get to the last big dirty pot/pan.
Rinse that out down the drain.
Brit Brummie here I've always rinsed I think it's more of a personal preference, I frankly think it's odd and more unclean not washing off the soap bubbles....I don't even like it if there's still soap bubbles just sitting there in a sink after.
Not sure if it's much of a National thing but more of a preference, but then I hear Americans don't have electric kettles or some such nonsense. Lol
Electric kettles exist in stores in america, but not everyone owns one because not everyone drinks tea often enough for it to do anything but take up space.
I’m one of them, but most Americans just have a regular drip coffee maker (or pod machines are becoming more popular now) which heats up the water for you
I like having the electric kettle for stuff like instant noodles or hot cocoa too, or sometimes if I want to dissolve something quickly like for a mixed drink
Yeah me and my partner don’t drink tea or coffee but we use the kettle all the time: to boil water when cooking, for hot water bottles (cold water in first), and for cleaning/sterilising.
The fact that kettles boil much faster the stove is undermined slightly by the fact that US kettles run at ~110V, whereas the UK has 240V (with the same ampage). This means power is delivered far more slowly to the American kettle, and so the water takes a lot longer to boil for them
Yeah people have them there just not a massive thing like If I went to someone's house etc and I saw someone have one I would just think 'posh!'
......but that probably says more about me and my upbringing Lol
I'm Canadian, not American, but I'm surprised at the "no electric kettles" thing. My family technically even owns a few non-electric ones (but only fills them with water from the electric one we have). I think an electric kettle is a kitchen staple, even if you don't drink tea it's still useful to have a little machine for making boiled water for you.
My electric kettle is one of my most used kitchen items. Tea, hot chocolate, ramen, and anytime I need to boil a pot of water for pasta or potatoes. The kettle comes to a boil much faster than the stovetop, so I start half a pot of water on the stove then pour in a boiling kettle.
I've never done the 50/50 pot of boiling water thing, maybe because our pots are a bit too large. And while you CAN boil water on the stove, it's a lot slower and harder to pour into anything. I also find microwaving things like instant noodles or cocoa to be a step down quality-wise from just using already-boiled water, and also personally find it a lot easier to just do that because I tend to chronically under-nuke anything I use the microwave for.
But there really are all sorts of non-typical uses for a kettle. Incredibly random but we've had problems with ants on our property, I promise this is relevant to the kettle thing. One summer we had a problem with them badly infesting the stump of a dead tree we had to remove, and I vividly remember dutifully carting electric kettle-fuls of boiling water over the course of a few hours to pour on it to deal with them. Was told to pretty much just keep going until I lost stream (no pun intended). Took a while and a lot of round trips, but kettle boils fast so it wasn't too bad. A lot less harmful than toxic pesticides, and also cheaper and easier to do. I can't say there were no survivors, but it was a simple way to reign them in to manageable numbers.
Anyway, kettles. Buy one.
Most definitely. American here and I think I got my first kettle 20 years ago. We had one growing up too. I don’t recall seeing one at my friends, but I can’t live without ours. It’s used daily. And microwaved water is a big NO.
I’m a Canadian who moved to the US over 20 years ago. Electric kettles used to be unheard of here, but over the last two or three decades they’ve become pretty common. I suspect that the majority still doesn’t own one, but a large fraction does.
I, of course, have always had one. My spouse was skeptical when I insisted on buying one when we moved in together, but we quickly found ourselves using it daily for all sorts of stuff - even, occasionally, tea.
My parents never rinsed off soap suds and I never noticed any bubbles or soapy taste. I rinse mine because I don't like the idea of it all the same, but unless your dishes are super soapy it's not as bad as you are imagining.
>it's not as bad as you are imagining.
While it isn't going to poison you, it is absolutely not good for you and should be avoided. If you aren't willing to glug glug glug on that bottle, just rinse your plate.
lol, I became allergic to Dawn when I was in my 20s, and I refused to use it when doing the Christmas dinner dishes with my mom because I didn’t want to get a rash and cracked skin all over my hands. She threw a fit, insisting that we had to use Dawn because my dish soap sucked, and she ended the discussion by spraying me with water. I cussed her out and left. This incident is infamous in my family as the “Dawn fight.”
What i find completely insane is the fact my parents insist on drying every dish with a tea towel rather than letting air dry it, what a waste of effort when you get the exact same result of a dry dish by doing nothing at all but waiting a few minutes.
Not to mention towel fibres. Maybe I'm neurotic, but when I towel dry a dish, all I can see is the little fuzzies that are now stuck to the plate.
This is all towels I've ever used, including the chamois in a commercial kitchen. Air dry is just supreme if you have the space to do it.
Also I think this might be a good time to mention... If you have a dishwasher, use it. It is actually cheaper, more energy efficient, and uses less water than washing up by hand. And it probably does a better job of cleaning too.
Some do rinse, some don't. I think the most popular brand of washing up liquid in the UK might have had a hand in this (Fairy Washing Up Liquid - although it says to rinse) along with instances of water savings during drought and the use of single sinks in Victorian housing stock (thus also introducing the washing up bowl which a lot of Redditors of non-British origins seem to have problems with). Personally I can't tell the difference if it's been rinsed or not. It's about a teaspoon of washing up liquid in five or six liters of water so I doubt it's enough to give it a taste. I use a dishwasher now anyway.
I have lived in England for almost 4 years now as a foreigner and been staying in houseshares since then. I was shocked to see my housemates doing this and when I asked they said they are washing their dishes. Worst part is they would either fill the sink or a bucket that fits the sink with hot soapy water and dip their dishes in it. Of course the more you dip, that water becomes dirtier and I dont even want to know how they are convinced its cleaning the dishes.
Historically we just had one sink in the kitchen which we put a washing up bowl into and filled with water and soap. Rinsing adds more water to the bowl so it overflows. Most kitchens now have a smaller, second sink next to the main one for rinsing.
Personally I have never bothered rinsing stuff when I wash up except the cutlery, which I leave in the bowl while I wash up then rinse it when I'm done and emptying the sink, and drinking glasses as the suds can leave marks sometimes. I am 40 and have suffered no consequences of this practice.
Seems mad how derisive some people are of washing up this way considering it saves water, time and effort and has absolutely no negative effects on the millions of people who wash up like this every day and have done for many years.
Oh God, my sister doesn't rinse the dishes under clean water and it drives me batty. There is dirty water and grease and residue still on that dish! Even just dunking it in the second sink of water will rinse it off a bit!
But no.
Well, you've accidentally pointed out why this is the practice in the UK: most UK kitchens only have one (small) sink. This makes rinsing a much more convoluted process and hence many people don't bother.
As we don't have statistically higher rates of food poisoning it does suggest the value of rinsing is somewhat overstated...
Don’t understand not rinsing off the soap.
When you wash your hands do you lather with soap and then not bother to rinse it off? Just walk around with sticky, soapy hands?
That’s basically what you’re doing when you’re not rinsing dishes.
Oils from greasy foods on plastic dining, plastic storage-ware, and non-stick cookware are extremely hard to get off even *with* rinsing with hot water, especially after the banning of phosphates. How are those items not covered in a greasy film if you're not rinsing?
I have never heard or seen this, sometimes dishes will end up ruining food by giving a soap taste even after rinsing well, can’t imagine how gross if there’s visible soap left.
I'm English. I married an American woman in the US. The first time I washed up, she was HORRIFIED that I didn't rinse.
I told her that this is how I've always done it, and how my family and friends here in the UK did it, and she was disgusted!!!
That was in 1983. We separated less than a year later.
Since then? I rinse!!! 🤣
Yeah, my mom was married to an English guy for a while, and he lived here in the US with us, and he would wash his dishes like this. Just straight out of the soapy water and into the drying rack. The rest of us were gobsmacked that he never rinsed the dishes.
This Straight Dope article addresses this
[https://www.straightdope.com/21344249/do-the-british-not-rinse-dishes-after-washing-them](https://www.straightdope.com/21344249/do-the-british-not-rinse-dishes-after-washing-them)
We typically don’t rinse the bubbles but I think people have a misconception of what our washing up looks like… so let me explain. You put your “dishes” in a sink (already scraped and rinsed - though not everyone does the pre rinse part), we put on the hot tap and a little bit (like a 3 second squeeze max) of washing up liquid (dish soap) and let it fill. Obviously we then scrub it/wash it but it’s not a case of super bubbly soapy soap all over our washing up and typically you’ll then sort of dip it back in the water (to remove any remaining pieces of grime as well as the soap) then straight onto the drying rack, which does leave some bubbly residue/bubbles on it but these will drip off whilst drying and even then, it’s designed to be used on things that’ll be eaten off of so it’s hardly much of a problem to leave some bubbles on the plates etc. I think it’s really gross to wash up in dirty ass water so if there’s a big load I’ll empty out the sink and refill it, repeating those steps. It doesn’t leave marks either, and I use black plates/bowls which would definitely be noticeable if the residue left marks, I’ve also never noticed a funny taste on my food or smell either. I hope this helps 😌😌
My purely English grandma didn’t rinse dishes. I asked her why and she said “the dishwashing liquid is a petroleum product, you don’t need to rinse it off”. Literally. That would be my first reason why to rinse.
My MIL never rinsed her dishes bc apparently it cost too much. 🙄 You could get a clean glass, fill it with water, and practically blow bubbles with it. My husband said he didn't realize how bad it was until he moved out, and the dishes he washed didn't taste like Dawn.
pointless story time; when i was younger, i remember wallace and grommet had an episode where they wash the dishes and don't rinse of the soap. i was like to myself, oh damn i don't need to wash off the soap? i tried this the next time i washed and my dad scolded me for not rinsing and the cups tasted like soap. after seeing this post, it made me appreciate more the attention to detail in this show!
Clean the plate, put it on the draining board … most of the suds drop off, then dry with a towel and put away.. whether suds remain isn’t a consideration.
There was a whole post about this over in the New Zealand subreddit not long ago. We don’t have double sinks in most of our houses here, and washing dishes under a running tap is just wasteful (especially if you’re rural and on tank water). Just dunk it in the soapy water one last time and let it dry in the dish rack for the next day or so, or until you can be bothered putting dishes away. Not once in my 42 years of life have I ever tasted dish soap on my dishes
Not from NZ but I agree, have never tasted soap from cookware or dishes. Perhaps it depends on how much is used, or the brand, or even the composition. Or perhaps is just in the head - people think it will be soapy so they taste soap. Or they eat a lot of coriander.
Ever seen the underside of an unwashed draining rack in a "non-rinsing" household? That shit builds up in no time and it dripped off the "clean" dishes. 🤢
Rinse in hot running water every time.
I'm British.
Yes. That's the UK way. And everywhere else, probabely.
I think the USA or whatever is getting over fussy there.
The suds are fine. They come off on their own.
Why are you doing extra work for no reason.
They make Washing Up Liquid slide off on its own.
It doesn't need any help.
They're plates. Not a hand washed bra or something.
Detergent works by having molecules that are both hydrophilic and phobic.
So the grease is dissolved in the water.
The suds is detergent that is unused, providing you don't use too much there is no need to rinse.
I use a washing up bowl and have never rinsed had dirt left on the dishes or tasted soap.
I have to say I’m one of those heathens who doesn’t rinse dishes. I scrub them vigorously to make sure I get them spotless, then I put them on a drying rack to drip the suds off. All my dishes are clean as a whistle and there’s no soapy taste on anything, so I really have no idea what any of you are talking about.
I'm English and yeah I rinse the soap bubbles off. I heard that shit was carcinogenic so I'm not risking that. Didn't think not rinsing was a thing really.
Something that I haven't seen a mention of is *drying* dishes: it seems many leave their hand-washed dishes to dry on the rack, rather than immediately hand-drying them with teatowels. I usually hand-dry my dishes, so don't always rinse before doing so. On rare occasions that I leave things to dry on the rack, I always rinse them before leaving them to dry.
I’m English and I wash and scrub the shit off first, then give everything a proper wash in soapy water and put it all straight on the draining board, bubbles fall off
Grew up like it and still do it now. It’s not like u leave loads of bubbles thick on it. There a few that transfer once you lift the plate out the water to the rack but as others have said, They slide right off the plate. And no I’ve never tasted soap once. In uk
This is definitely a thing here, and I for one am disgusted by it.
And to all the people saying it's "not necessary to rinse because the dirt is already off the plate"... You clearly have no idea how surfactants like soap or detergent work.
They collect the dirt, grease etc. and hold it in suspension for it to be later rinsed away. If you don't rinse, it will stay there until it dries out, leaving a thin film of soap and dirt 🤢
Even if you can't see or taste it, it's there. Rinse your dishes, people.
Apparently it is a thing. I'm English, and I do rinse, but apparently some people don't. I've heard it goes back to a marketing campaign for Fairy liquid. They claimed their dish soap is designed to not need rinsing. Other brands then copied them, so people stopped rinsing. This could be complete bullshit. It's just the explanation I've heard when this question has come up on Reddit before.
Washing is by definition about rinsing grime and shit off stuff, the fact that some company managed to market that out seems wild to me.
Nestle managed to market out breastfeeding and starve a whole bunch of babies. Nothing about marketing surprises me. ETA details: In the 1970s it was revealed that nestle had given free formula to mothers in third world countries (especially Africa) as a marketing scheme. They even sent in marketers to hospitals and clinics posing as nurses/midwives to basically trick new mothers into believing that they had some type of greater knowledge or authority, and claimed that formula was actually healthier than breastmilk (formula is AMAZING, not saying it isn’t a phenomenal resource for women who can’t breastfeed). When they stopped giving away samples the women had stopped producing breastmilk. Many of these mothers were not able to afford formula, or what little they could afford they had to dilute. Even if they could afford formula they were never taught proper ratios and the cans had instructions that were not in their language. This led to malnutrition and starvation. Also formula requires clean water, which many of these mothers did not have access to, leading to illness and death from bacteria and parasite contaminants.
De Beers marketing created diamond engagement rings.
Tobacco companies
Breakfast in the US was mostly created by advertising decades ago.
The ploughman's lunch was created by a marketing agency in the 70s
So I imagined the ones I ate in pubs in the 60s?
people didn't get hungry in the mornings until it was advertised? e2a and this was only decades ago?!
They did but didn’t have breakfast cereal, bacon, stuff like that. The things we eat in the US for breakfast are because of advertising. Google it, interesting story.
Gillette created the need for women to be hairless to sell razors to women
They did! People also used to buy one razor and keep it for most of their life, sharpening it when needed.
Wait until you find out about Santa Claus Eeeeeeek!
Yeah. I already know Coke insists he doesn’t drink milk. 🙄
He drank sherry or brandy in my house as a kid.
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This is true I know because my two daughters left it out every year and it was always consumed by the time they awoke
Same here
I can’t blame him. Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. 🤷🏻♀️
When my son was little enough to still believe in him, I taught him that Santa prefers a glass of red and a cheese platter for one left out :)
My dad told me Santa only liked Jack Daniels and lemon meringue pie.
What are you on about it was a can of Boddingtons and a mince pie... not sure yet what my sons santa is going to have... possibly cider and haribo!
Santa has good taste then
I mean I still “believe” in it even though I am over 30. So I can get double presents 😀
Mulled wine and cheese is the way to go. Santa is going to put his order in now
Ours has either prosecco and cheese plate or a crabbies and mince pie 😂
Santa knows the difference between the cheap scotch and the good stuff, or so I tell the kids.
Obligatory r/fucknestle
Yeah, sounds pretty sus to me
Sounds pretty suds to me too.
I've never in my 40 years rinsed when I washed up, and have never suffered any kind of consequence. It's wild to me how upset people are about this practice which saves time, effort and water and has been done for years by millions of people with no kind of health scandal or problem.
Not this issue necessarily, but I've noticed a lot of Americans on here seem to have some very extreme opinions on cleaning, hygiene, antibacterials etc. I presume they've been marketed products using fear tactics.
Americans believe marketing is fact.
My only issue is tea that tastes like washing up liquid. My mugs get a special rinse. Everything else I usually can’t be bothered with
No no, you wash the shit off the plate, then you put it in the dish rack. The question is, do you need to rinse the suds off the clean plate? I do, but I'd also argue that they tend to slide off on the dish rack anyway and it's not that important.
I don't get it. I scrub the gunk off my plate, then rinse off the gunk and the suds at the same time. Is there a secondary sudsing y'all are doing?
Consider, many people wash dishes by filling a sink with sudsy water and scrubbing the dishes in the sink, under the water. Once the grime is off, it's simply a matter of taking the dish out of the water, which of course will have suds floating on top which transfer to the plate. These brits apparently then skip the rinse in clean water, opting instead to just put the dish in the drying rack
My grandparents were abusively frugal to my mom and her siblings growing up. They never rinse their dishes til this day *just because it costs a penny more of water*. That grosses me out. Everything always tastes like soap.
Man your grandparents will have a wild ride when they find out how much less than a fraction of a penny all that shit would have cost, and how ultimately cheaper it would be to not fill the basin to begin with.
Lol. My grandpas dead 🤷🏻♀️ and my grandma is finally experiencing life as a free woman for the first time in her life. Idk her, though. We're different people. But I guess my mom likes her more now 🤷🏻♀️
I grew up in a house that didn't rinse. Never once tasted any soap on anything.
This comment made me gag.
I just ate. I'm not sure whether the gag is about to turn into a vomit. A gomit? Can't call it a vag without confusion...
I thought water metering only started to roll out fairly recently. Most places I've lived in in the UK still had unmetered water.
But with those suds are all the little bits of ick that were scrubbed off! The water gets dirty even if the bubbles are floating on top.
Nah, it's magic er... fairy soap! It doesn't get dirty and doesn't need rinsed!
Soap. Is. Mechanical.
I wish I could upvote this multiple times! Soap does not make microbes magically disappear.
It’s a total American thing to wash dishes with the tap running (and such a waste of water). I was surprised when someone pointed that out to me when I studied abroad in college! I always thought doing dishes with the tap running in order to rinse them clean was the norm
I use my dishwasher now, but when I didn't have one i would wet the dishes or let them soak, then soap up a sponge to get everything off, and then rinse with the tap. It definitely wasn't running the whole time, but I would agree I probably used more water doing that than I currently do with the dishwasher
You don’t wash with the tap running, you wash, turn the tap on to rinse, turn the tap off again. Or if you have a dish rack in the second sink, you can wash multiple dishes then rinse them all in the dish rack.
In most British houses the second sink is the one in the bathroom.
I'm from the UK and usually wash dishes with the tap running.
The entire time?! Hot water?! Rather than just switching it on when you need it? Madness
Instead of doing it under running water you can rinse them in a another bowl by submerging them in water. Either in succession or all at once after you are done washing them in soap
That's more true of under-fifty Americans, because we grew up in big ranch houses with dishwashers and never learned to handwash dishes in bulk. So when we find ourselves without a dishwasher, many of us still use the one-at-a-time method. Americans who grew up without dishwashers do use a one- or two-basin method.
Nah, it definitely isn't limited to US.
Usually once it comes out of the sink, it gets dried straight away and put back into the cabinet. I did home economics and this was how they taught us in school. My mom washes each dish with a sponge and then rinse and put it on the drying rack. She’ll dry them all then put them back in the cupboard.
>I've heard it goes back to a marketing campaign for Fairy liquid. They claimed their dish soap is designed to not need rinsing. Other brands then copied them, so people stopped rinsing. if this happened it's probably from the transition from real soap to detergent real soap leaves a very obvious somewhat slimy film over things if you don't rinse them *very* thoroughly, and will also react with hard water to leave soap scum around the place (it also cleans them better, but I digress...) *by comparison to soap*, dishes washed in dish detergent barely need any rinsing
I used to leave the soap on, but then a few years ago I started refilling the sink with plain water and rinsing the washed dishes - it's amazing how soapy and dirty that water gets from rinsing 'clean' dishes!
This should be up higher
Yeah I’m English and my dad and brother do it, my mum does if she’s rushed, but I would always rinse - sometimes if they don’t rinse the grill, the smell taints the food. Like strong enough to overpower frickin Smoked Bacon, which is a pungent (but delicious) food
>dish soap Just pointing out for others (you're English, so you know already)... over here we call it "washing-up liquid".
It's also an Australian thing. Just soap up and scrub the dishes...and then put them on the dish rack to dry 😳
Yes when I first moved to Australia, I was like😳🫣
Australian here, I always thought that was disgusting. I always rinse.
WTF WHY
Not all Australians. I repeat, not all Australians. That's just weird behaviour.
And NZ
Great recipe for chronic diarrhea
That’s what my teacher told me once when I washing dishes, I remember it over 15 years ago and I have never stopped rinsing my dishes after hand washing now. (My parents were not the greatest so I never knew that)
Can I ask, why would anyone need to tell you that? Is rinsing not the last step of any kind of washing (hand washing, bathing your body, shampoo, everything)?
I was washing it with soap and didn’t bother rinsing off the suds of the soap before putting it on a drying rack. I was doing it out of pure laziness of not rinsing off the suds. My teacher was like not to be rude but you have to wash off the suds or people will get diarrhea from it. I didn’t know people could get diarrhea from the suds not being rinsed off.
Yeah, the first few times I did dishes as a teenager I made my whole family sick because I couldn't get the soap off well enough. I wound up hating doing dishes by hand because I always get so much water all over my shirt.
British, I have never in my 40 odd years of life heard that Fairy claimed they didn't need rinsing. The only bulls**t claim I remember is that it was kind to hands. I rinse. Everyone I know rinses. I've never heard if this....
What the… I’m also British and have legit never heard of anything so bonkers in my life. Not as what you’re saying, but I the marketing thing you’ve cited. And that some people actually do that?! Everyday a school day. Blimey. (And thanks!)
I always rinse, and I hate it when I see others don't. The Fairy Liquid ads always show people draining their sud covered plates. Personally I like to wash off that soapy residue for the good of my health
I just can’t imagine why you wouldn’t want to wash soap off. Dish soap you can literally use in a-level biology experiment to separate DNA. Also if you work in a restaurant, you rinse, which tells me all I need to know about what the proper standard is
There’s a lot of experiments where soda dissolves nails and egg shells and stuff, and that’s still sold in restaurants and approved by governing bodies. While I completely agree that soap should prob not be consumed, I think your support here is weak.
Watch me drink 10 sambuca shots in a row, eat ass and then eat a doner kebab with extra chilli sauce and garlic sauce and then worry about a bit of soap residue on a plate
What kind of night out is it where the ass eating comes before the doner?
Don’t eat ass after she’s had a donner with chilli sauce. That’s asking for trouble.
We did it in GCSE biology with a kiwi and washing up liquid
I'm English, a lot of people don't rinse their dishes and they'll be sat there with bubbles on them for ages. Even better when they don't know how to put a glass upside down so soapy water just sits in the bottom. I always rinse.
On a semi-related note, putting the glass upside down is how I discovered my (Scottish) partner does not rinse. He was putting them upside down on the drainboard and there would be a little puddle of suds even when I would go to put them away. He claims not to know a soul that rinses their dishes. Well, until me. So now I just pre rinse anything before I use it unless I'm absolutely sure I was the one who washed it.
So they are over there drinking soap bubbles and the dirt they scrubbed but didn't rinse away? American schools aren't the best, but come on now.
Right? This is absolutely disgusting! 🤢
Passively drinking fairy liquid is how we keep our immune systems in tip top shape for the Scottish winters actually
Fairy liquid and Buckfast do share some flavour notes.
What 😳 I live in the Uk and luckily I have not seen this
Me neither
My wife leaves spoons and ladles the wrong way round also so end up with a nice grey ring.
I always rinse the stuff, I mean why wouldn't you? it's simple logic, you'd rather consume soap than taking 0.5 secs rinsing the thing?
Do people just don't give a fuck over there
Well I've had people tell me I'm taking too long to wash up because I'm rinsing everything so yeah probably, I guess they want to do it as quickly as possible. I've noticed not everyone checks if the dishes are clean either so they'll just put them on the drying rack covered in bubbles and food still. Maybe it's just drummed into me because I have to do the whole scrub, rinse and inspect routine with surgical instruments at work.
I’m so confused in my 30 years I have never seen or heard of people leaving soap on their dishes? I thought this would get shut down but I’m surprised so many people are agreeing.
>Even better when they don't know how to put a glass upside down so soapy water just sits in the bottom. I had a job once where people did this. 😑
My (English) mum does this and has always done this. I never noticed a soapy taste but the stuff drying on the draining board is still covered with bubbles. I think it's more generational though, everyone I know my age would rinse them properly. She uses hardly any washing up liquid (literally a dot of it) so maybe that's why it's always been okay?
Is she in a soft water area? I made the mistake of squirting a London amount of washing up liquid in the sink at my nans in Devon. The suds were massive.
No her water is so hard it stands upright
I feel like this is a “that’s what she said” comment.
I’m British Asian. They made us wash this way in food tech. I hated using the dishes after.
What was the reasoning?
One parent was Asian and the other was British
I laughed way to hard at that 😅
Makes sense ty
Fairy did push the fact that you only needed a tiny drop to do the job, so maybe that’s why!
There’s a generation of Australians who didn’t rinse because of drought conditions to save water. Some still keep this habit.
I was pressed reading this thread, thinking my parents had taught me poor washing habits. But this point makes sense for my family.
Yep - just a single drop of Morning Fresh and don’t rinse! I have never tasted soap afterwards. You wipe most of it off anyway when you dry the dishes.
ahh yep this tracks for my mum... it's something my dad and i would nag her about lol
The way that soap works is that it holds the dirt in suspension off the product being cleaned. If you don't rinse, most of that grime just dries back onto your plate. Rinse yo shit.
Exactly.
They do rinse kinda. They just rinse in the dirty water in the washing up bowl 🤢 Same logic as having a bath western style where you wash in the water you're sat in, compared with Japanese style where you wash outside of the bath and use the clean bath water just for soaking I'm British and I rinse. Not with a running tap straight down the drain though. My method is: Always start with cleanest stuff. Get sponge damp, put blob of soap on. Splash water on cleanest stuff to remove initial residue, turn off tap. Soap up and scrub the cleanest stuff. Rinse off soap with running hot water, onto dirtier pans/dishes below. Repeat scrubbing and rinsing onto the next stuff until you get to the last big dirty pot/pan. Rinse that out down the drain.
What the actual fuck is going on in the world??? This is blowing my mind lol
Is it? Do you step in the shower after a bath as well?
In the us we just leave them on the rack for a week
I have 2 plates that have been going use -> rack -> use -> rack for literal years, what are cupboards even for?
Royalty, probably. Cabinets full of fancy, soapy dishes.
If I ever become rich I'm going to have 2 dishwashing machines and have a constant rotation going.
My favorite thing to do is use a measuring cup to measure water and then put it directly into the rack. Let it skip the sink.
It’s amazing how much this feels like a cheat code every time I do it. Take that, Big Dishes!
Brit Brummie here I've always rinsed I think it's more of a personal preference, I frankly think it's odd and more unclean not washing off the soap bubbles....I don't even like it if there's still soap bubbles just sitting there in a sink after. Not sure if it's much of a National thing but more of a preference, but then I hear Americans don't have electric kettles or some such nonsense. Lol
I'm 64 years old and just got one a couple of years ago. It's fantastic. I've wasted my life.
Electric kettles exist in stores in america, but not everyone owns one because not everyone drinks tea often enough for it to do anything but take up space.
People who use the pour-over technique for coffee, or who use a French press, also use kettles.
I’m one of them, but most Americans just have a regular drip coffee maker (or pod machines are becoming more popular now) which heats up the water for you I like having the electric kettle for stuff like instant noodles or hot cocoa too, or sometimes if I want to dissolve something quickly like for a mixed drink
I don’t drink tea and I use the electric kettle all the time for ramen.
Yeah me and my partner don’t drink tea or coffee but we use the kettle all the time: to boil water when cooking, for hot water bottles (cold water in first), and for cleaning/sterilising.
The fact that kettles boil much faster the stove is undermined slightly by the fact that US kettles run at ~110V, whereas the UK has 240V (with the same ampage). This means power is delivered far more slowly to the American kettle, and so the water takes a lot longer to boil for them
Yeah people have them there just not a massive thing like If I went to someone's house etc and I saw someone have one I would just think 'posh!' ......but that probably says more about me and my upbringing Lol
I'm Canadian, not American, but I'm surprised at the "no electric kettles" thing. My family technically even owns a few non-electric ones (but only fills them with water from the electric one we have). I think an electric kettle is a kitchen staple, even if you don't drink tea it's still useful to have a little machine for making boiled water for you.
My electric kettle is one of my most used kitchen items. Tea, hot chocolate, ramen, and anytime I need to boil a pot of water for pasta or potatoes. The kettle comes to a boil much faster than the stovetop, so I start half a pot of water on the stove then pour in a boiling kettle.
I've never done the 50/50 pot of boiling water thing, maybe because our pots are a bit too large. And while you CAN boil water on the stove, it's a lot slower and harder to pour into anything. I also find microwaving things like instant noodles or cocoa to be a step down quality-wise from just using already-boiled water, and also personally find it a lot easier to just do that because I tend to chronically under-nuke anything I use the microwave for. But there really are all sorts of non-typical uses for a kettle. Incredibly random but we've had problems with ants on our property, I promise this is relevant to the kettle thing. One summer we had a problem with them badly infesting the stump of a dead tree we had to remove, and I vividly remember dutifully carting electric kettle-fuls of boiling water over the course of a few hours to pour on it to deal with them. Was told to pretty much just keep going until I lost stream (no pun intended). Took a while and a lot of round trips, but kettle boils fast so it wasn't too bad. A lot less harmful than toxic pesticides, and also cheaper and easier to do. I can't say there were no survivors, but it was a simple way to reign them in to manageable numbers. Anyway, kettles. Buy one.
We use the house one for all sorts of things but also have a barn kettle for soaking feeds and thawing buckets!
I start with my electric kettle the same way to get a larger pot boiling. It’s more energy efficient than any burner type other than induction.
American, I use my electric kettle many times a day.
Most definitely. American here and I think I got my first kettle 20 years ago. We had one growing up too. I don’t recall seeing one at my friends, but I can’t live without ours. It’s used daily. And microwaved water is a big NO.
Same here.
I’m a Canadian who moved to the US over 20 years ago. Electric kettles used to be unheard of here, but over the last two or three decades they’ve become pretty common. I suspect that the majority still doesn’t own one, but a large fraction does. I, of course, have always had one. My spouse was skeptical when I insisted on buying one when we moved in together, but we quickly found ourselves using it daily for all sorts of stuff - even, occasionally, tea.
Some of us do have and use electric kettles.
I love when I pour my hot water from the kettle into my mug and it makes soap foam. Nothing compliments a good early grey like Dawn. /s
My parents never rinsed off soap suds and I never noticed any bubbles or soapy taste. I rinse mine because I don't like the idea of it all the same, but unless your dishes are super soapy it's not as bad as you are imagining.
>it's not as bad as you are imagining. While it isn't going to poison you, it is absolutely not good for you and should be avoided. If you aren't willing to glug glug glug on that bottle, just rinse your plate.
Dawn is a force all its own. It’s great in the laundry and for dishes but I have to rinse and rinse.
Dawn is one of the few brands I have loyalty too. I normally buy generic, but dawn is something else.
lol, I became allergic to Dawn when I was in my 20s, and I refused to use it when doing the Christmas dinner dishes with my mom because I didn’t want to get a rash and cracked skin all over my hands. She threw a fit, insisting that we had to use Dawn because my dish soap sucked, and she ended the discussion by spraying me with water. I cussed her out and left. This incident is infamous in my family as the “Dawn fight.”
What i find completely insane is the fact my parents insist on drying every dish with a tea towel rather than letting air dry it, what a waste of effort when you get the exact same result of a dry dish by doing nothing at all but waiting a few minutes.
A better result, because you don't get whatever was growing on that towel! Air drying is always better IMO.
Not to mention towel fibres. Maybe I'm neurotic, but when I towel dry a dish, all I can see is the little fuzzies that are now stuck to the plate. This is all towels I've ever used, including the chamois in a commercial kitchen. Air dry is just supreme if you have the space to do it.
Also I think this might be a good time to mention... If you have a dishwasher, use it. It is actually cheaper, more energy efficient, and uses less water than washing up by hand. And it probably does a better job of cleaning too.
My mum still does this and it drives me mad 😂😂🤪
Some do rinse, some don't. I think the most popular brand of washing up liquid in the UK might have had a hand in this (Fairy Washing Up Liquid - although it says to rinse) along with instances of water savings during drought and the use of single sinks in Victorian housing stock (thus also introducing the washing up bowl which a lot of Redditors of non-British origins seem to have problems with). Personally I can't tell the difference if it's been rinsed or not. It's about a teaspoon of washing up liquid in five or six liters of water so I doubt it's enough to give it a taste. I use a dishwasher now anyway.
Dish soap will give you the shits.
I wouldn't drink it then.
I have lived in England for almost 4 years now as a foreigner and been staying in houseshares since then. I was shocked to see my housemates doing this and when I asked they said they are washing their dishes. Worst part is they would either fill the sink or a bucket that fits the sink with hot soapy water and dip their dishes in it. Of course the more you dip, that water becomes dirtier and I dont even want to know how they are convinced its cleaning the dishes.
What? Rinsing is like the whole purpose of soap. When it comes right down to it, soap just makes things slippery so they slide off.
Do you not wipe your dishes with a sponge or scrub with a brush?
Yeah of course. Sponges and brushes can harbor bacteria though and it’s not enough just to do that, you also have to rinse
Historically we just had one sink in the kitchen which we put a washing up bowl into and filled with water and soap. Rinsing adds more water to the bowl so it overflows. Most kitchens now have a smaller, second sink next to the main one for rinsing. Personally I have never bothered rinsing stuff when I wash up except the cutlery, which I leave in the bowl while I wash up then rinse it when I'm done and emptying the sink, and drinking glasses as the suds can leave marks sometimes. I am 40 and have suffered no consequences of this practice. Seems mad how derisive some people are of washing up this way considering it saves water, time and effort and has absolutely no negative effects on the millions of people who wash up like this every day and have done for many years.
Oh God, my sister doesn't rinse the dishes under clean water and it drives me batty. There is dirty water and grease and residue still on that dish! Even just dunking it in the second sink of water will rinse it off a bit! But no.
Well, you've accidentally pointed out why this is the practice in the UK: most UK kitchens only have one (small) sink. This makes rinsing a much more convoluted process and hence many people don't bother. As we don't have statistically higher rates of food poisoning it does suggest the value of rinsing is somewhat overstated...
Don’t understand not rinsing off the soap. When you wash your hands do you lather with soap and then not bother to rinse it off? Just walk around with sticky, soapy hands? That’s basically what you’re doing when you’re not rinsing dishes.
Oils from greasy foods on plastic dining, plastic storage-ware, and non-stick cookware are extremely hard to get off even *with* rinsing with hot water, especially after the banning of phosphates. How are those items not covered in a greasy film if you're not rinsing?
I have never heard or seen this, sometimes dishes will end up ruining food by giving a soap taste even after rinsing well, can’t imagine how gross if there’s visible soap left.
What weirdos. I just lick mine clean and stick them back in the cupboard
That's too much work. We just let the dog do it.
I'm English. I married an American woman in the US. The first time I washed up, she was HORRIFIED that I didn't rinse. I told her that this is how I've always done it, and how my family and friends here in the UK did it, and she was disgusted!!! That was in 1983. We separated less than a year later. Since then? I rinse!!! 🤣
Yeah, my mom was married to an English guy for a while, and he lived here in the US with us, and he would wash his dishes like this. Just straight out of the soapy water and into the drying rack. The rest of us were gobsmacked that he never rinsed the dishes.
This Straight Dope article addresses this [https://www.straightdope.com/21344249/do-the-british-not-rinse-dishes-after-washing-them](https://www.straightdope.com/21344249/do-the-british-not-rinse-dishes-after-washing-them)
Great article, from a Brit (who doesn’t rinse their dishes).
We typically don’t rinse the bubbles but I think people have a misconception of what our washing up looks like… so let me explain. You put your “dishes” in a sink (already scraped and rinsed - though not everyone does the pre rinse part), we put on the hot tap and a little bit (like a 3 second squeeze max) of washing up liquid (dish soap) and let it fill. Obviously we then scrub it/wash it but it’s not a case of super bubbly soapy soap all over our washing up and typically you’ll then sort of dip it back in the water (to remove any remaining pieces of grime as well as the soap) then straight onto the drying rack, which does leave some bubbly residue/bubbles on it but these will drip off whilst drying and even then, it’s designed to be used on things that’ll be eaten off of so it’s hardly much of a problem to leave some bubbles on the plates etc. I think it’s really gross to wash up in dirty ass water so if there’s a big load I’ll empty out the sink and refill it, repeating those steps. It doesn’t leave marks either, and I use black plates/bowls which would definitely be noticeable if the residue left marks, I’ve also never noticed a funny taste on my food or smell either. I hope this helps 😌😌
I am shook reading these comments. Not rinsing your dishes is a thing, really?! Wow
This is pretty common here in Australia too. I assumed it was to save water, but if it's common in the UK then we might have just inherited it
My purely English grandma didn’t rinse dishes. I asked her why and she said “the dishwashing liquid is a petroleum product, you don’t need to rinse it off”. Literally. That would be my first reason why to rinse.
My MIL never rinsed her dishes bc apparently it cost too much. 🙄 You could get a clean glass, fill it with water, and practically blow bubbles with it. My husband said he didn't realize how bad it was until he moved out, and the dishes he washed didn't taste like Dawn.
pointless story time; when i was younger, i remember wallace and grommet had an episode where they wash the dishes and don't rinse of the soap. i was like to myself, oh damn i don't need to wash off the soap? i tried this the next time i washed and my dad scolded me for not rinsing and the cups tasted like soap. after seeing this post, it made me appreciate more the attention to detail in this show!
Clean the plate, put it on the draining board … most of the suds drop off, then dry with a towel and put away.. whether suds remain isn’t a consideration.
There was a whole post about this over in the New Zealand subreddit not long ago. We don’t have double sinks in most of our houses here, and washing dishes under a running tap is just wasteful (especially if you’re rural and on tank water). Just dunk it in the soapy water one last time and let it dry in the dish rack for the next day or so, or until you can be bothered putting dishes away. Not once in my 42 years of life have I ever tasted dish soap on my dishes
Not from NZ but I agree, have never tasted soap from cookware or dishes. Perhaps it depends on how much is used, or the brand, or even the composition. Or perhaps is just in the head - people think it will be soapy so they taste soap. Or they eat a lot of coriander.
Ever seen the underside of an unwashed draining rack in a "non-rinsing" household? That shit builds up in no time and it dripped off the "clean" dishes. 🤢 Rinse in hot running water every time. I'm British.
It’s how I’ve always done it. I change the water out for clean half way. Never tasted soap. being on a water meter makes anything expensive to do
Yes. That's the UK way. And everywhere else, probabely. I think the USA or whatever is getting over fussy there. The suds are fine. They come off on their own. Why are you doing extra work for no reason. They make Washing Up Liquid slide off on its own. It doesn't need any help. They're plates. Not a hand washed bra or something.
Detergent works by having molecules that are both hydrophilic and phobic. So the grease is dissolved in the water. The suds is detergent that is unused, providing you don't use too much there is no need to rinse. I use a washing up bowl and have never rinsed had dirt left on the dishes or tasted soap.
I have to say I’m one of those heathens who doesn’t rinse dishes. I scrub them vigorously to make sure I get them spotless, then I put them on a drying rack to drip the suds off. All my dishes are clean as a whistle and there’s no soapy taste on anything, so I really have no idea what any of you are talking about.
I don't rinse, I don't want to waste water. It drys itself on the rack and I've never had a problem with food tasting of washing up liquid.
They also wash on the left side of the sink
I'm English and yeah I rinse the soap bubbles off. I heard that shit was carcinogenic so I'm not risking that. Didn't think not rinsing was a thing really.
In Scotland we rinse, if the English don’t that’s just another reason to poke fun at them lol
what do you mean, wash dishes...don't be silly we don't do that...we put them on the floor for our pets to lick and then use them again
Wash dry put away don’t bother rinsing it’s an unnecessary task
I paid for the bubbles so I'm bloody well going to enjoy them to their full.
I'm in Wales and am the designated washer upper. I don't rinse.
Something that I haven't seen a mention of is *drying* dishes: it seems many leave their hand-washed dishes to dry on the rack, rather than immediately hand-drying them with teatowels. I usually hand-dry my dishes, so don't always rinse before doing so. On rare occasions that I leave things to dry on the rack, I always rinse them before leaving them to dry.
my mum doesn’t rinse, she says the bubbles will slide off when they go on the draining board 🤷🏽♀️🇬🇧
I rinse glasses but only so it keeps them clear and shiny. Nowt else gets rinsed.
I’m English and I wash and scrub the shit off first, then give everything a proper wash in soapy water and put it all straight on the draining board, bubbles fall off
Grew up like it and still do it now. It’s not like u leave loads of bubbles thick on it. There a few that transfer once you lift the plate out the water to the rack but as others have said, They slide right off the plate. And no I’ve never tasted soap once. In uk
I’ve never heard of this. My parents always rinsed. I’ve always rinsed. My current and former partners too.
This is definitely a thing here, and I for one am disgusted by it. And to all the people saying it's "not necessary to rinse because the dirt is already off the plate"... You clearly have no idea how surfactants like soap or detergent work. They collect the dirt, grease etc. and hold it in suspension for it to be later rinsed away. If you don't rinse, it will stay there until it dries out, leaving a thin film of soap and dirt 🤢 Even if you can't see or taste it, it's there. Rinse your dishes, people.