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?
How do they avoid soap poisoning?
Freegards
Just go paper plates and cups.
The answer: paper plates.
I saw that when we stayed with my dad’s foster parents in England. They wash in soapy water and dry right away.
I’d like to attempt to get that soap stuff off before eating again off that dish or utensil.
I’m not so concerned about health effects of soap in food as much as about the taste it might impart. Yuk!!!
I’m of the generation were soap was used to wash out mouths of belligerent children.
I bet they wash their dishes with water before they use them ….
Scrape, rinse with some mildly soapy water, into the d/w.
Maybe that’s why British food is so bad - a mouthful of soap in every bite.
You are better off using very hot water and scrubbing, than you are with soapy lukewarm water an no rinse. The soap doesn’t disinfect, it just acts as a surfactant.
Well, it keeps you regular
Nothing like a soap suds enema
I’m not so concerned about health effects of soap in food as much as about the taste it might impart. Yuk!!!
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But it probably improves the taste of British food.
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.
Some preparations, like whipping egg whites, required completely clean container and utensils. That’s the first thing I thought about.
I was just thinking of Ralphie in A Christmas Story. I think he was blinded by his mom making him keep a bar of soap in his mouth for swearing.
Freegards
We’re talking about hand-washed dishes.
I let the dishwasher do what it’s supposed to do. I’ve put some pretty cruddy dishes in (after scrapping the obvious big stuff off) and they always come out clean. Otherwise, what’s the use?
Times past the dish would be wiped and turned over on the table ready for use in the next meal.
My friend’s mother finally got a dishwasher for the first time in her whole life.
She ran her everyday plates thru one cycle. When she took them out of the dishwasher . . . they were a different color!
Xplauns much about English food
Hysterically stupid comment in the article...the soap evaporates. Some people are as stupid as I’ll educated Americans
I thought the automatic dishwasher rinsed them
Without even washing!?
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