To rinse / not to rinse: washing-up liquid poisoning.
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scifisam
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newme
Giant in Pastyland now
So you get to the point where the water is too hot to put your hands in and you leave the washing up to fester in the sink while it cools back down.
In the unlikely event that this does happen, theres this marvellous device generally found on the sink, often quite near to the hot tap, its called and wait for it..... the cold tap, its a new invention, but its a good one. Using this combination of amazing new technology its possible to and im gonna use some industry slang here cool the water contained within the sink to a lower temperature.
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
Because there's always too much bloody washing up.
Do one load, rinse in very hot water, leave to air dry, which takes pretty much sod all time with it that hot, meaning that by the time you've filled the drying rack roughly half of it is dry anyway at least. Having done an entire drying racks worth the water needs changing, so whilst thats being drained and refilled the rest will dry off, if not quite dry then do whatever you can do fill the rack back up. If you still have more left then 1) you need to do the washing up more often and 2) dunk the rest in and leave to soak while u have a cuppa/spliff/beer/wine/small off duty czechoslavakian traffic warden, whatevers your tipple and the rest dries off while you wonder how on earth you managed to accumulate more than two racks worth in the first place.
scifisam
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In the unlikely event that this does happen, theres this marvellous device generally found on the sink, often quite near to the hot tap, its called and wait for it..... the cold tap, its a new invention, but its a good one. Using this combination of amazing new technology its possible to and im gonna use some industry slang here cool the water contained within the sink to a lower temperature.
There's also a wonderful invention called Marigolds.
See, my sink area and draining area is really small - I can't do that.
The dishes wouldn't be dry in the time it takes to refill a sink.
My GF also has a lttle foible about stuff being left to soak in the sink: it means she can't use the sink. Not to wash up the stuff that's there now, not to wash anything else up, not even to fill a kettle or glass. So I can't leave anything to soak without it being a MAJOR issue. This is a problem, what with our small sink and draining area.
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
Another alternative certainly, dont like em myself.
See, my sink area and draining area is really small - I can't do that.
The dishes wouldn't be dry in the time it takes to refill a sink.
My GF also has a lttle foible about stuff being left to soak in the sink: it means she can't use the sink. Not to wash up the stuff that's there now, not to wash anything else up, not even to fill a kettle or glass. So I can't leave anything to soak without it being a MAJOR issue. This is a problem, what with our small sink and draining area.
Our draining area is small, fits a standard cheapo tesco rack which has maybe 10 plate sized slots on each side, still manage to fit a substantial amount on it tho.
If the water you are rinsing with is near enough boiling, it will indeed dry off in seconds or a minute tops.
Stuff being left to soak only needs to be left for what a few minutes tops while the other stuff dries off and then washing up can be resumed. Exactly how often do you need to use the sink that 5 minutes worth of being left to soak becomes an issue when someone would have been there using it to wash the dishes anyway? lol
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Ok then (sometimes i don't use my bowl)how do you stop the sink getting too full with water ?
Ah i see you explain in subsequent posts...........
fuck me life is too short to spend this much time washing up............can't say it's an issue that i give much thought to, specially as my job involves a lot of washing up throughout my day !
The shortest amount of time possible spent doing it for me.......and sometimes it doesn't get done till the next day !
such and such
Scones then fucking.
Washing up liquid residue tastes disgusting. I don't understand how can people not notice or be bothered by it.
madzone
Physically unfavourable
^^^
This.
You lot clearly have too much time and need to takeup knitting or voluntary work.
Herbsman.
Nah Lotion, Pet, Nor Powder.
No! Sometimes stuff doesn't completely dry, for example if it has crevaces in it that water sticks to due to its relatively high surface tension, or if it couldn't be placed upside down or in a position that allowed water to completely drip from it. In which case it must be finished off by towel. Or if one is making a long-winded meal sometimes one might want/need to wash up two or three times while stuff is marinading/baking/simmering etc. just to keep the final load of washing up as small as possible. Thus one might dry the first load by towel after a few minutes of drip drying, in order to keep the draining rack free for the next load.
Sub-standard tastebuds? Or maybe their parents never rinsed their washing up, so the people in question have long been accustomed to the lovely subtle flavours and aromas of washing up liquid since they were children. Perhaps food tastes weird to them without the flavour of washing up liquid?!
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
These are essentially instances of lack of sufficient air. My question was why would you use a teatowel when air exists. When sufficient air exists to dry the dishes no teatowel is required. When it doesn't a teatowel is required.
chainsaw cat
Tea. Biccies. Happy now?
Sometimes I wave the plates about to dry them.
Once I knocked a lump out of the wall with a paella pan.
This happens when there is a pile of teatowels in the laundry basket.
Once I knocked a lump out of the wall with a paella pan.
This happens when there is a pile of teatowels in the laundry basket.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
If you use more water than washing up liquid to do your pots with then you don't notice it.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Which makes absolutely no difference to the overuse of detergents and pollution in our watercourses whatsoever.
Oh and Ecover is only owned by fucking Group-4, so a bit light on the ethical credentials there!
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
although obviously for proper cleaning the 3 sink method should be employed.
4-sink actually. This was being researched as long ago as the mid 1980s & IIRC, if you use detergent, the only way to be safe is to wash and rinse the whole lot again, in pure soap, then rinse again in fresh water.
I also remember someone punting a theory that the byproducts of enzymic detergents (usually dishwasher) were implicated in forming rogue proteins that might contribute to Alzheimer’s but I have no idea how that panned-out.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Never mind Alzheimer's or relationship breakdown, what those dirty stopout non-rinsers don't realise is that they are running the risk of RACE WAR (or to put it more elegantly 'increasing residential segregation'), as in my experience most non-Anglo cultures (continental Europeans, middle Easterners, Caribbeans especially) consider not rinsing the washing up to be "a disgusting English habit" and even a good reason not to marry / cohabit with / dine with an English person. Or at the very least a cause of awkward moments at dinner parties when English guests said 'we'll do the washing up' and non-English hosts had to find an elegant way to say 'not in my kitchen you bloody well won't, I know all about your filthy non-rinsing ways'.
At first my reaction to this was "well, dirty plates are better than bigotry" but I am in agreement with the rinsing foreign hordes - not rinsing is just bloody disgusting. you're just leaving dishes and pans to form their own crust of diluted starch/oils/fats/stinks, plus a little bit of soap. blech. I feel bad about the extra water use* involved in rinsing, but isn't it worth it for a better, happier world?
*much reduced if you use a dishwasher, but then you might be considered middle class.
At first my reaction to this was "well, dirty plates are better than bigotry" but I am in agreement with the rinsing foreign hordes - not rinsing is just bloody disgusting. you're just leaving dishes and pans to form their own crust of diluted starch/oils/fats/stinks, plus a little bit of soap. blech. I feel bad about the extra water use* involved in rinsing, but isn't it worth it for a better, happier world?
*much reduced if you use a dishwasher, but then you might be considered middle class.
One of my few OCD-esque habbits is to rinse plates regardless of how it's washed. I rinse pots that I've washed myself and even when at my chum's last week I rinsed my stuff and she has a dishwasher.
bi0boy
Power User
Oh I always rinse stuff that has been dishwashed, because dishwashers try to be "eco" by saving water and generally only do two rinses with minimal water.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Where does one obtain such stuff?
madzone
Physically unfavourable
Did you keep your shoes on?
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Fuck me, only on U75 could people get into such a lather (snigger) about the washing up.....
jeebus people, get a life !
jeebus people, get a life !
It's not the fact that I don't understand, it's the fact that I don't care.
Happy tramp me
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
i have a life.
a life that involves eating off of clean plates, using clean knives and forks.
So do i..........
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
i have a life.
a life that involves eating off of clean plates, using clean knives and forks.
Not if you don't rinse.
