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I cannot empathize the British habit of washing and rinsing dishes in the same dirty water, and drying them without washing off the soap suds. Is this similar to having a bath and non rinsing off the soap? Am I missing something here?

Elizabeth Augustine, Derby, UK

• The trick is to continue the water clean, by pre-rinsing and -scraping and then past washing the cleanest things first (after the glassware of grade). Soapy water will run off without leaving marks, whereas you will become watermarks if you rinse.

  Washing nether a continuous stream of water makes it harder to utilize detergent and is probably wasteful of both it and hot water, but the real reason nosotros British don't do it that way is that traditionally we accept not had mixer taps.

  Tom Boddington, Leeds, Uk

• Yous would appear to exist somewhat behind the times, most new "executive homes" now being built have dishwashers, and almost kitchen refurbishments tend to take a dishwasher included in the deal. People using launder bowls tend often to accept a second sink infinite with facilities for rinsing under the swivel tap.

  Utilize of washing up liquid commonly encourages people to rinse the suds which cling to the plates etc. Perhaps the people y'all know are not enlightened of the finer points of life and maybe you are missing something.

  Jack Hill, St Albans, England

• It must be the company of civilised human beings that yous're missing. Everyone I know rinses the dishes under running water after washing them.

  Bill, London, United Kingdom

• I think Jack Colina should remember that not everybody lives in an 'executive abode' in St Albans driver elation.

  Ciaran, London, UK

• My Grandmother had particular rules when allowing my sister and I to wash up after Lord's day Tea. Nosotros had to wash everything thoroughly and place on the draining board, and then re-fill up the sink with hot water and rinse everything thoroughly too. Then dry. I take amended this slightly and (now that my dishwasher is cleaved) wash everything and put information technology on the draining board, and so pour a kettle of boiling water on information technology and don't dry. Having seen may programmes showing the amount of germs lurking in a tea towel I reckon using one undoes all the hard piece of work!

  Lesley Morgan, Monkseaton, UK

• I observed this at friends houses whilst growing upwards. It's weird. Nigh other children of immigrant to the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland I know have marvelled at this addiction also.

  Ray , London London

• I have also observed this behaviour, presumably due to frugality with hot water. Information technology doesn't seem to practice them much harm (see queries on eczema) but I hope they're using Ecover Liquid at to the lowest degree and ingesting fewer nasty petrochemicals!

  Ellie Jones, Bridport, UK

• In what sense is this a "British" habit? I am British and always rinse done plates.

  Chris Jones, Sheffield, Yorkshire

• I take never endemic a dishwasher and would not call it a 'British' addiction only I have noticed a lot of people wash upwardly this way. If my mother caught me doing this, I'm sure she would chop off my arms every bit she thinks its absurd! We have too non always seen the point of drying dishes as they are always left on the draining board to dry naturally. And if you lot use hot water, non only do your dishes dry quicker, merely its less likely yous will get watermarks. Oh dear, I sound like an advert.

  Nila Patel, London United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

• Oh, you are all so fussy! Have you e'er heard of anyone getting ill from plates that have not been rinsed? As long every bit you can't gustation the washing upward water and there are no noticeable nutrient particles left on the plates what's the problem? No wonder the world is going down the plughole if everyone else is wasting time and energy rinsing plates unnecessarily. GET A LIFE!! And end inventing issues when there are plenty real ones to debate with.

  Jonathan, Brecon, Wales

• I think the point is about clean dishes and less nigh the which way to practice it. Think virtually it, if you soap upward and rinse off when you have a shower then how is not rinsing your dishes clean? Yes, in that location are millions of issues in the world, merely if everyone has a bad addiction of doing a half-arsed job then I think we take a bigger problem.

  Thomas, London, UK

• When Jonathon contracts salmonella from a dirty fork, then perhaps the importance of hygiene volition suddenly be elevated in his mind. Saying that, his married woman is most probably an excellent washer-upper.

  Paul Townsend, Weymouth U.k.

• It is indeed a very bad habit. Unfortunately I detect the majority of people do non rinse thier dishes later washing. Some of my friends were simply brought upwardly without the knowledge of rinsing and the concept seems alien to them. I believe information technology is a thing of swallowing pride and accepting that rinsing is healthier and avoids whatever odour or nutrient to exist stuck on the dishes. Several people claim that it saves water, well I tin not put saving water above my health. People should not exist lazy, make the actress endeavour and rinse dishes later all it benefits You lot more than any ane else!

  Jason Vassiliu, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

• I am from the US and have lived in Cambridge for several years. I too accept noticed this addiction here with every person I have observed washing upward. With most washing-up liquids being relatively newer formulations from petrochemicals, to which long-term exposure is even so unknown, residuals cannot exist beneficial if ingested. The health furnishings are probably on the order of second-paw smoking; chronic exposure adds up, incidental exposure is probably innocuous. You shouldn't worry nigh asking your host if they rinse, merely y'all might desire to rinse at home.

  Michael, Cambridge, UK

• I accept never been a dish rinsed and can honestly say my glasses and plates are spotless. I keep the h2o as clean as possible past scraping and pre-rinsing and wash glasses kickoff and greasy pans last. If the item notwithstanding feels dirty subsequently washing I refill the sink and launder again with fresh water including washing liquid. Of grade the occasional bubble gets carried to the drying tray simply that is the smallest fraction of the liquid that went into the sink and even then near all of it drips off as the dish dries. I don't rinse after bubble bathroom either. And I utilise moisturiser. And wear deodorant. And make up.

  Anne, London, Britain

• Yup, I've lived in Edinburgh for 7 years (from Canada), and all Scottish or English people I have seen doing dishes have not rinsed off the lather. At first, I thought it an unusual habit of one or two people, just eventually realized it is the norm in the UK.

  Edward, Edinburgh, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

• For all those people that think it'south alright to wash dishes and non rinse them, information technology is like brushing your teeth and not rinsing out the toothpaste. Plus washing machines have rinse bike then do dishwashers and when we shower or bath, we rinse off the soap that holds the clay off our bodies. And then don't exist lazy rinse those dishes.

  Patrick brooks, Birmingham, UK

• Washing upwards liquid will not practice one's insides much good, then rinsing is of import to remove traces. Where it not for my Grandfather, a scientist, telling me this I would not have known, and then I believe the problem is due to a lack of education on the subject. I know many people who do non rinse plates etc.

  Matthew Brown, Northampton, UK

• P.S. for those who don't believe information technology is a problem in England, check out the link beneath where you volition be amazed to meet how many modern British women practise not know that information technology is important to rinse! http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/community/forums/thread/1326658?theme=print

  Matthew Brown, Northampton, Great britain

• If I can draw your attention to the manufacturer's prophylactic data sheet for a well known brand of washing up liquid, under 'Toxicological Information' - 'Not acutely toxic', 'Chronic toxicity: Repeated exposure to depression levels (due east.1000. residues left on dinnerware) will not crusade adverse effects.' http://world wide web.scienceinthebox.com/en_UK/pdf/Fairy-Liquid-Original.pdf So as long equally you're not using huge squirts of the soap to wash your dishes so that you lot're making your side by side repast gustatory modality soapy and then at that place is no harm in Not rinsing your dishes after.

  Mark, Cardiff UK

• I asked my husband virtually this because I noticed his family unit did not rinse the dishes while they were hither. He has been in the U.s. over 20 years and just then remembered that he never rinsed dishes while growing upwardly and did not know anyone else who did so when he was younger. He reckons information technology was because of lack of space (counter and no double sinks) then it was but a habit that developed because of 'using what you had", that just got passed on. I don't know about the Uk merely dish lather in the US states on it "Do not ingest" and "in case of accidental ingestion, contact a poison control center immediately", or some similar version depending on the maker of the liquid. So it merely seems that it can't be healthy to consume & drink from dishes that aren't rinsed.

  RM, Phoenix Arizona U.s.a.

• I was baffled by this when I moved here from my dwelling in America. Thankfully I married an Englishman who, once questioned on it, agreed it was an odd (and unhealthy) custom to not rinse dishes. My understanding is that it does take to do with not wanting them to spot, and/or but some very VERY widespread culture (despite what some above may say) where rinsing dishes has never been done.

  Mindy, London UK

• I simply moved back to England after years away and had forgotten how people here do the washing up. When I was hither in university, I remember being shocked past how my housemates used to use a plastic bowl they put in the kitchen sink to do washing up, simply I'd forgotten about the no rinsing function. But I just moved back to england, and my ii housemates fill the sink with soapy water with all the dishes in it, and scrub (barely) one side of them and so put them on the rack to dry out. They leave the brown tea stains inside cups and on spoons too. And this doesn't seem to bother them. I tin't deal with this and I'1000 not sure how to bring it up with them without offending them. I desire to merely say: "Hey, exercise you rinse your hair and trunk after soaping and shampoing? Well it's the same here." Only might that be a chip brutal? It's not just near the soap residue either. Although it can make things taste soapy, and in the long run, can't be healthy, plus spectacles ever seem slightly greasy and marked. The real problem is hygiene. If you lot don't rinse your dishes after washing them, you'll however have food rest and leaner on them. Plus, y'all've mixed the residue of ALL your dishes together. So if one of them had something bad on it, now they all do. Howdy Cross-Contagion! The manner my housemates are doing their dishes is really actually getting nether my skin. Someone please requite me communication on how best to deal with it in a fashion that won't be offensive to them.

  Chloe, London United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

• I can't sympathise this habit at all and I'm British. It'southward not only the Uk, it happens in Australia too. Leaving residue on dishes isn't healthy, isn't clean and it's inherently lazy. My sister had this problem with her husband non rinsing. She presented him a drinking glass full of dishwater and asked whether he'd similar to drink information technology. After declining the offer, he at present rinses his dishes. A little extreme simply it worked. With regards to repeated exposure to low levels of chemicals, I beg to differ. At work I noticed a supermarket make of washing upwards detergent which contained amongst other ingredients - formaldehyde - well known for information technology'due south embalming and blindness producing properties. I really don't want to ingest that, no affair at what small level.

  Mark, Leeds Great britain

• I'thou British living in Hellenic republic, having left the United kingdom in my early on 20's. My family always rinsed later washing but then a new advertising entrada in the UK (in the 60's I think)by a pop detergents company claimed their new, improved dishwash product didn't need rinsing, hence saving water, and this was adopted enthusiastically by many consumers. Second thoughts and considerations near hygiene soon made my family unit revert back to rinsing, and though I'm sure at that place are lots of people out there in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland that do rinse their dishes, believe me - in that location are many many more who practise not (otherwise educated, hygiene aware, houseproud) and fifty-fifty consider it a "weird and quaint" thing to do! And information technology seems to exist the norm rather than the exception. Obviously advertizing campaigns reach down through the years !!

  Elizabeth, Athens Greece

• I know!! I just googled this because I am married to a Scottish guy and his whole family and everyone I know in Great britain leaves soap all over their dishes! omg gross! wtf! I let it go for awhile but we always argue about it because I think information technology'southward disgusting and he ever says "a scrap of soap won't impale yous". One time while eating at his mom's I took a mouthful of food and simultaneously got a mouthful of lather. I had to run out the room and rinse my rima oris out. He thinks I am making this upwards haha. I love a lot of things virtually the Great britain but this is not one of them! I know the USA has it'south ain problems also but just idea I'd rant well-nigh this for a moment and permit you know I am with you HAHA.

  Krystal, Seattle, WA USA

• Where is the mutual sense in not rinsing the dishes?!First time I saw my now married man doing that I was horrified.I have only but graduated pharmacy and so and one of the field of study was toxicology...trust me, there is aught good for you in washing washing up liquid.

  Alicja, Warsaw Poland

• I am from Canada and have been living and working in the UK for the last five years. The "no rinse" matter also freaks me out for all of the reasons stated by previous commentators, but it's the taste of lather residual that actually gets me. I beloved cooking, and this is nothing worse than making your favourite dish and the offset mouthful has that distinct bubbly after-taste. My british ex-girlfriend did this. I made her a Lord's day roast dinner at my flat, using nigh everything in the procedure. She offered to do the washing upwards which involved washing almost everything I have. I thought information technology was a wonderful gesture on her part, until I saw how she did it; dip in dirty soapy dish h2o, place on the rack, wipe with a dirty dish towel and put in cupboard. Information technology made my pare crawl simply I didn't say annihilation since I saw she was doing a lot of piece of work as a thank you for the dinner. Needless to say, the adjacent day after she left I spent an 60 minutes rewashing everything I have. I just don't get it.

  Paul, Vancouver Canada

• Yep information technology is of import to rinse Dishes. Hither is why: Firstly, Dishwashing liquid contains some fairly toxic chemicals. Secondly,past non rinsing off the Chemical residue,this residue volition be absorbed by the body and over fourth dimension tin cause health problems. This is known as the Bio accumulative outcome. Our bodies were not designed to be bombarded with Chemicals. See: naturalnews.com/001061.html

  Francis Kuhn, Murrintown Ireland

• I cannot understand the habit of certain others to make stupid blanket statements. I as well can't sympathize why the topic of dish washing would keep someone up at night. Also, I can't understand an Esquimaux talking to me through a giant funnel.

  Gary DuPlens, Wigan UK

• I've wanted to research this for so many years. I was in England for several months and stayed with several families. No one rinsed the soap off the dishes. They also didn't have double sinks, use dish pans, and of course didn't accept 'mixer taps.' I also washed dishes in a Youth Hostel where they didn't rinse the dishes. Just my sis was also there and a newcomer to English means and insisted even though we wouldn't exist eating some other repast at that place. I, beingness 19, assumed it wasn't necessary and tried it when I got domicile. The dishes were sticky. So I so assumed they had dissimilar soap that was food class or something and safe to be ingested. I do know of instances where people got sick at restaurants with malfunctioning dishwashers that didn't rinse. On since bathing was brought up in the OP, lather isn't that necessary when bathing. You lot are but stripping the acid mantle and protective oils and beneficial microbes from your peel leaving it vulnerable to pathogens. So y'all apply more chemicals in the form of wet in an effort to restore it. I haven't used soap to breast-stroke except on a few occasions when I needed information technology for the past 3 years. And of course when washing hands, although even so, y'all don't demand much soap, It's duration and friction that get rid of germs. Anyhow, I'1000 but not that muddied.

  Linda Foss, Houston, United States

• Why exercise people from the Britain get so mad when people ask them questions like this? If you don't exercise it then don't answer. But I've observe in America people in the 80's and before that utilise to wash dishes like that.

  Johnny Compton, Columbus, Ohio The states

• British people, please end this not-rinsing dishes thing. I beloved EVERYTHING about England but hated that habit which I have witnessed in every household I went to for the 6 years I lived there. It did seem like the norm : (

  Solkem Arold, Houston United States

• I am from Republic of mauritius and we ever rinse dishes. Information technology just makes sense that y'all would desire the soap off your plate earlier eating from information technology. I'm married to a Brit and after endless arguments with me, explaining over and over once again the science behind needing to rinse and that detergent does not 'evaporate' off the plates, my married man at present finally rinses. There are other means and places to save water. The kitchen is not one to skimp on. It's our hygiene and proficient health, full stop. Most people are just too stuck in their ways to even think about it in instance they might realise it's incorrect. By the way, I lived in Australia for a bit, and nosotros were taught at schoolhouse to do the dishes without rinsing!

  Malika Mohabeer, London Uk

• "A British habit"? This person ways a mutual habit in British Caucasian communities. I'm here considering i'k curious every bit to why and the origin of it all. I had to rinse dishes today considering my housemate didn't so i said let's google this - ha ha.

  Jade williams, Swansea, Great britain

• Those Britons who don't rinse their dishes may be surprised at knowing that they tin actually use running water (wow!), even cold if they want to relieve on free energy costs. Filling a sink with clean water and diving dishes in it is Non rinsing. After all, we must not forget they have double taps on most of their bathrooms, which maybe ways they wash themselves in pools of soapy water and utilize the same "dingy stuff" for rinsing... Yuk.

  Gloria, Scotland

• In response to Patrick brooks, Birmingham. You say "information technology is similar brushing your teeth and non rinsing out the toothpaste" but that is exactly what dentists at present suggest ie practise not rinse. You need a new example

  Paul, London

• I simply ran across this collection of opinions and I never knew such a habit existed in western countries. Folks, lather doesn't sanitize. It simply makes an emulsion that makes information technology easy for microbes and clay and food to RINSE off. If you lot just wash and don't rinse (!!) your dishes, any of the lather having dried on the dishes retains the microbes and dirt it was GOING TO enable you to RINSE away. I hope those of you who call up that the people who are showing their abhorrence to this old addiction also know non to handle food after you lot've prepped uncooked meat until you've washed well and RINSED your easily and utensils. Some of you, I recall, have been lucky, then far and maybe, as suggested, some have built upward natural resistance to some microbes but it's DANGEROUS to assume your kids and guests have. PS: LOVED the spotted dick!

  Phil Wells, San Diego United states of america

• I'm glad that Phil Wells pointed out that it'south not just the soap you rinse off when rinsing dishes - information technology's the food particles/grease balance in the washing up water also. I'yard Scottish and have rinsed dishes all my life - every bit did my parents earlier me. Don't tar the states all with the same castor! Rinsing dishes is just evidently mutual sense.

  Susan, Edinburgh, Scotland

• One of my friend told me nigh this after she visited England and I couldn't believe it. Subsequently searching google I found that many Europeans practice this the aforementioned fashion, and then do Australians. Most of the people in my nation call up that would make people unexpectedly eat chemicals left on the dishes and cause bad effects in the long term. However, there'southward no proof of it. I regard information technology as a cultural impact. Maybe the Asian mode of washing dishes makes European feel sick in contrast. The funniest thing is that, well-nigh articles I read, near asian people volition volunteer washing dishes in United kingdom because they are so afraid that people may not rinse off the soap.

  Charles, Taipei Taiwan

• Well I didn't have a dishwasher for ii years and I had to was up every dark, I don't become the point of drying them with a tea towel when y'all can leave them to dry out overnight. Anyone else think that drying is just a waste material of time? I had coursework to do as well and information technology wasted my time from studying.

  Adela, Suffolk England

• This is a real effect for me, I resent the fact people think washing up liquids like fairy are harmless when they contain very harmful petrochemicals. At that place's certainly a very British matter of saying, "never did me any harm, cease being such a ninny, just jolly well get on with it, that's what we all had to do it in the state of war etc etc" Because of existence without money I've moved into my dad and stepmum'south and they practise non rinse dishes at all. Put them in the rack covered in bubbles. They plainly recollect I'chiliad a ninny who would have been executed for treason, only I secretly go and rinse the stuff in the rack sometimes, and attempt and do the washing up equally much as I can obviously.

  Eddie, London, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

• I think it has to do with the fairy liquid advert because she e'er drained her plates covered in lather suds. I think this has persuaded generations that this is ok

  Annie, Aylesbury United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

• Stopped using dish soap at all because of dry out cracked hands, didn't similar gloves and liked the simplicity of using running hot water sparingly with lots of rubbing to clean dishes. Rinsing right abroad helps and an occasional scrub with baking soda takes care of any remainder build upwards. Guess what, you may not actually need dish lather hardly at all. Extra hot h2o use is balanced by savings on soap, financially and ecologically.

  philippe, vancouver canada

• "British addiction" must be a 'habit' in some households in Britain and other countries I guess. I'm british but was never brought upward seeing this! Prior to having a dishwasher - nosotros scraped any waste and hot rinsed until clean all our dishes before filling a bowl of hot water and a small drop of cleaning liquid and washing for a 2nd time - glasswear kickoff and pans concluding.

  Matty, Aberdeen SCOTLAND

• In answer to Johnny Compton, Columbus, Ohio USA, with his question: Why do people from the UK go so mad when people ask them questions similar this? If you don't do information technology then don't answer." ... I'g not exactly 'mad' about it myself only it might be something to practise with being tarred with the aforementioned brush? ... and for those of us who don't practise information technology, all the more reason to answer to give a counterbalanced answer to others! To everyone: I myself accept never washed dishes this fashion. I remember as a child that the lady living over the road washed her dishes this way and fifty-fifty then it disgusted me. Since then I have seen the occasional student housemate do it (years ago when I was a student), but this has disgusted me less than them not cleaning anything at all, in stereotypical student manner. I don't have mixer taps or a double sink; I am conscious of water usage and apply Ecover washing up liquid, nevertheless I am withal able to wash my dishes thoroughly past hand, give them a final rinse and put them on the drainer to dry naturally. I asked my partner if he has ever institute any dirty dish on the drainer or in the cupboard and he has not, so quality control is all fine! To the the OP and some others hither; please don't lump us all in together. In my experience it is not a British habit at all, and I've lived here all my life.

  Jen, Mold Wales

• I remember existence shocked in Scotland that dishes were not rinsed. So I discovered that dish washers have a special place for a rinse assist to achieve spotless glasses, which is exactly the same idea. They are both surfactants.

  Mary Cowmeadow, San Antonio, Texas U.South.A.

• Well i am from the UK and of the opposite extreme. I launder upward all my dishes/spectacles etc in the sink with washing up liquid then transfer it all to the dishwasher to be washed thorougly. Hate putting dirty dishes in my dishwasher. Anyone else practice this?

  Katy, Reading UK

• I've never empathise information technology either. I thought it was but a few people that did information technology, but no, information technology is a widespread habit. I would dare say that all the british people I know practise it this fashion. I've fifty-fifty argued about information technology with my married man, he is British, I'thousand Mexican and been living in London for 3 years at present. I do agree that it makes it faster, but not clean or safe if y'all don't scrape all food residues and rinse everything before filling the sink with soapy water. I scrape everything off, rinse and so, when it is almost clean, I put everything in soapy h2o, scrub again with more soap and rinse completely. Glasses and plates and everything is completely make clean and shiny. I can't stand up gummy or greasy looking dishes that are supposed to be already washed. I have the hunch that this habit comes from the war days, when at that place wasn't much of anything and people have to brand the well-nigh of the lilliputian they had, in this case, soap and water. Not scrubbing nutrient properly and not rinsing is unhygienic and unsafe. Crossed contamination!! The same principle applies to dishwashers, if nutrient isn't scrapped off totally, information technology only goes on to the rest of the dishes and gets spread all over them. In Mexico the mutual way of doing dishes is putting some soapy water on a little plastic bowl and then using that with a sponge or brush to wash every dish. Not completely hygienic if you ask me, as the sponges and brushes also spread whatsoever is on the dishes into the soapy water basin. But then, that is what rinsing and scrubbing twice is for. You can never be careful enough when it comes to clean the dishes. Greasy pans have to be washed separately, aforementioned applies to baby bottles and dishes.

  Claudia Ortiz, London Britain

• It hasn't been long since we came out of a severe drought and the habits that we got from that, haven't left us yet. We scrape the plates as make clean as possible. Wash in every bit little as we can go away with, and leave to dry out. I'd rather shower for an extra minute than waste it on the dishes... but another way of doing things, is all. :):)

  Ann, Brisbane Australia

• It's not merely the British

  Emma, Britain Derby

• I moved here got shocked with the gross habit, had a few arguments with hubby I convinced him to do it my way. Guys think well-nigh information technology, many people cull to spend some extra money to buy organic foods and then they are chemicals free. But what's the betoken if yous're gonna ingest chemicals in every drinking glass fork plate, etc u apply? I remember if the person is a smoker/drinker/ drugy head then a fiddling more than bad stuff in your trunk won't make a deviation. Only if yous worry about your health and so since the dishes! I work in self catering adaptation and I besides observe that after a very brusque stay the dish rack is always so gross full of nutrient and soap remainder. I clean my dish rack not very oftentimes but its never really dirty cuz I rinse my stuff. I endeavor to salvage every bit much water equally possible and when rinsing I utilize cold water even tho it freezes the bones of my fingers! BRITISH PEOPLE: this is a British habit. Happens in others countries too. And in that location are many British people that don't have this habit (exceptions) delight don't feel that we are generalizing. Its just that I estimate some people, like me, have been to many countries before and never seen such a think before. Where I'm from people don't flush toilet paper. Its gross. I wish I could flush toilet paper there too. In Japan people always take their shoes of before entering homes and many other places. Its and so squeamish and hygienic. I call up its good if nosotros look around and 'copy' skilful examples from other cultures. I feel distressing for people living is shared houses in the United kingdom.

  Maria, truro UK

• I'1000 23 an living with my swain who is also 23. I have to exercise the washing up because he leaves lather suds all over everything and it makes my skin crawl! I accept a hot sink of water with some Fairy Liquid and scrub everything. I so rinse under running tap before placing on draining board. The drying up is done by him with a clean tea towel. I then utilise the towel to clean the sink and the sides before placing into the washing auto. OCD or the norm? X

  Faye, Essex UK

• I've lived in the UK for the past 25 years but have also lived in many other countries including Eastern Europe and Asia. I'm afraid information technology is only in England that I accept observed this strange washing up method. I was quite astonished when I saw it for the starting time time. In fact whenever I go to my husband's Aunt's house, who is English, I feel similar offering to do the dishes and then I can rinse them properly. And then whoever is says this is not British I think you're wrong. Pitiful :))

  Anna, London U.k.

• I'chiliad a Brit and find it awful too... delight don't think we all practice this terrible matter! - I blame the 'Fairy Liquid' adverts that started in the 1950's - the premise was a housewife with soft hands due to using the detergent, the advert would always show the super make clean dishes in the drying rack with some squeamish frothy bubbles running downwardly. Somehow I think information technology fabricated people recall that was the way to make clean dishes. Idiots!

  Bert Armadillo, Brighton United Kingdom

• I am a single, 22 yr old male. I will avert using a dish at all costs. Virtually of my dishes that are put away are non clean enough. I will tell whatsoever company if you lot want to use any dishes, launder the crap out of it first. When I do decide I want to microwave something, like nachos, I will give the dish a really strong washing, dry information technology off, eat off information technology, and plop it in the sink when I am done. I don't rinse afterwards at all, very bad habit. The sink will overflow after a calendar month or and so, then I but fill with soapy water, RINSE, + put away. Afterwards I volition wash my hands for a good x minutes because its so disgusting. Promise that makes sense!

  Shane, Saint petersburg, FL Us

• Hey guys I am 22. I will do a lazy job with the initial wash, but so I volition requite each dish a adept wash right before I use them. I try to avert using dishes at all costs. This method works perfect for me, I rarely get sick.

  Shane, Leningrad, FL Usa

• @Faye, Essex U.k. You lot audio like the perfect married woman! Unlike me, I hate cooking and cleaning! My mother was the complete opposite and did her best to laissez passer it on but it never stuck. Anyways, I was taught to rinse and whatnot. Never fifty-fifty thought of non rinsing, seems pretty gross. Sounds like this is going on often all over the place. I bet putting videos on how to properly wash your dishes in public schools would change things over a generation. Purely educational, explaining the proven dangers of washing the dishes otherwise. After a professional person study of form.

  Sarah, Texas The states

• The yr is 2013, the place is Uk and YES, the exercise still continues. After reading all the posts, I tin sympathise the reason why such a practise started just I can't understand, for the life of me, why the educated generation of today not discard such outdated practise and use a little bit of common sense and realize that non rinsing utensils with clean running h2o later on soaping them is extremely unhygienic and even harmful in the long run. I am from India, and idea I had seen information technology all just seeing this truly rendered me speechless. And to think, this is supposed to be an advanced commencement earth country!

  Chhanda, India

• A few years ago I saw a documentary where researchers found traces of detergent in the principal river supplies for drinking h2o and they linked it as a possible cause for bowel cancer.Information technology struck me then that those who do non rinse off dishes with clean water are at greater risk if this finding is substancial.

  chearie, sutton uk

• I am not British but I moved in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland a few years ago. This addiction of washing all the dishes in the same dingy water and and so not rinsing them at all hit me hard from the offset. Initially I thought it was an isolate case at my place of work but I've changed five jobs since and it happened everywhere. I am a professional so I expected to be surrounded past people of certain value/teaching. Moreover, mixed taps were always available. I find it extremely icky to eat on a plate that hasn't been rinsed/washed properly. I feel like I'm eating everybody's dirt, their food and their germs. I became a flake OCD and now I launder everything once more before use it. Until recently I was embarrassed to ask why they act similar this only when I started inquiring them the reply that I got was "I don't know". How tin can you do something without non having an explanation for your behavior is beyond my imagination. This is how I ended up surfing the spider web for an answer and I understand that this can exist tradition or old habits merely we live in 2013 for God's sake and it'south not a tertiary world country. P.South. The price for a cubic metre of water is the same as the price in the country I come up from and the average wage is 10 times college in the UK. And I accept never seen my mom doing this in my whole life.....

  Irina, S Wales

• Lol, I've never heard of this before, but and then i'm an american and even the stains in my teapot get scrubbed out with toothpaste, soap and water and lots of rinsing. It seems to me though if y'all proceed two buckets one with the grimey water and one with clean,and replacing it like mop water every now and again information technology should be somewhat cleaner,if you hate rinsing every dishand i practise rinse, but that's baroque straight out of the soap and grime. Cheers for the alert if I ever drop in. :) I'll pack paper plates similar tiny tim.lol.

  Abigail McElroy, mckinney, tx the states

• I'grand an American living in New Zealand and married to a New Zealander. I too was shocked when my wife put soapy plates in the rack to dry. She says "it's how I learned to do it." So if it'south a British habit, it has made its style all the way downwards to NZ. To me information technology seems crazy that one wouldn't wash off the soap, but the wife says it volition "drip off."

  Scott Edmondson, Auckland New Zealand

• I've always hated washing dishes... But since marrying a Brit, I brand sure he doesn't get to the sink earlier me equally he also has this disgusting habit of not rinsing. His mother, who has lived in Australia for 30 years too has this addiction..... merely then in one case a week she'll soak all her tea cups in bleach to remove the stains. These are intelligent people who are very houseproud and hygenic in every other style... I really don't understand it either.

  Veronica, Sydney Commonwealth of australia

• I don't get why someone is picking faults with Britain am sure their own land is bad enough, talk about stereo typing only anyway if you lot really know UK you would know virtually homes has dishwasher even double sink, ane for washing the other for rinsing. My last daughter friend and 1 before her was from Poland they don't rinse either. Not as if anyone has been told its poisonous to not rinse, If people so bothered about health possibly their car tin stay at domicile it does produce suffer fumes such as And so due north SO2 right? If y'all tin tastes it on the pots then their using far too much washing up liquid in which case should at least rinse them, it's not nice to gustatory modality.

  James, Lincoln England

• I just wanted to point out the adverts for Fairy liquid where they prove the washing upwards being done and placed on the drainer. They dont prove it beingness rinsed.

  Pat, Sutton Surrey

• The starting time time I've seen it was in London, done by elderberry people who at the time was my boss, the reason was to save water and lather evidently. Filling the sink upwards with plenty of warm water and do all the washing in the same muddy water with a washing cloth type of thing. Nosotros all, Spaniards, New Zealand, Polish and Brazilians among many other nationalities were amazed of this type of washing up and to be hones made u.s.a. all to feel like vomiting only with that thought of eating on a plate with lather. Of grade Chemicals will generate illnesses all over the body, it is more than evident the same equally any other chemicals we ingest this will accept an knocking effect on health…information technology is not a coincidence…. It is a fact. My proposition, if people are that business concern about expending water they amend save it in showers, having a 5 to 10min shower instead of 15min. Or avoid wasting food among many other items that work ok by throwing them to the bin and ownership new ones… same equally many other countries do.

  Belen, MK Uk

• I accept been living in the UK about ane.five years, and I too noticed information technology, it is more weird. I am from Hungary, and all the people I have always known, including friends, relatives, colleagues all doing the dish-washing on the 'proper' way, rinsing after it. I take been in several countries in Europe, seen some homes, but never experienced this, neither in Germany, Italy, French republic, Greece, and so on. But all the British people I know here (without a single exception) and in all the houses I have lived in, they are all doing the same manner, without rinsing. And at present I am reading comments here from someone like: What is wrong if you don't rinse it? Possibly the foam from washing-up chemicals can be harmful. Perchance the number of people getting cancer every year has something to do with this, non talking about the potential toxins in the nutrient the 80 %of the people buy in the supermarkets. Unbelievable actually, doesn't brand whatsoever sense, it is a horror seeing the 'process' when they are washing up. We even asked once a guy with my friend and he was surprised when we showed him how nosotros launder the dishes. Anyhow I acknowledge there are a lots of things this country tin be proud of, but this is just ridiculous. I want to run across someone doing information technology on the right way, please!

  Peter, Kecskemet UK

• I am a Malaysian who is studying and working in Melbourne right now. A couple of times I've seen my work colleagues (English, Australian, New Zealander) do the dishes this mode, I asked them why they do not rinse off the lather, they say information technology's to salvage water. As what well-nigh of the others hither said, I totally tin can't take eating lather with my food. Coming from an Asian background, the mode we do dishes does tend to waste material water. I would sort of improvise this "British fashion", by draining the sink of soapy h2o, then running all the dishes nether cold water before putting onto the drying rack. No second sink bowl required. Recently I stayed in a hostel where the manager who lived in that location insisted that everyone as well did the dishes this mode. We but complied, but every single time we take a plate out of the cupboard, we rinse it once earlier putting food on information technology.

  Jing Tao Tan, Melbourne, Australia

• The UK is one of the dirtiest places I've seen: trash everywhere, hell those guys don't even shower or brush their teeth, and on a Friday direct to the pub (looking to go laid). I visited The UK in Apr, the guy in the hostel was washing the dog bowl in the kitchen sink! Damn!

  Beth, San Francisco, US

• All my iv Brit housemates wash the dishes this way and they say they're fine when they get dried. Just I always re-rinse them before use. That's why my dishes are e'er wet.

  Ali, London, UK

• What really annoys me is how many people don't know how to even use a dishwasher properly. Some people put absolutely filthy items in without soaking them in the sink first, and expect all the clay to come off. Besides, people pile items correct on meridian of each other, and somehow expect the water and detergent to be able to achieve them adequately. Totally daft.

  Clare Sheldon, Exmouth, UK

• This was so funny to run into this question. Many years ago, shut to 25 years, I ended upwards in the The states. I never questioned it, but information technology was quickly brought to my attention with a hearty express mirth from my now wife, "thats and then funny, you don't rinse off the lather". Had no idea what she was going on nigh, information technology was the way I was brought up, needless to say, that needed to change right away! I but think its great to find this article all these years later and that it wasn't but me… :))

  Lee Chanona, Berlin Us

• Actually, I think this is a serious and interesting topic of discussion. I noticed this in the Uk too while visiting friends and it seemed weird. I asked without getting a logical caption for information technology. It's all about what you are used to and feel most comfortable with and then I respected that, but I kept thinking nigh the hygiene bug that comes with non rinsing. I rinse my dishes thoroughly.

  Hadiza Umar, Kaduna Nigeria

• HAHAHA OMG EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I take some family from the UK...... Lets but say, I will NEVER let them wash my dishes!!!!!!!!! The fact that they don't wash the DIRTY, SOAPY dish h2o off is but disgusting! I don't see why most of you think its ok. You don't desire spots on your dishes? and then become a clean towel and wipe y'all dishes dry out later you rinse off the dirty water! Then yous know what you lot do later on your washed doing the dishes? YOU PUT THE TOWEL IN THE DIRTY LAUNDRY! Its not that hard people! really. Y'all Brits may apparel amend than most of u.s. in America, but your washing upward habits are absolutely Disgusting. And if this is how you lot wash dishes, I would hate to see how you wash your body :X

  Jessica, Sheboygan United states

• What a load of crap, a bit of fairy liquid is not going to impale you. My husband is Italian and wastes then much h2o and fourth dimension 'rinsing' the dishes which actually consists of him dumping a load of barf in the lesser of the sink and running it under the tap. Maybe Im wrong just to me this is the epitomy of filth. Just wash them in detergent and cease wasting your life on watermarks on pans.

  Fay, Durham, Uk

• Oh dear, retrieve some of yous are staying in the wrong places in The U.K. When you visit! I came upon this site accidentally whilst looking for lather dishes! I am from England, but accept lived in several other places; I tin say that I not simply have a dishwasher, double sink and mixer tap - merely I also accept ever rinsed dishes after washing! I am 40 and was taught this by my parents and besides in Abode Economics at school! Ever spectacles beginning and pans last. Always dry out glasses straight away with a clean textile to cease smears. I can honestly say I don't know anyone in England who doesn't rinse their dishes, so yous really can't generalise and so much! But to the person who likened information technology to non rinsing after brushing teeth - official advice now is Non to rinse after brushing, new analogy required!! Thanks, will become and discover lather dishes now, hope you come to some conclusion or detect something more useful to do with your time! Have a squeamish twenty-four hour period now y'all!!

  Sarah Cox, Kent England

• I married a Brit who didn't rinse and I died of Fairy Liquid poisoning two weeks later. Heed yous, I was 97 when I got married and I was a lifelong meths drinker who smoked fourscore Woodbines a day. Swallow nutrient, wash up: you'll alive just as long whichever way y'all practise it. That said, please exercise NOT follow the fashion of washing up used in some specially unenlightened parts of the Britain (eastward.g. Derby, Hull, Swanage): in all those areas, people habitually wash their dishes using sheep dip and and then dry the sudsy dishes using fly papers.

  Bill Sykes, Slough UK

• Who cares, it's washing upwardly liquid.

  Gaz, Coventry, England

• I am nearly 50 and have e'er rinsed dishes before washing but non after (unless the water is dirty, at which point I may change the water, as well actress care taken after raw meat contact). I am in practiced health. Research suggests exposure to some leaner is benign to the allowed system( eg. children on farms). How many lethal bacteria do you expect to find on your done dishes? Has any proper study been done? If you want to rinse, then rinse. Please, stop being so self righteous and don't make this tempest in a teacup into something big.

  David, Manchester, UK

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