Discussed by Fierra, back in the day.
Uh - I can check the dishwasher manual if you want?
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Have you ever tasted soap in the food you eat off of those plates?
If that was for me, I don’t know what you mean.
They wipe them dry with a towel. I doubt there’s significant residue left. But I still use this as an opportunity to poke fun at our inbred cousins and their provincial mores.
FWIW, the British way of washing dishes is also the German. Maybe the US is the outlier?
Never. (To my surprise.) It’s counterintuitive, but a tiny bit of soap residue seems not to matter at all.
Makes me wonder: if it ever becomes possible to not merely halt but to reverse global warming will Britons really want to go back to the Little Ice Age, when the Thames froze over hard enough that people could build bonfires on the ice?
It surprises me, too. After eating messy foods, I wash my mouth and chin with soap, being very careful to keep my lips pressed together tightly until I’ve rinsed myself thoroughly, and I always get a soapy taste in my mouth.
Huh, I thought it was just a few older people in the UK.
I’ve lived in apartments with enough cockroaches to consider leaving the soap on the dishes, but even so, I’d wash and rinse them before use.
We’re quite happy to be the outlier from antediluvian European habits.
got ya. Missed spelling day in school.
I’m having to travel back and forth from my own home, to my moms. My mom is gone now so I’m the only one here sorting stuff out. ('cept my dog that comes along).
It’s very, very easy for one person to use one plate, one bowl one glass and a fork a spoon and knife. Just wash each time after using. Done. It’s sort of like camping.
But no, I don’t cook here. I cook a lot at home though.
Sorry, that clearly didn’t come over as I had intended - a jokey observation about how Britain has changed. I should have put a wink smiley on it to make that clear. My bad.
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Thanks for the clarification. You did fine. I’m running a little slow this evening and got it a minute or two after responding to you.
I remain puzzled about not rinsing. I agree that some kitchens aren’t well designed, and of course we have to consume less water, but my kitchen’s quite small, as in other apartments I’ve had, and I’ve never had any logistical difficulties. Using cold water, I rinse whatever pot is dirty, fill it halfway with water and detergent (washing-up liquid), wash the dishes, put them on the counter next to the sink, rinse them and let them dry in a rack over the sink. Done, in about a square meter of floor space.
Maybe I’ve misunderstood something (running slow this evening), but I don’t understand how the design of the kitchen is a reason for not rinsing.
ETA: The only reference I’ve seen about design is in Cecil’s column, linked upthread. I thought I’d seen it mentioned in the other link I posted.
Maybe it’s from a time when running water, especially hot, was either expensive or unavailable (washing anything when you have to pump or haul the water and heat it is like one of the Twelve Labors of Hercules). At least in a Boy Scout troop camping situation the standard was to have a basin of wash water and a basin of rinse water: you washed, shook off as much of the soapy water as possible and then dipped to rinse. Was something like that why kitchen and laundry double sinks were standard for so long?
I’ve noticed the not-rinsing on a British TV show; probably The Good Life (retitled Good Neighbors in the U.S.). That was made in the mid-'70s, so it may be a generational things. Or maybe they just didn’t want the extra sound of the rinsing to distract from the dialog of the characters.
I did a sailing trip where we had to wash all the dishes in cold salt water. We still rinsed them. I never noticed any residual taste of soap, or salt.
I believe that modern detergents work much better (read “far less crappy”) in sea water than traditional soap. I’ve also heard that shampoos with sodium lauryl sulfate as the active ingredient work well for salt water bathing.
On the suggested packing list, I was advised to bring soap and shampoo that worked in salt water. I think I found some at REI. I think there was one fresh-water shower on board, and one with salt water.
I don’t remember what we used to wash the dishes.
Peter Graves and James Arness were brothers.
I wonder how I missed this?
I recently learned that spiders rely on electricity for their ballooning behavior:
Interesting article!
But, distressing to learn spiders have harnessed electricity. Soon, they will develop electric people prods to stun us before jumping on our faces and biting us.
Why can’t animals just stop evolving!?!
And they never appeared onscreen together, though Peter did direct one episode of Gunsmoke (“Which Dr.”, in which Matt Dillon was a peripheral character).
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