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This is a for fun, silly observational post.
I grew up being taught to wash dishes by letting the water run over your hands, as you soap an individual dish, rince it, and then put it on the drying rack. And once I got older and realized it wasn't the most enviornmentally friendly option, I started turning the water off and on and I went.
About a year ago I moved to the UK and when living with my B&SIL, they filled up their sink with soapy water, scrubbed in the sink and then left the soapy dishes on the drying rack. This kinda silently freaked me out as I grew up under the impression that soap was meant to be rinsed off, and the whole time I lived with them I was convinced that when I would get a glass of water, it would taste soapy. DH does not approve of the way I grew up washing dishes, so I started the fill up the sink with hot water and rinse method. I still very much hate washing dishes with a sink full of dirty water - even if everything is scraped clean. There are always sauces or oils or something that make it feel like backwards progress of simple dish washing. Then when it comes to rinsing the dishes in that little side sink, it is extremely awkward if its anything larger than a bowl and my hands get reeaallly cold as we're trying not to use hot water at that point.... haha, I just can't get used to it, it feels like an age-old art that has yet to be perfected (except one might argue, with the washing machine).
Dishwashing comments, anyone?
I run the water while I soap and scrub each dish then rinse and put it aside to dry. The filling the sink with water method skeeves me out!
hot soapy water then rinse with hot :) in my head they aren't completely clean if i don't rinse with hot water
FI does the one dish at a time and drives me insane so I take over (he may do this on purpose) LOL
I can't wash dishes as I like because we don't have a double sink. I rinse/scrap all the dishes first, then fill the sink with soapy water, put in a few things at a time and turn the tap on and off to rinse dishes individually and sometimes have to drain some of the soapy water before I'm done. I would prefer to wash a few things, stick them on the other side and rinse a few things at a time (with running water though, not sitting water). I feel that things get cleaner by immersing them in soapy water, it can get into the areas you might miss with a dishcloth. I do leave the dirtiest things to last.
I wash the dish with the sponge, turn the water on to rinse it, then turn the water off and put the dish in the drying rack.
I would never not rinse them though like your brother & SIL! Sometimes more than just soap is left on with the suds...like oils or little chunks of food. That seems unsanitary to me. Plus you're not supposed to eat soap residue...
I don't remember. It has been so long since I washed anything by hand, but I can say there is no way to use the fill the sink method, our sinks are so tiny that you can fit only a bowl or two in them. I do everything in hot water though, even when I rinse things to load the dishwasher. Cold water and dishes just grosses me out.
Rinsing is essential, no matter how you wash the dishes.
I had a roommate who would pour soap onto the dish, rub the dish with her fingers, give a little rinse, and then air dry it. Things she washed CONSTANTLY tasted like soap, and our plates were constantly slippery and filmy.
Gross.
Filling the sink with soapy water creeps me out. I don't want to put my hand down there and touch some rando piece of food I can't identify.
My mom always filled the sink up and washed them together in the water. In our dirty, dirty sink. All those dishes, sitting there soaking in soapy lukewarm water for literally days...*gag* And then having to reach into this murky water grasping for KNIVES... Ugh. No thank you!
I totally get the environmental aspect of using the same water, but I just can't bring myself to wash dishes without hot running water. The same way I don't feel clean if I take a bath rather than a shower. Gives me first world guilt, but I can't stomach the alternative!
It depends on how many dishes. Usually I fill up one side of the sink and rinse in the other side then into drying rack, but if I only have a couple glasses or something I'll get the sponge soapy and run the water while I'm washing them.
ETA: I always rinse off dishes before washing them, so that there aren't any wierd nasty unidentifiable pieces of food floating in my soapy water. LOL
My method is very easy. I notify my husband that there are dishes in the sink to be washed and voila!
i rarely handwash dishes(LOVE my dishwasher), but when i do i let the water run(hot!), scrub each dish with a soapy sponge and rinse clean. then straight to the drying rack. im sure its "bad" for the environment because im wasting water or whatever but i really dont care.
filling a dirty sink with soapy water and letting all the dirty dishes marinate together is gross.
We use a sink full of soapy water and rinse off the soap before putting in the drying rack. For us, it's just way too wasteful to run the hot water for each individual dish.
To combat what some people have called "the dirty sink water," I wash dishes in order of how dirty/how much residue is on them. So if we have a pan that is oily, that will be the last thing to be washed so that the other things (glasses, etc) aren't affected by it.
Also, I'm diligent about actually cleaning our sink itself on a regular basis.
Other- I hand them to Mr. LK and let him do his thing. Handwashing dishes is my least favorite chore in the whole entire world. i would rather scrub the toilet, wash windows, or shovel snow.
I grew up washing in one sink, putting in second to rinse. We live in a small apartment however, and it has only one sink so I wash dish by dish (but try to turn the water off & on). I think most apartments I've been in have only had one sink.
we only have one sink. I dont fill up the whole sink with water. I fill up a bowl with soapy water and then use that to wash all the dishes and then once I'm done I rinse them off with running water. I used to fill up a bowl to rinse them too but running water is the only way to make sure they are truly clean and there is no residue
@Gemstone: ditto. I leave the pots/pans for last also.
And I prefer to handwash vs dishwasher, the dishwasher leaves residue...
I fill one side of the sink with soapy water, then wash the dishes and put them into the empty side of the sink, when that side is full, I pull out the squirter thing and rinse them one by one as I stack them in the drying rack. Oddly enough I can wash a whole sink full of dishes in about 5 minutes. The same task would take my FI about half an hour.
@Moja Milosc: I want your method!
I fill sink up with water, and have the drying rack on the other side where I rinse then let the dishes dry. My FI fills the other side up and dips and then drys! I've always thought this was silly because the rinse water would become soapy after a few dishes...
I HATE doing dishes too... but I live in an older building and if there was room for a dishwasher I would gladly go and get one.. but sadly there isn't!
I hate my hands in water with random food particles roaming around... so I voted: Let water run as I wash or turn on and off
One side filled with soapy, hot water, soak then scrub dishes. Rinse on other side under hot running water and dry on wrack.
Dishwashers freak me out... I use mine as a drying rack usually LOL I let the water run while I wash my dishes.
@lovekiss: right there with ya! I haaaaate washing dishes.
When I do, I fill the sink with soap and water and wash the dishes from cleanest to dirtiest so the least amount of food gets in the water. Once the other side has a few dishes, I rinse in scorching hot water since that helps them air dry faster. My FI will leave dishes soaking in water for days and it gets so cold and gross that I refuse to reach in to drain the sink. 
I use tons of water. I rinse off the food (with the tap running) then soap up the dishes a few at time - rinse - put them on the drying rack - then continue with the rest!
For whatever reason, I get grossed out with the tub/soak method - even though, I'm a big advocate of soaking. I think it's the thought the entire dish is immersed in water... but, that makes no sense why it would gross me out (now that I think about it!)
@HappilyEverAfter54: I thought I was the only one who felt this way! Seriously, I do not use my dishwasher, I don't like to! I will admit that I love it when we have a party, but for just us, I only use it once a month so it just doesn't site there. 
Wasting a lot of water, I let mine run as I wash them, I probably waste a lot of dishsoap too, as I squirt the dishes and cloth with dishsoap...
BUT ideally, if I had a double sink it would be: fill up sink #1 with hot soapy water, and fill up sink #2 with hot water, put on rubber gloves (I hate dunking my hands in hot water, it HURTS!) Then wash in sink #1, dunk each item (rinse) in sink #2 and put the clean dishes in a dishrack or layed out towel. If the sinks gets too gross, I would change the water! Let air dry and then put away, or towel dry and put away, depending if people are coming over or not!
1. glasses and breakables first
2. plates and cups and plastic storage containers
3. silverware, forks knives spoons etc...
4 pots and pans and baked on stuff
I rinse the dish, put soap on the brush, scrub the dish, then rinse THOROUGHLY and move to the drying rack. It drives me nuts when there is soap sitting on the dish while it's on the drying rack - ew!
I rince the dish, scrub with soupy smunge, then rinse off with warm/hot water, letting the tap run the entire time. Then I move on the next one.
When I started dating DH he did the fill up the sink methond and it really grossed me out. The first time i saw it I actually gagged. It's just so gross to let all your dirty things marinade together. And then rinsing them all off in the same dirty water...no thank you.
I personally run the water while I soap and rinse each dish individually. My Mom HATES it when I do this, however, and whenver I'm in her house she micromanages my dish washing. She does a combination of what you described, she has a bin in the sink that she fills with soapy water and puts the dishes in to soak. Once they're done soaking she washes/rinses each one off under the running water and puts it in the drying rack. I've always been super freaked out by this because the soapy water is so gross and dirty!
I fill the sink up with detergent and water and wash the dishes together. I don't wash each dish seperatly because that would use an insane amount of water. And here in Summer we are often on water restirctions as it is.
However, once the rack is full I pour a pot full of hot water of the top of the rack to rinse the dishes off, and it also washes soap and stuff from under the rack back into my sink. Works a charm.
However, now I have a dishwasher AND I LOVE IT
Whoa, I've never heard of just soaping and then letting it dry without rinsing them off!
My dishes usually get filled with water when put in the sink so that they soap. My mom always had a container of water in the sink to soak in. Then they come out one by one and soaped clean with a sponge and put aside in a semi neat stack beside the sink on the counter. When all soaped, then I turn on the water and rinse them all one by one and to the drying rack they go.
I heard that in the UK the dish soap is actually a lot less strong, so it really doesn't matter if you let it dry.
It depends how many dishes I have to do. If it's just a few, or pots and pans, then I'll just turn the water on and off. If it's a lot, then I'll fill up a tub and use it.
I fill up the sink with hot soapy water, but I rinse them with the water running.
As a microbologist, washing all dishes in a stagnant, food and bacteria-filled sink of water and merely rinsing them afterward is mildly horrifying.
We always let the water run/turned it on and off. We'll have a dishwasher in the next place we live.
I hate reaching into a sink full of soapy water and feeling bits of food floating around - ugh - I die.
If I hand wash I let the water run and just squeeze soap onto the sponge and then the dishes go into the dishwasher. I don't like the idea of the dirty sponge cleaning my dishes either. The sponge goes into the dishwasher regularly as well.
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