Do you rinse?

I seem to be the ONLY one in this house that rinses their dishes before they are thrown into the sink until it is time to wash them. To me, it is soo much more simple to do a quick rinse, and then put it aside. Then, when it is time to do dishes, you don't spend forever soaking/scrubbing really dirty dishes.

So, are you the type to throw a dish in the sink, covered in food that will surely be harder to wash off later.. or do you rinse?

You need a "depends on the situation" option

I rinse some things off that I know from experience turn into cement (fruity pebbles are notorious for this), but for the most part, they just go right in the dishwasher. For when we didn't have a dishwasher, the dishes usually got piled up next to the sink and done later than night or the next day.

I always rinse out of force of habit. Even if a cup just had tea or water in it.

I always rinse, i hate it when people put dishes covered in food grossness in the dishwasher. Eventually all that food warms up and starts to smell, especially stews and chili and dips. Super gross!

I always rinse and put it right into the dishwasher. I don't like leaving dishes in the sink. My brother will come and stick his plate right in the sink with all of his food left on it. *grumbles*

Must be a "brother thing", mine does that too. He expects me or mum to clean up after him and his friends.

Yep, always.

why rinse, i'm going to wash it anyway. I guess I just see it as a waste of water and time.

I can't stand dirty dishes in the sink, so I always hand-wash them immediately after we eat... so I never have any problems. I consider the sink the big "bowl", so I'll thoroughly wash it after each washing. I'm proud to say that after so many years, my sinks are still spotless!

Must be cos that is what I do as well lmao

Yes......and all my kids are 'trained' to rinse and put directly into the dishwasher. The oldest BOY (<---go figure) is the WORST about tossing dishes into the sink when the DISHWASHER is right THERE where he is standing BLERGH!

Rinsing is such a habit from back to the no dishwasher days. I hated food in my dish pan . It was was scrape , rinse and wash .

I always rinse before I put in the dishwasher. I can't stand dishes in the sink though so the only time you will see them there is when the dishwasher hasn't been unloaded yet.

That's another reason why I rinse. We don't have a dishwasher, and I don't like dishwashers. I don't just toss things in teh sink either. I like it ot look pretty and organized. I stack things nicely once I rinse them off, until I get a load big enough to wash.

We have a double sink, with the dishwasher right next to it. I always rinse my dishes after using them, and immediately put them in the dishwasher. Brian, on the other hand, never rinses his dishes, and dumps them in the main sink and they sit there until I do something with them. Pretty sure I'm going to start piling them up on his pillow.

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Thought I was the only wacko who rinses tea cups and water cups. Same here, I always rinse first then whatever it is goes right into the dishwasher. I can't stand dishes in the sink.

Could be worse. Stepson has a habit of eating in his room ... and leaving the dirty dishes in there for days. Ewwwww!! (Yes, I refuse to go in there and pick up after him ... I am not his maid.) He used to take them out of there and then dump the whole grimy, disgusting dried-on mess in the sink ... left there for me to clean. That was cured by making his FATHER scrub them and then put them in the dishwasher ... and it only took once.

Now stepson takes the grimy, dried-on load out of his room about twice a week and stands there at the sink, dutifully scrubbing off every last bit of dried-on yuck. Suggested to him that it would be so much easier to just make sure the dishes make it out of his room at least once a day ... he agrees it would be much easier for him ... but he still does the same let-'em-pile-up-and-scrub routine. Whatever, long as nobody expects me to scrub up that mess. ::shrug::

I rinse... my sister doesnt... it is highly annoying when I am washing dishes and hers are covered in hardened food... grr.

I'm in the 'depends on the situation" camp--I will scrape food off--but not rinse, especially if going into the dishwasher and getting washed right away. Of course there are five of us here. So the washer gets filled pretty quickly. If it was not as often, then I would probably rinse and or just wash right away.

I live with my 24 year old, male roommate. He never had to do anything for him because his mom (my aunt) always cleaned his room, did the dishes, his laundry, etc.

He kept loading the dishwasher with dishes CAKED with food. I was sick with the flu and he ran the dishwasher and a piece of TUNA FISH got clogged and overflowed HOT STINKY TUNA WATER all into my kitchen.

I have had to take dishes out of the dishwasher, peel the fast food wrappers off them, and rinse them and put them back in.

He has since had "dishwasher orientation," if you will.

But if dishes are being hand washed like pots or pans, at the very least I will fill them with soapy water to soak. First of all, food caked plates in the sink smell, and the food dries and is harder to clean. They either get rinsed (if it was a pot that cooked spaghetti for instance,) or soaked in soapy water, (a pot that cooked mashed potatoes,) but never just put in there.

My mom taught me well

Mine did too... she taught me to NOT do what she does. I think that is why I have SUCH an obsession now with the dishes. Instead of washing dishes more often, she'd buy more and more dishes. Both sides of the sink would be overflowing, and then a whole 4 foot counter space would be full of dishes before she'd wash them. And no one ever rinsed (not even heavily soiled and greasy pots and pans), so they'd all be caked with dried, crusty food.