To let dishes dry on draining-board or dry with towel?

galwayguy85

Hey folks,

My mother and I have been coming to blows over this one.

I am a proponent of letting the plates and glasses and whatever else just dry on the draining board for an hour or two.

The mammy would rather I dry them the second they are washed. I protest that damp tea-towels are basically a breeding-ground for bacteria.

I feel so conflicted... side with the research or just do as my mother says?

The Raptor

Don't use a damp tea towel.

smash

Put them in the tumble dryer

Winterlong

Save water - dont wash them.

galwayguy85

Sound advise guys.

Harry Palmr

I fart on them.

aaronjumper

Use cardboard plates and plastic cutlery. Everything goes in the bin afterwards.
Or the recycle bin.

xabi

Its 2016, get a dishwasher

Witcher

Buy a trough

SEPT 23 1989

party plates and cups straight into the bin

Tombi!

Film the fight between you and your mother and sell it for millions?

Or just dry them with a towel. I'd call it being lazy letting them dry naturally unless you only have one or two items.

mickoneill31

galwayguy85 wrote: »

I feel so conflicted... side with the research or just do as my mother says?

I'm on your side but I'm not motivated by the bacteria argument. I'm more motivated by laziness.

dastardly00

Like you OP, I prefer to let them air dry.
Only though if the draining board itself is clean!
No point putting clean dishes, cutlery etc. on to a dirty draining board!

_Brian

Just wash them and then do whatever is handy, don't use damp towels if your drying them, use dry towels.

Yes you'll get a bit of bacteria but exposure to some bacteria is ok and will help your immunity.

Greenmachine

Both wrong. Expect Plates, pots etc to take more than a hour or two to dry.

Depending on how many dishes there are, even if you start with a dry towel, you will end up with an exercise in futility as you try to add more water to an already soaked towel.

Thank god I don't live at home any more

galwayguy85

mickoneill31 wrote: »

I'm on your side but I'm not motivated by the bacteria argument. I'm more motivated by laziness.

This speaks to my soul! Thanks.

donegal.

presumably the tea towel is clean and dry when you start so no bacteria.

Duggy747

What's wrong with you people, just lick your plates clean after your meal and put them back in the cupboard!

Hell, even use your dog, they'll lick that cutlery clean in no time!

Lady is a tramp

I just let them drip dry. My dad gives out to me for it and always insists on drying them and putting them away straight away when he's over. I'd never live somewhere without a dishwasher again, I hate washing up!

The main argument with my ex was whether or not to rinse them before letting them drip dry on the rack. He'd leave them there all sudsy, I'd insist on rinsing the suds off before leaving them to dry. Otherwise the food is just going to taste soapy!

Winterlong

Duggy747 wrote: »

What's wrong with you people, just lick your plates clean after your meal and put them back in the cupboard!

Hell, even use your dog, they'll lick that cutlery clean in no time!

Cutlery? Look at you with all your airs and graces.
Eat with the fingers in our house -saves on the washin!

Its dead Jim

Let them air dry. At least that way they are properly dry. Using a towel leaves little hairs on it and eventually you're just moving the moisture around.

Dishwasher is best. Just wish it dried plastic better.

Muppet Man

For the OH and I, its a drip dry approach with a suds rinsing on drinking glasses and cutlery as the suds will leave marks there. Dish washer broke a few years back and never got another... then again, it is only two of us.

LunarSea

Tombi! wrote: »

Or just dry them with a towel. I'd call it being lazy letting them dry naturally unless you only have one or two items.

I'd call it having better things to do with my life.

(just excuse the fact that I'm posting on here during the lunching hour, do doo doo doooo).

Estrellita

The dishes aren't meant to dry on the draining board, they are meant to drain. Not more than half an hour draining, then towel dry them.

RobertKK

Wash put on the draining board, go away, come back with a dry clean tea towel and just a quick wipe.
Tea towel stays dry as any remaining moisture is minimal, and everything is clean.

galwayguy85

Estrellita wrote: »

The dishes aren't meant to dry on the draining board, they are meant to drain. Not more than half an hour draining, then towel dry them.

Thanks for setting things straight guys.

I will now defer to what my mother says, based on the evidence presented.

Barry Badrinath

Well, thats not the best opening sentence I have ever seen.

/Creep

Imagine getting run-over by the 46A, lying there in the gutter; crimson, human blood flowing into the culvert... and thinking back on all that fucking time you spent drying dishes with a poxy tea-towel.

Drip-dry the shite out of them.

LunarSea

Estrellita wrote: »

The dishes aren't meant to dry on the draining board, they are meant to drain. Not more than half an hour draining, then towel dry them.

If you want to hang the dishes out on the line you can.

The draining board is an area where the dishes can drain naturally. Do what works for you, not what you "are and aren't" meant to do.

Birneybau

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I fart on them.

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Cortina_MK_IV

Washed then dried on a rack on the draining board. Why dry them? Dishcloth then has to be washed, using detergent AND more valuable water. Air dry... Been doing it for years with no ill effects.

Dish Drainer

I'm off to hug a tree.

beach_walker

Just dry them then and there. Most people I know who are in favour of draining, just leave them there indefinitely.


And as for dish-washers... never have, never will. Far from that I was reared :pac:

ScumLord

Let them drip dry. Then you take it to the next stage, wait until you've used all the dishes before washing them, it's a more efficient use of power and water. Also throw out most of your cutlery and dishes so that you've less washing to do.

Maybe I should just leave the plates outside when it rains??

Del2005

beach_walker wrote: »

Just dry them then and there. Most people I know who are in favour of draining, just leave them there indefinitely.

Most homes have the same amount of people and meals everyday. Why put stuff away to take out a little later. Wash what you use and then by the time they've dripped dry use them again.

seamus

Drip-dry, just make sure you rinse everything before putting it on the rack. Putting stuff on the rack still covered in suds means it'll take longer to dry and will leave marks and soap on the plates once dried.

beach_walker

Del2005 wrote: »

Most homes have the same amount of people and meals everyday. Why put stuff away to take out a little later. Wash what you use and then by the time they've dripped dry use them again.

But then what would I put in my cupboards?


Nah look I'm in a houseshare situation. If I came in to cook a meal this evening and everything's been left to "drip dry" then I'd be pissed off. Because I'm just gonna have to dry them properly. It may be different for ye poshos and yer fancy homes that ye don't share with strangers :pac:

ScumLord

Your Face wrote: »

Jesus Christ.

The power of Christ compels plates to dry? That's quite useful, they should put that on the flyer.

Your Face

ScumLord wrote: »

The power of Christ compels plates to dry? That's quite useful, they should put that on the flyer.

What flyer?
Where did the flyer come from?
This thread has it all - drying dishes, religion, magically appearing flyers.

Speedwell

What Would Jesus Dry?

No, seriously, the row at my house is also "rinse or not". My husband used to give out to me about wasting water rinsing, until I pointed out to him that he rinses dishes when he takes them out of the cupboard. His response? "Well, they get dusty up there". No, no, he rinses the dishes when he takes them out of the cupboard because his mother does it, and she does it because she doesn't rinse them, and she doesn't rinse them because when she was first married she lived in a caravan with a tiny sink and a limited supply of hot water, and she never changed her habits.

ScumLord

Speedwell wrote: »

What Would Jesus Dry?

Balls, with commandment 7.

thesimpsons

Speedwell wrote: »

I pointed out to him that he rinses dishes when he takes them out of the cupboard. His response? "Well, they get dusty up there". No, no, he rinses the dishes when he takes them out of the cupboard because his mother does it, and she does it because she doesn't rinse them, and she doesn't rinse them because when she was first married she lived in a caravan with a tiny sink and a limited supply of hot water, and she never changed her habits.

I have never ever heard of someone doing this. today has proven to me life is full of all sorts .

eqwjewoiujqorj

Easy solution

Cupboard dish drainer





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chakotha

Get a draining rack.

Plates dried immediately smell funny unless you use a pristine tea towel each time.

Plates and cutlery left to dry flat on the draining board end up being left there lying in a puddle of rank water.

Walter H Price

Get a dishrack discloths are vile unless there wash every time there used just ewwwww bang of wet dog of them in most peoples gaffs just rotten

Sapphire

Leaving dishes to air dry is the most hygienic method. Drying with a tea towel isn't.

Similarly, rinsing and wringing out cloths and leaving them to air dry between use stops them getting manky with germs and bacteria too.

Don't get me started on the fcukers who leave a mop and bucket to fester outside getting filthy. Chuck mopwater down the toilet and flush instead of pouring down the sink and getting splashes of floor water all over your kitchen. Rinse and hang up mop in a cupboard to air dry. That way you have a nice clean dry mop to use the next time.

Estrellita

LunarSea wrote: »

If you want to hang the dishes out on the line you can.

The draining board is an area where the dishes can drain naturally. Do what works for you, not what you "are and aren't" meant to do.

Don't get your knickers in a twist... if you want to leave your dishes on the draining board for eternity then that's your prerogative / problem.

josip

Dry the tea towel with your mother

cocker5

Neither of the both.... Dishwasher??

Ruu

Buy a new set of dishes each time.

LunarSea

Estrellita wrote: »

Don't get your knickers in a twist... if you want to leave your dishes on the draining board for eternity then that's your prerogative / problem.

Err, I use the dishes again the following day?