Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Washing up/ Cleaning dishes with COLD water

Options
  • 17-07-2014 5:17pm
    #1
    Dermighty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭


    Does it matter whether the water is hot or cold when you're washing dishes (from a health/hygiene perspective), assuming you're using fairy anti-bacterial washing up liquid and a regular yellow and green sponge?


«13

Comments

  • Options
    #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nope. Unless you're using boiling water then it's not gonna kill those germs any faster.

    Hot water will remove the dirt more quicklier but isn't more hygienic.


  • Options
    #3
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Warm water is more comfortable on the hands which means that you're more likely not to hurry so you'll do a better job.


  • Options
    #4
    Dermighty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Dermighty


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Nope. Unless you're using boiling water then it's not gonna kill those germs any faster.

    Hot water will remove the dirt more quicklier but isn't more hygienic.

    I thought the same myself, any evidence?


  • Options
    #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dermighty wrote: »
    I thought the same myself, any evidence?

    Evidence that boiling water kills germs but warm water doesn't?


  • Options
    #6
    corkgsxr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    I find if the water isn't hot it's it's hard to get grease off stuff


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    Elegant Elliot Offen
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭Elegant Elliot Offen


    Im on the paper plates meself .


    Paper plates FTW.


  • Options
    #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    i use hot water when washing up and bubbles


  • Options
    #9
    conorh91
    Registered Users Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    There's a straight dope answer for this. They're talking about handwashing but it's the same principle.

    http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1935/whats-more-important-in-cleaning-soap-or-hot-water
    in summary: Hot water is better than cold. Cold water is better than none. Soapy water is better than plain water. And you and your wife need to find some hobbies if this is what you're arguing about.


  • Options
    #10
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Elegant Elliot Offen wrote: »
    Im on the paper plates meself .


    Paper plates FTW.

    Plastic knives and forks. Sometimes I just eat over the bin.


  • Options
    #11
    Yellowblackbird
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Yellowblackbird


    I'm gone way past paper and plastic.
    I've hooked up an IV


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    conorh91 wrote: »
    There's a straight dope answer for this.

    "Hot water is better than cold. Cold water is better than none. Soapy water is better than plain water".

    Hans Datdodishes.


  • Options
    #13
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    All plates get put on the floor for Sammy to give the once over before being put in the dishwasher. Why they end in the dishwasher is beyond me as Sammy leaves them spotless.


  • Options
    #14
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    "Hot water is better than cold. Cold water is better than none. Soapy water is better than plain water".

    Hans Datdodishes.

    Turn mild green (Fairy Liquid)? :D


  • Options
    #15
    dee_mc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,175 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    All plates get put on the floor for Sammy to give the once over before being put in the dishwasher. Why they end in the dishwasher is beyond me as Sammy leaves them spotless.

    Puked in my mouth a little bit


  • Options
    #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    All plates get put on the floor for Sammy to give the once over before being put in the dishwasher. Why they end in the dishwasher is beyond me as Sammy leaves them spotless.

    Your wife sounds like a keeper.


  • Options
    #17
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    As has already been pointed out, hot water cleans quicklier.

    Using cold water to wash or rinse dishes is detrimental to the environment due to the fact that you'll use more water if it is cold rather than hot.

    You have to spare the water.


  • Options
    #18
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    dee_mc wrote: »
    Puked in my mouth a little bit

    Just hang on in there Dee. Put false teeth on footstool and Sammy will do the biz ........... providing she also doesn't let a technicolour plasmic yawn atop :D


  • Options
    #19
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Your wife sounds like a keeper.

    She's a local girl ........... American football has no goalposts. But she twirled baton as a kid. :)


  • Options
    #20
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    catallus wrote: »
    As has already been pointed out, hot water cleans quicklier.

    Using cold water to wash or rinse dishes is detrimental to the environment due to the fact that you'll use more water if it is cold rather than hot.

    You have to spare the water.

    But you have to use energy to heat the water.

    Swings and roundabouts, no?


  • Options
    #21
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,234 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    c_man wrote: »
    Plastic knives and forks. Sometimes I just eat over the bin jacks.
    Saves emptying the bin.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #22
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Swings and roundabouts, no?

    No. It's the exact opposite!


  • Options
    #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    catallus wrote: »
    No. It's the exact opposite!

    Slides and monkey bars?


  • Options
    #24
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Precisely!


  • Options
    #25
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,234 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    catallus wrote: »
    Precisely!
    To what tolerance? 'Precisely' is a big claim...


  • Options
    #26
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Tolerance? If we let people tolerate the waste of our most precious resource then we only have ourselves to blame.


  • Options
    #27
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Speaking of Fairy anti-bac washing up liquid, it's getting harder to get hold of. I've given up on Dunnes as they never have it. With pets I prefer to use an anti-bac liquid.


  • Options
    #28
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    This is why we need a dedicated detergent forum. I could finally be a Mod!


  • Options
    #29
    LizzieJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    Dermighty wrote: »
    Does it matter whether the water is hot or cold when you're washing dishes (from a health/hygiene perspective), assuming you're using fairy anti-bacterial washing up liquid and a regular yellow and green sponge?

    I've used cold-ish water in the summer during a heatwave using a clean j-cloth and sunlight dish soap. Haven't died yet.


  • Options
    #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    We haven't turned on the gas heating in about two months so anything which is washed by hand is washed in cold water (I wash stuff under the running tap). No way am I wasting money on gas or electricity to wash a few dishes.

    If the heat is on to warm the house I'll use the hot tap for washing of course.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #31
    Custardpi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Speaking of Fairy anti-bac washing up liquid, it's getting harder to get hold of. I've given up on Dunnes as they never have it. With pets I prefer to use an anti-bac liquid.

    Plenty of cheaper alternatives. In any case regular soap is almost as good at killing bacteria. "Anti-bacterial" is mostly a marketing gimmick, you might as well buy special "hydrating" water.


Advertisement