Do you dry your dishes?

[polly]

Life is way too short to dry pans (dishes go in the dishwasher) - it's bad enough having to wash them. Also hate washing tea towels but they are revolting if you don't do this all the time, so I prefer to use them less. I leave pans to drip dry until there's no more room for anything on the drainer. I do clean it quite fastidiously too, at least every other day. I've never seen any mould on there but there's often little bits of food due to my/my husband's terrible washing up skills.

 

[Orang Utan]

Only if food is burned in. Then I give a pan a soak, maybe a bit of a scrub....and then it goes in the dishwasher. Many pans don't need scrubbing and they go in the way they are. Occasionally having to get a crust off a pan doesn't invalidate the convenience of a dishwasher though.

It doesn’t have to be burnt on to need scrubbing. Dishwashers don’t get food off of pans IME

 

[Saffy]

Our old dishwasher was shit at cleaning and I always thought it was because of being in such a hard water area and limescale build up. That was until I dismantled the spinning wands and found every hole clogged with with a piece of onion or pea.
I now make everyone (properly) scrape and rinse their plates.

 

[weltweit]

On the drying rack with it, they'll dry on their own accord!

 

[Orang Utan]

Our old dishwasher was shit at cleaning and I always thought it was because of being in such a hard water area and limescale build up. That was until I dismantled the spinning wands and found every hole clogged with with a piece of onion or pea.
I now make everyone (properly) scrape and rinse their plates.

Might as well wash them up properly then. I only wash for two, mind

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

The dishwasher dries them.

This.

 

[Rebelda]

Dishwasher or draining board. Very rarely wash anything by hand. Aside from my very old crockery, if the dishwasher is gonna fuck something up then I don't want it in my life.

 

[moomoo]

Aye - pans n that

My pans go in the dishwasher.

Actually, my dishwasher isn’t working properly atm*

So I’ve got to wash up this evening. I shall leave everything to air dry though!

*I live with an appliance engineer. This is going to be like when I lived with a plasterer and had no plaster on my kitchen wall for 7 years isn’t it?

 

[Sasaferrato]

The flies at my parents were really bad this summer. Drove us all to distraction.

Boris has that problem, he can't keep them shut.

 

[moomoo]

Look at him so happy fixing my dishwasher!!

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Air dry. Why wash dishes and then dry them by smearing them with a dirty tea towel?

 

[Cloo]

Pans do sometimes go in the dishwasher, but only if it's nearly full, as we use them a lot and if we put them in every time we might find we have to get them out and hand wash them

 

[thismoment]

At home? Occasionally. At work all the time, wash and dry, wash and dry.

At work, definitely had to wash, dry and return mug to my desk or locker as mugs often disappeared forever. I just couldn’t believe it when someone pinched a mug that had ‘to my best friend’ printed on it

 

[Badgers]

At work, definitely had to wash, dry and return mug to my desk or locker as mugs often disappeared forever. I just couldn’t believe it when someone pinched a mug that had ‘to my best friend’ printed on it

Perhaps a lonely person who wants a friend?

 

[thismoment]

Perhaps a lonely person who wants a friend?

I’d rather have been their friend than they punch my mug

 

[krtek a houby]

I’d rather have been their friend than they punch my mug

Scary potential pal, mind

 

[pogofish]

Remember that if you choose to dry your dishes, to remain safe and within current bacterial load limits, you need to use approx ten to twelve dish towels per standard dinner plate...!

 

[Aladdin]

It depends. If I'm in a hurry I let them dry on the draining board.
If I'm not in a hurry I'll dry them off and put them away.

 

[Aladdin]

Look at him so happy fixing my dishwasher!!

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Is he in his dressing gown fixing the dishwasher?

 

[moomoo]

Is he in his dressing gown fixing the dishwasher?

Yes. It still doesn’t work!

 

[Aladdin]

Yes. It still doesn’t work!

Sorry for laughing..

 

[seeformiles]

Good God no! They’ll dry themselves. Given we tend to use the same dishes all the time there’s no point putting them away so just leave them on the rack until the next meal. Besides, having washed my share of restaurant dishes in my time, the serious heat of dishwasher water means that most dishes once they emerge are dry before you even get to them with a cloth. My Ma, on the other hand, was a stickler for everything dried and back in the cupboard by the time the Archers was over.