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[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I love watching videos about plane crashes on my old tablet when I'm cooking or rinsing (non-native here, is that right for doing a dishwasher's job by hand?).

[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Washing dishes" or "doing the dishes". ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Native speakers refer to it as "washing the dishes" (the full phrase). "Dishwashing" is technically correct but it's also awkward and clunky.

This was spoken from an America-centric POV. Hopefully some other countries will weigh in.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Rinsing would just be running water on them without any soap.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You rinse before you pit in the dush washer (only if it's really bad though)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll join with Technology Connections in being that guy who says (in a friendly way, not condescending):

If you have to rinse your dishes ever then you're using the wrong soap, have a reeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaally crappy dishwasher (like a multi decade old cheapo model that's breaking), or are loading your washer wrong. I think TCs video showing literally cooked on cheese coming off of dishes is pretty good proof that no dish out there needs rinsing.

I used to think my dishwasher couldn't handle most things without rinsing, then I realized one of my sprayers had been blocked up and i also switched to a powder soap and suddenly everything is clean as fuck without any other changes to my loading habits. This was on a model slightly cheaper than the one TC uses in his video, and was about 7 years old when I saw improvement.

This is not criticism or anything, but simply trying to spread awareness of a simple thing I know a lot of people are surprised by when I tell them. Many of us are wasting time and effort on rinsing shit that doesn't need to be, free yourselves!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Heard, thanks!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I use the term "hand-washing dishes".

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

All the other replies sound very American, it's "doing the washing up" or just "washing up"