rinse or not?

aliasojo

Bombchelle wrote: »

I always rinse. Surely the soap leaves some kind of residue on crockery if not washed off and surely you will ingest minute quantities of the chemicals?

Waggle_Dancer wrote: »

Who wants to ingest chemicals when you can easily avoid it? Ok, so it's only minute traces - but it's minute traces 1,000s of times in your life.

I read a very interesting online article a few years ago about this very subject.

The research team did some tests and proved that chemicals were left behind on unrinsed dishes along with minute traces of food particles which came from the washing water.

I was always a rinser anyway, but OH wasn't so I took great delight in showing him what I'd read. He now rinses in front of me although I know fine well he doesn't if I'm not around. :rolleyes:

God bless the dishwasher.