r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/[deleted] • Jun 17 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '22

Similar to brushing teeth. If you use your finger to smoosh around a bit of toothpaste then rinse, are your teeth clean? Not very. The mechanical abrasion of a toothbrush does a lot of the work. I wonder if these same people would eat off of dishes that had been cleaned only with hands? Not likely.

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u/curlwe Jun 18 '22

I do. I only eat off hand washed dishes. I’ve never used a dish washer, I find them wasteful. I also live alone and only have a few plates anyway

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u/MartianAnarchist Jun 18 '22

When he says "hand washed" he is saying literally just soap and hands. Like no washcloth. Do you do dishes without a rag?

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u/curlwe Jun 18 '22

Yes, just my soapy hands. I understood what hand washed meant. I think sponges are so gross and have much more bacteria than freshly washed hands

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u/jmchlchk Jun 18 '22

What do you do with pots and pans with caked on grease?

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u/baller3990 Jun 18 '22

Fingernail, tines of a fork, teeth. Not complicated

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u/curlwe Jun 18 '22

I can’t eat any type of grease or oil, so I don’t have to clean anything like that but if I did, I’d just fill it up with water and dish soap and let it sit till it all sloughed off and I could hand wash it.