My discovery: Dish washing unnecessary

I think you are just plain lazy.

Even the ancients were wise enough to wash dishes! This, despite the fact that they didn't know about bacteria - which will grow in a variety of situations - because they mutate rapidly to suit themselves.

Thankfully, for me, there is no danger of your inviting me to your place! Yes, I mean danger.

You know, even if I thought this and did this (which I don't), there's no way I would admit it on an internet forum or to anyone

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I'm not sure which highlighted area above I'm more afraid of....lol

Some dry things like a bagel sure I could see that but anything wet or that contains meat,milk or eggs I'd wash. Even if its just a water only rinse.
Yea, i'm not saying it will kill ya or will make you sick but it sure does increase your odds.

Well said!!

Bachelors (and bachelorettes), even those with hot running water, have discovered this shortcut eons ago, but learn not to brag about such things.... Tends to make those with delicate sensibilities swoon in a dead faint.

Editted, looks like somebody already told the Cold Water joke and I just didnt see it.

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I've studied history a little, and I'm pretty sure the Indians had water, even before the white man came over.

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You poor sheltered thing, apparently you have not been in many restaurant kitchens. Some things sometimes happen there that makes what you describe of 3rd world open markets seem rather mild. In other words your fellow first world humans worried first and formost about profit, dont necessarily follow the most basic hygenic practices. And I am not talking about some 'greasy spoon' hole in the wall, talking high falluting, high priced places that snobbish people brag about.

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There is a reason why all the old cities and homesteads were based around creeks,rivers and lakes. And it just wasn't trade.

Yep and they traded whampum for dishwasher soap from their bretheren in the Cascades. The white man did bring Jet Dry to the party.

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This is why God gave men wifes, we would come up with all kinds of crazy ideas if left on our own...

Have you talked your wife into trying it yet? Thought not.

And the rule not to drink downstream of where the buffalo cross the river..... Course we now drink downstream of where the city upsteam runs their sewer overflow.... Not to mention the factory upsteam doing what comes natural when maximizing profit.

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"Well, then ignore what I have to say and go with what works for you." -Eliot Coleman

lol, you whampum? Me got Jet Dry!!

Heck I used to be married to one of them women that grew up in suburbs. You wouldnt believe the difficulty I had getting her to even try a tomato out of the garden. She had grown up on those hard pink tennis balls the supermarkets sell.

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I do believe that some of you took the Op's thread as serious. I got a good laugh out of it AND at the responses

By the way American Indians were known to use sand to scrub their "plates" and utensils of course this was before sand boxes and what cats do in them.

Ive heard this joke told as a miner with either a burro or dog named "Three rivers"

When I was a youngun first out on my own, I lived in an old hotel.
The sink was just one of those old bathroom things, almost too small to wash dishes in, so I'd put my plate in the fridge when I got done eating.
A cast iron skillet is good for about a week if you don't break your eggs.

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We modern folks have become a persnickety lot.

We are so gullible and willing to buy the next modern “convenience” that sooner than we might have thought becomes a “necessity.”

Our ancestors made do with what they had.

Most of us have forgotten that urine has many antiseptic qualities.

Why do you think that board on the back of a countertop is called a “backsplash”?

We tell this joke with two dogs- Soap and Water

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Remember the old adage: "Them kids gotta' eat their pound of dirt when younguns?"

Maybe the OP didn't do that & he's making up for it now.

Seriously, if everything isn't sanitized or sterilized these days & kids kept cleaner than spit, we're gonna die.

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The stomach is an excellent killer of bacteria of most kinds- just don't overload it (cut down to the unrotted meat below), avoid the bacteria evolutionized to get you sick with one cell by mouth (poop germs), don't ingest toxic/poisonous chemicals, and help the good bacteria with yoghurt now and then. If I've touched sick people with my hands I will eat unwashed if necessary (unless they have a diarrhea sort of disease) but I will never touch my eyes or nose without handwashing first.

The main reasons we wash dishes: we have plenty of visitors and we don't all kiss each other so we want to avoid their mouth to mouth germs and protect them from ours (herpes anyone?), and that thin residue of food can feed a lot of ants and cockroaches especially if every plate in the cupboard has it. Same reason I sweep up crumbs. If we aren't afraid of germs what's so bad about cockroaches? Well they might've walked in sick-causing poop, and ants can bite. Also after they clean the dishes they try to eat OUR food.

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I've been using the same silverware at work for a couple of decades now. When I'm done eating my lunch....which usually involves leftovers from the night before heating up in the microwave....I just lick my silverware "clean" and put it back in my desk drawer.

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