• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    Are you serious? Dish soap breaks down oil. You wash in the dish soap. Which breaks down the oil. Bits and pieces come off in the wash water. When you pick up the dish, the wash water comes off. Carrying the bits and pieces with it. Back into the wash water. Some soap suds remain, which you rinse off in the rinse water. Have you never washed dishes?

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      It’s actually not exactly true. Soap doesn’t break down oil. It attaches to the oil molecules, and attaches to a water molecule by the other end. Which, when the water is running away and takes all this mess into the drain, is incredibly effective. With the stagnant pool of water, less so.
      I did wash the dishes in buckets when I was young, lived in poverty, and had to do it all by hands. I still remember that feeling of always dirty dishes, that’s why I am always terrified when people do it on purpose.

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        4 hours ago

        … And the effect is the same. It’s in the wash water. JFC. And when you pick up the dish out of the wash water, 99.9999999999999999% of the water returns to the wash water. JFC you’d need scientific measuring equipment to measure the transfer. So it’s not in the rinse water.

        If you ever use a dishwasher and unless you clean the trap out every single time, you’re getting wayyy worse. If you’re worried about transfer of molecules by hand washing, then lmao if you use a dishwasher.

        Nice story bro. Especially the poverty part, plenty of people wash dishes by hand without living in poverty. I think you’ve never actually washed dishes by hand (with 2 sinks). That’s the only way you’d think this. I’m out of this inane conversation.