No hot water in kitchen

[HowardCoombs]

...clean crockery and cutlery with anything approaching a sensible level of hygiene...

When doing dishes, soap does the cleaning, not the heat. The heat helps by softening the grease and particles but if you use enough elbow grease and repetition, the results are pretty close.

As for hygiene : ask your hiker/biker/camping friends how often they get sick from eating using plates & utensils that have not touched hot water
Cold dishwashing is really not that bad...

[HowardCoombs]

I have no evidence to back up the following statement, but HC does.

FTFY.

Here you go:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0226131510.htm

[HK_Katherine]

FTFY.

Here you go:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0226131510.htm

Interesting. But they were dipping their stuff into sanitisers as well - certainly don't do that at home!

[Trance Omega]

I was surprised that we had a separate water heater for our back kitchen. As for hot water for washing dishes, well there is a dishwasher for that.

[gunsnroses]

Missus thinks hot water is important for cleaning the dishes properly, but I am with HC on this, cold water can also get the same result if one uses the soap properly.

[DeannaX]

I think it's a bit easier to clean with hotter water, but don't view the dishes as being any more or less clean. We haven't had a dishwasher in 6 years!

[alak]

I born and bread in Hong Kong, frankly speaking, for private housing those flat the kitchen is far away from washroom they don't have hot water in kitchen. Mostly the heater is place in washroom. I'm this case, I have ask the decoration technician to make a pipe connect to kitchen, they said it will cost a lot. Because the pipe cannot build outside of the building and it need to dig it in the floor which easily to broke the electric circuit downstairs. But for public building, it almost 100% have hot watch in kitchen by the design.

[Stoob]

Katherine, I have no evidence to back up the following statement, but I suspect that there isn't a huge amount of difference in terms of cleaning bateria between cleaning at 20oC and, say, 60oC. Happy for someone to prove me wrong though. That said, we wash up with adding boiling water over the crockery etc.

I think the same goes for Katherine!

[jack55]

So really what that tells us is that the proper detergent to use to clean dishes is actually globs of lipstick.

BTW all you people out there with dishwashing machines (or maybe you are referring to an actual manual labor dishwarsher) and a separate dryer, I'm very jealous! Things I used to take for granted...

[justjoe86]

Thread conclusion: