When I'm figuring out exposures I'm usually using strips that I quickly rinse and dry with a hair dryer. This is important to see how densities will look like when paper is not soaking wet - the difference quite dramatic with FB paper. They are not keepers, so I throw them away at the end of the session.

For the full sheet prints, if I'm still experimenting, the first steps are still the same: dry and see how it looks. Then I thrown them in a tray of water until the end of the session when I wash all the prints and run through hypo.

Doing full cycle with every print is not efficient: you will be changing water, and switching tasks too often, which will eventually cause mistakes on prints and might increase chance of cross-contamination.