Dishwashers

Rofesleg said:
Interesting.
Some questions/observations:

Where do you put the wet plates, pots and pans after step 1 until step 5?

Do you rinse between 2 & 3? And during 5? Or do you leave everything full of soapy suds on the draining board?

I think you are being a bit cheeky rolling everything up in no. 5.
It should be at least steps 5, 6 & 7. Maybe even 8 as well.
Wash, drain, dry, put away.

Personally, I would need to repeat Number 3 at least 3 more times.

But step 4 and the drying part of 5 is where the real nastiness lies 😬
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Step 3 on its own (drain sink, clean sponge, refill) takes longer than the entire dishwasher process for the same amount of dishes 😂
 
B_G said:
I'd never had a dishwasher until last year. (Actually that's a lie, I had one in an apartment in Australia for a year but I never used it).

I was always quite happy just to wash up. Now I absolutely hate having to wash up and can't imagine life without it. Don't know where I found the time.
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It's weird, my wife and I never wanted w=one, then bought a house with one. We wouldn't be without it.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Takes longer to load the dishwasher than it does to wash them by hand.
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If you have a more than a few plates its great. Our last dw broke and we went a year before getting a new intergated one in a new kitchen. I was the only one forever cleaning plates by hand its an absolute god send having one back when you have a large family. The new trend in big open plan kitchens is two dishwashers as no one ones to see dirty plates in open spaces whilst entertaining. I always buy decent tablets cheap ones dont work very well
 
Glover_elbow said:
If you have a more than a few plates its great. Our last dw broke and we went a year before getting a new intergated one in a new kitchen. I was the only one forever cleaning plates by hand its an absolute god send having one back when you have a large family. The new trend in big open plan kitchens is two dishwashers as no one ones to see dirty plates in open spaces whilst entertaining. I always buy decent tablets cheap ones dont work very well
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We've got friends who have two dishwashers. They don't put the dishes away; which is apparently becoming more common with these systems. One is the clean dishwasher, the other is the dirty dishwasher, dishes move from one to the other, and then their roles swap. Suppose you get that cupboard space back so don't really lose much extra space.

Our dishwasher broke during Covid, it was a nightmare. The guy that fixed it ended up being a fmttm'er who had bought from me before.

Never been so glad to get something fixed
 
Rofesleg said:
Not sure how anyone can think washing by hand is quicker and more hygienic.

Unless you change the water / suds after every few items. To ensure it is both clean and at an acceptable temperature. (Which is actually too hot for my hands. But to be fair, they are rubbish hands).
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Like saying bathing in your own dirty water gets you cleaner than a shower
 
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ThatFragranceGuy said:
Genuinley impressive how much like hard work you've made the process of putting dishes into a dishwasher, popping in a tablet and emoting it later sound. Fannying around with tablets?! What are you doing with them? You take one out, you put it in. Some dishwashers you don't even have to do that anymore as, like with washing machines, modern machines are starting to auto dose detergent so you just top it up every now and then

I spent years without a dishwasher, and I hate doing washing up. you're either full, and it's the least enjoyable thing in the world to start doing, or you leave them there until later which is gross.

Putting the dishes into the dishwasher after a meal takes a minute at best. We don't have kids so the dishwasher goes on once every 2-3 days as it's a good size. Putting a tablet in takes 15 seconds and that is being generous.

Washing a fully loaded dishwasher load manually, we're talking here up to 9 meals worth plus snacks or whatever. 9 sets of washing, drying or putting away, or less if you leave everything in a pile to do in one go, but that wouldn't fly in our house.

Even if you could do that entire process in 5 minutes, you'd still be spending a lot more time doing it manually vs a couple of seconds to chuck stuff in, "fannying around with a tablet" and taking it out when it's done. Let's not forget that the putting it in and putting it away steps also exist in manual washing up, they don't teleport into the sink or back into the cupboard. It might be 5 minutes if you cook for one and just have one baking tray, plate and a knife and fork but 5 minutes to wash, dry and put away for 2-4 people? Plus pans, glasses etc? Maybe if you've got a production line set up and one person washes, one person dries, one person puts away etc. even skipping the drying part and air drying, it's still a lot more effort at the time I'd want to be doing it least.

I can think of probably 5 times in the last 6 years of owning our dishwasher that some food as been stuck on after a cycle. It's not really a hardship - it goes back in. Never had it not be clean after that.

From the sound of some of these posts people either need better dishwashers or better tablets as something isn't right if dishes are coming out dirty 😂
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Walks backwards through hedge.
 
Never thought I needed one before, and I didn't really, but when I got one it ended up being good, but more for drying, and not having wet dishes stacked high on the draining board, never actually getting dry as our lass kept stacking more wet ones on top.

Probably more hygienic too, due to the higher temps (if required), and I'm a fanny when it comes to hot water so works for me.
Dishwasher tablets are extremely strong, much stronger than washing up liquid, so that can't be a bad thing, and my hands seem in better nick too.

Also good that I can put it on at 3am, and it's basically free energy for me at that time.
 
Lots of people slating the dishwasher and, I'll be honest, it baffles me.

We are a family of 4. On a morning we empty the clean, dry dishwasher we set off the night before. Pots are spotless and dry and clean. Inside the dishwasher is extremely clean too.

We have breakfast and all pots are rinsed in a cold sink of water so there is nothing left on the pots when they go into the dishwasher. We are all out for lunch so no pots there.

Evening, we make our meals etc and all pots are rinsed in a sink of cold water again so all pots going into the dishwasher have zero food or drink on them. As we cook, the pots we have finished using are rinsed and put into the dishwasher as we continue to cook. Once all meals are finished we put the remaining few plates etc into it and turn on the top setting "Intensive" and all the days pots are sprayed, cleaned and steamed etc. The next morning we repeated the cycle by emptying a very clean dishwasher of very clean pots.

As long as the pots are rinsed/not caked in stuff to dry on and stacked well I don't see how they aren't a really useful gadget.
 
We literally built a £30k extension on our house so we could fit a dishwasher in. No Joke
That was 12 years ago, never looked back. (1 expensive, 1 cheap dishwasher later, tbf!)

Love it. Mainly for the cleaning, but also for the storage to get the dirty plates out of the way
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
I've had loads of dishwashers in various rented houses. Shared and one bed. They never get used because it's easier to just wash by hand.
All the rinsing you have to do. Fannying on with tablets. Stacking everything in there. Taking it all out again. Checking they've been cleaned properly. Washing things again because they're still dirty.

Just bung it all in the sink add a squirt of fairy and it's done in five minutes.

So if you are a landlord reading this. No dishwashers. Give me a tumble dryer.
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Wouldn't the dishes break in that?
 
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