The Dishwasher Conspiracy

I admit I have on occasion had to rifle through the dishwasher to get a needed item (sieve, measuring cup etc), before it is washed and then had to hand wash it before use, but it beats the hell out of hand washing every single plate, bowl and item of cutlery. I think the OP is coming from the perspective of someone sharing with housemates, rather than a parent who makes meals for a family several times a day. I think when they have a family they will begin to understand the value of a dishwasher. The OP's post might apply in a house sharing situation where everyone buys and cooks their food separately, but in a family home it's a different story altogether! I do not want to waste hours of my day washing and drying dishes, life is too short for that crap!

And yeah a dishwasher is more hygienic! The water runs off the dishes. It's like the difference between someone who has shat their pants getting into a bath or a shower!

I hate our dishwasher, never use it no more. Everything comes out a little dirty or grimy, gross as ****.

I empty the dishwasher.

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Do not have time to read all that.

Save some time and shorten it for me.

Christ, this isn't twitter.

Into The Blue wrote: »

Only thing crazy is you don't have enough plates for a dinner party.. the fück?!?!

Ultimate dinner part challenge: to be able to serve dessert on the same plates (or in the same "verrines") that you used for the entrée, without your guests knowing/noticing that the machine has washed everything while they were working their way thorough their main courses.

I'd sooner part with my kettle than the dishwasher. I can't stand the after-dinner pantomime in pagan households with half the guests saying "I'll help with the washing up", the other half feeling guilty for not offering, and the host saying "ah no, it's fine, no leave it, oh alright then..." Oh, and then the soggy tea towels hanging on every press door. :rolleyes:

Feck that! Throw everything in the dishwasher - delph, cutlery, pots, pans, the yoke that no-one knows the proper name for, everything. Keep your glass if you want to finish that bottle of wine. Five minutes and the kitchen's clean and tidy. :cool:

I would never be without the dishwasher. It is full size and there is only me!!

Just rinse off the dishes as I use them, into the machine. Once a week on it goes. God you cannot beat the way the glasses and cutlery come out absolutely sparking. And there is NADA in the sink or countertops.

Now in fairness I have abolutely heaps of delph, cutlery and glasses. So I get by for a week or so. Now remember, I rinse the gunge off before entry to my loving machine. And that's that.

Occsionally I will rinse a cup or plate and put it on the rack beside the sink. But that's when I have had one too many and forget about my VBF!

I am the dishwasher.

It takes me maximum 10 minutes after dinner to wash and put away everything, including rinsing with hot water from the tap.

Most of these dishwasher require you to rinse off plates (or wash them first in other words). Then you have to stack things and maybe spend time rearranging if it's very full. Then the tablet thing. Then wait around for a while (not thinking about the dishwasher). Then take everything out with the likelihood of having to dry some cups where water has lodged.

There's absolutely no way they save time .