The Dishwasher Conspiracy

Ms2011 · 17-01-2016 09:24PM

Don't have a dishwasher, no intention of ever getting one.
I do dishes twice a day, morning & any dishes from the evening before in the morning, lunch & dinner dishes in the evening.
Takes about 15 minutes total, job done & everything clean, dried & back where they belong.
My parents have a dishwasher & it seems to take ages doing a load & then you still have to put the them away.
Nah not for me!

mynameis905 · 17-01-2016 10:35PM

Agricola wrote: »

Dishwashers are a lot of bollix imo. The ultimate expression of modern decadence and waste. Well there's probably a better expression of that but anyway...
I make a cup of tea, I drink the tea and put the cup in the dishwasher where it sits til god knows when, depriving me of the ability to use my cup at some future interval. The answer to this ludicrous situation is to have several cups? Where all I need is one.
How about I rinse the cup under the hot tap for 5 seconds and give it a rub of a tea towel?

Surely you have more than one cup?

I love my dishwasher. I treat it like shít but it never lets me down. Not once it the last five years have I fed it rinse aid or salt. I buy the cheapest of the cheap Tesco value dishwashing tablets at €2 for a big box and literally fúck in the plates/cups/saucepans with burnt on food any old way at all and yet they always come out sparkling clean. Marvelous contraption.

colm_mcm · 17-01-2016 10:40PM

Graces7 wrote: »

There is a dishwasher here in my rental. never used it.. well I do, to store crockery in.. costs too much to run and I am happy washing up the old way..

How much does it cost to run?

17-01-2016 10:41PM

I was once the dishwasher many moons ago, i still remember the day it roll into the kitchen, im sorry im getting emotional now, but that was the first day of my FREEEEEDOMMMMMM.

Spanish Eyes · 17-01-2016 10:43PM

Well now I have to say my lovely DW has a thirty minute cycle that is the business!

Now I would have rinsed off gunk before they went in there for my once a week d.w fest. Please remember that!

But OMG when they are done, they are sparkling.

I need to get a life. Sorry, AHEM... I have one.... it's not taken up with washing, rinsing and drying!

Ah but, each to their own.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 17-01-2016 10:46PM

As there are only two of us in the house now we have stopped using the dishwasher except when family visit for dinner or a sleep over.

Glasses no longer show dulling from the DW.

CelticRambler · 17-01-2016 10:56PM

Agricola wrote: »

How about I rinse the cup under the hot tap for 5 seconds and give it a rub of a tea towel?

Decadence you say? How long d'you have to run the tap for before you get your five seconds of hot water?

And how often do you wash your tea towels? In fact, how many tea towels have you got? Most people I know with no dishwasher have a press full of tea towels, and they take up half the washing line every week! :pac:

Graces7 · 18-01-2016 06:02AM

CelticRambler wrote: »

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:

In France, you get ONE plate, no matter how many courses there are. After each course, you wipe the plate clean with a bit of French bread and eat it...the bread I mean

CelticRambler · 18-01-2016 09:25AM

Zut! Alors! D'you think I should tell my neighbours they're doing it all wrong? :eek:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-01-2016 10:06AM

colm_mcm wrote: »

How much does it cost to run?

I know a dishwasher does not cost a lot to run but some people think "well I have hot water free from the fire or range and washing up liquid is cheaper than dishwasher liquids, rinse aids etc'" If they are right or not I don't know. Use one if it suits you, wash by hand if you have little to wash. The cost factor is of little relevance.

ArtSmart · 21-01-2016 02:20AM

Ruu wrote: »

What is your opinion on lagging jackets, conspiracy too? :eek::eek:

(The Lagging Jacket Conglomerates are too powerful to speak out against.)

All hail our heating efficient overlords.

ArtSmart · 21-01-2016 02:25AM

Minderbinder wrote: »

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 .

Yup.

What they actually are is 'dish hiders'

A truly dirty plate cannot be washed by a dishwasher. Hence the pre-wash rinse - wash before you wash. lol.

anyway, I've since been kicked out, so thankfully I won't be enslaved no more!

No more, i tells ye!!

21-01-2016 02:31AM

Dishwashers are the biz when there's a few people in the house. They're more hygenic too, as they wash and rinse and dry at high temps.

For just myself it's not much of an effort to wash up my sad single plate/bowl/teacup/cutlery, but it would mean a lot more hot water used and effort expended if there were a few people to do it for.

The Dishwasher Conspiracy

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