Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Can I just ask whether other couples argue about how to fill the dishwasher?

No. Because when we've had a dishwasher I let him do it...when he's here. I accede to his submission that he is more talented than I at stacking. I'm fine with plates and cups...I too think you should load from the back. TBH my back makes me a bit lazy about the bottom shelf. I also don't unstack around him because I think its essential to unstack bottom shelf first so that any other person in the kitchen can start reloading the bottom...if you do it the other way round you have to wait till the whole thing is empty.

we don't have a dishwasher atm, but I want one of those ones that has a cutlery drawer not a cutlery basket. You can get a spare drawer and then out the whole clean drawer into a kitchen drawer instead of unpacking. (I hate finding cutlery in the wrong divider in the kitchen drawer.)

I do dislike finding washing up other than one ''layer'' of mugs or similar in the sink. emptying the sink of dirty stuff is depressing and time wasting.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Hurrah for four leggeds...freezer bound?
I might venture out tomorrow though....see what's on offer at the local nursery. I really want to find some pots for either side of the front door, but feel guilty at a frivolous spend.

No freezer for these. (see other thread)

Pots needn't be frivolous, if you can eat what they produce. What about a couple of bay trees, or even an upright rosemary or two, to go with the mutton?

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can be in Exeter for lunch tomorrow if anybody else can. Say 1pm....? Last chance ... option closes in a few hours.

Sorry, I was dead to the world last night and our impending sheepies need water, so I'm plumbing today.

If you PM me, I can confirm exactly where we are, and you can pop in for afternoon tea on the way home though.

Edit: We have chocolate rice crispie cakes and chocolate stodge ATM.

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

Can I just ask whether other couples argue about how to fill the dishwasher?

As I'm the dishwasher, the arguments about how to fill me up are mainly centred around the phrase, "Not curry, again!" :rotfl:

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

I've been drooling about tomterm's mutton, .

I can confirm that it is worth drooling over, having had chops last night as a 'tester'.

So, Dave, what breed of sheep are you getting?

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've only used a dishwasher once, didn't like it. It made the shiny plates feel like they'd been sand-blasted... and the cheap/plasticware (like tiny measuring jugs etc) all seemed to glaze/shatter.

I'd not choose to get one

I've never used one!

Ex hubby was always on about getting a dishwasher as he didn't like washing up...until I then pointed out that he did the washing up about once a month and I did it the rest of the time!

fuddle

I've never had one, and only ever feel a slight need for one when the pile acculmulates into a mountain and looks unsightly. It's what you get for being stingy and wash the hole days load with one sink full of water I guess.

Hello nice people

silvercar

Dishwasher: I would always unpack bottom shelf first so that the cups don't drip water onto the clean plates. But then I wouldn't unpack one shelf and not the other. I've never thought of loading top shelf from the back. I always load cutlery tines and blades downwards to avoid injury.

lemonjelly

hello fuddle, & welcome.:)

Personally, I've never seen the need for a dishwasher. I'm pretty sure it is both easier, quicker & mse-er as well as more ecologically sound to wash dishes et al in the sink.

I finished Ian McEwan's Atonement last night. Interesting novel, a few suprise twists there. Not necessarily a book I'd rave about, that said I read over 130 pages last night, so I must've been into it!:o

Keeping em crossed all day for PN with her interview!:T

treliac

A fascinating discussion on the merits and uses of dishwashers. And yes we do 'debate' these issues shall I say.

However, I just provide the evidence of bad loading.... if items come out still dirty.