I Hate Washing Up

Justamum

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

I just couldn't bear the thought of getting all the different types of washables in the same vessel. In my "hand-washing" household, the dishes are done strictly in this order:

Glasses
plastic beakers
mugs
cutlery
teaplates

replace the water

dinner plates
pots
pans/trays

and last of all

cat bowls - using a completely different cloth of course. If I could use a different sink for these I would.

They call me the Queen of the Five Cloths! One for dishes, one for cat dishes, one for worktops, one for the cooker and throwaways for the bin.

I'd need half a dozen different dw's to cope with my OCD.

That's not OCD, that's how I wash up. I usually rinse everything before washing up too - there's nothing worse than trying to wash up in soup!

I've got a DW, but quite often when I take things out half of them need to be properly washed in the sink, so I don't often use it. I enjoy hand washing - especially after dinner when I'm in the kitchen on my own listening to the Archers :rotfl: (and everyone knows to keep their mouths zipped up when that's on :rotfl:)

abwsco

I've had a dishwasher for 22 years now and when our last one broke we only lasted a couple of days before we drove to the shop and brought our new one back with us. Only just fitted in the car but we weren't going to wait until after the weekend for them to deliver it-lol

Should add that everyone in the house has to put their dirty plates etc in it (done my way so that it's filled properly) and when DD's were at home they always had to empty it between them.

I still wash pots by hand though as they can't go in the dishwasher and would take up too much room anyway. I also put the chicken feeders and drinkers in every now and again.

pigpen

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

What? Deliberately? :eek:

no they fell in by accident

quilty

Get a dishwasher! My story is a little different, I had an accident a few months ago washing up, slit my wrist and had to have an op to join my tendons back together so I can use my fingers again eventually, I've only washed up twice since lol

I'm looking for a dishwasher in my area but none have come up yet

becs

There's only 2 of us in the house but we have a dishwasher that goes on every other day. My pans have to be done by hand as not dishwasher safe and things like my kitchenaid bowls and attachments I do by hand. I love the dishwasher and find washing up a real pain when baking especially! When I am baking now the first thing I do is run a sink of hot soapy water so I can quickly do bits whilst waiting for timers and stuff and I'm not left with a mountain of washing up at the end.

dasophster

I'd love a dishwasher but no room for one in our kitchen. A few months ago Boris Johnson was having people come round and give out Eco friendly equipment to people round these parts, as it was just before the election cynics would have something to say but who cares? All in all it was £60-£70 of freebies. One of the freebies was an attachment for the kitchen tap that aerates the water as well as turning it into a shower head type spray if you push the nozzle down, it has made such a difference. The aerated water cleans the pots much more easily and froths up the washing up liquid that much more that it saves time, water, and washing up liquid xx

tru

When we bought our house in 1997, there was a dishwasher in the kitchen. Oh the excitement I was so pleased, lol. Six months later, I hated the thing but couldn't bring myself to get rid of it because it worked fine. When it eventually died, we replaced it and I can't remember why. Two years after that, I gave the new one to my brother.

I hated loading it, I hated unloading it. The amount of space it took up and the time it took to do a cycle annoyed me. I always found I needed something that was dirty but it was only half-full so I'd have to take it out and wash it by hand.

We put a new kitchen in last year. The room is 12' x 12' (actually it's a bit bigger now, we knocked a wall down) and I didn't waste one inch on a dishwater Much rather wash up in my lovely deep Belfast-stylee double sink, and there's four adults here.

Molly41

Many years ago and four toddlers/ babies, I determined that I needed a dishwasher. Hubby decided it was not necessary. So I went on strike and only washed what was necessary for my days at home with my babies. Ha the rest was up to him and after a week of washing up before he went to work and late into the evening he soon saw sense:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

lazy_daisy

Here's another "Aye".
Before getting a DW I timed how long I spent each day washing up. It was forty minutes! Usually in two batches of twenty minutes.

Other posters are right, you don't have to pre-rinse unless something's really dirty and then you probably would if you were washing up by hand anyway.

I have noticed that some people I know are very ANTI dishwashers and I'm not sure why, it seems to me it's no-one else's business - I used to get the same when I was a vegetarian for many years, it used to make people really angry and I got fed up justifying myself ("but you wear leather shoes you hypocrite..."). Very odd.

Anyway, I digress, as long as you load the DW properly, don't leave cutlery hanging through the bottom and rinse the filters every time (takes about 10 seconds) it'll be great! Oohh also - I shouldn't tell you this as they'll probably sell out now but Sainsbury's basic DW tabs - ace!
Love,
Daisy x
PS most amused about the Moon Cup!

jackieb

tru wrote: »

When we bought our house in 1997, there was a dishwasher in the kitchen. Oh the excitement I was so pleased, lol. Six months later, I hated the thing but couldn't bring myself to get rid of it because it worked fine. When it eventually died, we replaced it and I can't remember why. Two years after that, I gave the new one to my brother.

I hated loading it, I hated unloading it. The amount of space it took up and the time it took to do a cycle annoyed me. I always found I needed something that was dirty but it was only half-full so I'd have to take it out and wash it by hand.

We put a new kitchen in last year. The room is 12' x 12' (actually it's a bit bigger now, we knocked a wall down) and I didn't waste one inch on a dishwater Much rather wash up in my lovely deep Belfast-stylee double sink, and there's four adults here.

When we refitted our kitchen my husband really wanted to make a space for a dishwasher. I managed to dissuade him though - said i'd rather have another cupboard. And we are a family of 6.

Also, people say it's more economical, but you have the expense of buying the machine and the more expensive dishwasher tablets to consider too.

But it's each to their own, and you just go with what your preference is.