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Water is free and washing up water is heated by gas at 1/4 the price of the electric that heats dishwasher water plus you use about 1p of washing up liquid rather than 10p of dishwasher tablet.
Apparently dishwashers use about 1/5 of the water that hand washing up does.
40 min of my time is worth a LOT more than a dishwasher tablet plus the depreciation on the dishwasher leading to its eventual replacement after several years. I got this one second hand (from a friend moving to a house that didn't have space for it) for £50 at least 6 years ago and it's not showing any signs of ageing yet.DW is also very keen on only running the dishwasher fully loaded. Occasionally, I have to add clean plates from the cupboard before setting it going.
:rotfl:Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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I think non -stick pans risk losing their non- stick coating if dishwashered too often on too high a programme. But that is just tough.
I always wonder whether the little bits of 'teflon' non-stick coating that end up in food over time are going to be the next big cancer scare.
My time has no value, I would only be wasting it chatting to you lot otherwise.
The dishwasher is an inders*it, we use the highest programme, I think it cost 189 rather than 149 cos we wanted a black one, we probably run it once every 2 days on average.I think....0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Egg, milk, porridge, just soak as soon as used, while hot. Are all horrid other wise.
Yep soak them until you set the dishwasher going. Having lived out of a microwave/kettle/dishwasher while DW installed her dream kitchen over the last couple of months, got to say, not having the dishwasher feels like slumming it in a particularly deprived bit of the Stone Age.
I'm a Modern Man, I am.
There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
I always wonder whether the little bits of 'teflon' non-stick coating that end up in food over time are going to be the next big cancer scare.
My time has no value, I would only be wasting it chatting to you lot otherwise.
The dishwasher is an inders*it, we use the highest programme, I think it cost 189 rather than 149 cos we wanted a black one, we probably run it once every 2 days on average.
If somebody offered me a choice between paying for a DW tablet and having 40min spare to chat to the NP, or not paying and having to spend that time washing up, I know which I would choose.
I disagree that your time has no value. You may not be paid for washing up, but there are other ways in which time is valuable. For me, because I work part-time, I consider that I'm able to cope with working more hours if the domestic burden is lightened at home. Therefore it is worth paying for appliances, my cleaner, etc, as long as they cost less than I can earn in the time released.
For you, perhaps you would resent your work less if you had less housework to do when you got home. Or your time with your wife and kids might be more enjoyable to you if you didn't have to spend it washing up, or if you had more energy when you were with them because you had not spent so much time washing up. Or something else. Or not. I'm not you so I don't know. But your time should be of value to you whether or not it has any monetary value to anyone else. If you enjoy washing up, that's different. But I don't.
But then we're all different. It would never occur to me to spend fifty quid on the colour of an appliance. Each to their own.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
That Singapore puzzle is surely not worth explaining? If you get it fairly quickly, you don't need the explanation. And if you don't get it fairly quickly, you won't have the patience for the explanation.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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But half of yours go in clean :rotfl:We run ours on the max programme. That way the dishes always come out clean, first time.
Here most of ours are fine....I should run it max see what happens to tannin. Mind you I wash most things in there, even things I know I should not. The wok doesn't go it, or cast iron, but silver plate does, wood does, bone china does,I always wonder whether the little bits of 'teflon' non-stick coating that end up in food over time are going to be the next big cancer scare.
it already is a cancer scare, Teflon, is it not? I dry fry eggs and it really upsets fir. Dry frying in nonstick is meant to be very poor for one this believed. I don't disbelieve it, but it always worked on the basis that I'd be lucky to live long enough to get cancer.....now those habits are stuck a bit
My time has no value, I would only be wasting it chatting to you lot otherwise.
The dishwasher is an inders*it, we use the highest programme, I think it cost 189 rather than 149 cos we wanted a black one, we probably run it once every 2 days on average.
Ours is black, but Miele. Its hard to give an average. Some days repeatedly, other weeks, once......0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »We have a Beko dishwasher which cost £199. Everything you put in it comes out clean. Except for stainless steel pans that have had scrambled egg in them.
As OH would say, I'm the dishwasher.
I'll usually cook 4-5 nights a week as I'm in first, so she's got it really good.
I don't like dishwashers and haven't got anywhere to put one on the side with the water connection. The only thing I'd change about the house is the size of the kitchen. It's tiny.💙💛 💔0 -
I have a tabletop dishwasher built into the kitchen unit in the flat. I had to change it last year because the Bosch died. I replaced it with a Currys own brand. And I can categorically say there is a difference. You really do get what you pay for in a dishwasher.
Waiting and hoping it dies soon, so I can replace it with another Bosch. Although I set it daily, I know it will take years. Such a shame I cannot bring myself to buy something new and shiny when the old one is still working.Still striving to be mortgage free before I get to a point I can't enjoy it.
Owed at the end of -
02/19 - £78,400. 04/19 - £85,000. 05/19 - £83,300. 06/19 - £78,900.
07/19 - £77,500. 08/19 - £76,000.0 -
As I'm usually faffing about on the NP thread during working hours, that's a choice I don't have to make.If somebody offered me a choice between paying for a DW tablet and having 40min spare to chat to the NP, or not paying and having to spend that time washing up, I know which I would choose. 0 -
The only thing my dishwasher seems unable to deal with is egg. Just seems to bake it on.
Never put my pans in the dishwasher, wouldn't want to damage them. Everything else goes.
With mine (a very basic Indesit passed on to me by my DD as she felt my need was greater than hers,bless her) the thing to avoid at all costs is mashed potato.
For some reason everything ends up coated with it! So plates or cutlery with any trace of mashed potato get thoroughly rinsed before being put in the dishwasher.
It's a slimline model so there isn't usually room for all the pot/pans anyway.0
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