A question about dishwashers.

DUKE

I've only recently had one as I imagined that it would use loads of water & we're on a meter, plus we lack space. I love it & wouldn't like to do without it now. Here it is http://www.bootskitchenappliances.com/product/ZDM16301SA-Zanussi-Table-Top-Dishwasher-Silver-28467.aspx

KxMx

Never had one and I do get fed up of washing dishes in the sink.

But if I had one I don't like the chemical tablets and bending to load/unload all the time wouldn't be great for me mobility wise.

tanith

Love my dishwasher I bought it when we moved house and I was still working full time and hated doing the washing up in the evening after work. Now I'm retired I still love it , it only goes on every other day and I do pans by hand but I have so many better things to do with my time than wash dishes, after doing the washing up since I was a teenager and when my kids were young or too selfish to help I think I deserve to never wash up again lol.

Gloomendoom

summerspring wrote: »

Anyone else should wash up their dirty dishes!! A dishwasher uses a lot of water,

No they don't.

the tablets make the crockery and cutlery taste weird,

No they don't.

and people who are too lazy to wash up are invariably too lazy to empty the dishwasher anyway.

Daftest thing that I have heard today. What do they do, leave the dishwasher full and buy new crockery every time they want to eat?

Another very good reason to avoid dishwashers is their contribution to the rise in childhood allergies.

Interesting conclusion to that article...

Two physicians at the University of California, San Francisco who wrote a commentary accompanying the study, said the results are interesting but that it's too soon to put them into practical use.

They noted that one of the drawbacks of the findings is that, according to the hygiene hypothesis, early-life exposures to bacteria and germs would have the greatest effect on the immune system to prevent allergic conditions when they occur before 6 months of age. A six-month-old infant would have limited exposure to hand-washed dishes and utensils, especially if breast-fed.

maman

Slinky wrote: »

The secret of unloading the dishwasher if you hate the job, is to use your cupboards that are within standing distance of the dishwasher for all the stuff that goes in most - plates, cups, glasses etc. I just open the dishwasher door and can reach all of the shelves etc to put everything away, bar the cutlery which lives in a drawer on the other side of the kitchen.

We still have to do some washing up as ours is only slimline and I won't do saucepans etc in it.

I've got my kitchen organised exactly like that!:D I've got stainless steel pans and they come up beautifully in the dishwasher, still look like new after years of use.

summerspring wrote: »

Unless you've got a family of six who refuse to do their share of washing-up and drying/putting away, then they're really not necessary, in my opinion.

Another reason might be someone who's got limited mobility/use of their hands.

Anyone else should wash up their dirty dishes!! A dishwasher uses a lot of water, the tablets make the crockery and cutlery taste weird, and people who are too lazy to wash up are invariably too lazy to empty the dishwasher anyway.

Another very good reason to avoid dishwashers is their contribution to the rise in childhood allergies.

You're welcome to your opinion of course but my dishwasher frees up time when I'd prefer to be doing something else. I don't think of that as lazy just a different (and IMO better) use of my time.

dragonette

I don't have space for a dishwasher, but I can usually wash the dishes while a meal is cooking so its not an issue time wise. Bending over to unload it would be far worse for me than standing washing them (but I know that won't apply to most people).

If there were lots of people in the household than maybe I'd be more interested, but with just 2 people I don't see the need. I was in a flat share previously which had a dishwasher - only difference it made was you unloaded everyone's dishes to put away! The ones that wouldn't handwash the plates etc certainly didn't bother to run or empty the dishwater!

summerspring

Gloomendoom wrote: »

No they don't.

Oh yes they do :rotfl:

No they don't.

Yes they do. You probably got used to the taste of it.


Daftest thing that I have heard today. What do they do, leave the dishwasher full and buy new crockery every time they want to eat?

They do indeed leave the dishwasher full.. and argue amongst themselves about whose turn it is to empty it. People who are too bone idle to wash up a few pots and pans invariably can't be bothered to empty the dishwasher either.

I couldn't be without a washing machine, but a dishwasher, for the vast majority of able-bodied people, is a luxury. And given that a large number of Brits live on ready-meals it makes even less sense (to me) that so many people choose to have a dishwasher.

Person_one

summerspring wrote: »

They do indeed leave the dishwasher full.. and argue amongst themselves about whose turn it is to empty it. People who are too bone idle to wash up a few pots and pans invariably can't be bothered to empty the dishwasher either.

I couldn't be without a washing machine, but a dishwasher, for the vast majority of able-bodied people, is a luxury. And given that a large number of Brits live on ready-meals it makes even less sense (to me) that so many people choose to have a dishwasher.

Yeah, but some people even hang around internet forums with the sole intention of deliberately winding up strangers instead of doing the housework. It takes all sorts I suppose. :cool:

Primrose

Managed without one for thiety years. Now have a slimline one in our smallish kitchen and would miss it if I no longer had it. As you get older lofe becomes too short to waste time and energy doing things by hand when they can be done mechanically. But when we go-self catering on holiday and have to manage without one, the roof doesn't fall in but I'd still have one by choice. Hate unloading the darned thing though!

Gloomendoom

summerspring wrote: »

They do indeed leave the dishwasher full.. and argue amongst themselves about whose turn it is to empty it. People who are too bone idle to wash up a few pots and pans invariably can't be bothered to empty the dishwasher either.

You do realise that you are talking absolute nonsense?

Possibly not. Worrying.