A question about dishwashers.

GwylimT

summerspring wrote: »

A dishwasher's a dishwasher.

But if the modern ones are using so little water that would explain why you can still taste the dishwasher fluid on the dishes and pans, I suppose. They're not rinsing the dishes properly. Not good for your health, ingesting all those chemicals with your food.

I notice it in cafes too. Costa and Nero, their cups always taste of dishwasher fluid!

It's a common thing with modern machines in general, even washing machines. I always run an extra rinse cycle, because even the better quality machines don't rinse properly.

Everything is chemicals. We don't have any taste on our pots whether they are hand washed or put in the dishwasher.

Mojisola

summerspring wrote: »

A dishwasher's a dishwasher.

That's obviously not true if the American ones use so much more water than the ones available in the UK.

peachyprice

summerspring wrote: »

A dishwasher's a dishwasher.

Yes, just as US washing machines are the same and US cookers are the same and US fridges are the same. Oh wait, they're not are they, they're much bigger.

(Where's the roll-eyes smiley when you need it)

You might want to look as the spec on all these uk dishwashers.

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/dishwashing/dishwashers/350_4035_31762_xx_xx/xx-criteria.html

Rambosmum

summerspring wrote: »

A dishwasher's a dishwasher.

But if the modern ones are using so little water that would explain why you can still taste the dishwasher fluid on the dishes and pans, I suppose. They're not rinsing the dishes properly. Not good for your health, ingesting all those chemicals with your food.

I notice it in cafes too. Costa and Nero, their cups always taste of dishwasher fluid!

It's a common thing with modern machines in general, even washing machines. I always run an extra rinse cycle, because even the better quality machines don't rinse properly.

Mine uses 12L per cycle. Says so in the energy rating document. And as said earlier, it doesn't leave residue, my old one did and I can taste the difference.

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/dishwashing/dishwashers/essentials-cid60w12-full-size-integrated-dishwasher-12338338-pdt.html

mumps

GwylimT wrote: »

We have a dishwasher, pots get a quick rinse before being put in, we turn it on every five days normally, we are a family of four.

I can't quite get my head round the logistics of that.

So say you have a mug and a cereal bowl for breakfast, plate knife and fork for dinner, maybe a glass and couple of mugs every day x 4 (for whole family) plus saucepans then x 5 (for 5 days). That would be 60 mugs 20 cereal bowls, 20 dinner plates, 20 glasses then knives forks and pans. Wow, if I emptied every cupboard in the kitchen I couldn't come up with that much.

That would be conservative, if you all fancied a glass of wine or a cup of hot chocolate at bedtime even more stuff, mixing bowls jugs. Surely the dishwasher would have to be huge.

GwylimT

mumps wrote: »

I can't quite get my head round the logistics of that.

So say you have a mug and a cereal bowl for breakfast, plate knife and fork for dinner, maybe a glass and couple of mugs every day x 4 (for whole family) plus saucepans then x 5 (for 5 days). That would be 60 mugs 20 cereal bowls, 20 dinner plates, 20 glasses then knives forks and pans. Wow, if I emptied every cupboard in the kitchen I couldn't come up with that much.

That would be conservative, if you all fancied a glass of wine or a cup of hot chocolate at bedtime even more stuff, mixing bowls jugs. Surely the dishwasher would have to be huge.

None of us drink hot drinks so no mugs here, no one eats cereal either so bowls are for soup, no one drinks alcohol so no special glasses for that. My daughter has her breakfast at school to give her another twenty minutes in bed, the little ones have either a plastic cup or a sippy to drink from, they don't take up much room, neither do their plates as our side plates are more than big enough for them. My son is the only one who has breakfast at home in the week, a banana and a yoghurt.

Each person produces five glasses/plastic cups, five knife, fork, spoon, five plates/side plates. We tend to batch cook all the meals for the week on a Saturday then freeze them, they are then reheated in a disposable foil oven tray, fresh veg is steamed in a bamboo steamer so the pan just needs remaining water pouring down the sink.

mumps

GwylimT wrote: »

None of us drink hot drinks so no mugs here, no one eats cereal either so bowls are for soup, no one drinks alcohol so no special glasses for that. My daughter has her breakfast at school to give her another twenty minutes in bed, the little ones have either a plastic cup or a sippy to drink from, they don't take up much room, neither do their plates as our side plates are more than big enough for them. My son is the only one who has breakfast at home in the week, a banana and a yoghurt.

Each person produces five glasses/plastic cups, five knife, fork, spoon, five plates/side plates. We tend to batch cook all the meals for the week on a Saturday then freeze them, they are then reheated in a disposable foil oven tray, fresh veg is steamed in a bamboo steamer so the pan just needs remaining water pouring down the sink.

So you all only use one glass or plastic cup, one knife, fork, spoon, plate per day? One drink per person per day, is that healthy?


Well you might only use 10L of water per 5 days but hardly typical. My husband and I get through more tableware than you do. We are retired so all meals at home but even so you seem to eat/drink very little at home.

When my children were at home they would never have been allowed out to school without a drink and something to eat.

Each to their own, we have always enjoyed the social side of meals with our children, we have 4, so meals are perhaps more elaborate e.g. we had 2 of them round at the weekend and had chilli con carne for dinner. So not a very elaborate meal. That involved two sauce pans and sieve for draining rice, bowl for rice on table for people to serve themselves, same for the chilli, bowl of salad, pot of sour cream, plate with tortillas. A glass each, coffee cups afterwards. So that was two saucepans, one sieve two serving bowls, serving spoons, salad bowl and servers, five plates, small bowl and spoon for sour cream, four glasses and four mugs plus teaspoon. So in one meal we have used more tableware/cutlery than you do in a day?

I think I must be doing too much washing up and I have no idea how much water I use.

pinkteapot

What size house is it? If you sell up and the kitchen is newish but has no dishwasher or space for one, you'll put some people off buying if it's a family home (in their mind they'd want to replace the kitchen).

Unless it's a very small property, I'd put a dishwasher in even if I wasn't going to use it much.

As for me, it's just DH and I at home and we've had a dishwasher for the last five years or so. We use it - with just two of us it goes off every other day or so. Why would you spend time washing up when you don't have to?

PerfectChristmas

I hate(d) washing up and it sometimes hung around the kitchen a few days on really bad days. It also put me off cooking as, as much as I love it, there was only ever me who washed up so I didn't want to cook and wash it up! We would even buy plastic glasses and paper plates to get us over most meals at Christmas (aside from main meals obv!) so there was less washing up.

We only got our very first dishwasher about 10-12 weeks ago. I wouldn't be without one now! SO much easier! Practically everything can go through it too!

And, as much as I hated washing up - I put everything kitchen-wear through it the first week we bought it so I could be sure it was all properly clean

Primrose

Oh we usually use the same cup and saucer for all our drinks throughout day instead of using fresh ones every time we have a fresh brew (we're retired). We simply keep a bowl of soapy water in the sink, wash them and drain them and reuse. We haven't died of germs yet! I think people can get too worked up about all this hygiene business If we weren't all so affluent in relative terms that our cupboards werenn' full of pans, crockery and cutlery we'd all be eating three courses from the same plate with the same cutlery. That's what we all used to do at Girl Guide camps with your single enamel ears ago. It was also an effective way of ensuring you cleared your plate of Irish Stew before embarking on your suet pudding and custard! :rotfl: