Do you have a dishwasher?

suki1964

I annoyed my mother when I told her to find a buyer for her full sized pain in the backside dishwasher when we had the kitchen refitted

I replaced it with a slimline one

Her old large one just took too long to fill and too long to wash -3hrs

My slimline one goes on every other day usually and takes just 30 mins

However I don't put my pans or saucepans in. I do them by hand and usually everything is washed up before I sit down to dinner

Dill

I've never had one. There isn't space for one here, except for possibly a small one that fits on the worktop (?) and there's only two of us. But I can imagine that for somebody with a family of six to cook and wash up for it must be a Godsend.

AubreyMac

I grew up in a household of 6 without a dish washer or a tumble dryer. I was 11 (I'm the youngest) when my family got a washing machine. We went to the launderette every week until then.

Poppie68

We have had dishwashers for 20 years and quite honestly I sadly don't think I could cope without one, rather shocking to admit that.

AubreyMac

It's funny how out of those who do have a dishwasher, half can't live without it and others don't bother use it.

Dill

AubreyMac wrote: »

I grew up in a household of 6 without a dish washer or a tumble dryer. I was 11 (I'm the youngest) when my family got a washing machine. We went to the launderette every week until then.

That must have cost a fortune! I had to use launderettes to do our washing for many years, and often said that we could have paid for a washing machine several times over, the amount we spent on washing and drying our clothes in the launderette.

I must say a washing machine is one gadget I would hate to be without.

missbiggles1

When we moved last we left our white goods behind and couldn't afford to buy both a washing machine and a dishwasher immediately. I bought the dishwasher first and waited a month to buy a washing machine - you can't take dishes to the launderette!

missbiggles1

suki1964 wrote: »

I annoyed my mother when I told her to find a buyer for her full sized pain in the backside dishwasher when we had the kitchen refitted

I replaced it with a slimline one

Her old large one just took too long to fill and too long to wash -3hrs

My slimline one goes on every other day usually and takes just 30 mins

However I don't put my pans or saucepans in. I do them by hand and usually everything is washed up before I sit down to dinner

Doesn't the food get cold?

missbiggles1

AubreyMac wrote: »

It's funny how out of those who do have a dishwasher, half can't live without it and others don't bother use it.

Looking back over the thread, there only seems to be a couple of people who have one but don't use it.

onomatopoeia99

I live alone and I have one, 450mm wide rather than 600mm as that's all the space I could make for it when I installed a new kitchen.

I run it every 2-3 days and wouldn't be without it. Fill it up, stick it on "eco" mode and leave it for three hours. It's near silent and uses less water than half filling the sink. Also saves me wasting worktop having a big draining rack thing.