Using a dishwasher in a one-person household?

Sosumi

The question I pose, Smodlet, is do you, or would you, entrust valuable and delicate antique bone china crockery to a dishwasher?

cajef

Sosumi wrote: »

The question I pose, Smodlet, is do you, or would you, entrust valuable and delicate antique bone china crockery to a dishwasher?

We don't but then our valuable and antique bone china crockery only comes out on special occasions or if we have visitors, for every day use we use Denby which is perfectly dishwasher proof.

There are two of us and we have a slimline DW which is used every evening when our daily dishes, plates etc. are washed by the DW while we relax and get on with other things rather than wasting time washing and drying everything by hand several times a day.

Smodlet

This is the first time I have seen a post by you, Sosumi since I hit the ignore button on you so, if you ever develop the slightest snippet of empathy or compassion and realise not everyone has delicate, antique china and, if they did, would have far more sense than to dream of putting it in a dishwasher, you might drop the patronising, alienating tone you seem to take with everyone other than Eon and actually help someone.

cajef

I have never got the hygiene thing that people who say they leave their dishes to dry on the draining board try telling, how can it be more hygienic when it leaves them open to contamination from flies and other insects especially at this time of year.

Cardew

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We leave such mundane matters to the Butler who supervises our 'downstairs' staff.

He would be horrified if we had ivory-handled cutlery; mind you he is such a snob;)

missbiggles1

Tammykitty wrote: »

When my husband is away, I am a single person household, and I still use the dishwasher.


I use the rinse cycle on days when I don't do the full wash cycle

That's what I do as well, rinse one day, wash the next. (Need to do it every other day because, although single person household, lots of pets.)

Sosumi

Smodlet wrote: »

This is the first time… etc.

My question, Smodlet, was, and remains, posed in response to the dogmatic proclamations of some, here, that manual washing up should always, for reasons of hygiene, be eschewed in favour of leaving days of dirty detritus to fester in a dishwasher until one can be bothered to set it off.

You are hardly in a position to accuse me of being patronising in your own tediously supercilious postings.

I was, as it happened, tendering an olive branch to you with my question: it was at face value and devoid of malice. But, as is your wont, you rebuffed it with your own customarily alienating tone.

I don't need lectures on sense from somebody so dumb that s/he failed to refresh his/her collective energy fix in July when that was possible at pre-EU Referendum rates, but, instead let it expire expensively.

cajef wrote: »

We don't but then our valuable and antique bone china crockery only comes out on special occasions or if we have visitors, for every day use we use Denby which is perfectly dishwasher proof.

There are two of us and we have a slimline DW which is used every evening when our daily dishes, plates etc. are washed by the DW while we relax and get on with other things rather than wasting time washing and drying everything by hand several times a day.

I suppose the question really resolves to identifying the precise point between delicate and rugged at which it becomes reliably safe to use the dishwasher.

I wonder where, in practice, that boundary actually lies?

For us, the division is fairly well defined with our own things now but, having once made a calamitous (thankfully insured) misjudgement in the past, we err on the side of safety when deciding what to put in the machine and what to wash, with great care, manually.

cajef wrote: »

I have never got the hygiene thing that people who say they leave their dishes to dry on the draining board try telling, how can it be more hygienic when it leaves them open to contamination from flies and other insects especially at this time of year.

We keep ours in a fiendishly modern device called a cupboard.

Where, as a matter of interest, do you leave to dry your own "valuable and antique bone china crockery (which) only comes out on special occasions or if we have visitors" in your (apparently) flyblown and insect-ridden kitchen or pantry?

missbiggles1

jack_pott wrote: »

I've never used one, but my mother used them at work. She reckoned she had to wash pans again by hand because the dishwasher wouldn't shift the burnt-on stuff.

Some of us know how to cook without burning the food.:D;)

winspiration

Single person household here too with a dishwasher. I soak or rinse things as needed before stacking them up in the dishwasher for 2-3 days or so until it's full enough to run. I wouldn't want to be without mine.

Sosumi

Cardew wrote: »

We leave such mundane matters to the Butler who supervises our 'downstairs' staff.

He would be horrified if we had ivory-handled cutlery; mind you he is such a snob;)

I love elephants and I think poachers should have their teeth removed with pliers, without anaesthetic, before being hung upside down by their ankles and left to rot.

But I inherited my ivory-handled cutlery and am not minded to fuel the market in ivory by selling it.

:idea: Perhaps you could ask your butler to explain to you the difference between "imply" and "infer". He probably winces every time you get them mixed up but is far too dignified to point it out to you unbidden. Instead, he just lets you continue to humiliate yourself publicly and unwittingly.