Using a dishwasher in a one-person household?

greenbee

Single person household here most of the time, and it's surprising how quickly it fills up. I'd hate to do all the batch cooking without it. Or to have lots of visitors - sometimes it runs twice a day when I have a houseful.

Lots of modern DWs have fold down plate racks, making it easy to put pots and pans in. As I work from home, by the time I've cooked and eaten three meals a day, made, half-drunk and abandoned various cups of coffee etc, the DW is set off surprisingly frequently. And there is always the rinse option. Or even the quick wash if it isn't full and won't be for a while.

Sosumi

missbiggles1 wrote: »

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

Cremes Brulees must present a challenge. :grinheart

cajef

Sosumi wrote: »

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?

I can see what Smodlet means when you make sarcastic and patronising comments like this instead of helpful debate and posts.

Smodlet wrote: »

you might drop the patronising, alienating tone you seem to take with everyone other than Eon and actually help someone.

melanzana

missbiggles1 wrote: »

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.)

WHAT!, you put your pets in the dishwasher :rotfl:

Sosumi

melanzana wrote: »

WHAT!, you put your pets in the dishwasher :rotfl:

Absolutely! Cardew is adamant that washing them manually is unhygienic and he decrees that they must always be put in the machine, however old and frail. He brooks no challenge to this inviolable rule but, if I may say this to you in confidence :shhh: , I think it's cruel to leave them in there, wet and muddy, for several days before ordering his butler to switch the thing on.