Cheery's country living adventure

Baileys_Babe

Our good sharp knives, inherited canteen service & hand painted crockery, a few pieces of baking ware and a few awkward bits are hand-washed. We always intended to have a dishwasher so we look for items that are suitable for the dishwasher, like Denby (seconds) crockery.
Many years ago we had a slimline dishwasher there were 7 of us 4 adults and 3 children, it was on constantly as all the food was cooked from scratch and the adults were in and out at funny times working compacted weeks, shifts etc.

We are now a 4 person household 2 adults and 2 teenagers, all of whom work or study from home, we still cook from scratch but now have a full size dishwasher which goes on practically every day.

We only run the dishwasher when it is full, to reduce the environmental impact and I love that the dishes are being cleaned I can spend my time doing something different, usually Home Educating the children.

Sorry to hear you missed your swim Cheery.

badmemory

I wouldn't be without my dishwasher now, especially since my eyesight is no longer the best.  But when I go to a friends I sometimes look at the mugs & wonder if I should risk drinking from them.  I only have one because it was my son's chore, as in I cook, you wash up.  The crafty thing bought me one for Christmas!  I still had him load it.  Did you know that loading a dishwasher is a much more acceptable chore than washing up?  Then I realised I could get half as much again in it as he could!

greenbee

I love my dishwasher. And the fact that it is in the utility room out of sight. My kitchen sink is for food prep, the utility room is for mess. I try to put as much as possible through the DW rather than washing up by hand - so when I'm on my own it only goes off every few days (depending on what I've been cooking) but when I have a houseful it's on frequently. There are a few things that don't go in - decent knives generally (although they do sometimes, it just means they need regrinding more frequently) get done by hand, as do the spode/crown derby cups that I use for my first coffee of the day. But that's one cup a day!

EssexHebridean

A dishwasher in a holiday cottage in the Hebrides cracked the handles of my (25 year old!) Sabatier knives years ago - I’ve never risked putting them in since in case it gets worse! 

That’s frustrating about the swim Cheery - I do like the concept that a soggy walk was not dissimilar though! 

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff said:

...so I went for a walk instead - it was pretty soggy so maybe that counts as swimming?? 😂😂

Look at it this way Cheery - you got OUT & about even if not in the way that was originally intended!

Cheery_Daff

I've never had a dishwasher! Well, there was one here when we moved in but it was tiny and got given away on Freegle straight away...

Pottering about trying to avoid painting the bedroom ceiling. Retrieved a load more crockery and kitchen bits, and we're now full enough that anything else will have to boot something else out for its place. Fortunately we have a lot of 'pantry' shelves in the off shot/utility room for stuff that's not used very often. 

There's a voucher in this weekend's i newspaper for £10 off a £40 spend at Lidl so we've got one and cut it out and will go tomorrow night. 

Just procrastinating but doing the first run of the oven (with no food in) and slicing some oranges for the dehydrator to go on the Christmas tree 😁

greenbee

EssexHebridean said:

A dishwasher in a holiday cottage in the Hebrides cracked the handles of my (25 year old!) Sabatier knives years ago - I’ve never risked putting them in since in case it gets worse! 

That’s frustrating about the swim Cheery - I do like the concept that a soggy walk was not dissimilar though! 

I wouldn't put anything wooden in the DW if I wanted it to last (and it isn't good for knife blades anyway as it pits them, I'm just lazy and have a knife grinder). Most of my knives are victorinox with non-slip fibrox handles, so the handles are fine in the DW, even if the blades aren't I would never have stuck them in the DW when I was using them professionally, but now it's just domestic use it isn't a priority. 

Cheery_Daff

Well, what a faff today has been! So much messing about! Still, some things have been done: 

* filled the car tyres
* half hour walk and talk with sister
* breakfast in cafe 😁
* washed up SO many things
* put a load more stuff away in kitchen
* sliced oranges for dehydrator
* had a long discussion (yet to be concluded) about whether we should change the colour of the kitchen 🙄

That doesn't actually feel like much written down 🙄 Now I'm FINALLY upstairs and about to start the painting... 😂

Cheery_Daff

Oh, I know what I've spent half the day doing, I knew there was something else - rebalanced the radiators!! One had gone completely cold and another tepid since we switched the system back on 🙄 Took me forever but I've managed to get both working, and as a side benefit, also managed to get the second one in the living room to get a bit warm too - that's not worked since we moved in 😂😂

Just call me Cheery the Plumber 😂

beanielou

EssexHebridean said:

We have no choice but to have a bowl here as our sink is a metal industrial style one and would take about a stupid amount of water if we washed up without a bowl! 😂 I loved the excitement of getting to choose stuff specifically for a new kitchen!  Also, I was reminded again today of how “just right” we got our kitchen. I was coming home as the light had begun to fade, and as ai walked past the kitchen window I took a few steps back again just so I could look in (The light was on as MrEH was in there making the Christmas cake) and admire how lovely it is! (And yes, it is super-shiny and glossy but above all and FAR more important than that, it’s also super functional and an utter joy to use!) 😊

Dishwasher stuff and laundry liquid etc lives under the sink here by the way B_B - the washing up liquid is out in the top because it would just drive me mad having to open the cupboard door to get it every time though! 😁

SAme here.