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Anyone else not like dishwashers?

I hate my dishwasher

Glasses end up spotty
Anything sticky ends up stuck on
I can tell that it doesn''t fully rinse off soap - whenever I wash the coffee pot, next time I put water in it to make coffee, the water gets sudsy
The top of glasses, etc. are wet
I always feel like I am definitely using more water than hand washing because since it''s just two of us, I hardly ever run it when it''s full
I hate figuring out how to organize it so that everything fits - that alone takes us as much time as hand washing

I could love a dishwasher if it didn''t do any of the above...
 
love my dishwasher - here more than ever before. Our sink has a 1 gallon hot water heater and chinese water is suspect - my ayi washes all of the dishes (not quite as well as you would to hand wash, but there''s no food to churn around in there) and then we wash them in the DW - it has its own heat. There''s no WAY I wouldn''t use it. It''s very quiet and the dishes come out pretty wet still and the ayi hand dries them so there''s no spots.

when I hired my ayi the #1 thing I said was I need someone to do the dishes so you can say I love my dishwasher AND my dish washer :)
 
mental note: Casseroles from Mrs. Mitchell don''t mean she likes you LOL ;D
 
Date: 4/30/2010 3:47:50 PM
Author: part gypsy
Count my husband and us too (we thought we were the only ones!) I have heard handwashing uses more water, but what if you have a basin of hot soapy water the dishes are soaking in, and only use water to rinse? We have room in our kitchen to have a dishwasher but never put one in. My mom has a dishwasher but only uses it at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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the dishwasher uses less than you are... it uses about 1/2 of a sink for washing and just keeps churning that water over and over... in some ways the big chunks of stuff can act as scrubbing bubbles haha (kinda kidding) and then it drains, often has a garbage disposal. Then it fills with clean water and does the same thing... your one sink of soapy water is the dw's whole consumption - and rinsing doesn't seem like much since it all goes down the drain, but you cuold probably fill 2-3 sinkfulls from rinse water.

ETA - I'm not being critical of your choice, it really makes no difference to me... just trying to be accurate lol
 
I knew a dishwasher-less person who kept a dish next to the sink.
In it was soapy water (changed often) and a sponge.
He'd always wash dishes right away before food had a chance to harden, so filling a sink or soaking was never needed.

He'd place the dish draining rack in the right side of his double sink.
He'd organize upthe soapy dishes carefully in the drainer and rinse them all at once with a spray hose.
It was amazing how little water he used.
So when people say a machine uses less water than washing by hand it really depends on the technique.

A machine definitely uses more electricity, which sometimes comes from burning oil, the overconsumption of which leads to political problems and war.
Then there's the whole carbon footprint of the manufacture, transportation and eventual waste of the machine itself.

I just challenge the automaticness with which we welcome all technologies into our lives.
Of course, to each her own.

I'm not a caveman; I certainly do own and use a clothes washer (though we do hang-dry most of our laundry).
 
I love my dishwasher.. i put everything in caked with food, i do not rinse, i load it up, put in a powerball and turn it on before i go to bed. In the morning everything is clean and dry. I really love my dishwasher.
 
We love our dishwasher but when it comes to hand washing dishes, I let the water run as I wash and rinse. I know, I know, I''m wasting water. I can understand letting things soak in hot soapy water but I don''t get washing things using the same water that the dishes have been soaking in. Aren''t you basically washing stuff with dirty water?
 
Date: 5/1/2010 4:30:34 AM
Author: hawaiianorangetree
I love my dishwasher.. i put everything in caked with food, i do not rinse, i load it up, put in a powerball and turn it on before i go to bed. In the morning everything is clean and dry. I really love my dishwasher.
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Ditto! I will NEVER AGAIN live in a dishwasherless house. I never had a dishwasher until DH and I moved into this house about six years ago. Now that I''ve had one, I don''t know how I ever lived without it!!!
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I have lived with and without a dishwasher and having one makes life MUCH easier. I love dishwashers and think they are highly underrated.
 
I throw all dishes but pots and pans into the dishwasher. But, DH and I only run the dishwasher every few days... My mother will run her dishwasher with 2 things in it! That drives me nuts!!!!
 
Tuckins, I also wait until we have a full load. Oh I never pre-rinse unless the dish/pan/pot is really dirty.
 
A dishwasher is really a necessity if you cook very much. Or entertain a lot. I certainly don''t have the discipline or stamina to cook for half a day, and then turn right around and do the dishes by hand. I''ve DONE it mind you - I didn''t have a dishwasher until well into adulthood: a revelation it was - but it sure is loads (loads - get it?? Har! Ok...sorry...) easier to be able to do an entire load of dishes WHILE you''re cooking, than having to stop and wash. Just a hassle.

Dishwasher very good.
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If the spots really bother you you can add some white vinegar to the load instead of nasty chemicals and it does the same thing.
 
I love our dishwasher! I grew up with a dishwasher but then lived in many apartments without them, including the last place my husband and I lived before we bought our house. Not having one suuuuuucks. Our dishwasher is fantastic! It''s a KitchenAid and is super quiet and gets everything spotlessly clean. Oh and I don''t rinse unless there are giant chunks of food left on the plate. It''s definitely quicker to throw them in and then unload it than it is to handwash them.
 
Life''s too short to not have a dishwasher.
 
Date: 5/1/2010 12:31:43 AM
Author: Cehrabehra
mental note: Casseroles from Mrs. Mitchell don''t mean she likes you LOL ;D
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LOL!

It just means I think you''ll clean the dish...
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I use mine only at holidays and after a party. They use much too much water for the usual tiny dab of dishes we make.

Newer models are much quieter because of the greater amount of insulation.
 
Oh, no no no. My dishwasher is my FRIEND! I cook a lot for relaxation, and if I didn''t have a dishwasher I might as well just switch hobbies and go hungry. What I really want is an industrial kitchen with a huge, fancy gas range and a HUMUNGOUS dishwasher that sterilizes like an autoclave. Oh yeah...and staff.
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Besides, I like it when my dishes squeak. I can''t make them do that on my own.
 
I remember when we first got married. I thought "there are only 2 of us. I will just wash the dishes by hand." That did not last long. We had one of the dishwashers you had to roll over to the sink and hook them up.

I absolutely love my dishwasher. We bought one about a year and a half ago that is quiet and you can barely hear it. The one it replaced was very noisy.

I actually am so bad I won''t buy something if it doesn''t go in the dishwasher. I wash a few things by hand but that is few and far between.
 
Date: 5/2/2010 1:02:53 PM
Author: lightningbug
Oh, no no no. My dishwasher is my FRIEND! I cook a lot for relaxation, and if I didn''t have a dishwasher I might as well just switch hobbies and go hungry. What I really want is an industrial kitchen with a huge, fancy gas range and a HUMUNGOUS dishwasher that sterilizes like an autoclave. Oh yeah...and staff.
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Besides, I like it when my dishes squeak. I can''t make them do that on my own.
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LMAO!!! Yeah man! A STAFF!!
 
We have "dish draws" (two pull out draws stacked on together instead of one dishwasher) and this weekend some friken idiot overfilled one so I got to spend 20 mins on the floor prodding a wooden spoon through the few cm I could open the draw trying to reposition a pot which was stacked up too high preventing us from sliding the dish draw open.
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I like dishwashers, but not always the idiots who (mis)use them.
 
I grew up in a dishwasher home. I never knew life without one until I moved out into an apartment that didn''t have space for one in the kitchen. Would it be easier if we had a dishwasher? Yes! Do we need one? No.

The same goes for so much stuff. Do we need the TV? Do we need the electric mixer? Do we need the hair dryer? Do we need the washing machine? Do we need the electric coffee grinder? Do we need the electric bread maker? Like most people I''m not about to give up the luxury of technology but we do try to pick and limit our appliances now based on what we think will improve our quality of life the most and really evaluate the need vs want before making any purchases.

While it is just the two of us I don''t think we have any need for a dishwasher. We do aspire to be parents though and I can see the possibility that if we do end up with two kids and the reality is that to raise two children we will both probably need to work full time, then there will probably be value in a time saving appliance like a dishwasher.

In the course that I''m currently studying we are focusing a lot on consumerism. One of the exercises we did was to go through our homes and count the appliances and estimate how often we replace them. I was seriously shocked at how many people have multiple dishwashers, multiple hair straighteners, 4+ TVs in a single home, 3 refrigerators, a different food processor for every possible function, etc. Even more shocking was that a lot of these appliances were estimated to be replaced every 5-10 years. Where is it all going?...
 
I LOVE my dishwasher. Part of this is that I hate hate hate dirty dishwater. DH knows that if he fills the sink with water I will NOT stick my hands in it. It is an OCD tendency, I know, but ewwwww.

DH usually loads (or we load as dishes are used), and I unload, so I can handle the clean dishes
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. We run it approximately 2-3 times a week, depending on what I''ve cooked that week!
 
Date: 5/2/2010 10:55:45 PM
Author: hihowareyou
I grew up in a dishwasher home. I never knew life without one until I moved out into an apartment that didn''t have space for one in the kitchen. Would it be easier if we had a dishwasher? Yes! Do we need one? No.

The same goes for so much stuff. Do we need the TV? Do we need the electric mixer? Do we need the hair dryer? Do we need the washing machine? Do we need the electric coffee grinder? Do we need the electric bread maker? Like most people I''m not about to give up the luxury of technology but we do try to pick and limit our appliances now based on what we think will improve our quality of life the most and really evaluate the need vs want before making any purchases.

While it is just the two of us I don''t think we have any need for a dishwasher. We do aspire to be parents though and I can see the possibility that if we do end up with two kids and the reality is that to raise two children we will both probably need to work full time, then there will probably be value in a time saving appliance like a dishwasher.

In the course that I''m currently studying we are focusing a lot on consumerism. One of the exercises we did was to go through our homes and count the appliances and estimate how often we replace them. I was seriously shocked at how many people have multiple dishwashers, multiple hair straighteners, 4+ TVs in a single home, 3 refrigerators, a different food processor for every possible function, etc. Even more shocking was that a lot of these appliances were estimated to be replaced every 5-10 years. Where is it all going?...
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LOL! Well, considering that I''m not currently near anywhere that I could reasonably beat my clothes on a rock, I''ll say that I really do NEED the washer.
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Yeah, I hear ya though. One thing that I never understand is electric kitchen gadgets. I love my stand mixer - which is not a Kitchenaid, but which is also not near to being dead so I can''t justify replacing it. I''ve had it since 1990 or so. I have a food processor, which in retrospect, I could really use in a larger size, but it''ll have to do for now. I have a blender - a really old one, but it''ll do. I think that''s the extent of electric stuff. We''re pretty minimal on other kinds of specialized tools too. Oh...wait...hubs does have an electric bread mixer that someone gave him, but I sneer at it. I''m a hands-on person when it comes to bread. But back to other tools, there really isn''t much that a good knife won''t handle. We have LOTS of knives. GOOD ones. Big ones. Small ones. Specialized ones. And the workhorse ones we fight over. For pounding meat, we use a steel slapper tool that is used in car repair/restoration to beat metal into shape and/or beat dents out of fenders. Works great on meat.
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We used to use a length of 2x4, until he remembered that tool. So, pretty low-tech in our kitchen, all things being equal.

One TV ever at a time - I''ve replaced once in 13 years. The same W/D I''ve had since ''92. (Wow....now that I think of it, that really is getting old. Still running well though.) One fridge bought in ''98.

You''re right though, everything is a trade-off. Too many specialized gadgets get on my nerves, honestly. And lord, where DO you PUT them? We have minimal space, which also constrains us.
 
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