Is there a real difference in water and electricity consumption? Personally, I don’t use a lot of water to wash my dishes (by hand), but maybe I should install a flow meter to make sure.
What is your opinion on the subject? Do you have any evidence or studies available that could confirm your intuition? Or do you have other alternatives in mind?
Dishwashers are superior to handwashing in basically every regard, and as such I lean towards it for everything in my kitchen that can handle it.
An in-depth research from MiniuteFood.
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By hand. I’ve only lived in a place with a dishwasher for 1 year. During that time I felt like the dishes never got truly clean. Like if shit was stuck to a plate or bowl it would need manual intervention. If a pan sat for a day and shit got really caked on it wasn’t even worth putting it in the dish washer. I don’t see how it saves on water either. Like I don’t leave the water running while I wash the dishes. I don’t fill the sink. I rinse a plate. Turn the water off. Scrub it down. Rinse it again. Water is on for maybe 5-10 seconds a dish. Scrubbing does all the work.
Mentally, it’s kinda like taking a shower in the sense that my mind goes to a completely different place and all things that bothered me before are flushed out. That change in activity or environment really lets me process shit in a way that meling in front of a screen doesn’t.
By hand, don’t have nor do I ever want a dishwasher. There is zwtro chance of a world full of fishwashers being enviomentlaly friendly.
So you’re ok using more water to clean your dishes? On what basis do you declare dishwashers to be environmentally unfriendly?
All those dirty fish swimming around…
Gulugulug
Yes
Little of both. If the sink is full of dishes, they’re going in the dishwasher. If there’s a handful, probably by hand.
Both because the dishwasher in our apartment sucks ass and always leaves like 5 things that need to be redone by hand.
Dishwasher! Only my cast iron and stainless steel as well as my knives by hand. I spend too much effort sharpening them to throw them in the dishwasher.
I have a dishwasher (came with the place). I don’t like it. I don’t think it does a very good job.
I use it as a dish drainer. That is to say, when I hand wash, I open the dishwasher, and I use its racks to air dry my washed dishes. I don’t even skip straight to the dry cycle, that’s a waste of electricity.
I would not own a dishwasher. I would throw it out if it were up to me and use the space for shelves to store more gear, like my slow cooker, toaster oven, air fryer, stand mixer, etc. when they are not in use.
Take a look at technology connections as videos if you haven’t already. The TLDR is that the type of soap you use matters a lot, whether the water is hot matters a lot, and using the pre-wash as intended matters a lot.
ha i was gonna make the same suggestion.
I hate dishwashers, I wash dishes by hand.
What did they do to you?
They hurt her feelings. But truth is she just used shit soap pods instead of good quality powder.
I usually do both because I have never had a dishwasher that actually cleans anything off the dishes, no matter what I do or what cleaner I use. I am at the point I think they’re a myth propagated by Big Dishwasher. JK… or am I! Yeah, they probably do exist, but just for everyone else but me.
My dishwasher used to be for sanitizing only - id have to hand wash first, but now I use the Kirkland pods and I don’t even rinse things. I used to also think dishwashers were a scam.
I’ve been using them for a while and maybe I’m just getting unlucky, but I still have to rinse and pre-clean.
Unless your dishwasher truly has something wrong with it, there’s just a few things you should do every time for it to work flawlessly.
- remove big food particles off dishes (sauces, peanut butter is fine)
- if your dishwasher and sink share the same water line, most likely they do, run the sink until it’s hot before running the dishwasher
- put detergent in the actual dispenser and close it, it serves a purpose
- avoid using pods, powder detergent works fine
- clean filter regularly
those are the main things. if you really want to nerd out then check this video out.
Technology Connections provides great explanation of how they work and goes way more in depth on how to properly use a dishwasher, especially with detergent. honestly he provides great content on most things we use in our daily lives and is worth checking out.
I’ll have to see if any of the things you listed that isn’t removing big food particles ( since I’m already pre-cleaning ) will work.
Also, I really like Technology Connections because his videos give me a serious public TV show kinda simplistic vibe in the best way imaginable.
I was the same, dishwashers seem mostly pretty crap at eashing dishes. I’ve had about 6 different ones over the years and they never seem to save much time because you basically have to clean the dishes before you put them in anyway.
But we finally got a good one. It wasn’t cheap but I can at least recommend this one: https://www.bosch-home.co.nz/en/mkt-product/dishwashers/built-in-dishwashers/underbench-dishwasher-60-cm/SMP6HCB01A
Now I just scrape food off but dont bother with a heavy pre-rinse or scrub (except for things like dried eggyolk which still never comes off without a decent scrub)
Dishwasher. It saves a fuck ton of time. I’ve heard it saves water, but I haven’t seen studies. I have a hard time believing it could use more if it’s full. Regardless, it’s faster. I hate chores. Make machines do them.
Technology Connections and his stranglehold on dishwasher conversations lol
By hand.
One of my first jobs was a KP so I’m used to washing by hand.
Yes we had a dishwasher, had to prewash everything because it was so shit.
Also, never, ever put a chefs knives through the dishwasher.
I wash as I go when cooking because it’s much easier and you’re not left with a load of minging dirty dishes after a meal
Helps if you have allergies to food and ingredients too. Hot dishes rinse easily. It’s extra steps loading and unloading when you keep a drying rack and rinse your dishes as you go and immediately after eating.
