No doubt in your household too, such sights as below are very common; ours often far worse than this!
However, in this house we have two very different solutions.
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Solution 1: Squirt of soapy stuff, wash with hot water, dry, put away. Time, about 3 mins, cost 1p.
Solution 2: Load everything into expensive Washing-up machine, put-in some sort of very expensive tablet thingy, reach for makers' instruction pamphlet, find the right buttons to press, choose length of time between 2 hrs and 2 days, select 'start', then leave for foreign holiday until it's finished its full cycle. Time, anything up to a week, cost, soon to be anywhere up to £100 per wash.
So which solution do you follow? I shan't say which is mine; but it isn't No 2.
We use both. Some things like favourite mugs and pretty plates and sharp knives have to be ready for use at all times. The rest go in the dishwasher which is probably half the size of a UK one. It's essential for family feasts, uses boiling water so I know smelly offal and greasy oil has been cleaned off and only takes half an hour. Our daily plates go in there and I do a cycle about every second day. You don't know how it makes your life easier till you have one and use it!!
ReplyDeleteYes! I so miss having one, and the modern ones are quicker, work better and use far less water, which is a vital point.
DeleteI wouldn't know how to use ours. Even the professional who uses it finds it complicated. It shouts at us!
DeleteYou brought a smile to my face. I haven't washed up in 40 years! Have a good day.
ReplyDeleteI have just finished doing ours, but when it came to finding a glass for my morning dose of Beetroot juice, I had to go to the washing-up machine.
DeleteFor me washing dishes is like meditation. The best ideas come to me at this time.
ReplyDeleteI don't dislike it either. As you say, time to think.
DeleteF is with Yael on that. Both a meditation and a social time she used to share with her Dad - he washed, she dried, they talked. Mr B would have a dishwasher in our house but F insists the kitchen is too small (her excuse - anything to resist the arrival of another gadget.)
DeleteDishwasher for me, Cro. As a child I was made to wash up for our family of five every day. I hate washing up now.
ReplyDeleteI don't think many people enjoy washing-up. As long as there's not too much of it, I don't mind.
DeleteMy dishwasher perfectly washes a full load in 29 minutes! No idea why the default programme of 3 hours 30 minutes is there at all!
ReplyDeleteThey do seem to go on for a long time; I'm sure it's not necessary.
DeleteDishwasher when I was raising my family. Now it's just the two of us and as I'm still the only one who bothers with the dishes, the dishwasher remains.
ReplyDeleteI don't suppose we'll ever live without one again, but I'll still do everything by hand.
DeleteAs Yael says washing up is a meditation or a conversation with someone. Dishwashers are supposed to be economically better than handwashing though.
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe they're more economic. Easier maybe, but not economic!
DeleteDishwashers use up a lot of electricity - all around the developed world and of course they don't last forever. You are lucky if your dishwasher gives you ten years service. Lord knows why even the shortest cycle seems to last for ages. We had friends who used to clean their dirty washing up in the sink before putting it in their dishwasher!
ReplyDeleteI remember when my mother bought one back in the late 60's. She looked in 'Which' magazine to find the best (I think it was Indesit), had it plumbed in, and the very first time she used it she found that it hadn't really cleaned everything properly. She never used it again!
DeleteDishwasher but I've been told to use it only when the sun is shining (new solar panels!).
ReplyDeleteIf it's powered by your own electricity, that would be wonderful.
DeleteBoth, but if we use the dishwasher we pop it on just as we are going to bed.
ReplyDeleteThat's what my wife does, and I often find it still warm inside the following morning.
DeleteI detest washing dishes by hand. It's one of my least favorite household chores so it's mostly dishwasher for me (with the exception of large pots and pans and a few more delicate items).
ReplyDeleteI really don't mind it. When my wife goes travelling for weeks on end, I do it after every meal, and keep on top of it.
DeleteNo dishwasher in this house, but did I have an option, I'd mostly pick number 2, which says something ridiculous about me, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteI think you'd be joining the majority.
DeleteIf it doesn't go in the dishwasher I have gotten rid of it, well nearly all, there is still the sweetiebear
ReplyDeleteI have heard of people who always use paper plates and cheap plastic knives and forks. Everything goes in the bin, including the take-away wrappers.
DeleteAfraid of the strong chemicals in the machine wash option! In the states they are 24" wide.
ReplyDeleteAll those chemicals have to go somewhere. Out of sight, out of mind.
DeleteMy Bosch energy efficient dish washing cycle is 30 minutes. I run the dishwasher only when it is full. It fills every 2-3 days. On Christmas day the dishwasher will run 3 times in one day. That's only because of the large family/friend dinner served.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have a good Christmas. I hope it's filled with glasses!
DeleteHad my first ever dishwasher last year and it saves me a lot of money. The boiler doesn't need to switch on to heat water 2 or 3 times a day to fill a bowl and I do a full load, using chemical free tablets only every other day or even less.
ReplyDeleteI'm a late convert!
In France we still have an old fashioned 'immersion' water heater which heats a large tank of water at night. We then have a supply for the next day. I don't understand why these no longer exist.
DeleteThey exist in almost every house that has a hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard. With the cost of electricity as it is, I doubt if anyone would dare turn it on unless they have no other source of energy to heat the water. My immersion is never turned on.
DeleteI still do the washing up like my mum. One kettle of water to wash and one more to scald it all. Never had a dishwasher.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I have any particular system, other than everything has to be sparkling clean.
DeleteThis post left me grinning. Your wit is superb.
ReplyDeleteYou old flatterer.
DeleteMy method is the hot soapy water in the sink, wash, dry, put away, anywhere between five and fifteen minutes depending on how many dishes pots and pans I've stacked up. Usually the five minutes just before the news is on TV, or five minutes after the news while the sports is on. Quicker, cheaper and it warms the hands in winter.
ReplyDeleteI find I can usually get it done while the ads are playing. The only good reason I can think of for having loads of ads on TV.
DeleteNo dishwasher here, I wouldn't have one, it's me or the other half. Not a problem, there's only the two of us and as River said, it warms the hands in winter.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have one either. Both here, and in France, I'm perfectly happy to dip my hands in the suds.
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