Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> Dave Smith wrote:
> > I will start using the dishwasher more often when they start loading and
> > unloading themselves.
>
> Do you use a dishpan and a dish rack? The former has to be loaded and
> the latter has to be unloaded. Or is it the bending down to load things
> in the bottom rack of the dishwasher that gets you?

I hand-wash dishes. At least once a day, but usually several times a
day. The more often you do it, the less time it takes.

I don't have any problem with the loading or unloading. Heck, you do
the same with hand washing and putting on a drying rack. My deal is
that to fill a dishwasher (me here only), it would take a few days to
fill the washer. I like to reuse many items during a day. Putting
everything in a dishwasher to wash later, I found myself too often
taking some dirty item out of the dishwasher, then cleaning it to use
again.

Not only that, by the time you rinse off things to put in the
dishwasher, you could have used some soapy water, rinsed and got it
clean in the same amount of time. IMO.

The only "waste of time" to me is to hand dry dishes using a kitchen
towel. Just let them dry on a rack before putting them away. Imo,
people that hand dry have too much time on their hands.