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Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 07:54:44 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> I'm on my own but everything, everything, goes in the dishwasher. As
> soon as it is used. Maybe if you bought a couple of extra pots
> and/or dishes you would find it better.
>
> I hate washing dishes, did enough of them in my day and there are
> plenty of other, nicer things I can do while the dishwasher does it
> duty

In this house we share cooking and washing up; anyone who didnt cook
washes up.

"In my day" in commercial kitchens, and when we had a large family
household, I hand-washed so many dishes that the number from a household
of two takes hardly any time at all. Even when one of us likes to use
every available knife tool pan and bowl when he's cooking some new
recipe.

Janet UK