I am very lucky, my DH does all the washing up . We used to have a dishwasher but since moving house (13 years ago!!) although there is an old one here, we haven't bothered to use it. The problems he had: 1) you have to rinse the plates a lot to avoid crud buildup in the dishwasher and by the time you have done that, you might as well have washed them up by hand; 2) the amount of stuff like saucepans etc that weren't dishwasher proof so he still had to do some washing up; 3) unless plates were cleanish when they went in the DW, they would end up with nasty residue on them at the end of the cycle; 4) amount of work involved in loading and unloading the DW; 5) number of times we needed something and it was in the DW. My DH also maintains he uses very little water and doing it by hand is environmentally friendly.
So, I wondered, what do other people do to avoid the above problems?
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Washing up by hand vs dishwasher for family of 5
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Cuddleczar · 05/01/2014 09:03
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