So…the dishwasher has died! Back to childhood what’s best washing or drying?

[Whatsonmyfeet]

So…..the second hand dishwasher has finally died!

Thinking back we would have just bought a new one, then it’s been a second hand one…… how has it come to this?

Back to washing up in god knows how many years - the dryer upper person is a bit slow 🤣.

The teens tomorrow will learn how the young people used to live 🤣🤣

So what’s best washer or dryer????

I’ve never had a dishwasher, I just put everything in soapy water in the sink throughout the day and do one wash-up at the end of the day.

I don't have a dishwasher and even when I did it took about 3 or 4 days to be full enough to be economical to put it on. Was it less slovenly just because the dirty dishes were out of sight, or should sucked up the expense and needless use of resources and put it on every day?
I manage to wash up without splashing water everywhere. Not sure how you get a fine spray.

You were obviously never taught how to dry up properly.

Nah, if you run the tap, there will always be some water ( fine spray) that you don’t see.
As I said I put practically everything ( saucepans, wine glasses etc) in the dishwasher. I run it about 2/3 times a day. It is full.

Being taught to dry up? 🙄

You run a full dishwasher 2 or 3 times EVERY DAY??!!
Are you feeding an army?

Team air drying here. Using a tea towel to dry up is pointless IMO as after the first couple of things it is just smearing damp water round which then goes manky when things are put away on top of each other in closed cupboards.

Definitely. Leave to air dry overnight (when I won't see how "slovenly" it is) then put away first thing in the morning.

No but we are retired so that is breakfast, lunch and dinner and lots of cups for coffee/tea. Each run of the dishwasher only has a couple of plates or dishes in. The rest of it is cups/glasses, saucepans, chopping boards, baking dishes, sieves, large cooking utensils, chopping knives, bits of the food processor etc etc. Yes there is just 2 of us. I only use a quick setting but my dishwasher is very good and will shift a burnt on pasta bake from a baking dish in a quick setting. When I clean my oven, I take out the oven shelves and do an intensive run in the dishwasher with just them in.

Eh? Why would you do that and not load it throughout the day and run it after dinner? Or some other convenient time, once a day at most?

Plus, if your dishwasher is anything like ours, the quick setting uses a lot more energy and water than the eco cycle, which relies on soaking not agitation and hotter temperatures, so doubly wasteful.

I always preferred washing up as a kid as in our house, the person who dried up also had to put away, which led to lots of arguments between me and my brother 🤣
I hate washing up. I only have space for a dishwasher or a tumble drier in my kitchen, went for dishwasher without any hesitation!

Washing! I refuse to dry up - drip dry and then wipe if needed

We have lived for 40 years plus without a dishwasher. No regrets 😃

Sorry if you are not speaking to me,
I run mine 2/3 times a day because it fills up. I have told you everything that goes into it. If I ran it on an eco cycle then it would not be ready to use for my next lot.

I was speaking to you. But I (wrongly it seems) assumed that it wasn't full, because why would it be after making a single meal for two people?

There was only the three of us at home, mum, dad and me

mum cooked, dad washed up and I dried and put away. I hated it, asked my dad if we could swap once and he was adamant these were the rules. I think he hated drying as well 😂

now it’s just me and my two youngest living at home, I just wash up and leave to air dry now
i like washing the pots.

You must spend your whole day preparing elaborate meals for breakfast lunch and dinner and then loading and unloading the dishwasher!
But if that is how you want to live your life then you crack on 👍🏼

Replied to myself.

I'm the same, live alone and had a new d/w installed when replacing the kitchen, never had one before! I knew there wouldn't be much washing up with just me here, so I got a lovely slimline version.

It is now used for storing packs of paper towels 😊. I think I used it once to make sure it worked and it even has a 30 minute wash. I couldn't be bothered, it's so easy and quick to wash up as I go, and airdry on the rack.

I suppose I might use it if there's ever a crowd here, but that doesn't happen often as I am the permanent guest at others' houses these days, so happy days!

Elaborate meals? I don’t think using a chopping board means she is cooking elaborate meals. 8 cups can take up significant room in the dishwasher. Why are you being so judgy? The thumbs up sign is unnecessary and odd.

There’s definitely a skill to drying dishes. As the youngest of 4 who all had to pitch in with the washing up I graduated from drying plastic to cutlery then plates to glasses. Hence my automaton comment above.
We had an improvised singing quartet around the sink!
Love a thin linen tea towel for wineglasses. That’s what posh barmen use.
Tip: never twist from the base…

Ignore them @yetone- I can easily see how you could fill a dishwasher being home all day. How dare you use a knife and a chopping board though, so self indulgent haha

I think how much washing up you produce depends more on what you eat and how often, rather than household size. After all, you need the same number of pans, trays, serving spoons etc whether you're cooking for 1/2 or a large family.

A family that lives on oven food and/or eats a lot of their meals at work/school etc probably makes less washing up than a retired couple that cooks from scratch 3 times a day although I still think @Yetone seems to be well above average. I often only cook for me as DP works away a lot, but I do eat mostly home made food, and we have several cats whose plates go in the dishwasher (not sorry) and the dishwasher probably goes on about 5 times a week, so not quite every day.

No, we generally only have one cooked meal a day. Breakfast is usually musli but does require a large knife and a chopping board. Husband makes porridge from scratch for himself. Even our second smaller meal requires equipment to make. If it was a salad then this would be a couple of chopping boards, sieves and a salad spinner.
This does not take up all my ( usually my husband’s ) time. Putting in and emptying a couple of saucepans in a dishwasher involves considerably less time than if the same amount of space was filled with plates.
When we use the food processor I accept that it is fairly wasteful as the bits often take the whole of the top rack of the dishwasher, but I hate washing these bits by hand and the one and only time I washed the food processor blade by hand resulted in a trip to A and E despite being careful!

I pick drying. I hate washing dishes covered in potatoes and gravy, and that was 90% of our dinners growing up.

I've never like dishwashers. I'm 37. We did have one for a very short period of time when we moved home, but then switched it out to become a build in bin cupboard which in my opinion is much better use of the space. I think hand washing does a much better job.