to think hand washing dishes is so uneconomic?

[MrsKeithRichards]

Bloody dishwasher broke. It's seven years old, used daily so I'm guessing it's gone to the white good home in the sky.

So for 3 days now I've gone back in time and am hand washing. I wash up about 4 times a day, hot water on all the time, a couple of basins of water at a time not to mention the rinsing, a few tea towels in the wash a day. Soaking wet work tops, dishes lying about. arrrgh!!!!!

I can't wait until my new one comes on Wednesday. How did I cope before!?!?

by jove spaniel! I think you might be a genius...

will be experimenting tomorrow...

I have never thought to question the dryness..so pleased was I that you could make an individual chocolate cake in 5 minutes!!!

it is like something out of Harry Potter!

no microwave, dishwasher or hot water here.

i hate washing up but dispute thei idea you cant do clean by handwashing...i use 2 kettles of boiled water for a day's worth of stuff. glasses and cutlery get done first (glasses also get a rinse under the cold tap to get rid of bubbles), then other stuff gets the worst rubbed off, and while the kettle's boiling again the water's softening the rest left on. then the pre rubbed 'soaked' plates/pans go in the clean hot water and come out pristine!

i'm fussy about these things. mil has a dishwasher and it doesnt wash things properly. often get served food on plates encrusted out of the washer.....shudder

Clogged nozzles. Those little holes get clogged, and water can't squirt. You need to get the arms out and clean 'em now and then. And loading, too - DH often seems incapable of grasping that if you block the water spray access to things, they won't get clean. Such a bright man, yet he can't seem to fathom that. Good at hoovering, though, so I suppose you can't win 'em all.

I now want to make a homemade version of those Gu chocolate souffles. They're yum, but stupidly overpriced. But it MUST be possible? They're cakey with a hot mousse in the middle, how good would that be if you could make it easily. Maybe freeze pots in advance...

I'll never look at the pea-heater in the same way again.

I flipped this thread to catch up... I can't tell you how disappointed I am to discover dishwashers can't actually bake chocolate cake! :(

I am sure though that there is something you can cook in a dishwasher, I have definitely read it somewhere, I can't remember what it was though!!!

Here is is salmon. Not nearly as exciting as chocolate cake though!!!

I've never poached a salmon before, but surely it'd be faster to poach it in the normal way?

I have loved my dishwashers.

It's only two of us now, but I end up running it only once or twice a week. I don't rinse either. I just make sure plates are clean of solid stuff and the drain is hardly dirty.