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to have not got a dishwasher sooner?

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ShabbaLabbaDing · 03/05/2015 22:22

Wink Wink Wink Wink Wink
I have had our new lovely dishwasher for 4 days now. I am beginning to wonder how I coped without it. Grin

It is such a novelty at the moment but I am so happy!! The time it is saving me is so welcoming. Today, I made a huge roast dinner and for the first time ever, I didn't have to worry about the mountain of dishes, pots, pans and cutlery afterwards. Instead, DS and I managed to sit down and do his homework.

I could never ever go back to washing by hand. Grin

perhaps I should calm down

OP posts:
hippospot · 04/05/2015 16:35

I've had one for six years and am still in total love with it :)

gruffalosarse · 04/05/2015 17:07

We only have enough room for a slimline dishwasher.... Is it worth it? Seriously considering buying one but we are a family of 4 so it may not be big enough?

Topseyt · 04/05/2015 18:27

No four course meals with coffee here. There are four of us still living at home, sometimes five in uni holidays.

The dishwasher is just stacked throughout the day as things are used and goes on after dinner in the evening. No problem at all.

It only takes a few minutes to load or unload.

Fluffycloudland77 · 04/05/2015 18:38

We had a slimline, it was top of the range Bosch and took 10 place settings it was AWESOME. It had a cutlery tray at the top for full on awesomeness.

I sold it when we moved because the house had a full size.

I washed up for 6 years and hated it, went on strike and Dh lasted two nights.

It takes minutes to unload a dw. They save me a fortune on the bills.

Lweji · 04/05/2015 19:33

The dishwasher is just stacked throughout the day as things are used and goes on after dinner in the evening. No problem at all.

Same here. Except it's only DS and me. So, sometimes it is a few days until it washes all the plates. Sometimes it's less as there are more pots to wash.

I was ok with not having one when it was just me or just exH and me, but it definitely saves a lot of work, even it's only two of us again, particularly because there's only one cooking and one washing up. :)

If someone is taking longer to load and unload than putting by the sink, washing up, drying and putting away dishes, you are definitely doing something wrong.

FreeButtonBee · 04/05/2015 20:04

In my next house, I am having 2 dishwashers. Definitely. They have so many uses- like washing the (ikea antilop, natch) highchair after DTS vomited all over it last night. I'm going to have one in the futility room for washing dirty things like bathroom bins and other large plastic items and for the pans/trays after a roast dinner

Lweji · 04/05/2015 20:19

One of my happiest moments is to put everything in the dishwasher after a party, baking a cake, doing a recipe that requires lots of pots, or having guests. Watch the tidyish kitchen, sit back and relax, and next morning (or sometime during the day) put away everything washed and dry.

BravingSpring · 04/05/2015 20:19

I'm thinking of getting one, it would mean putting the dryer in the pantry, which would take up lots of space because of the sloping ceiling, but I think it might be worth it. Washing up has really been getting on my nerves lately.

They're not as expensive as I thought.

wowfudge · 04/05/2015 20:27

To the poster whose cutlery has rust spots - we stopped using Finish anything as it strips the colour from crockery and I tried Fairy but the perfume tainted anything plastic or silicone. Aldi Magnum tablets all the way for us.

Have you adjusted the water softener setting of the machine for your area and put salt in, if needed?

honeyroar · 04/05/2015 20:33

The generational thing may be because the first dishwashers were truly rubbish. My parents were the first people I know to get one, it was awful, you had to re wash everything afterwards, so they (and I) just avoided them for years afterwards as pointless pieces of kit.

snowglobemouse · 04/05/2015 20:37

I had a dishwasher in a rented flat once sighs wistfully

that was a few years back and I still miss it terribly. especially cos my subsequent flatmates have been SHITE at washing dishes. utter shite.

although when we had the dishwasher that flatmate wasn't allowed near it cos she loaded it all wrong

valrhona · 04/05/2015 21:03

I bought a years supply of d/washer tabs on a groupon deal the other day. 440 tabs for 40 euro. It was a bit of a moment in this house Blush
We wouldn't survive without the dishwasher.
Armed insurrection would swiftly ensue.

TheRestofmylifeiswaiting · 04/05/2015 21:07

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londonrach · 04/05/2015 21:07

Either ldll or wilkinsons cheap tablets for us. Also salt (ldll) and raise (morrison cheapest). Never had problem with brown spots. Everything clean!

Fluffycloudland77 · 04/05/2015 21:15

Tesco Daisy powder lasts well, I throw a dessert spoon of it in the base of the machine.

I got fed up of tablets not dissolving properly.

whats4teamum · 04/05/2015 21:56

I've given up on dishwasher tablets. Now using finish classic powder which costs £3, lasts ages and does a good job. However, we live in a very soft water area.

Loving the hair shirt brigade who love to wash up. Why? Don't you have better things to do?

Ouchbloodyouch · 04/05/2015 23:04

I love mine. It was given to me and I scoffed (inwardly I know how to be gracious )because it wasn't full size.
One year on I wouldn't be without it. I call it the magic cupboard..

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