Dishwasher madness!

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Just emptied and refilled our (full-size) dishwasher for the 2nd time today ( and it's not even bed time... AIBU to think this is ridiculous?

We are a family of 2 adults and 2 kids (3&1) and we do tend to cook from scratch. DD also has an afternoon nursery place which means she needs to be fed before I drop her off at 12.00. This means we can sometimes end up with 5 mealtimes over the day, which might explain some of it. But even so it seems ridiculous.

How many times do you run your dishwasher every day?

I was reading an article the other day that said multiple dishwashers is the must have for kitchen design.

I'm always filling mine. I think in all reality I should just replace my cupboards with them and live out of them 😂

Three of us here and we normally run it once a day, maybe twice at the weekend. Today we had friends round for a big Sunday lunch and we've had it on 5 times!! We wash everything through it though-saucepans and all.

britbat I laughed out loud at that. Sorry, not showing much solidarity.

We are a family of three and usually fill it once a day. But we are tenacious in our aim to fill every single space. Everything still comes out clean even when it's piled high.

Goes on after dinner, or if at home during the day and cooking then after lunch and dinner.

It costs something like 30p to run a load and it is more economical than running hot water and washing things up by hand.

every other day with a full size one.
partly due to stacking cleverly and partly due to re-using cups.

4 of us. Never need to run the dishwasher more than once a day unless we have guests. We cook from scratch.

Every other day but we don't wash pots and pans in it. 2 adults, 4 year old and baby.

About once a day but maybe twice if I bake etc, 2 of us at the moment. Will wash up pans sometimes.