AIBU to think that most people who have a dishwasher run it once a day?

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We bought a new dishwasher recently. It was heavily promoted as coming with six months' supply of Fairy dishwasher tablets. The tablets arrived yesterday and there are 120 of them. That's not six months' supply in this household, as we run the dishwasher every day. AIBU to think that wouldn't be half a year's worth in most other households?

I rang the manufacturer to query it and was told that it was six months' worth based on "data and surveys". Hmmmm. I'm not going to take this to the highest court in the land, obviously, but it does seem a bit crap. AIBU?

[quote AlwaysLatte]@Wincher I'm glad my kids aren't the only ones who have a bedtime snack. Not sure how that crept in but it seems to be a routine to have milk and biscuits at bedtime now! [/quote]
Yes my 10 year old is permanently starving (and stick thin!). He'd prefer to eat his main meal later but my 7 year old is starving by 5.30 so during the week the kids tend to eat at 6. The 10 year old then snacks once the 7 year old goes up to bed at 8ish - toast, a bowl of cereal - the washing up adds up...

Mainly twice a day here now we're both working from home. Cook from scratch and chuck all the pots and pans in. It gets full so quickly!

i have a slimline one that runs twice a day. Always full.

For an average it sounds about right. I'm living on my own and have a slimline dishwasher and it's on almost every day, probably 4 - 5 times a week - but I cook everything from scratch and use a lot of utensils and plates when doing so. If I had a bigger dishwasher it would probably be on every other day.
Bigger families might have a bigger dishwasher on every day. Others might only use their dishwasher a couple of times a week.

Usually 2/3 times

@AldiAisleofCrap

10 people would be 3 times a day!

It's one of those questions with no right answer, too many variables

I'm always envious of people who have a routine - you know, turn on at night, empty in the morning and then perhaps again late afternoon.

It's easy I just run a load every night.
Normal load run the economy load
Extra full or extra dirty: extra-hot
Half empty or just a few bits to rinse: either half load or quick 30mn program

Unless we are away for the entire weekend, it's never empty

Ours has been on once a day since lockdown. All being at home, preparing and eating three meals a day has meant we needed to.

I am the QUEEN of efficient stacking though (effective too, everything gets clean).

Pre-lockdown I admit to planning meals based on what utensils and pans would be used so that I could put it on every 1.5 to 2 days.

Ah the success I felt when there were 8 dinner, 8 lunch and 8 breakfast settings in there!!

We use Lidl all in one tabs.

Crikey! 2 of us here, slimline dishwasher.

We have enough crockery etc for 6 people and that fills the machine. So we use it twice a week, sometimes extra if I bake.

Pans don't go in. Nor do the sharp kitchen knives. The salt plays merry hell with the rivets.

We run ours once or twice a day (2 adults, 3 kids, 3 or 4 packed lunches a day, dog bowls etc)

My parents (2 adults) run theirs twice a week.

Average that and 120 seems pretty reasonable to me!

@mrsbyers

About twice a week for us , I think once a day is terribly wasteful and a man must be stacking

We often run twice a day, maybe three or four times if we have people over. There are 3 adults at home full time so even in a slow day, that’s maybe 3 coffee cups and juice glasses in the morning. Maybe DS will make a smoothie and so the blender cup goes in. Plus plates/bowls/cutlery, maybe an egg pan for breakfast. Lunch means another 3 plates plus cutlery and pans or a grill pan. More cups in the afternoon if we switch to herb teas or breakfast tea instead of coffee. Maybe an extra plate if someone has a slice of cake or some biscuits. Then more plates, salad or soup bowls, cutlery and pans at dinner time and extra glassware if anyone has wine/beer/soft drink/glass of water/G&T. And sometimes even more glasses if we have a glass of white wine and then switch to red with our meal. And maybe more at the end of the day for a bedtime hot drink or a bedside glass of water.

That’s at least one full load on a slow day. On days where I do ‘proper’ cooking or baking with mixing bowls/blenders/roasting tins/baking trays/serving dishes and/or my mum and dad come over it can get to 4 loads very quickly.

And now I’m leaving MN to trudge to the kitchen. I need to empty the dishwasher, make a double batch of chilli for tomorrow, prepare sandwiches for lunch and give my bread a second kneading before parboiling the potatoes for tonight’s dinner.

@SantaClaritaDiet

I'm always envious of people who have a routine - you know, turn on at night, empty in the morning and then perhaps again late afternoon.

It's easy I just run a load every night.
Normal load run the economy load
Extra full or extra dirty: extra-hot
Half empty or just a few bits to rinse: either half load or quick 30mn program

Unless we are away for the entire weekend, it's never empty

The problem is that I have to do it more often. So if I empty it in the morning, it will be full before dinner and I have to do it again. But then after dinner it's nowhere near full. So it goes on at erratic times basically.

Once a day here unless we have been away or eaten out for some reason. Always completely full, and I am very anal about how it is stacked so that we can maximise the amount that goes into it.

So, a year's supply would be 365 tablets. That would still allow for the odd occasion when all 5 of us are at home (there are three currently) and it may be needed more than once. With that I am taking account of some days when we could be away on holiday etc., which would leave enough spare for that.

Yes my 10 year old is permanently starving (and stick thin!). He'd prefer to eat his main meal later but my 7 year old is starving by 5.30 so during the week the kids tend to eat at 6. The 10 year old then snacks once the 7 year old goes up to bed at 8ish - toast, a bowl of cereal - the washing up adds up...

DD now eats alone at 5:00/5:30 and DS eats with us at around 7:00/7:30. He gets a snack after school or at the same time as DD is eating.

wow, i'm amazed how many people can go for 2-3 days without running it.
We're only three of us but in a day we'll have:
3 plates or bowls for breakfast plus two cups and a juice glass
2 plates or bowls for lunch plus a couple of glasses
3 plates for dinner, maybe a dessert bowl,
2 more cups by evening (fruit tea or similar) or wine glasses
all the related cutlery
chipping board, knives, cheese grater
ds packed lunch tupperware, water bottles.
plus baking tray and steel pots (unless casserole type dish)

@greyishdays I'd have to use a washing pod (as in clothes) 🤣

Yes, we run ours once a day usually. Twice if we've had visitors or mucked out DD's room .

Stuff that won't fit in gets hand-washed as can't be arsed to wait the 3 hours to do another load.

Prob every other day here - both days at the weekend.
5 of us, but 4 out for weekday lunches now.

Was every day in lockdown. Don't put pans in.

If we need to buy anything new for the kitchen being dishwasher safe is a prerequisite. I also chance most things in there on the top shelf. A dishwasher uses so much less water than hand washing and gets things so much cleaner.

If there is too much to go in I will stack the dishwasher based on what's dirtiest and then hand wash the cleanest items. I like the water I hand wash with to be scalding (through my gloves) to try and get as clean as the dishwasher.

I think the dishy-washy saves me at least 40 minutes a day and it keeps the kitchen looking tidy.

Ask for more tabs? Nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that!

I’d have asked how many tablets constituted 6 months supply.

1-2x a day!

Every other day. 4 person household

@inappropriateraspberry

I think if you're hand washing pots and pans, why bother having a dishwasher? The point of them is to save on the messy washing up!

Many non-stick pans are not dishwasher safe, as I found out to my cost. I had to replace some because they emerged from the dishwasher rather less non-stick than when they had gone into it.

It is only my non-stick ones that I have to hand wash. My stainless steel ones are fine and do go in it regularly.

@LividLaughLovely

Getting the ick at how many people wash their pans by hand.

Why???

Sometimes the base of my frying pans goes funny. I buy different frying pans.

As for hand washing cutlery not envy.

WTAF are you on about?

Lots of people wash up by hand. Not everyone had a dishwasher

I don't currently & my dishes are perfectly clean TYVM. Each piece of cutlery is washed separately - did you grow up in a house where a handful of cutlery was dunked in a bowl of dirty, lukewarm water or something?

Strange strange post

At least once a day here, usually twice. There are three of us.
With pots, pans okayed etc it fills really quickly.