To think dishwasher fans are part of a cult

[Peachpicklepie]

I look at people who like dishwashers the same way as I might someone who lives isolated from society, wearing a tin foil hat, while hanging on the every word of madman - with a mix of confusion and pity. Why do people like them? You still have to scrape the waste food off, rinse the plate, then put it in the rack. With hand washing this is where it ends. With a dishwasher you then have to put up with the horrible wafts of smell that come out every time you add a utensil until you finally have a full load/have run out of everything when you can turn it on. Then you have to unload the bastard. Don't get me started on the slops of cold or hot water you get from upside down mugs. So what is the appeal?!

My dishwasher saved my life and sanity. @Peachpicklepie rinsing is wrong

Don’t be a dolt, no one scrapes snd rinses. You do you, but I don’t want my hands in rank water every day.

I scrape but don't rinse, never have done.

Take the filter out once a week and soak in hot soapy water. My dishwasher doesn't smell.

Keep it topped with salt and I run an empty hot cycle once a month. Couldn't be without it.

This.

Well, they're pretty much dry at the end as there's a drying cycle. Rinse aid helps too.

Most people i should think run theirs overnight

Why would you need to do that? Are you cooking for 20 people 3 times a day?

We have one but hardly ever use it except at Christmas or when we’ve been entertaining. DH likes to do the dishes while listening to The World Tonight on R4.

She might have a half dishwasher and 4 kids...?

Those that don’t use dishwasher don’t have big families (or are sadists).

Ours broke and we had about a week when we had to go without. The washing up was insane. Never again.

You can always find space for a dishwasher. DM thought she couldn't have one until her plumber/ handyman suggested removing the cupboard under the draining board for a slim line one. Worked perfectly. Which would you prefer - a cupboard or a dishwasher?
She was ecstatic when it came - and she lived alone by then.

I have a skinny dishwasher I think it's 45cm wide - it's great for just one person - I put pots and pans in as well as crockery.

The water slop I'm talking about is when you have a mug upside down to wash and then there is residual water in the upturned base of the mug. Is there a way to avoid this other than being careful

Happens occasionally - so we just dry it if it happens - but we leave ours overnight and don't open the door, so the heat from the wash dries most things nearly all the time

DH scoffed when I said we should get a dishwasher and said there was no reason to get one. I suggested that was fine. I'd get one for me to use and he could wash up by hand.

8 years later when our dishwasher broke, he looked horrified and was the first one to say we needed a new one IMMEDIATELY 😂

Funky mug water, it's usually just a little bit in the underside so before I pick the cups up I just blot the underside with yesterday's tea towel or a dry dishcloth and then throw it in the wash (I run mine overnight so empty first thing in the morning). They don't even need to be properly dried 🤷‍♀️ blotted for a second is enough 😁

Do you also believe in flat earth and are an anti vaxer???

The words of someone who’s never owned a dishwasher 🤣 the snobs who don’t like them usually don’t have room for one so talk down about people who do.

I love my dishwasher. Chuck dirty dishes, cutlery, glasses in there out of the way, push a button once I’m low on dishes, and boom - clean dishes!

Also useful for putting other things in like sink saver, those rubber pimply dish scrubber things, pans, oven racks etc…. Can wash pretty much anything in there.

Only downside is they DO make dishes smell a bit like wet dog once they need a clean out!

I'm in that cult. I'd take modern dishwashing and lazing about watching netflixks over hands in scummy water any day.

But then I could always view those that don rubber gloves and dirty tepid waters as perverts with a fetish. So horses for courses.

My friends in laws completely wash and rinse the dishes then put them in the dishwasher to 'sterilise'
Leaving those weirdos to one side, if dishwasher owning is a cult then I'm the Grand Poobah because I would sacrifice pretty much every other appliance for my beloved Bosch. It's is a beautiful cupboard for dirty dishes, thus removing the 'visual noise' from my kitchen which has changed my life.

We have 5 adults in the family
1 dog and 2 cats
Our kitchen is 6m x 8m so plenty big to accomodate a dishwasher.
We don’t have a dishwasher
We don’t want one

So
Guessing
We must be sadists 🤣😀

I can only assume you are.

A week of washing up 3 meals a day, crockery, cutlery and saucepans/baking dishes for 6 people, was hellish.

(Not sure what the pets have to do with anything, unless they like to cook too?)

The pets have bowls too. So need washing.
Hoping that monkey of yours likes swinging 🙃

Apologies @Readingallnight couldnt resist responding just loved the monkey user name

Yes! Siemens! We had one in our previous house and it was so good. The house we moved to has an AEG, which is fine but not as good. As and when it needs to be replaced, it’ll be back to Siemens. Our Siemens fridge was also excellent.

We had an issue with the dishwasher a few weeks ago (turns out it hadn’t been installed correctly) and it took forever to wash up by hand. We also seemed to end up with a pile of wet tea towels every time. It was amazing when it was back in action!

Who rinses stuff before putting it in the dishwasher? Not us. Scrape and go.
We never had one until I moved to our current house and it felt like my life was transformed. As you are cooking shove all the used stuff in there so always a tidy work surface. Finish eating shove everything in. Switch it on. Done.

Ours is pretty ancient but carries on regardless. Only had to get a technician out once when it stopped draining and he fished out an errant cardamom pod that had swelled to the size of a cherry tomato in the pipes. Thanks for that DH (he's a lacklustre scraper)

Hate unloading the bastard tho.

Because life is too short to do dishes by hand if a machine can do it for you

I just don't understand why you wouldn't want one? It's quite weird to think it's somehow superior to wash dishes by hand. Presumably you have a washing machine because you recognise that washing clothes by hand is a waste of time so why doesn't the same logic apply to the dishes?

Only idiots rinse before putting plates into dish washer