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?!

Glad you are joining the cult OP. I put pretty much everything in mine, except something that is really welded. Then I soak it in the sink and then put it in afterwards.

I’ve owned 2 dishwashers in the last 20 odd years. Never broken down (touch wood!!!)I only got rid of the first as wanted an integrated one.

Should I ask your opinion on tumble dryers? In my opinion even more game changing than dishwashers.

I have NOTHING in my kitchen that won't go in a dishwasher - pots and pans, vases, everything. I never wash anything by hand. Would you wash your clothes, sheets and towels by hand? A dishwasher performs the same function as a washing machine, but for kitchenware. I look on dishwasher sceptics as weird masochists tbh 😐

She would fill one with dirty, put it on. When it was done she didn’t unload it but rather used it as a “clean things cupboard” and took what she needed as and when. When used they went into the other dishwasher, which in its turn later became the clean things cupboard.

We've been doing this for years. Life changing.

That'll be the kiss of death for yours then this weekend😮

Strange no one has mentioned the key function of a dishwasher.. The gentle humming and swishing is the most soporific sound known to humanity. Listening to the dishwasher as I fall asleep gives me a sense of complete peace and rightness of the universe.

We'd never had a dishwasher before moving 3yrs ago, it was left by previous owners. We were convinced we'd never use it and talked about replacing it with a cupboard.
But one day when there was loads of washing up I gave in and threw it all in there. We're on our second one now and wouldn't be without it.

You only need to scrape a plate to the same extent you would before washing up.

A properly used dishwasher gets everything out sparkling (using salt and rinse aid) and dry.

Dishwashers are definitely not a cult.

But air fryers oh god

I love my dishwasher and will happily join a cult for it. I think glasses are much cleaner after a good dishwasher clean. Not cloudy.

I do hand-wash some things. Not as many as my mum though who has about 3 things she deems as dishwasher safe and carefully handwashes and dries everything else - then complains she has too much to do all the time!

I used to be like you because dishwashers in my youth were rubbish and didn't seem to get anything really clean unless you'd cleaned it in the sink already.

Technology has moved on! I moved in to a house with one and it's great! There's rarely food to scrape off as I eat it all. I don't rinse anything as it's not necessary - that's what the dishwasher does.

Much easier than handwashing now I have a family generating a lot of washing up.

Uses less water too.

When we extend the kitchen I’m having two.

To the people that don't rinse before loading: Do you clean the filter or does someone else?

Ps I tried cooking a meal in the dishwasher once as a dare after seeing a crazy thing about it on an extreme savers programme. Didn't work that well, do not recommend 😂

I've lived here a year and its not needed cleaning yet. Maybe I'm just good at eating everything off my plate.

I miss my dishwasher, I can't wait for the new kitchen to be done and we can fit one back in- the cult will be regaining another

I don’t and I do. It’s a job that doesn’t even take a minute (and seems to mostly contain my hair )

I scrape off all solids and haven’t really noticed anything significant gathering when the filter is cleaned.

I had a dishwasher once that was bought secondhand/refurbished, but was perilously old (bought because it happened to match my kitchen cupboards).

I think it must have been the type OP experienced because you really had to wash everything quite thoroughly before putting it in. It really was a waste of space.

Your dishwasher knowledge/understanding is crap, OP.

I have ezcema. Hot soapy water and marigold gloves set it off.
HTH.

Yep. Dunning Kruger rules OK.

I doubt it, the kitchen only went in very recently and everything is under warranty. Nothing died until the day after the warranty expires.

But in all the houses I have had (and we move a lot) the only one we replaced was end of life (more than 15 years old).

Dh thinks you have to rinse and won’t be told, but of course you don’t. You scrape and put in. I’ve even shown him the manual. So you and he are both wrong.

Only things I ever 'Rinse" ( and I basically on run cold water over them) are plates with scrambled egg, spinach or porridge on them. Everything else goes straight in.

The residual smell some people experience (I don’t myself) is to do with the lemon scented tablets apparently, some people really don’t get on with them so they are best avoided.

@Peachpicklepie - you may have had experience of someone who had a late 80s/early 90s era dishwasher- which did need stuff to be basically washed before going in and then did a 2nd nice clean. They were pointless and so many people who had one decided washing up was easier. If you’ve had a newer one that doesn’t need the rinse first thing, then it’s a game changer.

it’s a bit like saying “what’s the point in a washing machine because you’ve got to heat all the water and fill the machine then draining you might as well hand wash (as in earliest washing machines)