Our first was a joint wedding present to each other. I shopped and cooked and OH did the dishes but I'd have to reject or re-wash things. No such probs now and we both have better things to do and, as a bonus, fewer broken glasses.
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I don't get dishwashers. I believe you have to scrape the plates or even rinse them before you put them in. Why not wash them yourself? This brings me to the point of supermarket shopping (my mind works in mysterious ways) You put your shopping in the trolley; you take it out of the trolley and put it on the belt; you take it off the belt and you put it in your bags; you take it home and you empty it out of your bags and put it in your cupboards. I'm minded of the Smash adverts. I know some of you will extoll the virtues of online shopping, but I will raise you sell-by dates. If you reach to the back of the shelf -especially if you stand on the bottom shelf , your food will last longer. The pickers will not do that and I will get a load of stuff to eat by Tuesday. I know it's fun to laugh at the replacements for unavailable products like lemon washing up liquid instead of fresh lemons or a pregnancy test instead of condoms -but that's not the point.
I didn't 'get' dishwashers either @B3 until I got one. Just a little half a one that I could justify cos there's only one of me. Now if I go to a desert island it will be packed along with my mascara! My country house, (the one I'm sitting in now) doesn't have one and I really miss it. As for online shopping?!?!?! What's not to love except the bananas? I've never been let down by best before dates or anything else. For 1 GBP some other eejit does all that wandering about for you and sets it on your kitchen shelf!! Oh yes!
I never rinse plate, and when I'm finished eating, there's nothing left to scrape. IMHO " Sell by dates " are just marketing nonsense. I've eaten a yogurt which was 64 days past it's use by date and am here to tell the tale. I was talking to someone who worked in a factory making biscuits for M&S which had a " best before" date 6 months from manufacture. After 3 years, with no complaints, no change in recipe on manufacturing process , M&S said " make it 3 months" No reason given. Just so gullible people throw away perfectly good food. sounds to me like you should switch your home delivery service if that's the sort of "subs" you're getting. When I dig veg from the garden , it doesn't have a date on it. Common sense tells me when it's not fit to eat.
I don't get dishwashers. I believe you have to scrape the plates or even rinse them before you put them in. Why not wash them yourself?
You don't lick your plates clean? but no you don't need to pre-rinse, just remove anything that would block the pipework but you'd do that either way hopefully.
I love sell by dates, I think they're a great invention. I get so much cheap food because the dates are up and the supermarkets have to get rid of it.
I do suspect that the home delivery subs are the supermarket's way of getting rid of stock though. There's no way they've actually run out of some stuff I've ordered and it's always their own-brand stuff that gets sent instead.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
If I didn't have a dishwasher I'd never use plates or cutlery and I'd definitely never cook anything. I'd have to eat out all the time and think of the cost of that! There's only me living here too, lazy or what.
I can manage the whole "week" that Hubby is "up country" without switching the dishwasher on , but we did have to buy extra cutlery and crockery when we got ours. I refuse to switch it on until it's full, really , really full.
Never wanted one, OH had one before and he says we can wash, dry up and put away as quick as it takes to load, set the thing and unload, apart from using more water and tablets for washing, then tablets cleaning,( I dare say all in plastic sachets, ) factories making stuff, landfill to dump the thing after a few years, no we will stick to a hand wash with a couple of litres of water.
We haven’t had a stomach upset of any kind since 2003 when my grandson brought home a killer bug from the dreaded Cornish Hospital! Went round all of us like a dose of salts🤮
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I love my dishwasher and wouldn't be without one.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This brings me to the point of supermarket shopping (my mind works in mysterious ways)
You put your shopping in the trolley; you take it out of the trolley and put it on the belt; you take it off the belt and you put it in your bags; you take it home and you empty it out of your bags and put it in your cupboards. I'm minded of the Smash adverts.
I know some of you will extoll the virtues of online shopping, but I will raise you sell-by dates.
If you reach to the back of the shelf -especially if you stand on the bottom shelf , your food will last longer. The pickers will not do that and I will get a load of stuff to eat by Tuesday.
I know it's fun to laugh at the replacements for unavailable products like lemon washing up liquid instead of fresh lemons or a pregnancy test instead of condoms -but that's not the point.
As for online shopping?!?!?! What's not to love except the bananas? I've never been let down by best before dates or anything else. For 1 GBP some other eejit does all that wandering about for you and sets it on your kitchen shelf!! Oh yes!
IMHO " Sell by dates " are just marketing nonsense. I've eaten a yogurt which was 64 days past it's use by date and am here to tell the tale. I was talking to someone who worked in a factory making biscuits for M&S which had a " best before" date 6 months from manufacture. After 3 years, with no complaints, no change in recipe on manufacturing process , M&S said " make it 3 months" No reason given. Just so gullible people throw away perfectly good food.
sounds to me like you should switch your home delivery service if that's the sort of "subs" you're getting.
When I dig veg from the garden , it doesn't have a date on it. Common sense tells me when it's not fit to eat.
I refuse to switch it on until it's full, really , really full.
We haven’t had a stomach upset of any kind since 2003 when my grandson brought home a killer bug from the dreaded Cornish Hospital! Went round all of us like a dose of salts🤮