We have 2 dishwashers cos we brought one with us and there was already one in this kitchen, since given away and replaced with a proper one when we had the new kitchen. The old one is in the pantry/scullery and comes in handy when I'm entertaining or having a cooking fest.
Don't rinse, just scrape clean as you would before hand washing. Uses far less water than we would by hand (metred here) and free leccy now we have solar panels. No plastic sachets as we use the soluble wrapped tablets and that's probably less detergent than I'd use by hand too.
Not "getting" dishwashers is like not "getting" washing machines to wash all your laundry from smalls to bed linen. Do you still use a washer board and mangle B3?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
The eco setting on my DW uses 13 litres of water and 1Kw of power. My energy supplier is one of those 'green' ones that somehow directs wind power to my house so I can feel less guilty about it.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I reckon if you hand wash after every meal, or even once a day, you'd use more hot water and washing up liquid ( also in a plastic bottle ) than FILLING a dishwasher and using it once. It certainly takes a lot less time than standing , filling up basin, washing, rinsing and drying by hand.
Turns out the door problem on my dishwasher is the fault of a snapped string. The other side snapped last February so I guess they have around a 10 year lifespan which is still better than the metal springs they're connected to I wonder if our cabinet doors are too heavy or something?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
No Obelixx but I have fond memories of a twin tub. Let the washing swish around for a couple of minutes, bung it in the spinner, rinse, spin again. It was all done in ten minutes.
One rinse? I always put the extra rinse option on our machine.
We had a twin tub too when I was in my teens. Took a whole Monday evening to do the wash and it would be hung on one of those pulley jobs in the kitchen. Both parents worked so it was always an evening job. Have to agree with Hosta about time and resources for washing dishes.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
The rinse option was a hose which attached to your tap and you squirted water into the spinner. You could have as many rinses as you could be bothered to do. The only pain was filling and emptying the tub. It was a much quicker process than the automatic but admittedly, some effort was involved. There was only two of us and the sheets and towels went down the lauderette - God I hated going there! Never used a mangle but it sounds eco friendly and dangerous to to me. It would build up your muscles too.
We spent many summer hols taking Possum to the beach in Tuscany (Italian resorts full of Italian families) and would, often as not, be given the German menu because I am blonde and OH has blue eyes. Then they'd give us the English menu which included spaghetti carbonara cos the Brits didn't know it's a winter dish.... We found that out when they gave us Italian menus.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Am i the only one who finds washing up therapeutic the same as mowing the lawn? OH hates washing up as i always criticise (she seems to think putting cutlery in the water for a few seconds counts as 'washing', and also puts spoons the wrong way up in the rack so the water pools in them leaving dry soap scum when you put them away. Grrrrr).
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Don't rinse, just scrape clean as you would before hand washing. Uses far less water than we would by hand (metred here) and free leccy now we have solar panels. No plastic sachets as we use the soluble wrapped tablets and that's probably less detergent than I'd use by hand too.
Not "getting" dishwashers is like not "getting" washing machines to wash all your laundry from smalls to bed linen. Do you still use a washer board and mangle B3?
It certainly takes a lot less time than standing , filling up basin, washing, rinsing and drying by hand.
We had a twin tub too when I was in my teens. Took a whole Monday evening to do the wash and it would be hung on one of those pulley jobs in the kitchen. Both parents worked so it was always an evening job. Have to agree with Hosta about time and resources for washing dishes.
The only pain was filling and emptying the tub. It was a much quicker process than the automatic but admittedly, some effort was involved. There was only two of us and the sheets and towels went down the lauderette - God I hated going there!
Never used a mangle but it sounds eco friendly and dangerous to to me. It would build up your muscles too.
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I can just about manage a menu in Italian.