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02-05-2015, 06:15 AM #1
Dishwashers
My wife and I have a "difference of opinion" on what makes dishes clean.
Wife says that the dishes need to be "sanitized" after each use and that only a dishwasher can get the water hot enough to get them properly cleaned. I say it wastes water and electricity.
I come from a law enforcement background and have studied forensic science. I know how delicate evidence is, and also just how easily microbes and other tiny remnants are not only left behind by everything, but also easily wiped/washed away.
I say, even if you "sanitize," there are still dust mites and bacteria in the air and all over the place that will get on the dishes after they come out of the dishwasher. But as long as there is no food source for the germs, they cannot multiply and colonize. She doesn't believe me.
How does everyone else's dishes get done?
(Ours go in the dishwasher anyway, since that is her "domain").
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02-05-2015, 06:21 AM #2
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We had a dishwasher. Until she called me one day and said she doesn't believe the dishwasher cleans them as good as a hand scrubbing. I told her I hate dishes more than any other household chore and that is why we have a dishwasher. By the time I got home she had sold the dish washer and added one of our extra cabinets we had in its place. I was pretty pissed. So I have been on a boycott of dishes ever since. Which sometimes makes her pissed. But now that she is laid off it isn't an issue. I just put them away now. She does use extremely hot water.
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02-05-2015, 06:27 AM #3
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I scrub plates before I put them in the dishwasher because I dont like food being flung around everywhere inside of it...I know some people will take a plate that had all kinds of junk on it and just toss it in the dishwasher...that drives me insane.
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02-05-2015, 07:00 AM #4
Dishwasher? What's that? Lol. I hate doing dishes, but have no place for one in my kitchen so I've washed them all by hand going on 15 years now.
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02-05-2015, 07:35 AM #5
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02-05-2015, 08:09 AM #6
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my mother in law doesnt pre clean anything and then they complain that the cups that sit above the plates always have sh*t in them when they take them out...she blames it on the dishwasher.......common sense says that if you pressure wash something dirty and the jet is pointed UP that means the shit it blows off the plate is also going to go UP and it is going to get lodged in the stuff that is above it.
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02-05-2015, 09:25 AM #7
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My first job was as a dishwasher in a Country Club that could hold 3000 ppl if all of the banquet halls were full and another 200 if the bar and restaurant were full as well. We pre-cleaned everything with hot water and then ran through an industrial washer. Food burns, get's sticky, even grease/oil will stay on dishes. When I do dishes I always do first the drinking cups, silverware, then plates and lastly the cooking pans that are greasy that way the grease/oil doesn't transfer to the other dishes. Always with hot water.
Like Pat & Jim said, prolongs the life of the dishwasher and keeps the smells from building up.
I also have an old model of dishwashers in addition to the machine. It's called kids. They thoroughly enjoy doing them....(sarc)
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02-05-2015, 10:03 AM #8
Growing up, my Dad was of the same opinion, and don't forget gas, too I was chief dishwasher in my house growing up and I hated that I wasn't allowed to use the dishwasher. But, it's kind of stuck with me. Even after I moved out and had my own dishwasher, I still filled up the sink with soapy water I never use the dishwasher. Sometimes if we have company I'll opt to throw dishes in there, or around the holidays I'll use it as a drying rack when doing a ton of cooking throughout the day. I do run it a couple of times a year though.
So count me in as one that thinks that the dishwasher is the most unnecessary appliance in my kitchen. I do think it's important to use clean new sponges often though. I rotate them from the kitchen sink to the bathrooms or under the kitchen sink regularly. My kitchen sink sponge is to be used only on the dishes and kitchen counters.Last edited by KahanaReef; 02-05-2015 at 10:06 AM.
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02-05-2015, 10:30 AM #9
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Well then count me as one of the ones who considers a dishwasher to be one of the more necessary appliances in my kitchen. Except now I don't have one in my kitchen. That is the worst chore ever. It might not be as bad if the kitchen sink was 12 inches higher. It sucks to be tall and hunched over scrubbing.
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02-05-2015, 10:39 AM #10
I hate doing dishes and laundry. Always have. My two least desirable chores for sure
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02-05-2015, 10:43 AM #11
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Laundry isn't so bad, but definately not great either. It just takes forever to fold it all. But at least I can hang out in the living room with the kids or whatever while I do it.
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02-05-2015, 10:51 AM #12
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02-05-2015, 11:25 AM #13
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02-05-2015, 11:31 AM #14
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we take turns (me & wife), the kids are responsible for their own with exception to my daughter, she's learning how to now so there is still some parental overseeing on how she does them. I don't need a laundry room full of soap bubbles, etc.....
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02-05-2015, 11:33 AM #15
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02-05-2015, 12:02 PM #16
My earliest memory of having to do my own laundry is about 12 yrs old.
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02-05-2015, 12:42 PM #17
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Not gonna lie I never really did laundry until I was 18 and moved out. There is nothing like the way mom did laundry.
Now my wife on the other hand had parents who decided to get addicted to drug when she was 7-8. She learned to cook, do laundry etc real fast. They both went to jail when she was 10 or 11. She is very good at taking care of anything houshold related.
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02-05-2015, 12:51 PM #18
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02-05-2015, 01:10 PM #19
That is extremely unfortunate. She sounds like a strong well rounded person in spite of it though.
When my son's activities started to get pretty expensive, mainly BMX and his constant want for new parts, etc... I added laundry to his chore list. He got paid a certain amount each week by way of doing chores on a list with varying payouts. If he wanted extra cash, he had to earn it. He started doing his own laundry around age 13 I think it was.
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02-05-2015, 01:15 PM #20
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