Dishwasher V’s Handwashing

Do you mostly dishwasher or hand wash up?

  • Hand wash

    Votes: 3 25.0%

  • Dishwasher

    Votes: 9 75.0%
  • Total voters
    12
Windigo said:
Here's two of us too, but with me partially disabled and my husband suffering a burnout the dishwasher is a life saver. I am very grateful that such appliances exist.
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I agree. If you do a lot of cooking you can easily fill a dishwasher in a day even when there are only two of you. But if you are disabled a dishwasher is brilliant. Having been in a wheelchair and on my own recently there is no way at all I could wash dishes in a sink. Even now I can only be on my feet for limited periods and would find washing dishes by hand very difficult.
 
Herbaceous said:
It absolutely depends on your dishwashing technique. It sounds like you are for sure on the low end of water use for handwashing.

It depends on whether you wash under running water (a terrible waste of water), rinse under running water, if you fill the sink and wash in that, how large your sink is and how full you fill it…

The average person probably uses more water to handwash than you.
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What is the process of hand washing dishes/cookware if not under running water?

My process is, rinse items, scrub items with scrubber and detergent, place into second sink each items as I finish scrubbing it, once tiny second sink is full, and big sink empty, rinse off items under running water in big sink.
The tiny sink is right next to bigger main sink.

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What is this thing with everyone talking about having to fill a dishwasher up? You don't? My cheapo dishwasher has a HALF full button.... it uses less of water and energy with that button... you use it when you have filled the machine only half full I assume.
Or is it if only 1 of the 2 baskets are in place? I shall have a look at my manual for my machine.
 
I've had health inspectors tell me they prefer when kitchens use the three sink dish washing method over a dishwasher because this way, every item is being washed by hand, one at a time. And as said here, dishwashers aren't perfect due to mechanical problems, stacking incorrectly, etc. So there is less chance of problems when dishes are washed by hand.
 
Rocklobster said:
I've had health inspectors tell me they prefer when kitchens use the three sink dish washing method over a dishwasher because this way, every item is being washed by hand, one at a time. And as said here, dishwashers aren't perfect due to mechanical problems, stacking incorrectly, etc. So there is less chance of problems when dishes are washed by hand.
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That very much depends on the dishwasher. I prefer to know my plates and glasses have been washed in over 60 degree water.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
That very much depends on the dishwasher. I prefer to know my plates and glasses have been washed in over 60 degree water.
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That’s kind of my point. In a commercial setting there is a lot of room for error and it happens regularly. They feel that less can go wrong with this method. Obviously, this isn’t practical for large commercial establishments but the three sink method incorporates a sanitizer to take care of that. At home we use a dishwasher but that is mostly for convenience.


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Rocklobster said:
That’s kind of my point. In a commercial setting there is a lot of room for error and it happens regularly. They feel that less can go wrong with this method. Obviously, this isn’t practical for large commercial establishments but the three sink method incorporates a sanitizer to take care of that. At home we use a dishwasher but that is mostly for convenience.


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Yes I’ve just dried up after enough people have done the wash part to know they don’t have the same idea as me over what clean is. I’m probably a bit fussy.
My pet hate is glasses washers in pubs when you get given a glass that still has the last persons lipstick on it 😣
I like sink three!
 
WaterPixie said:
What is the process of hand washing dishes/cookware if not under running water?
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In the US, my guess is the most common sink configuration is two side-by-side sinks of equal size, like this:

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Lowe’s

Yes, there are loads of other designs, but I think that’s the most common here.

That means a lot of people fill one sink with hot soapy water, wash the dishes in that, then rinse them in the second sink.

It’s kind of funny, because it shows how humans can find anything to disagree over - there’s a controversy over how to hand wash dishes like that. Half the people do what I just described (and it’s how I learned to wash dishes), and half use the running water method, which is how my wife prefers (me) to do the dishes. :laugh:

Sink full washers say the running water method is wasteful, running water washers say the sink full method is icky. I say, “That’s what the dishwasher is for.” :laugh:
 
I’ve pulled some questionable stuff out of my drawers at home….oh, wait. That doesn’t sound good at all, does it?

What I mean is even with my readonably new and well working dishwasher, it does occasionally miss things which is usually due to personal error like missing some pre rinsing or improper stacking.
 
WaterPixie said:
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We certainly don't do any of what you describe.

The item goes into the washing up bowl with a small amount of washing up liquid, it is wiped over with a cloth or a brush, it is put onto the draining wrack and it either airdries or is towel dried and put away. It is certainly not rinsed before or after washing in the bowl. Our bowl is 11L full to overflowing. A full day's washing up is really done on 1 bowl unless we've had a massive cooking session which will need 2 bowls.

We are not connected to mains water. If it doesn't rain, we don't have water. In summer that dirty water will then go on to the flowers in the garden. If it's really dirty, on to stuff we don't eat, if it's not too bad then anywhere except herbs and only reasonably clean water goes on to the herbs.

And we don't have enough water pressure to get the dishwasher to work. It just errors ask the time.
 
Has anyone here ever tried using their dishwasher as seen in the tv ad above?
I have and I call BS! It DOES NOT work!
My understanding of the automatic electric dishwasher today is that it can get the water much hotter than your tap.
My new machine has several setting options, one of them is sanitize.
 
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