/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15662919]

Am I weird for rarely using a dishwasher? Whenever I see my parents, father gets angry that I wash large items (pots, casserole dishes, storage containers, etc) by hand instead of dishwasher cause it's just a waste of space and water

[Anonymous No.15663127]

>>15662919
boomers are convinced that they're a timesaver when realistically, they only are if you live in a house with a large family or a lot of housemates.
if you're a single person living alone it's quicker and easier to just wash by hand, or better yet use paper plates and disposable chopsticks.

[Anonymous No.15663146]

>>15663127
thats wasteful, but my parents just dont get this concept that i try to tell them, to stop putting such large items in the dishwasher. putting mixing bowls, pots, etc in there, fills it up faster, run more often, waste more water. yet my father basically ridicules me with "you know we have a dishwasher" just because i wash some large items by hand so they dont have to run it every single fuckin day. then even put in dishes they barely used

[Anonymous No.15663225]

>>15662919
I always thought that dishwashers saved water, but that data is probably from the dishwasher manufacturers
And individual hand washers have radically different techniques, so it's probably hard to compare
I prefer hand washing, because I'm more consistent at getting dishes clean

[Anonymous No.15663256]

>>15663225
They don't actually use that much water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04

[Anonymous No.15663273]

[Anonymous No.15663323]

>>15663256
YouTube is not a source

[Anonymous No.15663383]

>>15663323
The dishwasher is set up to dump the water it uses into a clear container and you can see for yourself how much water it's using. Unless you think it's being faked for a video where the focus isn't even on the amount of water being used.

[Anonymous No.15663678]

>>15663146
my housemates and I use our dishwasher, but yeah we do the same as you.
large things we wash by hand so it doesnt fill the dishwasher up too quickly. also because it sucks when you want to use a frypan but both of them are in an empty dishwasher.
and then we wont run the dishwasher until we're literally out of plates, bowls, spoons, knives and forks.

[Anonymous No.15663684]

>>15663127
it's still quicker to use the dishwasher, you don't need to wait until it's full to run it

[Anonymous No.15663690]

>>15663146
dishwashers are actually pretty efficient and don't use that much water. it's like flushing a toilet

[Anonymous No.15663891]

is it weird that i do dishes by hand and wash each dish individually using a spray bottle of soap? i dont fill a sink with water. i just quickly rinse, spray with soap and sponge it clean, then quickly rinse each dish off.

[Anonymous No.15663897]

>>15663891
Not really, especially if you wash dishes shortly after using them so they clean easy.

[Anonymous No.15663930]

>>15663127
The word here is convenience.

I you literally have to leave for work in a few minutes, can't just run the sink and start washing. Chuck it all in the dishwasher and start it up. Then the only thing I gotta do when I get back is leave the door open slightly to let everything dry. Pack it all away later before I start dinner.

[Anonymous No.15664174]

>>15663256
Great video, and for those who won't watch it, you get cleaner dishes if you run the kitchen tap until the water gets hot and then start the dishwasher. That way it has hot water throughout the whole cleaning cycle

[Anonymous No.15665406]

>>15662919
No. I was raised the exact opposite. Putting pans and pots in the dishwasher is a sign of laziness and stupidity.

[Anonymous No.15665844]

>>15662919
dishwashers reuse the same water over and over again. you're wasting massive amounts of water washing by hand.

[Anonymous No.15665876]

>>15665844
>wasting massive amounts of water
Tap water is about $0.01/gallon here.
I can afford it.

It's not like it suddenly stops being water when it goes down the drain; the city treats it and it goes back into the planetary water cycle.

[Anonymous No.15665878]

>>15662919

No. Dishwashers are fucking useless.

[Anonymous No.15666513]

>>15665406
this, i was scolded for using the dish washer because i was told it wastes water and electricity.

we just used the dishwasher rack to dry the dishes we washed by hand.

[Anonymous No.15667923]

When I had a dishwasher, I would clean the dishes before putting them in. As far as I was concerned, the most important part was to sterilize everything.

I suspect that it didn't actually sterilize much of anything, though.

[Anonymous No.15667939]

I cook and clean for my parents but my mum insists on putting everything in the dishwasher.
If I don't take the oil off pans with a paper towel and wash it, she will just load it in the machine and it covers EVERYTHING in grease.
She gets mad like your dad if I wash up larger and more delicate items by hand.

[Anonymous No.15668229]

I use my dishwasher as a cabinet to store pot lids, supplements and other smallwares. Means my counters are always empty except for a kettle and microwave.

[Anonymous No.15669597]

I used to clean everything by hand when I was single, it was quicker and more practical. I'd have been waiting a week to fill the dishwasher otherwise.

Now I've got a wife and kids I use the dishwasher for practically everything that'll fit in it. Plus I'm pretty sure with the frequency that I'm washing stuff, a dishwasher saves water and heating gas compared to doing it by hand. Probably the other way round if you're single.

The world isn't so black and white, co/ck/s. Dishwashers are or aren't useful depending on your situation.

>>15667923
They're essentially home autoclaves. Things don't get sterilised to the same level as a hospital autoclave but it's close enough for home purposes.

[Anonymous No.15671205]

While living in an apartment while a grad student, I ate my meals on campus because I was on campus all day and into the evening at the lab.

Except during breaks, I didn't use the kitchen for much of anything. So the dishwasher got used almost entirely to wash my glasses. I would put a dirty glass in it about once every two or three days (I usually drank out of a can or bottle) and it would be a month or more between times I ran the dishwasher.

[Anonymous No.15671227]

>>15663690
This is true, but only because flushing the toilet is such a massive water waste. Probably the biggest water user in the house.

[Anonymous No.15671280]

Does anyone else find that their gf or wife is utterly incapable of stacking the dishwasher? When i stack, everything is orderly, glasses on top, everything else below, nothing hits the spinner, everything has its opening facing the ground. When my gf does the dishwasher, she just throws shit in like a retard. I’ve addressed it before and she is completely unable to see what I’m talking about. Why would you start stacking the dishwasher front to back? Then you can’t get the plates in the back. Start from back to front. Whenever she stacks the dishwasher the top or bottom is completely full, while the other half is completely empty. Am I retarded or does ck feel this way too?

[Anonymous No.15671331]

>>15671280
I have the same issue.
Women are reluctant to load that which competes with them.

[Anonymous No.15671333]

>have to wash dishes before putting them in the dishwasher
>literally just a sanitation machine
I dont get them

[Anonymous No.15672922]

>>15671227
compare that to filling a sink/running a sink long enough to "hand wash" dishes and it's a bargain

[Anonymous No.15672931]

>>15671333

Thats what it is
It uses less water than leaving the water running while I individually wash each fork and spoon and cup and plate and bowl and spatula and everything else.

[Anonymous No.15673416]

>>15672931

You don't fill the sink with soapy water and wash everything in it?

Sheesh!