Doing the dishes by hand vs. using a dishwasher

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Which do you prefer?
By hand 39%  39%  [ 9 ]
Dishwasher 61%  61%  [ 14 ]
Total votes : 23

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30 Jul 2017, 4:05 pm

Growing up, when I lived with my parents, we always had dishwashers in the kitchen in every house that we lived in. They taught me how to use it when I was very young, and I used to help out with cleaning up the kitchen & washing the dishes.



When I moved in to my own apartment at the age of 27, there was no dishwasher there, so I had to wash my dishes by hand in the kitchen sink. I lived there until 2015, when I moved in to my condominium, where I currently live. There was an old General Electric dishwasher installed in the kitchen, but it did not work, so I just continued to wash my dishes by hand with a sponge & some lemon Joy dish soap, which I still do today. Last year, a general contractor did some work on my condominium & took the broken dishwasher out. My trash can now resides in my kitchen where the dishwasher used to be.



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30 Jul 2017, 4:19 pm

Well, I don't like touching other peoples' dirty food, so dishwasher it is :)


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19 Sep 2019, 3:34 pm

What do you do when you have a restaurant? Wash the dishes by hand? I don't think so. I have two dishwashers and a glasswasher, for the restaurant I mean. At home, I keep only one dishwasher. They're all the Eswood ES25 model and bought them from ianboer.com.au. A dishwasher is a huge time saver, for my employees and for my wife. Now she finally can grow her nails.



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19 Sep 2019, 3:41 pm

I don't trust dishwashers for hygene reasons. They are also expensive to run. Why we can't have one.



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19 Sep 2019, 3:49 pm

I have major issues with old or soggy food, smelling it or touching it makes me gag. I can wash dishes by hand if I have to (and did so when we didn't have a functioning dishwasher for several years), but if given the option, I'll just give my dishes a quick rinse and then stick them straight into the dishwasher. Unfortunately in my household, we have a habit of running the dishwasher but not putting the dishes away, so it sits there full of clean dishes while dirty ones pile up in the sink. My plan for when I'm living on my own is to get everything into the dishwasher right away, run it when it's full, and then put things away as soon as it's done so it's ready to hold more dirty dishes. That way I won't have to deal with food yuck so much.


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24 Oct 2019, 7:39 pm

Well, I used them long ago, but they weren't that good from my experience. I changed a lot of dishwasher detergents, and for now I stopped at I've read about it on [url=https:///[/url] and used it since. It is even better that it works well with my tap water, because our water is pretty hard and because of that, the dishwasher was working poorly. Be careful about the detergent you choose, because with a cheaper one you can damage your dishwasher in a long run.



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24 Oct 2019, 8:13 pm

SharpMind wrote:
Well, I used them long ago, but they weren't that good from my experience. I changed a lot of dishwasher detergents, and for now I stopped at

Yeah, the quality of water affects as well how hard it will break