Doing the dishes by hand vs. using a dishwasher

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Which method is your preference and why?

I myself have grown surprisingly fond of doing my dishes by hand lately. I have no idea why. Usually, though, I'll shove my dishes into a dishwasher and let that do it for me if it's an option.

Never used a dishwasher.

I love a properly functioning dishwasher. If I had a family, I think it would be the most important thing in the house. Especially during flu season.

But I don't have a dishwasher now, and there's only me.

I read a post somewhere by a pianist who loves doing the dishes in very hot water, because it relaxes her hands and forearms, so she plays piano after and it sounds really good.

I'm a dishwasher person myself.

It takes me a while to do the dishes by hand because of bad fine motor-skills & OCD so a dishwasher is alot easier. My 1st job was a dishwasher but I used a machine.

I can't recall ever being satisfied with the job a dishwasher has done, ever. Maybe I'm just really, really bad at knowing the correct way to stack things in one!

But all I know is, I've never had a time when one or more items did not come out with something still stuck to them, and that offends my sense of completion of a task.

I hand-wash because it's important to me to to see it to it that I'm doing the job properly and thoroughly while in the act of doing it.

Plus, a dishwasher takes too long, sends out a lot of steam/humidity, and takes up massive amounts of water, which is wasteful. It's more convenient for a large family with lots of dishes to wash, but I'm just one person using one coffee mug, one coffee spoon, one small dinner plate, one glass, one fork and one knife daily. Those few items don't merit the wasteful energy of a dishwasher.

By hand. Dishwashers are too much trouble. You wash the dishes by hand and in a few minutes it's finished. Done. But with the dishwasher, you have to wait to wash until it's fully loaded, and I always have WAY more glasses than plates, considering you can't drink anything in a glass after drinking milk from it, and can't use the glass to drink more milk, either, if it's hot or it's been too long, since milk goes gross. If you wait until you have enough plates to start the load, you've run out of cups long ago.

I don't have a dishwasher. I'm lucky I even have a clothes washer and dryer so I don't have to drag my clothes up and down the stairs and about half a kilometer to a landromat every week. But what I wouldn't give for a decent dishwasher! But I don't think I have any place in my apartment where it can be set up.

Dishwasher, I'm lazy plus it gets them cleaner.

Same here; I have a method I use every time, for each type of item (plate, mug, etc) and I prefer to stick to the same movements and sequence of movements because I feel it's the way that works the most thoroughly in order to clean every part of that item. If I diverge from my routine method it feels wrong and I feel like I'm missing places.

My house has a dishwasher, but as I tend to prepare and cook all my meals at different times to the rest of my family, I do all my own washing up by hand, too. I actually quite enjoy it, cleaning by hand has simple, therapeutic benefits though at the cost of more time. I don't especially approve of dishwashers due to their extremely consumptive use of water, but acknowledge they are sometimes best if one's got a whole tonne of cutlery coming in from a lot of people.

I use paper plates, cups & bowls.