This is why I bought a counter top dishwasher, no way to get the bacteria dead from 120F the water is coming from the tap.

Plus my back hurts after a few mins of standing at the sink, its too damn low for me, and loading a dishwasher as we use the dishes is simple and I don't care if it takes 90 mins to wash, I can do other stuff while its washing.

And we have no counter space to dry dishes, stupid apartments have tiny useless kitchens.

Can't imagine not having a dishwasher and it is just the two of us but we are both here all day. Run it probably every two days and generally overnight. Can't imagine washing and drying all our plates, cutlery and glasses everyday, what a chore.

Yes, we have this problem, so I use a very slim triangular wooden block to tilt the tray-&-rack ever so slightly into the sink.

Me too. Is that Australian?

We have a dishwasher (for the first time in our lives) but use it only when guests come.

Now the pundits are saying dishwahers are bad for our immune systems.

Quote:

Hand-washing your dishes may not sanitize as well as a dishwasher, but it may correlate with a lower risk of allergies in your children, Swedish researchers said in a new study released on Monday.

The “less efficient dishwashing method”, as researchers called it, “may induce tolerance via increased microbial exposure”. Researchers also saw a positive correlation between serving fermented and farm-bought food and a reduction in allergies.

Children suffering from allergies? It could be your dishwasher's fault | Society | The Guardian



We run our dishwasher once in a while--whenever we have guests. You don't really need to sterilize your dishes every single time anyone uses them, and IMO it wastes water & heat.

Not only does it sterilise and dry everything for you it is more green and will save you money.

Hand washing versus dishwashers | Cleaning | What you can do | David Suzuki Foundation

Green Choices - Is using a dishwasher greener than hand washing?

Real food comes in it's own dish/bowl/newspaper(yum)/bucket anyhow.

Dishwashers might sanitise but they certainly don't sterilise

We have a dishrack with a built in drainer. It slopes down and so when perched next to the sink it runs in there and not all over the sides

That's kinda neat. Saves taking up our 2nd sink.

There are four of us and while we may have enough plates/cutlery to serve up 3 or 4 days' worth of dinners, we only have one set of pots and pans which we need every day. Plus, I hate it when dishes pile up in the sink.

The dishwasher is a waste of time, there's never enough room inside it to stack dishes apart enough that they get properly clean, anything bigger than a frying pan barely fits and it runs up our electricity bill and as mentioned it just takes too bloody long anyway.

Ours came free with the house. I'd honestly rather have an extra two cabinets in the space it takes up. We may just ditch it if we ever redo the kitchen.

Or munchy box

We do something similar, There are only 2 of us, so we run the dishwasher every 3 or 4 days, and wash skillets and the like by hand.

I hate washing up by hand and love my dishwasher Everything goes in it, including jars and cans on their to the recycling

There are 3 of us and it's run pretty much every day (maybe more if I have been doing a lot of cooking/baking). We usually run it in the evening as we no longer run it overnight or while we are out since someone I know experienced a house fire that started with her dishwasher.

My little dishwasher apparently uses 3.17 gallons per normal cycle.

I know I use more then that when washing by hand.

Yeah, I'm not buying into that one, myself. Sounds like it was written by someone who's trying to sell dish washers

There is anti-bacterial dish soap and it's easy enough to fill the sink with very hot water (if we turn the water heater up a bit ours comes out easily at 140 anyway), then wash by hand after 15 minutes or so when the water cools a bit.

I've been eating off hand-washed dishes all my life and I rarely get sick. I know it uses a bit more water, but so does taking a shower every morning compared to a bath and who takes a bath every day before work? I compromise by filling the sink and running the tap at lower pressure to rinse. Plus, it keeps the electric bill down, which is a must in the summer when we're running AC from July to September pretty much all the time.