When I was growing up, washing the dishes was a chore that I’d try to avoid if at all possible. After all in a large family like mine there were often enough plates and cups and glasses and stuff to keep a small team of people in work for half a day, which is why I think I love my dishwasher so much.
I was tempted to throw in the line here ‘and I’ve been married to her for sixteen years now,’ but figured that if I did there might be no blog tomorrow due to maybe broken fingers and/or my eating my dinner through a straw.
So I didn’t add that line in, you didn’t read it above up there and we’ll just move on now...okay!
Dishwashers are class. I mean they take all that hassle out of having plates and cups and stuff stacked up in the sink or beside the sink, or wherever you put the stuff you need to wash if you don’t have a dishwasher.
Personally, I am a stack them beside the sink man. If you’re not going to wash them right away, put them there until you are ready to wash them, put them in the sink when you wash them and take them out. Then, dry them and put them away.
It seems pretty logical to me, because while the dirty dishes are stacked beside the sink until such time as they are going to be washed, the sink itself is free and available for use.
But I know there are many people who like to put their dirty dishes in the sink and just leave them there, probably in the hope that some other fool will come along and wash the darn things.
But they don’t. Usually people just use the sink over and over again, until it is half filled with water and dirty dishes and bits of floating food going mouldy.
Which is why dishwashers are class. Because you can just open the door, throw the dirty dishes in and that whole unsightly mess is outta sight.
Well that’s what I’d like to think, but apparently the ‘what to do with the dishes before they are washed thing,’ exists for the dishwasher too.
For one thing there are people who rinse their dishes before they put them in the dishwasher. In fact there are some people who darn near wash them completely that it defeats the purpose of actually having a dishwasher at all. According to the manual for my dishwasher it is not necessary to rinse stuff before you put it in. The dishwasher has a setting for this called pre-wash which adequately takes care of this little chore. But nope, some people insist that the stuff still needs to see the sink before it can get into the dishwasher.
Which kinda makes me wonder if the dishwasher had feelings...would they be hurt?
I mean come on now, by doing that are you not kinda suggesting that ole dishwasher, you know the guy you paid hundreds of euro for, is not really up to the job.
I can just imagine the late night conversations with the other appliances, umm like the toaster.
“Well, do they put the bread under the grill for a few minutes before they use you do they? Nope, but all I do is heat the dishes up to, like a really high temperature, and drive the price of their electricity bill up. It’s so depressing.”
Rinsed or not apparently there are right and wrong ways to put the stuff into the dishwasher as well.
In fact it would seem that those little wire rack thingys inside the dishwasher all have specific purposes and that’s the only way the dishwasher should be loaded.
What I’m saying I guess is - that my way – which is if there is a space at all for one more thing like even a mug squeezed in between the plates on their rack, is apparently just wrong.
It’s wrong because that’s not way that the manual says things are to be loaded.
Still I dunno. Surely as long as the dishes come back out clean surely it doesn’t matter what way they go in?
And then of course there are the pots and pans.
When I was younger I used to wash and dry the dishes as quickly as I could, put them away and try to conveniently forget about the pots and pans.
Then, when they were spotted afterwards I’d say I did all the rest and somebody else would have to do them.
But there are people who think that pots and pans shouldn’t go in the dishwasher.
Why the hell not?
I mean if I’m going to have a machine help me wash the dishes I want it to wash all of the horrible greasy slimy things that I hate washing.
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