Is there a real difference in water and electricity consumption? Personally, I don’t use a lot of water to wash my dishes (by hand), but maybe I should install a flow meter to make sure.
What is your opinion on the subject? Do you have any evidence or studies available that could confirm your intuition? Or do you have other alternatives in mind?
Teeny tiny kitchen, I don’t have the space to put a dishwasher, not even a small one on the countertop.
Really good quality cooking equipment always says it is not dishwasher safe. I don’t know how true that actually is, but washing stuff as you cook is definitely part of the process for me, so it is fine for me to hand wash.
For the record: I particularly like cooking, and bought a load of great quality cooking stuff that will last for life when I had money - I am not being a dickhead.
An in-depth research from MiniuteFood.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDfeLICMfNcWhat am I, a caveman?
dishwasher. it uses way less water than even filling the sink once. it obviously uses more electricity than doing it by hand though. you gotta think about the value of the time saved as well.
I used to wash by filling the sink till I met my wife - she always wet each item, scrubbed with soapy scrubber, and then rinsed. It’s a far better method!
That’s like the second most wasteful way of washing dishes, with the most wasteful being the same thing but not turning the tap off while scrubbing.
Well, presuming you have enough wares for a full wash. Filling the sink for just one plate would be unnecessary…
You can plug the sink and wash with your current tap method and see how many dishes it takes to fill the sink with water - that’s how many you need to collect to save water with the sink method.
Depends whether you wash in hot or cold water. If you use more hot water washing dishes by hand then it’ll consume more electricity too.
of course.
Everything into the dishwasher. Why would I waste my time with washing dishes. Dishwashers are more efficient and often more hygienic because of higher temperatures and optimized wash and rinse cycles. I put everything in there, even the stuff that doesn’t belong. Apart from my good knives. I hate washing by hand…
One tip though: if your machine is connected to hot water. Let the hot water on the tap run until the water is hot. This helps the machine get a better cleaning result.
Wouldn’t the first batch of lukewarm water just be used for the prewash/rinse cycle? So it doesn’t matter if it’s fully hot yet or not.
Oh boy do I have a video for you. This guy has done a whole series on dishwashers and how to get the most out of them. Highly recommend them.
Thanks, I was wondering what to waste my weekend on this time around!
I have 4 children. I would literally sell a kidney to buy a dishwasher, if I couldn’t afford one. Fuck washing dishes by hand. Anyone who doesn’t agree with me is either brain damaged or a masochist.
Machine, except those items that cannot go in (mostly wood and good knives)
I have read comparisons in the past. I don’t have them to hand, but the conclusion was that dishwashers were more efficient in terms of water use and energy. However, the type of hand-washing that it was being compared to was itself a very inefficient style of washing (tap running continuously? two full sinks for rinsing? I can’t recall, but not the way that we do).
So handwashing the way we do is probably more efficient but it seems that there isn’t THAT much in it either way, and given the time taken and that we cook from scratch almost all the time, we use a dishwasher for the vast bulk of stuff.
Both.
I tend to wash the larger stuff by hand so it’s not wasting so much space in the dishwasher.
I do it by hand because I rent a small 1 bedroom flat. Those don’t typically have dishwashers here.
My last place had one though, and what an absolute godsend. I’ll definitely get one when/if I ever buy my own place.
They make countertop dishwashers that connect to your sink, still better than washing by hand imo
By hand, don’t have nor do I ever want a dishwasher. There is zwtro chance of a world full of fishwashers being enviomentlaly friendly.
