ryner1988
Well-known member
You all might remember my post of a few weeks ago, where my dishwasher started running without latching properly. Well, it continued to work in this state for several weeks, not even leaving any water on the floor in its wake, so I kept using it, after notifying maintenance of the issue. Well, maintenance is slow here, so nothing has been done yet. Now the DW is leaking from the bottom (there is a small puddle in front of it on the floor every time a cycle completes), and my Cascade pods aren't opening during the cycle. I keep finding them in random places, usually close to the dispenser, and almost completely intact, so no detergent is getting to the dishes.
So, I've started hand-washing our dishes every evening while I continue to wait on maintenance to move their butts. And you know, I've found that I don't mind this very much, as long as I keep up on it. It's certainly nice to have every dish clean at the end of each day, and not have to wash a random spatula because it's in the dishwasher waiting to be cleaned with a full load. I could probably get used to this and not really care about having a DW in working order very much, but I do miss it sometimes.
My question, though, is how to make the process of hand-washing dishes more efficient. I haven't done it for nearly 10 years, with the exception of washing a random item here or there that I need for cooking, and my God I forgot how much water it uses to hand-wash. Having to keep the water constantly running to rinse the dishes off just seems so incredibly wasteful to me. I hope my gas bill doesn't go up by much having to heat all that water every evening. Everyone who says that dishwashers use less water than washing dishes by hand are certainly correct, the difference is honestly kind of astounding.
Anyone have any suggestions to increase efficiency, and maybe speed, of this chore while I wait for my dishwasher to be repaired?
Thanks all,
Ryne
So, I've started hand-washing our dishes every evening while I continue to wait on maintenance to move their butts. And you know, I've found that I don't mind this very much, as long as I keep up on it. It's certainly nice to have every dish clean at the end of each day, and not have to wash a random spatula because it's in the dishwasher waiting to be cleaned with a full load. I could probably get used to this and not really care about having a DW in working order very much, but I do miss it sometimes.
My question, though, is how to make the process of hand-washing dishes more efficient. I haven't done it for nearly 10 years, with the exception of washing a random item here or there that I need for cooking, and my God I forgot how much water it uses to hand-wash. Having to keep the water constantly running to rinse the dishes off just seems so incredibly wasteful to me. I hope my gas bill doesn't go up by much having to heat all that water every evening. Everyone who says that dishwashers use less water than washing dishes by hand are certainly correct, the difference is honestly kind of astounding.
Anyone have any suggestions to increase efficiency, and maybe speed, of this chore while I wait for my dishwasher to be repaired?
Thanks all,
Ryne