One of the benefits of the house Husband rented in Ocean City is that the kitchen has a dishwasher. Most people probably find the presence of a dishwasher unremarkable, even expected, but I have never lived anywhere with one. Thus one of the lessons I learned on my trip is how to use a dishwasher.
I assumed that the point of a dishwasher was to wash the dishes so that I would not need to do so. I was wrong. It seems that you cannot merely put dirty dishes inside the belly of the beast and expect them to be clean when the cycle is finished. Sister kept telling me this, explaining that unless you rinse the crumbs and other stuck bits of food off dishes first, they will not be clean. This did not make sense to me, so I ignored her. Of course, since I am an uninformed dishwasher novice, the dishes were not fully clean at the end of the cycle, so I began following her advice and cleaning things myself before I put them in the machine to be washed. Yet I noticed that by the time I rinsed everything off, had I merely added some soap while rinsing, the dish would be clean and have no need for the dishwasher.
I do not understand the point of dishwashers.
I was also reminded that when wearing button-fly jeans, one cannot wait until the last minute to go to the bathroom. It was like I was five again. I had too much fun and didn’t want to be away from the merriment for even a minute, so I sat around until there was no other option. Then I realized that it takes another precious few seconds to open all those damn buttons. Fortunately, I did not explode on myself, but now I will keep in mind the extra time it takes to get ready when wearing button-fly jeans, one of the few instances of clothes that provide challenges for both men and women.
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Having been used to dishwashers and now living without one, let me say that dishwashers are stupid. Besides the pre-washing you mentioned, they also lead to complete laziness. "We don't have any clean spoons!" "Look in the dishwasher!" Dishes get used and put right back in. The cupboard need not exist. Also, there are those (boys) that might bring the used dish over to the counter, but not put it inside the dishwasher. Then the dirty dishes pile up.
ReplyDeleteI'm all for laziness, but I still have to wash the dishes by hand at least every other night. I complain about standing at the sink, but I complained more when I had a dishwasher.
Not to mention all the stuff that is not dishwasher-safe.
Apparently you hit my hot button with this. :P
My father, an architect, gets requests now for kitchens with two dishwashers. That way one always has clean dishes and the other dirty. Barely a need for cabinets.
ReplyDeletedishwashers force you to wash dishes...and also provides a good place to hide the dirty ones.
ReplyDeletei don't own one, and i tend to wash all my dishes at once, when the sink is full and ready to explode. if i had a dishwasher i had to load, i would be forced to rinse off the dishes everytime i wanted to put one in there... and then they could sit safely behind a machine door so no one can see the dirty dishes...