By hand or by dishwasher? Or by someone else's hand? i.e. making your kids do it?
I did dishes by hand for 24 years and it never bothered me in the least. Then something happend. I just couldn't do it anymore so I got a dishwasher. It's an old one but it gets the job done.
2006-10-31 13:30:53 · 17 answers · asked by helpme1 5 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
I heart my dishwasher
2006-10-31 13:33:42 · answer #1 · answered by amandafofanda66 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am on my way to 60 years old. Ever since I was a small child, ( 6 years old) I have been washing dishes. I have used both methods, by hand and dishwaher. I found out it takes twice the time doing it the dishwaher way! You have to rinse the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher anyway, So add some soap to the water swish a rag on them put them in the rack and rinse with the sprayer if you own one. If not rinse each dish as you wash it. I have done dishes for as many as ten - twelve people, washed and had them put away in about 20 minutes! It takes longer than that for a dishwasher to be loaded and wahed and unloaded, then sometimes all the food does not get off so you have to rewash it .
Sanitizing? Almost all the dish liquids are anitbacterial now anyway so there is no worry there. My vote is Hand wash them.
2006-10-31 21:49:46 · answer #2 · answered by groveton_32 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
We quit using the dishwasher 30 years ago. It's still there but we do dishes by hand.
2006-10-31 21:40:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did them by hand when we were first married becuase our house didn't have a dishwasher. By the time we moved to our second house (that had the dishwasher) I was pregnant with our third child (and the other two were under 3) so I was glad for it!
2006-10-31 21:37:28 · answer #4 · answered by misskenjr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wash dishes by hand. As long as you do them as soon as you finish eating, it is easy. The hard part is not putting it off until later, when the food is dried to the plates. I do not own a dishwasher, but it sounds a little like heaven!
2006-10-31 22:10:18 · answer #5 · answered by Erin P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live alone, and I have a dishwasher, but it seems to me that it wastes a lot of water, so i do them by hand...it doesnt really bother me either..i think i can do the few dishes i use quicker by hand, rather than the machine
2006-10-31 21:49:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
By hand as my apartment complex doesn't have a dishwasher and there's no room, nor do I have the money, to buy one. Actually, I cook and my husband does the dishes, so it all works out OK.
2006-10-31 22:05:03 · answer #7 · answered by Mom of One in Wisconsin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though dish washing is a compulsion, either by hands or by machines, I find the hand washing easier, faster and above all economic in using water, detergent, electricity and time!
This is true only for small families. In big and joint families (which is very-very common in India), we prefer a domestic help (which is cheap and pliantly available).
Only the commercial places invest on dishwashers.
2006-11-01 04:17:37 · answer #8 · answered by Jhum Jhum 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just got a dishwasher. I have 4 kids, so I really needed one!
2006-10-31 22:58:33 · answer #9 · answered by p2of9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like my brother does. Hot water spray against the dirty dish or silverware, and spray until clean of any food matter. Then, hot water and jets of good detergent. Basically, you sterilize and rinse under the hot water faucet and never let them sit in the sink.
This is a response to our mother's way of washing dishes, which was putting the greasiest things in the same water as the cleanest things, and not washing them too well.
It takes boys to wash dishes sanitarily.
2006-11-01 02:39:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋