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Tragedy struck our house last week. Our dishwasher stopped working…. it won’t power on or anything. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks the dishwasher heard that we just got done paying off the washer and dryer and decided to stick it to us. We have a repairman coming on Tuesday and I hope it’s something simple and cheap to fix…. HA!
I know this is going to sound trite, but wow. Living without a dishwasher sucks. I have actually never lived without a dishwasher… even in our crappy college apartment we had one. In fact, we chose a dumpier apartment so we could get a unit with a dishwasher – priorities.
I honestly think dishes washed in a dishwasher are cleaner. The just feel more sanitized than I can get them in a sink of soapy water. Especially the sippy cups. I just can’t get those things clean in the sink – I tried soaking the stoppers and they just don’t seem as clean.
I must say that having no dishwasher effects what dishes I am willing to cook. Hello One Pot wonder…. I bought paper plates, but the hippy in me won’t use them. I written/designed way too many articles/brochures about recycling and reusability to be able to use paper plates without a guilt trip.
A friend of mine has lived for years without a dishwasher and I still marvel at her patience with it. It’s been almost a week and I’m about to go crazy.
How about you guys? Is a dishwasher a must-have in your house?
I lived about twelve years without one, and that was during the sippy cup phase. You just make do, I guess. I didn't bother me much at the time. What I couldn't stand was when the sink backed up and I couldn't do dishes in the sink or the dishwasher. I had to use the bathtub to do dishes until roto rooter got there."The dishwasher is out" means I have left the building. ;) Seriously, we went years without a dishwasher. We have one now, but use it the most after big holiday meals when there are a ton of dishes. With most of our kids grown and moved out, there are too few of us at home to justify using the dishwasher.We went for about 1 year w/o a mechanical dishwasher - we did have 2 teenagers in lieu of. We still handwash some dishes & pans, but run the dishwasher at least every other day. You might try checking your filer on the dishwasher to see if it is clogged.Until you get it fixed, you might try adding a bit of bleach to your dishwater and either wash in it, or soak the sippy cups in it. Maybe that would make you feel like they're getting cleaner.I have had a dishwashed for the whole 22 years I have been married to current hubby. Before that, didn't have one for the most part. What is really bad is when you have a dishwasher full of dishes and guest coming for a cookout in two hours, and the plummer shows up in the middle of getting dinner. We never saw those people again. I like having one but I don't run everything through it. Actually on Thanksgiving I don't run my moms fine china through it. We hand wash it. And I handwashed my better flatware for years. I knew if I ran it in the dishwasher it would look just as crappy as our day to day in just a few years. Now I have better day to day and the supposedly nice stuff (which is 14 years old) goes in the dishwasher. I did find that anything with lemon or citrus in it will affect flatware in a bad way. I also have hard water so I put a rinse aid in it and limme shine, to keep the spots off the dishes and resolve any hard water issues. You can't do that when you hand wash. And yes, I also feel the dishes are cleaner. The soap is stronger and the water gets hotter.For dishes that you can't run in the dishwasher and don't come clean easily with regular wasing, I found a solution years ago. Run tap water as hot as you can and put a teaspoon or so of dish wasing detergent, depending on how much you want to clean, in the sink or a big bowl. It doesn't take much. I tend to fill a cassorole dish that I have cooked in with the dishwasher detergent then run the hot water to fill the dish. Let it sit. If it is real bad cooked on crap, over night is good. The next morning it pretty much rinses out with almost no scrubbing.
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