For anyone who needs to read it, dishwashers use significantly less water than manually washing dishes.
This is true however often I only have a mug and a spoon or something like that which I don’t want to leave dirty in the dishwasher untill it fills, because bugs or whatever reason. Manual wash, it’s done in one minute
Water, energy and time. If you have the space and can afford the initial investment, a dishwasher has no drawbacks.
No drawbacks? It stinks when you don’t have enough people in the household to fill it quickly. Also, it’s disgusting if you do not pre-rinse food remainders off plates, so that has to be factored into the water equation.
They make smaller dishwashers for 1 bedroom apartments. They’re very narrow so you can fill them up quickly.
Don’t pre-rinse, just scrape the bigger bits into the trash. If your dishwasher can’t handle it there’s something wrong with it.
it’s not about what the dishwasher can handle, it’s that it is disgusting to have decomposing food sitting in there, which it becomes after less than 24 hours
That’s why they said scrape into the bin. You shouldn’t have solid food sitting in your dishwasher, but you shouldn’t be rinsing solid food down your drain anyway.
Can’t say I ever had those problems, but fair enough.
in a single person household where you eat out frequently, it can take a week to fill the dishwasher. With food and drink remainders on dishes, it starts smelling after two days tops
I keep a dishpan with soap and water in my sink and first put dishes in there to soak. Once that fills up, I transfer them to the dishwasher. I don’t think this method adds too much extra water to the process.
There’s people (me, for one) who need the sink for other things (fetching tap water, cleaning countertops, cleaning pots / pans). Also, each to their own but I find it gross to have anything dirty in the sink for extended durations. Yes, also dirty dishwater.
Not if you wash using the lick-it-clean method
Life is too short to wash spoons with your hands.
