The purpose of the original dishwasher was not to save time but prevent damage: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-history/this-so...
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#12I doubt it. I have a dishwasher but don't use it. I wash and dry dishes by hand. It takes no more than 10 minutes to wash and dry two persons' dishes and cookware. I often cook and wash dishes at the same time! But I've been washing and drying dishes since I was a child and my early years of conscripted dish washing were spent learning to optimize washing and drying procedures. So I'm very fast and efficient. For a f…
No idea about the knives, but a huge non-US innovation is a drying rack. Wash the dishes, let them dry, put them away when you have time. If I had to dry them with a rag, I think my opinion would be different.
What do you mean by "non-US innovation"? I'm in the US and use a drying rack. I can't think of anyone I know in the US who doesn't use a drying rack.
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#13The purpose of the original dishwasher was not to save time but prevent damage: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-history/this-so...
The modern ones definitely don't do that. I'm an unusually clumsy person and my dishwasher chips or breaks at least 20 dishes for every one that I break myself.
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#14I like my dishwasher because:
1. It saves a huge amount of water.
2. It saves a lot of time for me.
That's basically it. If you feel you can spend the time without problems and water is not an issue in your area there is no need to get one.
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#15I went from not having a dishwasher to having one and it's fantastic.
I don't preclean anything, but I do follow the recommended loading procedure.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
No idea about the knives, but a huge non-US innovation is a drying rack. Wash the dishes, let them dry, put them away when you have time. If I had to dry them with a rag, I think my opinion would be different.
What do you mean by "non-US innovation"? I'm in the US and use a drying rack. I can't think of anyone I know in the US who doesn't use a drying rack.
People with dishwashers. Oh, wait... there's a drying rack inside the dishwasher!
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
No idea about the knives, but a huge non-US innovation is a drying rack. Wash the dishes, let them dry, put them away when you have time. If I had to dry them with a rag, I think my opinion would be different.
What do you mean by "non-US innovation"? I'm in the US and use a drying rack. I can't think of anyone I know in the US who doesn't use a drying rack.
Maybe different parts of the country? I’d never seen one until I left the US.
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#18The day I bought a dishwasher, I invited 8 people for breakfast, 8 people for lunch and 8 people for dinner.
You really don’t need to prewash anything...
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#19One point for dishwashers I haven't seen mentioned is that they get the dishes a lot cleaner than you ever could by hand, because very hot water. Gets the oils off much better than any amount of soap. For what it's worth.
First time I traveled to the US (I was 13) I thought there was something odd about the dishes... they felt strange. I told my host, I said "there seems to be a film of something that feels strange". He thought about it and said, "what you feel is the absence of something... the thin film of oil that you can't get off when you wash the dishes by hand, but the machine can." He was right.
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#20I got one for my parents so they don't have to do dishes anymore. While my original thought was to free them from something they have been doing for years, I must say I am surprised with the performance.
Definitely no need to pre clean like others have pointed out (I believe the dishes are steamed/heated before the cleaning cycle so the heat takes care of the heavy grease and stuff).
Uses less water, about 10 liters/ 2.5 gallons per cycle.
May be I am taking a high ground here, but why do you want spend time doing dishes if you could afford a Dishwasher? Do something better?
Overall, I would say a Dishwasher would be useful even for a family of 2.