Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>> "Serene Vannoy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>>> The way I figure it, the dishwasher is for cleaning dishes, not for
>>> storing dirty ones, so when I'm in a house with a dishwasher, I load and
>>> run it after each meal. It uses less water than handwashing, and I don't
>>> save up the handwashing until there's enough for a sink of water, so I
>>> see no sense in waiting until the dishwasher is full.
>>>
>>> Cheryl Mendelson, the author of _Home Comforts: The Art & Science of
>>> Keeping House_ agrees with me. It's more sanitary and orderly to do the
>>> dishes right away.
>>>
>>> Serene
>
> Given how caustic the detergent is, everything will be sanitary when done.
> We run ours when near full, often every other day. We also don't put mounds
> of food in there on the dishes.
>
> Who gives a rat's ass about orderly?

I do. I want the dishes to be clean and put away so that people can find
them. I want people to know whether the dishes in the dishwasher are
clean or dirty without having to go in and inspect them. (Note that I'm
not saying anyone else should want things this way, but I do.)

> A dish is a dish and doing four rather
> that two does not make anything more or less orderly. Sounds like an OCD
> problem with Ms Mendelson.

Nonsense. Having all the dishes clean and put away may not be important
to you, but that doesn't make it a disorder for those of us to whom it's
important.

Serene

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