brooklyn1 wrote:

> "Nancy Young" wrote:
>> The Henchman wrote:
>>
>>> for clean dishes. To save a buck on hydro we let the dishes air dry
>>> instead of dw dryer.
>>
>> I think that's a total waste of resources, however you want to put it. I
>> never use heated dry.

Neither does my daughter. I approve. It may not save a lot, but if you can
save money by doing something that causes you no trouble at all, why not?

> I bet you use your clothes dryer instead of hanging your laundry to dry... I
> bet you sometimes use your clothes dryer to dry just a couple items,
> everyone does.

If you don't dry it fairly quickly in one way or another, wet cloth mildews.
Nothing bad happens to stuff that normally goes through a dishwasher if you let
it air-dry. When I was working, sometimes they would stress-test circuit
boards by running them through the dishwasher in the employee break room, which
I thought was clever.

I do laundry at the laundromat every couple of months. I dry only full
multi-loads. You lose.

> The clothes dryer is probably the single appliance that
> folks MISuse that wastes the most energy.... the vacuum cleaner is a close
> runner up.
>
> Perhaps you don't mind waking up in the morning to a dishwasher filled with
> wet dishes, but I don't want to start wiping dishes first thing in the
> morning before being able to put them away and I don't want to wait half the
> day with the dishwasher door open for the dishes to air dry and having to
> stack up dirty dishes because those in the machine are still wet, really
> negates the utility of owning a dishwasher.

You might ask yourself why it's so important that (a) dishes be put away on
some sort of schedule and (b) they be dry when you put them away and (c) there
be no dishes in the sink.

The good thing about dishwashers is that the dishes feel so clean after
processing. Squeaky clean. I'm not willing to wash them that well by hand,
and it's a real shame that there's no room in my kitchen for an electric
dishwasher. Barely enough room for a human dishwasher :-)

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