"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> On 8/17/2017 3:13 PM, Casa de Masa wrote:
>> On 8/17/2017 1:10 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> On 8/17/2017 2:19 PM, Casa de Masa wrote:
>>>> On 8/17/2017 10:11 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>>>>>
>>>>> Our curent one is in its sixth year. We wash at last two loads per
>>>>> day.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Of dishes?
>>>>
>>>> How many people are you feeding?!?!
>>>
>>> There are two of us and I usually run it every other day.
>>
>> Really?
>>
>> You must use a lot of dishes, or perhaps you include pots and pans too.
>
> Two people three meals is six dishes. Perhaps a snack adds two more so
> now, for 2 days we have 16 dishes, four mugs, a few glasses. Add in a
> couple of mixing bowls and maybe pot, spatula, whisk and it is filled.
>
> I don't know how Wayne fills his twice a day, but he mentioned that
> everything goes in it. Large pans and pots take up a lot of real estate.
> My favorite pan is a 12" coated Wohl and most times I can just wipe it
> clean with a paper towel or a swixh of the sponge so it never goes in the
> DW.

My parents often ran the dishwasher twice in a day even with just the two of
them but they did a lot of things I did not. For instance, if I use a big
spoon to stir some powdered drink mix into a pitcher, I just rinse the spoon
off and put it away. Unless of course something seems to be clinging to it.
Then I would wash it and put it away.

If I use a tasting spoon and taste something three times while cooking, I do
one of two things, depending on what I am tasting. If it is liquid that I am
tasting, I might actually use the same spoon three times, perhaps rinsing in
between. The tasting spoon never goes into the pot. I would just use my
larger cooking/stirring spoon and drop a little of the liquid into my
tasting spoon, away from the pot of course. If I felt that I needed to put
the tasting spoon into whatever, I would then hand wash the spoon between
uses. My parents would use three different spoons, all of which would go
into the dishwasher. In fact when extended family came over for a meal, they
would sometimes run out of clean flatware before the meal was on the table
and would then have to pull some out of the dishwasher to hand wash for the
meal.

And snacks? If I'm going to eat a couple of potato chips, a cookie, piece of
cheese, etc. I just grab and go. Or sometimes in the case of the cheese, I
would have to use a knife or cheese slicer but in general, I like to keep a
small amount cut up so I can grab and go. But not them. They would actually
put the small amount of food on a plate, in a bowl or in some cases, even a
small, dry, measuring cup. I can remember my mom giving me her 1/4 cup metal
measuring cup with Mr. Salty pretzels in it as a snack when I was a kid.

If I use a measuring cup for just water, I wouldn't wash it. I see no need.
It was just water. They would wash it.

Cutting boards? I tend not to use them now unless I need a totally flat
surface. Mostly I use paper plates which do have a rim. But if I cut up
veggies, all of which are going into the same soup, stew, salad, etc. I
would use the same board/surface for all, perhaps only rinsing if for some
reason it got really gunky while I was working. I would of course wash the
cutting board when I was done. But them? One cutting board for the tomatoes,
one for the carrots, one for the celery, etc. All of which would be washed.
They also never cottoned to the idea of one board for meats and one for
veggies. So it wasn't really a matter of food safety.

I suppose I could go on and on here but basically they seemed to generate a
lot of things to be washed, that IMO, didn't really need to be washed or
even used in the first place!