Is there a real difference in water and electricity consumption? Personally, I don’t use a lot of water to wash my dishes (by hand), but maybe I should install a flow meter to make sure.

What is your opinion on the subject? Do you have any evidence or studies available that could confirm your intuition? Or do you have other alternatives in mind?

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    41·
    17 hours ago

    I usually do both because I have never had a dishwasher that actually cleans anything off the dishes, no matter what I do or what cleaner I use. I am at the point I think they’re a myth propagated by Big Dishwasher. JK… or am I! Yeah, they probably do exist, but just for everyone else but me.

    • grapefruittrouble@lemmy.zip
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Unless your dishwasher truly has something wrong with it, there’s just a few things you should do every time for it to work flawlessly.

      • remove big food particles off dishes (sauces, peanut butter is fine)
      • if your dishwasher and sink share the same water line, most likely they do, run the sink until it’s hot before running the dishwasher
      • put detergent in the actual dispenser and close it, it serves a purpose
      • avoid using pods, powder detergent works fine
      • clean filter regularly

      those are the main things. if you really want to nerd out then check this video out.

      Technology Connections provides great explanation of how they work and goes way more in depth on how to properly use a dishwasher, especially with detergent. honestly he provides great content on most things we use in our daily lives and is worth checking out.

    • ChexMax@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 hours ago

      My dishwasher used to be for sanitizing only - id have to hand wash first, but now I use the Kirkland pods and I don’t even rinse things. I used to also think dishwashers were a scam.

    • southernbrewer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      16 hours ago

      I was the same, dishwashers seem mostly pretty crap at eashing dishes. I’ve had about 6 different ones over the years and they never seem to save much time because you basically have to clean the dishes before you put them in anyway.

      But we finally got a good one. It wasn’t cheap but I can at least recommend this one: https://www.bosch-home.co.nz/en/mkt-product/dishwashers/built-in-dishwashers/underbench-dishwasher-60-cm/SMP6HCB01A

      Now I just scrape food off but dont bother with a heavy pre-rinse or scrub (except for things like dried eggyolk which still never comes off without a decent scrub)