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On Tuesday, 9 August 2016 21:42:12 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
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On Monday, 8 August 2016 13:22:45 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
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On Thursday, 4 August 2016 21:08:50 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
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On Thursday, 4 August 2016 09:01:42 UTC+1, Bod wrote:
On 04/08/2016 08:49, Andy Burns wrote:
Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk ;¬) wrote:

apparently "they don't make dishes
anymore" so we only have deep bowls

My (not ancient) crockery has rice bowls and cereal dishes, I
find
the
rice bowls far better for cereal, than the cereal bowls which
are
too
shallow and slosh out the sides to easily.

you'll appreciate the havoc that
causes trying to load the machine efficiently

Not really, no space for a washdisher here.

Washing up by hand only takes about 3 or 4 minutes with just the
two
of
us.

Even less with takeways. :-)

A Fishwasher is a waste of money to us and simply something else
to
go
wrong, also takes up unnecessary space.

I cod do with one when I'm really lazy

Can't see why I should be doing what a machine can do for me.

for me it depends on the machine.

It actually depends on how much work is involved in doing it by hand.

If it were significanlty less hassle then I'd think about a machine
but for me it wouldn;t be significanlty less hassle to have a
dishwasher.


Corse it would if you use it properly. Leave it open, put stuff in it
after
you have used it. When its something like full, close the door and run
it.


How long will it take to fill ?


In my case normally 9-10 days depending on what I've had for the
evening meal. Its basically full when all the full sized dinner plates
are dirty and the time that takes to happen varys a little depending
on what I have had for dinner. I dont use a full sized dinner plate
with every evening meal.

Even if your kitchen is so badly designed that you can't leave it open
even you should be able to manage to open the door to put some
more stuff in it after the meal and to close the door after doing that.


yes but what's the point.


The point is not ****ing 10 minutes of your time
against the wall washing up by hand after each meal.

I have alsom found that I don;t need a lareg array of knives.
I find the knife I use with my fish a chips can also be used for
spreading butter or magarine, it can cut burgers, cheese all
sorts of things, so I havent; found a need for lots of cultery
such as fish knives steak knives butter knives.


I prefer to use the appropriate knife for the job. I use steak
knives for eating most evening meals, but prefer a proper
knife for spreading the marg and marm on the ****ing
great slab of toast that is all I have for breakfast and for
the spreading the marg and relish on the massive great
salami and lettuce open sandwich that I often have
from the dome cut off the vertical loaf with the bread
fresh out of the bread machine.

I don;t need a milk jug either I have the skill to
poor mile out of teh bottle straigh into my cup.


I haven't bothered with milk for decades now and
when I still did I used the HUT milk in the cardboard
boxes lined with metal foil, no jug at all and straight
into the bin when empty.

I can still use a manual tin opener too a skill that few have it seems.


I still use one myself.

I can make a cup of tea all by myself I don;t need a teasmaid
they just seem more trouble than they are worth.

And only a fool thinks that about a dishwasher or washing machine.

I can wash a cup up too and much quicker than putting it in a dish
washers


Bull**** you can.


Yes I can. If you donl;t know how it;s done check this out.

http://www.wikihow.com/Clean-Cups


Nothing like as quick as putting it in the dishwasher.

adding teh detergent settig the cycle


Even a terminal ****wit such as yourself should have noticed that you
only have to do that when its close to full of stuff that needs washing.

then waiting around for it oot finish.


Even a terminal ****wit such as yourself should have noticed
that you dont actually have to wait around while it happens.


That;s teh problem I have to wait until its full.


Not a problem, you just need a few more plates etc.

I tend to rinse a used tea cup under hot running water,
empty that running water into the cup then empty it,
cup then ready to be refiled with hot water to make tea.


Even a terminal ****wit such as yourself should have noticed
that there is more involved than just the cup for the tea.


You mean a plate and a knife and fork.


Even you dont exist in just tea and whisky.

I run mine about every 9 days for the normal stuff and another run
for the full sized beer bottles we call long necks every 24 days.


I don't have one to run.


More fool you.


why,


Because its a lot easier and wastes a lot less of your time
putting stuff in a dishwasher and running it when its close
to full than washing all that stuff by hand after ever meal.


Doesn;t take me long at all a few muniutes at most.
How long is a dishwasher cycle ?


Irrelevant, you are doing something else when that happens.

Soemthing wrong with the washing machine at the WE.
took from friday 8pm to sunday 6pm to do a wash
although I turned it off at night.


Time to get it fixed.


If I get off my arse and fix the original one that is now
40+ years old and likely just has a scaled up solenoid
valve, I'll likely have two, mainly so I can just put stuff
straight into the appropriate dishwasher as it is used.

how many of yuo are there ?

One.

but you need two dishwashers.


Dont need two, I choose to have two.


The latest Bosch only cost me $50 at a garage sale
and works fine.

for me it'd be the running cost that would annoy me I suspect.

More fool you. It actually costs less to run than doing it by hand.

That's what they tell you


No one ever told me that.

have you actually worked it out for yourself.


Yep. And even if it didnt, the cost is so low that I'm not
actually stupid enough to do that by hand to save so little.


I wouldn;t to save money but it saves me time and
is more convient and quickwer to do it by hand.


Even sillier than you usually manage.