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There's 27.2 million households in the UK. Not exactly the kind of stats to keep me up at night.
Don't leave your dishwasher on unattended
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Does it not contravene building regulations having inaccessible switches for appliances?
All of my white-goods appliances have plugs under the worktop but they all have separate switches for the plugs in accessible places.
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I've never seen the point in Dishwashers. The time consuming part of washing up manually is the scrapping down of plates and putting them away. You still have to do this with a dishwasher, and more often they don't always do a great job..We actually found it more time consuming, inconvenient and costly after a while so when it did break down, we got rid.
Building regs are for new installs...That could have been done in the 80's
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I've never seen the point in Dishwashers. The time consuming part of washing up manually is the scrapping down of plates and putting them away. You still have to do this with a dishwasher, and more often they don't always do a great job..We actually found it more time consuming, inconvenient and costly after a while so when it did break down, we got rid.
For me personally, I have a small kitchen and I like have clear / clean worktops to prepare food etc. Rather than doing the washing up 3 or 4 times a day (breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea etc), I can just chuck the dirty crockery into the dishwasher and it's out of the way until it's full. Same goes for drying too.
Arguably a dishwasher is more hygienic too, as the water is constantly at 90c to kill bacteria etc.
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I've never seen the point in Dishwashers. The time consuming part of washing up manually is the scrapping down of plates and putting them away. You still have to do this with a dishwasher, and more often they don't always do a great job..We actually found it more time consuming, inconvenient and costly after a while so when it did break down, we got rid.
Hygiene. Our dishwasher can do 75deg heat to wash and a steam cycle to finish Try that in your sink
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You're doing something wrong if it's more time consuming! You shouldn't need to scrape or rinse the plates, just bin any big bits of food and stick it in the dishwasher. My dishwasher uses less water than doing it manually and they come out dry at the end too so it saves on drying time. I just stack things in the dishwasher when I've finished using them during cooking and flick it on so it's done for when I get up the next day. The come out much cleaner and I can load a whole days stuff in it so it only goes on once.
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I just wash as I go, don't need near boiling water to wipe/rinse a plate/pots/pans clean after using it and only takes 10 seconds and there's very little chance bacteria will have time to cultivate, unlike leaving it in a dishwasher for hours on end
Much of my cooking is with raw ingredients (and thus raw meat). You certainly need very hot water to get that properly clean.
Again, for me it just comes down to wanting to hide / get rid of clutter on the worktops. I might wash a glass after I've finished it, but my wife and kids aren't so regimented
It's much easier just to have somewhere to put dirty crockery.Bacteria has loads of time to cultivate in your scenario. A dishwasher should be able to get hot enough to kill all/most of the bacteria. Unlike had washing which is likely to leave some behind ready for cultivating in your cupboards.
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You still have to load it and unload and put things away..the only bit it does is the washing bit. which in the sink , is actually not that time consuming.. The tablets and machine cleaning products are ridiculously expensive.
as above.. you still a have to load it, in a particular manner, and put the items back in the cupboard.
The real question is:
why do people spend thousands of pounds on new kitchens and electrical accessories/appliances but plug it all into wiring that was last updated in the 80s.
tenner says the house that had that appliance fire had no rcd protection on the circuit or probably just relying on mcbs
why do people spend thousands of pounds on new kitchens and electrical accessories/appliances but plug it all into wiring that was last updated in the 80s.
tenner says the house that had that appliance fire had no rcd protection on the circuit or probably just relying on mcbs
I suspect that many people use the DW AS their cupboard.
Take clean stuff out, use it, put dirty stuff back. When you run out of clean stuff. operate DW!
No, the real question is why people spend thousands of pounds on kitchens and appliances and then never use them.
There seems to be an inverse relationship between the amount of money spent on a new kitchen and the actual amount of cooking done in it!
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Not worked out how to open the door?We've had a dishwasher for about 10 years. The manual is still in it's bag inside the thing
No, the real question is why people spend thousands of pounds on kitchens and appliances and then never use them.
There seems to be an inverse relationship between the amount of money spent on a new kitchen and the actual amount of cooking done in it!
true i spent bugger all on mine, yet seem to spend all my life in it either cooking or cleaning the bloody thing.
Well im upgrading mine next year as the one i have is 2nd hand. so hopefully more takeaways for me!