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Plates?
I never use the dishwasher. Yuk...I use disposable paper plates and use a dishwasher for regular dishes. I refuse to hand wash even a single dish
Plates?
The dishes are rinsed right after use and we have enough dish traffic to run the dishwasher every day.
It saves me tons of time to just fold the plate up and throw it in the trash verses rinsing, soaping, scraping, and drying, and still to find the plate with residue from the last meal still there.
It's too hard to argue the yuk factor because it's so different for each individual. We go thru enough dishes at my house that I have no problem with the dw. Most people keep their water heaters around 120 degrees and I know I can't stick my hands in water that hot--but my dw heats the rinse water up to 150 degrees (I believe residential water heater's upper limit is 140) Plus it has a food grinder and a disposal so there are no little chunks left--which can be pretty gross I think. So yes, an old dishwasher can be pretty yucky! But I just can't think of many things that gross me out as much kitchen sponges and cloths; no way I could handle slopping water around on my dishes with one of those.
As far as paper plates go I don't use them as much for serving as for preparing food. They're the best for cutting up raw chicken and meat. I'd much rather crumple up and throw out the chicken gloop than having it on my good cutting boards.
1. get a wife
2. if wife doesnt do it, get another wife
3. repeat step 2
4. buy paper plates because wife takes half of your dishes and you are now too broke to buy more dishware due to expensive divorce
5. repeat step 4
Paper plates for lunch (sandwiches, etc) or pizza. Real plates for everything else.
Maid washes the dishes.
I use plastic plates and cups.
I put the sponge in the dishwasher, too.
It seems like you are movin on up.
Still surprised that you could cut down on the metal spoons and forks you wash if you owned a metal spork. One tool that performs two jobs.
Last edited by NFO; 03-31-2010 at 06:56 PM.
Holy Baby Freakin Jeebus!!! I want one!!!
I read somewhere to put the sponge in the microwave to disinfect it.
uh...what do you eat that you use a spoon and fork for the same meal?
Even for peas, which I eat mayyybe once a year I can make do with a fork...
The idea is good though to save utensil drawer space I guess
you mean timvp?
No, we have a cleaning person twice a week.
Anything disposable is going to use far more resources than reusing something non-disposable. The paper to make the plates comes from trees, which means logging, transport, milling, more transport, pulping, bleaching (a very toxic process), processing, packaging, more transport, warehousing, more transport, retailing, and finally landfill. All of that means your paper plates have a significant environmental impact.
OTOH, a ceramic plate will last you 10+ years and you'll get thousands of uses off the one plate. It may take a bit more energy to make the plate in the first place, but you recover that 100s or 1000s of times over when compared to using disposable paper plates. I find it hard to believe that anyone would use paper plates except at a picnic or something similar.
As for dishwashers vs hand washing, it's highly variable depending on how you wash. A super-efficient new dishwasher will use 10-15L of water, whereas I use 5-7 washing by hand. As long as you have an efficient dishwasher and fill it up every time you use it (it will use the same water and energy empty as full, so always fill up before use), that seems okay to me.
I find it absolutely incredible the degree to which disposability has overtaken everything. Disposable products are a massive waste of resources on the one hand, and leads to huge quan ies of pollution on the other. It is a completely unsustainable practice.
That's what the plate is for...
You put the paper plate on a real one for support. I use a 10" round wooden cutting board, but I doubt everyone has one.
Combination of sinkwash and dishwasher.
Sink wash one at a time to keep stuff under control. When you come home and the sink is inevitably full as , and you just need them washed, then go dishwasher.
But Sinkwashing wastes more water than dishwasher. So the real choice is straight up dishwasher all the time.
Paper plates is just plain stupid.
Also its funny how kori goes out of her way to mention their maid in the club while the spurs forum turns into bird dung
Just so you know, I only mention it for mookie's benefit, so that he can continue to have things to scoff us about.
A predictably predictable response
Just sayin. Every post you've made the last three months either has the word "maid" or said something about how yall are top quality foster parent candidates.
Just please
seriously
tell timvp to take one second from making mad bank to salvage the spurs forum
We all know he's still watching games. Spurs Forum is turning to bird dong. Naturally noone can save it but him.
Just please
seriously
tell timvp to take one second from making mad bank to salvage the spurs forum
We all know he's still watching games. Spurs Forum is turning to bird dong. Naturally noone can save it but him.
It's just funny because
we all know he used to make mad bank and be on spurstalk 20 out of 24 hours a day
while watching all spurs games
now
he has two kids is still making mad bank and is still watching all spurs games
he can at least post for twenty minutes a day
that's like one hundreth of your day
True. We are still adjusting a little to the kids' schedule. The boy has only been here since Wednesday. But I'll tell him that he needs to step up and save SpursTalk.
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