Dishwashers

After having had dishwashers for decades I am currently having to do without one as I am living in a rented house with a tiny kitchen and no utility/laundry room. Mr absent hates this more than I do as washing the dishes is his job. As soon as we can buy a house, a larger kitchen with space for a dishwasher is a priority.

We never had a dishwasher when DS1 was born. I used to moan about it occasionally, but DH just rubbished me and said we didn't need one. When DS1 was four I was pregnant with DS2 and had to have bed rest for a week. DH was down to Currys quick as lightning and we had a dishwasher within the day! Should have taken to my bed years earlier! Wouldn't be without one now.

When we moved to this house I treated myself to a dishwasher and wouldn't be without one now. I never had one when my children were young, but I love it now and OH shares the loading and unloading.
I do wash all my saucepans by hand though, and I only use it when its full.

Wow why do you hand wash your saucepans tanith they are the worst! I didn't have one for the first two children then had terrible sickness for six months on baby no3 and as soon as I smelt the washing up liquid I was sick! Cue down to Comet ( as was then) and first dishwasher was bought. Haven't been without one since and that was 32 years ago. Even now living on my own in a small house I have space in the kitchen for a slimline one which is fine for me. ( it is on load after load when the family all visit) I wouldn't be without it for anything.

I never had a dishwasher till about 20 years ago - always thought the kitchens I had had previously were too small. However by then I had a big kitchen and I did almost all the washing up as I considered no-one else did it properly!!! I had remarried a year or so before and OH thought I did too much as I was working full time and just took me out to choose one - now I wouldn't be without one. I have had two Bosch in UK and my one here in France is also a Bosch - I think I will stick with them when this needs replacing as several people I know with other makes do not find them so good. Although mainly only two of us I fill it up and run it daily.

I got my first dishwasher 5 years ago, when I was 61.
Love it.

I got my first dishwasher when we had the kitchen refitted about 7 yrs ago. DD' s comment was "Huh, you wait till I've left home"

I have had dishwashers for about 30 years and agree about Bosch. The other two makes I've had were integrated into units and were not as good as the Bosch ones.

Nobody ever wanted to unload it ( especially teenagers) I timed unloading, under 2 mins!

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DH always loads and unloads ours as apparently I lack spatial awareness!

I bought our first one in the late 1990s . OH was not impressed for along while but eventually realised the usefulness.
We had a Philips which died under a warranty or a service contract. That was replaced by an Indesit. This failed after a couple of months. They tried to repair it but it appeared the just could not get the right part from the given stock number.

We upgraded on their replacement offer and bought a Bosch. Now 13 yes old. The only problem is the crockery rock is losing its prongs to rust and s new one is over £100s This seems a of of money to spend on s very old product which might soon fail.

I love my Dishwasher.

Agree! Life without a dishwasher now would be horrid. I had my first one when we were in our last married quarter in Folkestone, Theseus was in Kent and Canterbury hospital for over a month, and I was working in Bromley. I left home at 5.30 a.m. and wasn't getting back until about 9.30. too tired to do anything.

Once he'd been packed off to Headley Court, (long story) I treated myself to not only a dishwasher but also a microwave oven, and haven't been without either since then.

I never had a dishwasher throughout my married life although the kitchen was huge. Once I was on my own, that was one of many treats and I would not be without one now. I also wash my saucepans by hand, I feel that a dishwasher ruins them.

I use it for all sorts of jobs eg washing the glass shelves in my fridge and fridge /freezer- they come out sparkling and would not fit in my sink for me to handwash.

Charley Now thats what I call clean My fridge gets a spray and a wipe with a damp cloth.

The cooker hood filters also go in the dishwasher.

I'm finding that the cutelry basket is breaking up. Someone told me there are websites for cheap replacements. Must look. x

I was expecting no 3 and was a sick as could be , the Doctor was called , I was leaning over the sink full of saucepans , the draining board was full of crockery .She took me by the elbow and led me to a chair , told me to go to bed, looked at OH and told him to get a dishwasher . So glad I had a Lady Doctor . we have a Bosch at the moment and it is great , never seem to have room for the saucepans with having the grandsons for breakfast and tea so often

I've got a Bosch integrated one which we bought in a panic the Christmas before last. Not I know that the filter SCREWS down, it's brilliant. We had 3 engineers out to see what was wrong with it and not one of them spotted that the filter was sort of floating free. Then I sorted it!! (going to be a dishwasher engineer if I grow up!!)

We've had one since 1975 and I would rather be without a clothes washer than a dishwasher, at least until they start doing services washes for pots and pans! DD1 doesn't put her pans in the dishwasher either. I though that was the main purpose of them.

At my first interview for a Home Economics teaching job I was asked if I would have a dishwasher when I got married (asked of course by a male interviewer). My reply was 'No' as I would have a husband. When said husband went on to pastures new after 22 years I got a dishwasher and I know which I prefer !

My dishwasher broke down once and the repair man said "How long have you had this one". I said "Oh yonks". He said "I know it's an old model but it's so clean and cared for inside". Hubby chipped up "That's because she washes everything before she puts it in".

It's true I 'swill' everything clean before I put it in. I never wash pots and pans in it, still scrub them by hand. Honest I don't have OCD

Hubby says it's a God send for him because he soon learnt he never loads it correctly so he has a total let off clause even going near it. Talk about making a rod for your own back.

I bought one when I still had two late teens at home. Fed up with finding dishes piled in the sink when I came home from a hard day at the chalk face, I had a Hotpoint installed and never regretted it for a minute, though getting the DSs to unload the machine was an uphill struggle. When I downsized, my kitchen didn't have room for my beloved Hotpoint, but after a few years I had a new kitchen and priority was a dishwasher - a narrow one to fit the space available. A godsend when I had an arm in a sling for six weeks following shoulder surgery. And now 'the boys' have their own kitchens and dishwashers.

Pogs Swill instead of rinse I have not heard that word in yonks. Where abouts do you or did you used to live?

I come from Derbyshire and my mother used to " swill " everything, including herself. I had forgotten all about it but after lunch or dinner as it was called she would go up to the bathroom for a swill before changing for the afternoon.

Nellie

Originally Somerset.

When DD1 was born 33 years ago DH did the washing up in the evening whilst DD1 screamed. After 3 weeks he asked me to stay home one Friday afternoon as he had ordered some bricks to be delivered. No bricks but a dishwasher arrived. It was a Servis model which lasted about 13 years with assistance from some superglue to hold a vital washer together. Then I had a Phillips Aquajet - the cheapest one on offer when the Servis died. The Phillips lasted 12 years and then we lived in a mobile home for 3 years NO dishwasher. We built a new house and designed the kitchen, DH came out with a strange idea - TWO dishwashers. I have two Smeg slimline dishwashers which are brilliant.

I had to think this through when DH suggested 2 dishwashers - basically you never unload the clean china from the dishwasher and the dirty china goes into the second dishwasher until it is full - then you run the dishwasher and put the dirty china into the first one, etc.

Annsixty I picked "swill" up from my origins in Leicestershire. It was largely my Mum's family word. I don't like the word "swill" at all and stopped using it. To me it sounds like its mucky or dirty.

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=swill
Reading these definitions I can now see why I dislike it.