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1) Get two dishwashers. Alternate them clean/dirty. Think of them as self-washing cabinets from sci-fi. 2) Get a laundry service or maid service. Save thousa
by CapitalistCartr 9y ago
1) Get two dishwashers. Alternate them clean/dirty. Think of them as self-washing cabinets from sci-fi.
2) Get a laundry service or maid service.
Save thousands of dollars.
- MollyR 9y agoThat first recommendation is pure genius!
- kayhi 9y agoI’ve thought about getting like 5 and replacing all cabinets. A lower end dishwasher is about the same as a custom cabinet $150-$300).
- thaumaturgy 9y agoAssuming an average repair rate of one fault every five years, you'll be needing to service or replace one of those dishwashing cabinets every single year.
- iambateman 9y agoNot quite. You would not quintuple your dishwashing usage, so you wouldn’t expect to quintuple your service requirements. But double, that I would believe.
- kayhi 9y agoThink of all the time savings of putting dishes away that’s what keeps me excited.
- booleandilemma 9y agoAt that point you could start washing your neighbors’ dishes as a service.
- bonesss 9y agoConnect those dishwashers to a cloud based backend, add in a little NLP onto the ordering interface, then slap an app and a nice slide deck on top and I think this KaaS offering could be ready for Series A funding before the summer :D
- modoc 9y agoThen introduce a new blockchain payment coin (might I suggest DishCoin?) and you're off to the races!
- roel_v 9y agoDon't skimp om dishwasher quality. You'd think 'hiw different can they be', but a cheap dishwasher is only slightly better than none at all (having to rinse, redoing things that weren't cleaned well, frequent breakage/blockage) whereas a good one is a life changer.
- crygin 9y agoI saw it done with a stacked pair of dishwasher drawers (e.g.: https://www.remodelista.com/posts/appliances-dishwasher-drawers/ https://www.remodelista.com/posts/appliances-dishwasher-draw... ) in a small apartment in Switzerland recently, with "clean" and "dirty" magnets that got swapped around -- there was no other dish storage. Pretty great. My other favorite is the Italian dish drainer (a few examples here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/759138080911631519 https://www.pinterest.com/pin/759138080911631519 ) -- basically the cabinet above the sink is a dish drainer with an open bottom.
- lobster_johnson 9y agoThe drying cabinet is actually a Finnish invention [1] (although apparently preceded by a US patent that never took off). It was popular in Scandinavia for a while, and you still come across homes from the 50-60s that have them, but they're no longer popular now that most people have automatic dishwashers. My family has a mountain cabin in Norway, built in the 1950s with no dishwasher, that have these, and they're very handy. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dish_drying_cabinet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dish_drying_cabinet
- Illotus 9y agoVery nearly every home in Finland has one these still.
- infinite8s 9y agoI never have enough dirty dishes to do a full dishwasher run, and I find I need new dishes before I've run a load, so now I just handwash and use the dishwasher as a drying rack.
- jaclaz 9y agoIn Italian it is called "scolapiatti", it may well have been patented in the US and be a Finnish invention (in the form suspended over the kitchen sink), but in Italy it has been a traditional tool since dishes were invented, it used to be an outside piece of furniture, more like a basket: https://maisonderose.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/cera-una-volta-lo-scolapiatti/ https://maisonderose.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/cera-una-volta... http://www.lasoffittaretro.it/classico/48-scolapiatti-in-ferro-battuto-codice-48-.html http://www.lasoffittaretro.it/classico/48-scolapiatti-in-fer... until houses had water (and thus sinks), I believe that as soon as sinks were installed in kitchens, the one or the other form of "scolapiatti" became in use, this is an early, primitive, type: http://www.comune.sangiorgiodellarichinvelda.pn.it/fileadmin/_processed_/csm_Scolapiatti_di_legno_rivestito_in_latta_4aed56ee2f.jpg http://www.comune.sangiorgiodellarichinvelda.pn.it/fileadmin... And this is another example: https://www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pict/192394042552_/AAX-PIATTAIA-SCOLAPIATTI-CREDENZA-PENSILE-CHABY-CHIC-ANTIQUARIATO.jpg https://www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pict/192394042552_/AAX-P...
- kbenson 9y agoThere exist single dishwashers that provide this capability, and they may suffice depending on your dishwashing needs and average load. 1: https://www.fisherpaykel.com/us/kitchen/dish-washers/dishdrawer.html https://www.fisherpaykel.com/us/kitchen/dish-washers/dishdra...
- woolvalley 9y agoI've read that the fisher paykel dishwashers have a lot of reliability problems compared to normal dishwashers unfortunately.
- ACow_Adonis 9y agoI recently bought an apartment after having rented a place with these drawer dishwashers. I considered it a non-negotiable to never live with them again if given the choice. The small ones just aren't practical if you cook. Put on some rice, boil some veggies, fry up some meat, and suddenly you're already out of room. You've not done cutlery, breakfast, lunch or desert. And god help you if you cook anything more complicated than that...
- eismcc 9y agoI doubt the dual dishwasher strategy works, as it’s unlikely that the clean dishwasher will get completely emptied and you’ll end up with both washers with dishes you want but sometimes mixed with dirty dishes.
- mentos 9y agoguess you could just clean the clean dishes again
- BearGoesChirp 9y agoShould I be ashamed of how quickly I considered this solution? It would be quite wasteful, but oh so lazy.
- speleding 9y agoget a third dishwasher :-) I actually have two dish washers and this is indeed a problem. We just clear out what's left into the cupboard. If your usage pattern is non-standard, for example because people come over, it also breaks down. But on the whole I'm happy with the time savings.
- mahmud 9y agoAm I the only one that washes dishes immediately after use? No need to even use the machine. Wash immediately after use, let them dry on rack, wipe and put away. Dishes and laundry are a total non-issue.
- Operyl 9y agoThere’s frequent times where I’m eating, about to wash my dishes, and something comes up at work (PagerDuty for example). This happens more times than I care to admit, and as a result I end up just chucking them into the dishwasher. Or if I have to leave in the morning and I’m running late, or if I had a large gathering of people.
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- flukus 9y agoI do too, with the help of scrubber with detergent (https://www.amazon.com/Cleaning-Scrubber-Dispenser-Dishwash-replacement/dp/B074W3JF8H/ref=sr_1_11_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1515984308&sr=8-11&keywords=dish+soap+scrubber https://www.amazon.com/Cleaning-Scrubber-Dispenser-Dishwash-...) it's a 10 second job. Being single means my plate and bowl can simply sit in the rack until next use. It's not a significant time sink, I spend way more than that cooking meals in the first place. Similarly, washing clothes is not a significant time sink, 99% of the process is done by a machine unattended, I only need to collect the clothes, transfer them from the washer to the drier and put them away afterwards. Or put them on a hanger to dry if they require ironing.
- nxc18 9y agoThe scrubber wand changed my life. Dishes went from being a complete pain to being tolerable and quick. It seems like such a simple thing, but it really does change the game.
- Fuckthisboard 9y agoYou are really cooking if it takes you 10 seconds. You are microwaving. That is not cooking.
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- rexpop 9y agoThen we're not really saving labor — we're just saving MY labor.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoAnd ensuring your upper-middle-class wealth is distributed properly instead of going to the 1% that build robots.
- freehunter 9y agoWhere are people getting kitchens that will fit multiple dishwashers? Even in my oversized Midwestern house, I'd be giving up a significant amount of storage space to rip out the cabinets to put in a second dishwasher.
- MR4D 9y agoI’m not the OP, but there are a few options. First, there is the space all your dishes take up. If you have another dishwasher, then they don’t fill up your cabinets, so net net, it’s the same amount of space. Secondly, there are drawer-typ dishwashers made specifically for this. They are way overpriced, but are really useful and pretty darn small. One or two of those and you really don’t need to put dishes away anymore.
- mattmaroon 9y agoTo your first point not really. If guess you could stack 2-3x as many dishes in a cabinet that takes up the same space as a dishwasher because you could arrange them to take up much less space. It doesn't take many plates and bowls to fill a dishwasher but that same amount wouldn't take up half the cabinet. But you could probably also get by with less.
- TYPE_FASTER 9y agohttps://www.remodelista.com/posts/appliances-dishwasher-drawers/ https://www.remodelista.com/posts/appliances-dishwasher-draw... I've heard that's how these are used, never tried it myself.
- BarkMore 9y agoI had the Fisher Paykel double dishdrawer and found that it works great. We loaded dirty in one drawer and took clean from the other. We always had to put a few clean items away when swapping drawers, but that's a quicker than unloading everything.
- wbillingsley 9y agoWe had some. Can't recommend them enough if you're a small family. They're also more flexible -- in a normal dishwasher you'd only put pots in the bottom rack, meaning if you've got a load of plates on you'd have to wait. Not so when either draw can be configured for anything and put on separately. Then we moved house, and the new one had an old regular dishwasher that often doesn't quite clean bowls properly -- can't quite bring myself to chuck out a working dishwasher to get dishdrawers, but if the dishwasher breaks any time soon...
- visarga 9y agoThe (1) makes me feel sci-fi and (2) brings me back to earth.
- AdamJacobMuller 9y ago> 2) Get a laundry service or maid service. Changed my life. I really hated having to do laundry.
- lsc 9y agoIn silicon valley, at least, a maid service that comes once a week is going to be north of USD$100/wk, and most of them say they don't do laundry for some reason, (though they can be talked into it) so a machine that could do what a weekly cleaning person could do could be pretty expensive and still be worth it.