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Mine is to have a cleaner - my only extravagance. It does worry me that my kids have never seen me hoover or clean a bathroom Ive always wanted 2 dishwashers -

Mine is to have a cleaner - my only extravagance. It does worry me that my kids have never seen me hoover or clean a bathroom Ive always wanted 2 dishwashers - one clean, one dirty - then cycle them. So the as the clean dishes get moved they get moved to the dirty one, then repeat We've all got to have dreams

crispyporkbites 9y ago
The dishwasher idea is the dream. My wife just doesn't get this concept somehow though!
ptman 9y ago
How about a dual dishwasher? https://www.remodelista.com/posts/appliances-dishwasher-drawers/ https://www.remodelista.com/posts/appliances-dishwasher-draw...
BozeWolf 9y ago
Dont go with two dishwashers! Thought of this too. You need three. Seriously. You need one extra. Having two only works in theorical or lab situations. 1 for clean dishes 1 for dirty dishes 1 for “overflow” of dirty or clean dishes you will endup in the situation where two dishes are clean and spread over two dishwashers. This is a serious problem. You have no place to immediately put your dirty coffee cup away, without emptying one of the dishwashers. Emptying one is not a good solution. It defeeds the purpose of having more then one dishwasher. Putting the cup temporarily in the kitchen sink defeeds that purpose as well.
- mrfusion 9y ago
  I was actually looking into buying extra dishwashing racks. Just take it the whole rack of clean dishes and store that somewhere. Put in an empty rack and load it up. Could it work!?
mseebach 9y ago
It seems to me that the two-dishwasher setup only work if you only have a small, consistent set of tableware, and you use it at a consistent rate (you use close to the entire contents of the dishwasher before you need any of the dirties again, otherwise you'll still be emptying and putting things away). But emptying a dishwasher load of consistent plates and bowls is very quick, so it seems to me like you can you can get 80% of the benefit of the two-dishwasher setup simply by rationalising your tableware for consistency and easy unloading and storage (have everything in the same cabinet right next to or above the dishwasher). If you have five cabinets full of a myriad of variations of bowls, trays, plates, cups, glasses, widgets, pots and pans that you use at uneven rates, even two dishwashers won't be very helpful.
- roryisok 9y ago
  My biggest gripe with the dishwasher is that things come out of it wet and need drying by hand. Modern dishwashers don't have a drying element anymore. However, just today I read here on HN that plastic items don't dry as well as metal, glass, ceramic. Knowing this will hopefully make a big difference from now on as I can either take these things out immediately after they finish to dry on the counter
  - mrfusion 9y ago
    Hmm try increasing your water temp and or running the hot water for a couple minutes before starting a load. The residual heat helps dry the dishes. There’s also a post detergent thing you can buy that helps evaporation by breaking the surface tension.

crispyporkbites 9y ago

The dishwasher idea is the dream. My wife just doesn't get this concept somehow though!

ptman 9y ago

How about a dual dishwasher? https://www.remodelista.com/posts/appliances-dishwasher-drawers/ https://www.remodelista.com/posts/appliances-dishwasher-draw...

BozeWolf 9y ago

Dont go with two dishwashers! Thought of this too. You need three. Seriously. You need one extra. Having two only works in theorical or lab situations. 1 for clean dishes 1 for dirty dishes 1 for “overflow” of dirty or clean dishes you will endup in the situation where two dishes are clean and spread over two dishwashers. This is a serious problem. You have no place to immediately put your dirty coffee cup away, without emptying one of the dishwashers. Emptying one is not a good solution. It defeeds the purpose of having more then one dishwasher. Putting the cup temporarily in the kitchen sink defeeds that purpose as well.

mrfusion 9y ago
I was actually looking into buying extra dishwashing racks. Just take it the whole rack of clean dishes and store that somewhere. Put in an empty rack and load it up. Could it work!?

mseebach 9y ago

It seems to me that the two-dishwasher setup only work if you only have a small, consistent set of tableware, and you use it at a consistent rate (you use close to the entire contents of the dishwasher before you need any of the dirties again, otherwise you'll still be emptying and putting things away). But emptying a dishwasher load of consistent plates and bowls is very quick, so it seems to me like you can you can get 80% of the benefit of the two-dishwasher setup simply by rationalising your tableware for consistency and easy unloading and storage (have everything in the same cabinet right next to or above the dishwasher). If you have five cabinets full of a myriad of variations of bowls, trays, plates, cups, glasses, widgets, pots and pans that you use at uneven rates, even two dishwashers won't be very helpful.

roryisok 9y ago
My biggest gripe with the dishwasher is that things come out of it wet and need drying by hand. Modern dishwashers don't have a drying element anymore. However, just today I read here on HN that plastic items don't dry as well as metal, glass, ceramic. Knowing this will hopefully make a big difference from now on as I can either take these things out immediately after they finish to dry on the counter
- mrfusion 9y ago
  Hmm try increasing your water temp and or running the hot water for a couple minutes before starting a load. The residual heat helps dry the dishes. There’s also a post detergent thing you can buy that helps evaporation by breaking the surface tension.