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What is with that guy in the article desperately trying to advocate for hand washing dishes? He really tries to rationalize the joy of hand washing to the point
by nemo44x 5y ago
What is with that guy in the article desperately trying to advocate for hand washing dishes? He really tries to rationalize the joy of hand washing to the point I feel really happy for him. He found joy in a mundane, mildly awful task but it also feels darker for a reason I can’t quite pinpoint. Like an OCD thing?
- Veen 5y agoI don't know, I quite enjoy washing dishes by hand. As someone who spends most of the day typing in front of a screen, it's nice to do a fairly mindless manual task and let my thoughts wander.
- fuzzfactor 5y agoIf you wait to fill the dishwasher with its routine contents before running it, this is supposed to save the most detergent & water. Now if you have at least two of every item that could be likely to be "in the dishwasher" at any one time, it would be ideal to also have maybe another whole dishwaher's load of cabinets & storage space to put it in. That way you will actually have enough extra space to store basically two full loads of duplicate kitchenware when the dishwasher itself is truly empty. You've got to have all these duplicate items and handy space and it barely cuts the odds in half that the item you want is going to still be in the dishwasher anyway. At least that's how it works in the chemistry laboratory. And if it needs to be analytically clean it's possible to make the data more meaningful by hand-washing the high-stakes items.
- yxwvut 5y agoI think the thinly-vailed condescension over people who use a dishwasher is what rubs me the wrong way, as though using a more energy and time-efficient method to avoid a monotonous unnecessary task is a vice, or that hand-washing dishes is somehow promoting social harmony (in a way that isn't substitutable with a less pointless activity).