We have automatic dishwashers now. During WW1, a relative of mine was sent from the city to help on a farm. After dinner, the family lined up all the platters

We have automatic dishwashers now. During WW1, a relative of mine was sent from the city to help on a farm. After dinner, the family lined up all the platters and plates and put them outside, where a herd of hungry cats would lick them clean. Presumably they were rinsed afterwards, but nobody ever told me. There are qualitative differences in results independent of time savings...