> My dishwasher isn't so that I have clean dishes before the next meal. It's so that I have a clean kitchen after. So much this! My first act in preparing a

> My dishwasher isn't so that I have clean dishes before the next meal. It's so that I have a clean kitchen after. So much this! My first act in preparing a meal is to empty the dishwasher so that I can rinse stuff and put it in the dishwasher as I go. Sometimes, it gets full between meals, so having the "fast" cycle lets me get dishes clean and the washer emptied before I start the next meal. This article is a great example of the "I don't understand who might want it, so therefore it's not worth doing" mentality of many folks.