I love cooking, and I cook every day for me and my wife (home office since 2008 helps there), and I love hearing about new things. I have the book “The Science of Cooking” which was fascinating.

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    But water?

    Give me a number. I use 6-8 L of water no matter how many dishes I have. From what I read, that’s about in line with the most efficient dishwashers.

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      1 year ago

      You did say earlier that you cook once a day, meal for two. When I do that, all dishes for the day take a third of the maximum load on my machine, so I could wash once every three days, therefore averaging like 3 L per day tops? You handwashing every day are spending 6-8L daily which is more than double.

      If it is true that you can spend <8L for an arbitrarily large amount of dishes, though, then I guess there must be an amount of dishes that you will outperform a dishwasher. They cannot handle an infinite amount of dirt, unfortunately. If you hand wash every 7 days you will be averaging less than 1L a day which really does sound unbeatable.

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        1 year ago

        I really don’t understand why people get so aggressive when talking about their dishwashers.

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          1 year ago

          One of many of life’s mysteries, such as why people get defensive about their water usage due to handwashing.

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            1 year ago

            Only I wasn’t, and I didn’t insult you. But I have no more interest in discoursing with you.