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I remember being all excited when I moved in to the present Casa Azahar two years ago and saw there was a functioning dishwasher. It certainly came in handy after moving and unpacking. After that I stocked up on dishwashing pods (2 for 1 offer! because man, those things are expensive) but after an initial flurry of frequent-ish use, I stopped. There just never seemed to be enough washing up to justify using it (though my friend Gabriella tells me they actually use less water than washing a few things out in the sink).
Anyhoo… earlier this month I wanted to use it but it had been, um, maybe a year since the last time? So I put some stuff in that I don’t eat from (dish draining tray, utensil holder, etc) to put it through a cycle to clean the thing out first. Then I was going to use it again yesterday and wondered if I should run it through a cycle again first as it had been three weeks. So… halp!
If a dishwasher isn’t being used frequently, how often should it be cleaned out by running it through a cycle? Or does it have to be? Also, those detergent pods I stocked up on? They’re looking kind of weird now. Do these things go off?
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Like you I find that we normally don’t have enough dirty dishes to use our dishwasher everyday. But I don’t like to lave them until yhere are enough cos it get smelly quite quickly. However, when I broke my wrist I found that if I was going to wash heavy saucepans or cheap glasses it was safer to use the dishwasher for the slippery little things than hand wash. When I haven’t use it for a few days I put in a cup of bleach and run the machine empty to freshen and sanitise. If you don’t have a ready source of bleach just put on the hottest wash , with soap and, as you say stuff you don’t eat off, and run it once. Then wash the seals thoroughly with hot soapy washer, clean out to soap dispenser and you’re good to go,
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Bleach? Wash the seals (where are they?) and the soap dispenser? Every time after just a few days?? I think I’ll just stop using it.
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Sorry, can’t help you there. I’ve not used a dishwasher since the 1980s.
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They have always seemed quite extravagent to me, especially for just one person, or even two. But in Spain they are commonly found in rental apartments, along with washing machines. They hardly ever have ovens though.
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I have them in nearly every flat I’ve ever lived in here in the US, and they’ve always been a glorified drying rack frankly… Agree. I guess people are just too lazy to spend a few minutes to hand-wash things.
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I don’t have this problem with the bowl in my sink 😀 But I actually enjoy getting my hands in hot soapy water and washing up manually.
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In my 2-3 Casa Az I had double sinks in the kitchen. HEAVEN.
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