Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: Dishwashers

[Dahako (Dahako]

Hi all -

Sorry gang, this reminds me of the paint color arguments.  Sounds as if some 
people place a high value on having a dishwasher that lets them completely 
clean up the kitchen and leave nothing from the previous meal for the next team 
to deal with.  And some place a high value on having a homier kitchen and 
spending less money on a dish machine. 

Who's right?  Everyone, as usual.  This will be a good thread for forming 
communities to help them figure out what they value and design themselves a 
workable kitchen.

For the record - I've worked in a busy restaurant kitchen with a slide-in 
commercial dishwasher that unloaded into a cart, in my mother's wedding 
catering gigs with a single residential dishwasher and a regular sink, and in a 
cohousing common house with a waist-high lift-the-tray-in commercial 
dishwasher.  Up to about 35-40 settings, I think the residential set-up is fine 
if no one needs the dishes for immediate subsequent use.  For larger groups 
than that, or if you need to turn the plates around for an immediate subsequent 
event (as in a restaurant or occasionally in my cohousing group), my preference 
would be for the slide-in commercial model.  The tray lifting design isn't one 
I'd want to do again.

My two cents -
Jessie Handforth Kome
Eastern Village Cohousing
Silver Spring, Maryland
Where we just did the common house programming workshop but haven't talked 
about dishwashers yet.  
http://www.easternvillage.org
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