Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Commercial dishwasher

[Kathy Tymoczko (kathy.tymoczko]

We have a CMA-180UC sanitizer which we bought in the fall of 2018 to
replace our almost 10-year-old Hobart sanitizer.  The Hobart should have
lasted much longer but someone several years before bought the wrong
chemical and it corroded the metal.  We were very happy with the Hobart
until it leaked due to corrosion, and we've been very happy with the CMA.

The CMA was less expensive than getting a new Hobart, and works pretty much
identically.  It takes about 20 minutes to warm up and does a tray in
around 2 minutes.  Way faster than a home dishwasher (the one I have in my
apartment takes 90 minutes for a cycle) and throughput is much greater.
When we have 20 or more people at a dinner, all the dishes, flatware,
glassware, cookware go through the sanitizer in maybe 30-45 minutes.  It's
not hard to use (take out the "done" tray, slide in the next tray, and push
the "wash" button).

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 12:41 PM Chuck Harrison <cfharr [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll be the weird contrarian and say we're happy with our ancient Jackson
> commercial unit; 23 households, one or two common meals a week (pre-covid).
>
> We bought this from a used restaurant equipment dealer 20 years ago and
> it's probably turning 40 years old this year. Of course a year of cohousing
> use is like a week in a restaurant, so no surprise that it's lasted. We
> have been able to deal with the few problems ourselves (we've had a couple
> of mechanically handy residents); we mostly maintain our own laundry
> appliances as well.
>
> I think most of us are fond of the old beast and of the team aspect of
> keeping it fed during meals cleanup. Ours only takes 5-10 minutes to get
> steamed up, isn't too loud, and does a load in 90 seconds.
>
> I'm not saying I'd recommend against home dishwashers when this one finally
> gives up the ghost, but it's kind of a community member now :)
>
> Chuck
> Duwamish Cohousing, Seattle
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 12:17 PM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
> cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
>
> > > On Apr 21, 2021, at 2:50 PM, Katie Henry <katie-henry [at] att.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Can anyone recommend (or advise against) their commercial dishwasher? I
> > checked the archives but the posts all seem to be 10 or 15 years old.
> This
> > is for a community of 36 homes.
> >
> > As Joanie says, the discussion is old, but long and nothing has changed.
> > Sanitizers are big, loud, and not easy for everyone to use. And service
> > also has to be done a commercial service so you are competing with every
> > restaurant in the area. I seem to remember that they charged $300 just to
> > come out.
> >
> > We replaced our Hobart with two highend Kitchenaids and have never looked
> > back. Everyone knows how to use a dishwasher. Any of hundreds of service
> > people can install and fix them if ever required. They are all but
> silent.
> > And we never have dishes sitting around waiting for someone to fire up
> the
> > sanitizer. (Heating the water takes an hour.)
> >
> > We also switched from Fiestaware to Corell because it fit better. Maybe a
> > few times we had dishes left for anther run after the two were loaded but
> > only because they were super large celebration dinners. 43 households,
> and
> > about 30 people at a meal?
> >
> > Sharon
> > ----
> > Sharon Villines, Washington DC
> > Save Our Planet. It's the only one with chocolate.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Kathy Tymoczko
Daybreak Cohousing <http://www.daybreakcohousing.org>
Portland, Oregon
765-307-1083