Cohousing-L Mailing List: Dishwasher

[Casey Morrigan (cjmorr]

Here at Two Acre Wood we went for a commercial model that doesn't have racks
that you remove - you load it up like a home dishwasher and it has a long
cycle that supposedly sanitizes the dishes (it's a Bosch).  We listened to
people from other places talk about the rack loading and unloading, etc.

So, we usually have around 25 to 30 people at a common house meal and the
dishwasher doesn't always hold all the dishes from the meal.  We hand wash
them cuz we can't leave them out and wait while the dishwasher completes its
75 minute cycle. By that time we've all gone home.    More work.

Our purchase (which was financed by an off site member, by the way,) was
consistent with what we wanted at the time (higher value on sanitation, ease
of loading; no counter space to handle the racks of a commercial and fast
dishwasher) but now I do indeed wish we had two plain old dishwashers.  That
washing by hand adds to clean up and I think the easier cleanup is the more
likely it is that you'll want to cook and the more you'll have meals.  "And
that's a good thing." :)

The other element that we don't have in our CH kitchen that has become as
important as the dishwasher question:  we don't have a deep and wide sink to
handle big pots and pans.  So it's hard also to wash up those big ol'
things.  No dishwasher can handle that (right? someone will correct me if
that's not so) and so, here is a friendly reminder that there are some
elements of a commercial kitchen that make life easier, like the big sinks,
(more than one if you can pull it off) and in my experience with cooking and
cleaning they can really be worth it.

Casey Morrigan
Two Acre Wood
Sebastopol California





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