Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: Dishwashers

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

I disagree. (Of course!)

We have handled larger groups than 60, though not on a regular basis. If you
have thin dishes that fit neatly in the dishwasher, there's absolutely no
need for more than two residential ones. Most of the time, we can fit it all
in one. The second is for larger meals, or those using both bowls and
plates. We have NEVER needed to run them more than one time in TEN YEARS of
hosting big gatherings. At regular meals with 40 people, the second one is
often superfluous.

> 
> Well, I had to laugh at Liz' post "That's my story and I'm sticking to it."
> Here is my 25 cents on dishwashers. I would get the commercial one because
> it makes clean up faster. We are a community of 32 households, who often
> have 60 people for common meals, and if we had 2 homestyle dishwashers we
> would have to wait through several cycles on both of them in order to wash
> all of our dishes from the meal.

Just curious: how do you know if you never tried it?

What will you do when your backs give out? Move to a retirement community?

>As it is, clean up people feel it takes too
> long, and that's with a Hobart that does a load in about 3 minutes. Now, one
> person is mopping, while another wipes tables, and the 3rd is loading and
> unloading the dishwasher. We couldn't just "leave the plates till the next
> day" as someone suggested. So, I don't know anything about how much water
> each uses, and I agree with Liz that they can be noisy and hard on your
> back, but I'm attached to ours not because we chose it, but because it is
> functional whereas 2 homestyle ones wouldn't be in our large community.
> 
> Terri Hupfer
> Pleasant Hill Cohousing, CA

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