Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: Dishwashers

[David Mandel (dlmandel]

I'm with my neighbor Liz on this one, and even more so. To those who are
saying the regular dishwasher takes too long: What makes you think you have
to sit around and wait for it to finish? Start it and go home once you're
done with the rest of cleanup.
Now for the even more so: For the first several years, my well-disciplined
cook team did fine with only one regular dishwasher, even after large,
well-attended meals: Starting cleanup, we'd load it up and start it first
thing, then wash pots, put away leftovers, clean tables, counters, stoves,
etc. By then, the 45-minute cycle was through, so we could empty it, refill,
start and leave. No wasted time waiting for it to finish.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Stevenson" <tamgoddess [at] attbi.com>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_Re: Dishwashers


>
> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> Cohousing-L mailing list
> Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org  Unsubscribe  and other info:
> http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L
>


_______________________________________________
Cohousing-L mailing list
Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org  Unsubscribe  and other info:
http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L