Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Dishwashers & Sanitizers

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

It's hard to be avid about a residential dishwasher if you often have 35 to 
45 and sometimes over 50 diners, especially if there's more to wash than 
just dinner plates - that is, extra dishes like soup bowls and dessert 
dishes, not the big pots and pans which need to be hand washed regardless. 
Yes, our commercial sanitizer is noisy and you have to keep loading and 
unloading it and also pre-wash the dishes, but it seems to be the only 
feasible way to clean up after that kind of crowd.

    Muriel at shadowlake Village

At 10:14 PM 11/12/2010, you wrote:
> On 12 Nov 2010, at 1:20 PM, Douglas G. Larson wrote:
>
> > We have three Kitchen Aid residential style dishwashers and we do 
> pre-rinse.
>
> How large are your dinners?
>
> > I have no personal, direct experience with commercial (sanitizers) 
> machines,
> > but I have observed a Meiko brand at a local Cooking Class establishment.
> > They have Meiko model FV40.2 and its  an under-the-counter style but does
> > dishes in about 3 minutes or less.
>
> How noisy is it? Can people talk comfortably around it?
>
> I'm wondering if we just bought a new-used sanitizer if it would be 
> quieter. Ours was used when we bought it in 2000.
>
> What I'm hearing here is avid sanitizer users with others saying less 
> avidly that residential machines do the job and are quieter. Am I reading 
> this right? There don't seem to be _avid_ residential dishwasher users.
>
> Sharon
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