Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Dishwashers & Sanitizers

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

Muriel and all -- 

This has been an illuminating discussion about dishwashers and sanitizers. 

The piece that's missing for me in helping to form a judgment is ... how many 
dinners per week are you having and the average number of participants.

If you have 2-5 dinners per week serving 35+ people I can see how a commercial 
DW would be useful.  One dinner for 20 people or 30 people?   Ummm.   Even two 
dinners for 30 people?  Five dinners for 15 people?

I dunno.  What's your experience out there?

Best --

Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC
Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
Falls Church VA
703 663 3911

On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Muriel Kranowski wrote:

> 
> 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
>> ----
>> Sharon Villines
>> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
>> http://www.takomavillage.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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