Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Residential Dishwashers

[Jessie Kome (jehako]

Hi-

Here at Eastern Village Cohousing, we have both an under counter commercial 
dishwasher (that gets hot enough to kasher dishes) and a residential 
dishwasher. The commercial dishwasher has a four minute cycle and is used after 
community potlucks and meals and all dishes are put away right away. The 
residential dishwasher is used by guests leaving coffee cups, children or 
nannies leaving juice cups, and occasionally members as well. Frequently, the 
kitchen stewards end up running the residential dishwasher, or unloading it. 
Users try to remember, but human memory is frail. We are very good at 
forgetting.  I am one of the kitchen stewards and I don't mind the occasional 
miss, but not all the stewards are so sanguine about it. If forgetting to run 
or unload the dishwasher would cause friction in your community, I would opt 
for an under counter commercial unit.

-Jessie Handforth Kome
Eastern Village Cohousing
Where it took me four conversations to get through the courtyard after work one 
beautiful, warm evening last week.



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> On Mar 13, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> I’m writing a proposal to replace our (nonworking) sanitizer with two Bosch 
> high end dishwashers. Those who like the sanitizer say it is totally 
> impractical. Those who don’t like it say anything but a sanitizer — we’ll 
> figure it out.
> 
> So:
> 
> 1. If you have residential dishwashers, how many?
> 
> 2. How many people do you usually cook for? And how many people are too many 
> to get all the dishes in your washers?
> 
> People are afraid of having to come back later in the evening to empty the 
> dishwasher or people will put dishes in the washer when it has clean dishes 
> in it. We often have people having small meals in the CH and leaving dishes 
> around since we want them sanitized and not hand washed. 
> 
> Sharon
> ----
> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
> 
> 
> 
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