Re: Emptying the dishwasher
From: Katie Hymans (haikailigmail.com)
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 08:34:17 -0700 (PDT)
At Southside Park Coho in Sacramento, we’ve agreed that it’s the job of the
next common meal chefs to empty the dishwasher(s) as part of their prep for
the meal they’re making.

~ Katie Hymans

On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 3:20 PM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> > On Sep 9, 2023, at 12:52 PM, Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Sharon's post about swapping out the sanitizer for (how many?)
> residential
> > dishwashers piqued my interest.  We have one of each, now both 20yo so
> > perhaps needing replacement relatively soon.
> >
> > I am most interested in knowing who comes back and empties the
> residential
> > dishwashers? For all the nuisance aspects of the sanitizer, its best
> > feature imo is that everything gets put away immediately after it comes
> out
> > sanitized.
>
> Who empties the dishwasher delayed the decision to acquire one for years
> (literally). It was seen as a major drawback. Then we decided that emptying
> the dishwasher was a workshare job like any other and a person volunteered
> to check the dishwasher the day after meals. She was usually in the common
> house the next morning so it was not problem. That cleared the way.
>
> (I hadn’t thought of this until just now but somehow, having stray glasses
> and coffee cups sit on the dish table in the kitchen for days before the
> sanitizer was run was not considered a problem equal to that of someone not
> emptying the dishwasher.)
>
> In any event, the woman who volunteered to empty the washer as a workshare
> job moved to assisted living before it was installed, but I don’t think we
> have had any problem with making it the responsibility of the meal cleaners
> to return to empty the dishwashers the next day. This was more comfortable
> than returning later in the evening though some may do that, particularly
> if they are at a meeting or watching a movie in the common house.
>
> We do have two dishwashers so if one is clean and waiting to be emptied,
> the other is usually available for stray dishes. Only for large meals, like
> a holiday, would we have both dishwashers filled. Some people thought we
> would have to have 3 dishwashers to replace the sanitizer but 2 has been
> completely satisfactory. We did have to switch from Fiestaware to Corelle
> to fit everything in. I suspect there were some who were ready to switch
> anyway because the Fiestaware was getting so heavy.
>
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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