We use our dishwasher for plates, cutlery, cups, glasses and cooking tools. It’s probably run every second day. There are two of us.
Pots, pans, etc get hand washed at the end of the evening.
Pretty much the same here. Our household is two adults and a toddler. I think we run the DW once a week, or maybe 3 times every two weeks.
That’s pretty much our MO as well, although it’s 2 adults, a small boy and a toddler in our house.
In general on most nights, everything will fit in one load, although usually if there are large or ungainly dishes of some sort, they get hand-washed, while the smaller stuff goes in the dishwasher.
My wife and I are a little of everything when it’s just the two of us, but we have some family staying with us now and it’s a load a day at the moment.
It’s just the two of us, but I cook a lot, so most days we have a full load to run. If not, the dishes sit in the dw until it’s full. I try to clean the kitchen between every meal, but that doesn’t always happen. Never dishes piled in the sink for more than a few hours.
Washing by hand is fine, but the dishwasher is as efficient and washes at a higher temperature. You might prefer that for things like plastic to-go containers and other greasy items.
If you use the dishwasher you find that you spend quite a bit less time with your hands in the sink. That’s a bonus.
There are two of us in the household (not counting the critters) and depending on whether/how much I cook, it could take 3-4 days to fill the dishwasher, or I could do 2 loads in a day. But if they accumulate, it’s in the dishwasher.
Run the dishwasher when full, usually twice a week.
Hand wash items that can’t go in the dishwasher, daily.
I have a dishwasher but have never used it, literally not once, in 19 years at my present address.
I would say over 98% of my dishes are hand washed before I go to bed. Maybe over 99%. Those I don’t get to are only stuff like a knife sticking out of a peanut butter jar, and dishes with a few crumbs on them.
While growing up, I was the dishwasher.
As an adult, I loathe and refuse to wash dishes by hand. I rinse dishes and put them in the dishwasher. I run a full load every couple of days. My stuff and the cats’ food bowls.
There’s generally a dichotomy of what goes in the dishwasher and what gets washed by hand. Generally only things that are eaten off of or drank out of go in the dishwasher and anything in which food is cooked or stored is washed by hand. This tends to be because we may need to re-use the cooking apparatus before we run the dishwasher, which is whenever we need clean dishes or don’t have room for more, and which comes first depends on the distribution of eating habits in the past few days. We only have one set of pots and pans, but plenty of extra plates.
No dishwasher here either. We wash things as we use them . . . more or less.
Live alone - wash dishes (by hand - no dishwasher) once a week unless I need to re-use a pot or pan.
Brian
When I lived alone I would let them pile up for a few days before handwashing. Now I am in a share house I do my dishes pretty much immediately after the meal. We don’t have a dishwasher. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever lived anywhere with one.
We wash dishes as they are used. The dishwasher gets used for dinner parties, holiday meals, etc.
Once a month or so we will purposely use the dishwasher just to keep the seals from drying out. Really, the work in rinsing dishes is just shy of hand washing them.
No dishwasher at my house, so all are handwashed.
Breakfast dishes - which in my case are usually a plate and cup, and in his a paper towel so really they’re just mine - are rinsed and put in sink. Ideally I wash everything once per day, but sometimes I don’t of one reason or another, but I try to hold to once a day.
With two people working from home, it’s a rare, rare day that we don’t have a full load (or more) and run the dishwasher. General habit is to run it overnight, I empty it in the morning while I wait for the coffee to brew, and then we put dirty dishes in as they accumulate during the day.
I hand wash, my kitchen is too small to accommodate a dishwasher. When I had my new kitchen put in, I had the option of a dishwasher but I rejected it in favour of maximising the storage space.
There are four of us, so the dishwasher is run once, sometimes twice a day. The kids carry their lunches to school. Since they have the Rubbermaid Lunchblox boxes, I make sure to run a load in the evenings for their lunch dishes and Thermoses.
If it can go into the dishwasher, it goes in, including my metal pots and pans. Non-stick pans are hand-washed, as well as anything that doesn’t fit.
Why would I rinse before putting dishes in the dishwasher? Used cutlery, bowls, dishes, etc go straight into the dishwasher. Pots and pans tend to get hand-washed.