I think the “Run the dishwasher every night” ad campaign was because the dishwasher soap companies wanted you to buy more soap (detergent). Heck, we don’t even buy the pods, using liquid detergent instead (and about half a “dose”). The salesman who sold us a new dishwasher a few months ago actually recommended the liquid, in spite of what all the stickers and inserts in the new dishwasher. And the dishes still come out clean.
I run one dishwasher everynight. Sometimes both.
All skillets are hand washed.
So its just dishes.
Hey, I actually do this as well, avoid the pods, but I choose powder not liquid. I also never run my dishwasher on anything but the shortest, coolest water, cycle. And use just over half the amount of detergent they suggest.
Ditto with my washing machine, only run it on the shortest cycle, coldest water, and also with only half the detergent they suggest.
My dishes and clothing all come out spotless. Never an issue.
As a proud owner of three cast-iron skillets (pancake, pan, dutch oven) I beg to differ!
I wipe mine, never wash them…
This digression may need a thread in Café Society, so apologies.
So how do I clean a cast iron pan? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board
Sibling to rubber bands on the doorknob, is the kitchen drawer full of breadwrappers
Hmm. I never leave dishes in the dishwasher, because the stuff gets nasty, but I hate, hate, hate “pre”-washing. What’s the thing for?
I’m conscious about saving energy, and water, but I’m not as worried about wear & tear, because I RENT!
So, I run on hot with soap maybe twice a week, and them put them away, but every day, I run a cold rinse cycle without drying. It’s a setting on the dishwasher: “Rinse hold.” And I can turn off hot water and hot dry.
When my mother passed on and I was taking care of her estate, I used one plate, one bowl, one glass, one knife, one fork and one spoon.
Just did a quick hand wash after using them. Now this worked very well for just me. And I wasn’t cooking at her house. So that made it quite easy.
Can’t really do that with my wife at our current house. And we cook a lot at home. Have to. No close towns.
I like dark chicken meat, so I get the ten-pound bags of leg quarters. I bone and skin the thighs and freeze them to use later in many different ways. The legs get processed into cooked meat which I bag and freeze. All the bones and skin are pressure cooked into unctuous broth.
I put some of the broth into ice cube trays. I melt one in my dog’s dish and then add the cheap dry dog food. It makes it delicious and more nutritious for him.
I save the plastic shopping bags that are still given out here. Some I reuse when I go to Aldi. Others become trash bags. I can’t remember the last time I bought trash bags. Why buy things to simply throw them away? Trash bags are just gift wrapping for the landfill in my opinion.