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Originally Posted by rostasi
Are there only 5 dishes total in the house? If not, then you accumulate the number of dishes until you get a full load (not rinsed, BTW) even if it’s a weeks worth.
If you do only have 5 dishes total (and you have to quickly rotate them out for meals), then you can quickly wash them in the sink in order to use them right away, BUT, you need to wash them in the dishwasher every once in a while if you want them to be sanitized. Washing even a small number of dishes is less wasteful than standing at the sink running water. Even if you were able to use less than the 2 to 3 gallons of water total a dishwasher uses (for full loads!), you’re still using twice the electricity.
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How are you using electricity? You're running hot water, so I suppose it has to be heated by the central heating or whatever, but it would be anyway. Or you can boil a kettle. Either way that's far far less electricity than running a dishwasher. And do you think everyone stands at the sink and lets the water flow constantly while they're washing dishes? I fill up a small basin, squirt in the fairy liquid and wash the dishes in that. There's no way on god's green earth that uses a) as much water or b) as much leccy as a bloody big dishwasher, to say nothing of all the space it takes up, the cleaning of it and, as Chula says, the idea of dishes left sitting till there's a full load. I never have dirty dishes for more than maybe 5/6 hours in my house. Mind you, there's only two of us and not that much in the way of dishes, but I still wouldn't leave dirty ones around.