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.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.