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Two Dishwashers

Category: Kitchen
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When it comes to dishwashers, I have a problem - I hate having to put the dishes away once they’re clean. So here’s the somewhat decadent solution – install two dishwashers in your kitchen instead of the orthodox one.

This means that once your dishes are clean, the dishwasher in question is assigned the role of cupboard. When you want to chow down on some Weetos or Cornflakes, just take out a bowl and spoon from the dishwasher/cupboard, and upon finishing your meal, put the dirty dishes in the second, vacant dishwasher. As soon as this second, vacant dishwasher is full, or at least half-full, you get it to clean your dishes. Once clean, this second dishwasher now acts as the cupboard, and you put your dirty dishes in the other one. Just like the circle of life.

spiritualized, Sep 19 2004

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Some high end kitchen designers are doing this now.

classicsat, Sep 20 2004

Just do what I do; when you're done with the dish, rinse it and leave it on the counter. (Or in the sink, but that gets irritating if you need to e.g. strain macaroni.)

Or do what my grandparents do; when you're done with the meal, rinse the dishes and put them back in the dishwasher, and restart the load. Only empty the dishwasher if it gets too full.

MikeMol, Sep 20 2004

Exactly. As soon as you start leaving dishes in the sink, you have less options when it comes to cooking, and you'll eventually be lowered to eat pot noodle three times a day. It's happened often.

It's too bad that disposable dishes do strange things in microwaves.

spiritualized, Sep 21 2004

What happens when they are both full?

blamm, Sep 22 2004

blamm: You have too many dishes. Give some to Goodwill. :)

MikeMol, Sep 23 2004

Hi Spiritualized, nice to see you since the HB disappeared. I like this idea and just thought the dishwasher could be split into two independant washing levels rather than two separate units. (So here's a bun for old times sake!)

BrauBeaton, Sep 24 2004

I know some people who do this, so that their plates that had meat on them won't be washed in the same water as their plates that had dairy on them. Now that's uber-kosher.

kevinb9n, Oct 06 2004

I like this, and was just thinking of something similar.

pmillar, Jan 31 2005

Fisher-Paykel a New Zeland based company does make a single or two drawer dish washer. The use of the dish washers would be up to the owner.

invents, Mar 06 2005

Good idea... but I'm not sure the person is being honest about thinking it up first.

This idea has gotten a lot of attention thru Scott Adams website

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/duh/

Ton's of great house ideas here.

mjdon67, Mar 07 2005

// I'm not sure the person is being honest about thinking it up first //I made no claim that I came up with first so dishonesty is out of the question. I did however come up with the idea independently of that site and anyone else that thought up the idea before me.

spiritualized, Apr 04 2006

Just get an industrial/commercial dishwasher. The racks themselves are modular. You pack a rack up with dishes, put it in the unit, and twenty minutes later, they're clean. Pull the rack out, put the next loaded rack in, and go. The clean rack sits to the side to dry. On the even better side, there's no leaning over on commercial units. They usually incorporate some kind of washing sink and a lot of open area to do prep work or cleaup.

toastydeath, Aug 15 2006

It sounds like what you need is paper plates and plastic flatware, use the dishwasher only for scrubbing pots and pans- or just eliminate the pots and pans and cook everything in the microwave on paper plates.

Beaugrand, Aug 27 2006

Guess what? That already exists. Some manufacturers make a two-drawer dishwasher, each operating independently. The unit takes the same amount of space as a conventional dishwasher, but separated in top and bottom. You can check out Fisher Paykel.

Vicky, Dec 03 2007