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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Something that's not really true. If you look at some of the comparisons, you'll see that they've set them up to use as wasteful a method of hand-washing as possible, doing things like running multiple sinks of hot water to rinse the dishes, or leaving the hot water running continually.
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YOU convince my wife that hand washing is better.
She uses a single bowl (dual bowl sink) of warm water, washes all the dishes, puts them in the other bowl, then rinses them in cold or mildly warm water.
Wash all, rinse all. Every night. The dishwasher won't get full for 3-4 days. I don't remember the number of gallons the dishwasher is supposed to use, but I know for a fact she uses 3 gallons of water just waiting for the tap to get warm, another gallon to fill the sink with warm water, then at least 2-3 more gallons to rinse. Daily. So calling it 5 gallons, each day for 4 days, 20 gallons... does the dishwasher use 20 gallons?
Even if it does - it has it's own electric heater to heat the water when necessary, and uses less soap than hand washing. (my wife thinks there needs to be suds everywhere... lol)