Re:Ask HN: What is your system for dirty dishes?
by ariendj on Friday December 30, 2022 @03:09PM
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High end Miele is absolutely fantastic. I bought a professional grade machine (PG 8081) second hand and I love it. I have it hooked up to the warm water faucet so that it uses water heated by our solar panels. It cleans way better than I could ever do by hand and it takes no more than 36 minutes. The thing is built like a tank and they can go for as little as €300 second hand. My machine cost the first owner 2879 when it was new and it shows. Build quality and usability is excellent. I actually enjoy doing the dishes now.
Re:Ask HN: What is your system for dirty dishes?
by simonblack on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:22PM
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Ditto likewise. We had a Miele dishwasher that lasted at least 15 years and still going strong. (We sold it as a built-in when we sold that last house. It had followed us to that last house from the house before.)
Very quiet. I hadn't realised that there was a fan-assisted drying mode until I wondered where the warm air was coming from when I walked past it one day.
I venture to say that old Miele dishwasher is good for at least five more years, making it a very affordable investment over the 20 years or so of its working life.
Our current house has a more-recent Bosch dishwasher. If anything, it is even quieter than the older Miele was. It's a good unit.Though I think overall, I prefer the Miele dish-stacking layout.
Miele Model 6875 (now discontinued):
https://www.designerappliances.com/miele-g6875scvisf.html
We don't use it for knives, pots, or non-dishwasher-safe items. For those items, I wash them by hand. For years I have used this scrubbing cloth:
Crown Choice All-Purpose Cleaning Scrubber
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YP16LK9?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_...
That scrubbing cloth is great because it dries out quickly, never gets smelly, does not scratch anything even if you scrub hard, and lasts a very long time (at least 6 months of daily use, but probably a year or more).
For gummy stuff, I usually use a dish brush before the cloth to knock the gunk off of the dish so that I don't have to later clean it off of the cloth. I've never found one that I like well enough, so I won't post a link.
For stuck-on stuff, I use a Progressive scraper:
https://www.amazon.com/Progressive-GT-3300-Gadget-Scrapers-D...
Those are sold out, but these look similar:
https://www.amazon.com/Multicolor-Silicone-Dishwashing-Multi...