Comments on: Kitchen Tip: Use Your Dishwasher!

By: armyhouswife

armyhouswife — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:15:46 +0000

You can also use Charlie’s Soap for the dishwasher also. It’s main base is Green River washing soda (as mentioned above). It doesn’t have the “scrubbing” or enzyme action of traditional cleaners so if you have a particularly dirty load, I’d advise adding something to help with this like salt or baking soda.

By: Lori Ann

Lori Ann — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:11:00 +0000

I’ve always heard this too (dishwashers are more efficient than hand washing), but never been able to believe it. Like everyone else in the country where I live, we don’t have a dishwasher. 16 gallons for hand dish washing?? I scrub with a wet sponge (no running water) and rinse in a sink or bowl with mabye one gallon of water in it. And how does it use more energy? Maybe it helps that we don’t have an electric or gas water heater, just solar, so very little energy is being used. Of course, there’s just two of us, and I’ve never done a test, but it just seems so hard to believe!

By: Kat

Kat — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:21:03 +0000

If you look into who funded the study, you find it was dishwasher manufacturers. I have never filled 2 sinks to the brim hand washing.

By: Bart van Herk

Bart van Herk — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:40:22 +0000

There is no way you will use 16 gallons doing the dishes by hand unless you leave the tap running all the time. If you use a washing up bowl it will be just over a gallon. maybe two if you like to rinse.

By: Kerrin

Kerrin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:24:07 +0000

Here are some details from a great resource “Raising Baby Gree” Alan Greene, M.D.
g = annual gallons of water consumption kh = annual energy consumption

Efficient dishwasher: 868 g 276 kh
By hand, two basin sink: 1,419 g 295 kh
Standard dishwasher: 1,563 g 334 kh
Efficient dishwasher, rinsing first: 2,778 g 677 kh
Standard dishwasher, rinsing first: 3,473 g 735 kh
By hand, running water: 5,974 g 1,234 kh

By: Britta

Britta — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:08:32 +0000

Any one using soapnuts for laundry and also dishwashing?
Seems to be another good natural way … I’m about to try them.

By: Sunny Olfert

Sunny Olfert — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:53:19 +0000

I’ve been making my own dishwasher and laundry soap…detergent? ;o) for a number of months. However, I’m not happy with the results. I finally broke down and bought some detergent in the store for the clothes which I plan to use every once inawhile…the same with the dishwasher. Fortunately, Azure Standard comes to Montana, so I’ll be ordering some safe laundry and dishwasher..soap.

By: kaia wong

kaia wong — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:41:21 +0000

just tried homemade dishwashing detergent with great success!
1/2 wine glass borax
1/2 wine glass baking soda
spoonful of citric acid
about 1/2 bar grated homemade vegetable soap

a clean wash even on the wine glasses!

By: Stacy

Stacy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:01:37 +0000

Oh I recently had to figure out what it was like with out the dishwasher… its been a while Luckly we had a home warranty but two days with out it almost killed me

Stacy

By: Tchad

Tchad — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:04:47 +0000

The debate in our house is Face-up or Face-down. The pictures in the manual always show the plates tilted with the bottom of the plates toward the bottom : in-house experimentation shows that the dirty side should lean towards the bottom. What do others think?