All houses should be equipped with 2 dishwashers so you can move the daily dishes from 1 machine to the next.
Buy your next house from an Orthodox Jewish family, and it may come so equipped. Probably with two drawer type dishwashers to separate meat and dairy dishes.
I recently remodeled my kitchen but didn’t think about 2 dishwashers. It would not have been much more. You have to add the cost of the extra dishwasher, but you save on the cabinetry.
I also think that at least 2 dryers in the laundry room should be the new standard.
Yes, we are improving our standard of living with more material. Think of those housewives of the past slaving away to do their 5 kids’ laundry![/quote]
When we bought our house, we did an extensive addition and remodeling job, and added an extra dishwasher. My DH initially thought I was nuts, but has commented many times since then about how smart it was to have two dishwashers. We use both of them almost every day (family of 5 with at least 4 of us eating every meal at home with lots of cooking and regular dinner guests).
[quote=scaredyclassic]What if we all just had one bowl, one cup, one set cutlery.
And we just each washed it when done?[/quote]
That would be nice in theory, but can you imagine your kids doing that after every meal? How about dinner guests? And all the cooking utensils?
Having lived with a lot of roommates in the past, I can say for a fact that very few people clean up after themselves completely. Maybe I can add that to my “pet peeve” list. 😉
I wish we could eat more raw foods. My husband is a meatatarian, so everything gets cooked when he’s home. He even likes to have a cooked breakfast and lunch every day.
Yes, we are improving our standard of living with more material. Think of those housewives of the past slaving away to do their 5 kids’ laundry!
Actually, from a material standpoint, two dishwashers aren’t really “more.” Dishwashers last less time than a house. Two dishwashers used alternatively are likely to last 1.5 to 2x as long, assuming rubber gaskets, etc can still be replaced.
Cooking was one of the most survival enabling processes that man ever engaged in. It enabled us to eat and easily digest large quantities of almost anything that had recently been alive, plant or animal and to eat things that could be stored in basically inedible forms, like rice. The implications are huge.
Cooking was one of the most survival enabling processes that man ever engaged in. It enabled us to eat and easily digest large quantities of almost anything that had recently been alive, plant or animal and to eat things that could be stored in basically inedible forms, like rice. The implications are huge.
[quote=Blogstar]Cooking was one of the most survival enabling processes that man ever engaged in. It enabled us to eat and easily digest large quantities of almost anything that had recently been alive, plant or animal and to eat things that could be stored in basically inedible forms, like rice. The implications are huge.
I like cooking.[/quote]
True. I’m just whining a bit because I’m usually the one who has to clean up the mess. 🙂
[quote=CA renter][quote=scaredyclassic]What if we all just had one bowl, one cup, one set cutlery.
And we just each washed it when done?[/quote]
That would be nice in theory, but can you imagine your kids doing that after every meal? How about dinner guests? And all the cooking utensils?
Having lived with a lot of roommates in the past, I can say for a fact that very few people clean up after themselves completely. Maybe I can add that to my “pet peeve” list. ;)[/quote]
That’s the extended adolescence that Americans live in permenanty now.
It was the norm up until about the 70s. Kind of like taking the bus to school or walking or riding your bike to school.
