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You could save the cost of your water by just having your dog lick the plates clean. They do a pretty good job and no one visiting could tell. Until after dinner.
If you named the dogs "Soap" and "Water" then the dishes would be as clean as soap and water could get them.
That graph for dishwashers being more energy efficient only works if you live somewhere that power is less expensive than water. Around here water is cheap and power is expensive. We have a dishwasher, though, if I can get him to quit watching TV long enough to do them, of course.
Someone told me that dish washing liquid is a fairly new invention? Sometime around the late fifties, early sixties? What did folks use before then?
For that matter, soap itself is a fairly new invention, I think it's only several hundred years old? Somehow folks managed to get things clean enough to survive on without soap?
That graph for dishwashers being more energy efficient only works if you live somewhere that power is less expensive than water. Around here water is cheap and power is expensive. We have a dishwasher, though, if I can get him to quit watching TV long enough to do them, of course.
No, in terms of energy efficiency, it works all the time. Cost, on the other hand, is a different story. Although I can only imagine that washing dishes by hand is less expensive if you wash with cold water.
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Originally Posted by hotzcatz
Someone told me that dish washing liquid is a fairly new invention? Sometime around the late fifties, early sixties? What did folks use before then?
For that matter, soap itself is a fairly new invention, I think it's only several hundred years old? Somehow folks managed to get things clean enough to survive on without soap?
Soap goes back somewhere between 20 to 25 centuries. You might want to get a more accurate source.
With the $2 you save from buying dish detergent, you now need $10 in pesticides to kill all the cockroaches and bugs that are roaming through your kitchen at night enjoying a greasy buffet while you're asleep dreaming of what you can buy with the $2 you saved.
And don't tell me that you also don't use soap while showering because it will kill off the beneficial micro-organisms growing on your skin too????
With the $2 you save from buying dish detergent, you now need $10 in pesticides to kill all the cockroaches and bugs that are roaming through your kitchen at night enjoying a greasy buffet while you're asleep dreaming of what you can buy with the $2 you saved.
And don't tell me that you also don't use soap while showering because it will kill off the beneficial micro-organisms growing on your skin too????
jtur, I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to make it for Thanksgiving dinner after all. I think something just came up.
That's right Theatergypsy... you forgot you were coming to MY house, right?
Turkey, on clean plates, for everyone! C'mon over.
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