I was one of those people who used to let the dishes pile up and switched to a dishwasher. Problem was then I found that I would just treat the dishwasher a cupboard and pile up dirty plates on the side until the dishwasher was mostly empty and then reload it when i needed clean things. Rinse, repeat.
What fixed it for me and I don’t know if you’ve tried is: when cooking, constantly clean. It means that by the end you only have your plate / cutlery to go (plus maybe 1 pan) which should be done immediately after finishing eating. It makes it a ton easier as you’re already busy cooking anyways so might as well be cleaning too.
Edit: also lol, there was a period where I exclusively used paper plates and disposable cutlery to solve your problem 😂
I caved and bought the mini countertop dishwasher because it seems like staying on top of the dishes is really hard for me.
Hopefully the generic Coles dishwasher powder works in it. I need to tighten up on money again
The Coles powder will work great in it.
The aldi stuff isn’t bad, tablets or powder.
Someone was telling me to get liquid as apparently these don’t dissolve stuff well
Yay! I don’t know what I’d do without the dishwasher
I feel bad about it because it seems like such a luxury item. But I want to keep my kitchen hygienic
Edit: At least it might save water and mean I don’t use disposables
In the long run, it will probably save you time that you could be doing anything else.
I wish I didn’t need it but yeah it will help save time and energy for the other jobs
I was one of those people who used to let the dishes pile up and switched to a dishwasher. Problem was then I found that I would just treat the dishwasher a cupboard and pile up dirty plates on the side until the dishwasher was mostly empty and then reload it when i needed clean things. Rinse, repeat.
What fixed it for me and I don’t know if you’ve tried is: when cooking, constantly clean. It means that by the end you only have your plate / cutlery to go (plus maybe 1 pan) which should be done immediately after finishing eating. It makes it a ton easier as you’re already busy cooking anyways so might as well be cleaning too.
Edit: also lol, there was a period where I exclusively used paper plates and disposable cutlery to solve your problem 😂
Yeah I’ve used paper plates but expensive and wasteful. I don’t really cook, this is more to keep up on pet bowls and spoons/saucers/mugs
generic dish powder works fine
just wash the filter of your machine every week and it will work great 🙂