From: chamilton5280@invalid.com   
      
   On 2025-11-06, Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   > On 2025-11-06 01:22, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> I guess people who only microwave frozen meals don't need a   
   >>> dishwasher.   
   >>> What do they do when the microwave dies?   
   >>>   
   >>> We run the dishwasher every day.  Only sharp knives and nonstick   
   >>> pans are washed by hand.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> I'll challenge  the   implication / stereotype   of  people   
   >> who eschew dishwashers  as  people who eat frozen dinners.   
   >   
   > My parents bought a dishwasher. My father insisted, my mother was not   
   > convinced. Somewhere before 1980, early models here.   
   >   
   > It used a lot of electricity, maybe 2500W. A lot for here and the time.   
   > It was very noisy, it roared. It took days to fill it up, so we had to   
   > buy more dishes. After some years we stopped using it.   
   >   
   > So I'm biased into considering it a useless appliance. And the house has   
   > two wash basins, something very rare nowdays, but makes washing up   
   > easier and faster.   
   >   
   > Besides, if I eat frozen food, the kind I buy has to be heated on a pan,   
   > preferably. And poured on a dish and eaten with fork or spoon, maybe   
   > knife. I don't see how that means I don't need to wash up.   
      
   Most frozen meals here come in plastic trays that can (and do)   
   go in the microwave.  I'm quite confident that millions of   
   people lick the fork or spoon clean and call it good.   
      
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