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Favorite secrets, tips & tricks in the kitchen? (beehaw.org)

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I love cooking, and I cook every day for me and my wife (home office since 2008 helps there), and I love hearing about new things. I have the book "The Science of Cooking" which was fascinating.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

My biggest tip is to not be stingy with dishwasher usage. If you already have one, use it always.

The cheapest store brand powder detergent works fine and its way cheaper than liquid dishwashing detergent for manual usage
- PS: Pods are unnecessarily expensive and you'd need two of them to make good use of pre-washing cycles making it even more wasteful.
Some people like to think they're super water-efficient doing the dishes, but they're not; dishwasher saves water.
The only extra cost is electricity, but it's easily offset by the savings brought by cooking more often caused by the reduced hassle of doing the dishes. It's like 1-2 dollars of electricity per use (YMMV but it's that order of magnitude: less than a tenth of a dine out).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Some people like to think they’re super water-efficient doing the dishes, but they’re not; dishwasher saves water.

About that. I know of one study done in Europe on this, and it was paid for by dishwasher companies, and didn’t exclude outliers like the guy who used about 400L of water doing the dishes by hand.

I once measured water and power usage of me doing the dishes by hand, and it was both below what I found online for dishwashers.

If you do 2-stage cleaning (soapy hot and cold clean water), then dishwashers will be better because they don’t. Amount and source of hot water governs if you are more energy efficient. The advantage of dishwashers is that a badly used dishwasher is far more efficient than badly (= wasteful) handwashing, and even efficient handwashing is not much better than dishwashers (though I wouldn’t know how to calculate production and recycling of the dishwasher itself, not even what order of magnitude that is). Which was, as far as I remember, also in the conclusion of the study, unless there has been another one since then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When would you not use two stages? Is it an option to leave the dirty soapy dishwasher on there?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The soapy water cleans off when drying and leaves them clean. Two stages are wasting water, and extra work.

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