The Vulcan Dishlex broke down yesterday. I had to remove a full load's worth of dishes and wash them in the sink. By hand. Been thirteen years since I was forced to endure the teeth-grinding aggravation that is washing up manually at home. What a loathsome task. So loathsome, in fact, and since the Dishlex had a service phone-number with only seven digits thus indicating it was about twenty years old and ready to cark it, that me an' Boynton went straight down to Clive Peters in Richmond to buy a new one. The service was shit. We then went straight down to Clive Peters in Malvern and shelled over a grand for a new one. Well, straight down via home to confirm the kitchen measurements since all the dishwashers were 850mm high, but mine was 830mm and I needed to recheck the bench height. Turns out that doesn't matter since all the dishwashers have adjustable feet which enable them to be altered from 800mm to 860mm. So, to recap: we went straight from home to Clive Peters Richmond on Bridge Road; straight back home; straight to Clive Peters Malvern on Malvern Road; straight back to home in Richmond. Obviously, that's not straight as in "straight as a crow flies" since I don't live on Bridge Road or Malvern Road; it's straight as in promptly tout de suite and without delay. Got that straight? Anyway, if you own your own joint and don't have a dishwasher: why?
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well... I don't have a dishwasher where I live, and don't really miss it.
Especially after investing $30 in a coupla these
Posted by: boynton | 09 March 2010 at 12:08
Can't live without a dishwasher?? Honestly, you younger generation. What has become of our once great country?
Posted by: os | 09 March 2010 at 12:34
Life w/out a dishwasher is easy, as long as you don't let them pile up. If done straight after use... no prob!
... and you should also use less water, less power (gas/elect) and less cleaning agent. All good for the earth. (Pardon me for going 'a bit eco' there).
All that said, now there are nippers in our family, I want a dishwasher!!
Posted by: TKYCraig | 09 March 2010 at 13:39
I have a dishwasher but never use it. With only one to wash for, the dishes never pile up high enough.
Posted by: m0nty | 09 March 2010 at 14:04
I like putting unusual things in the dishwasher.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 09 March 2010 at 16:29
Clive Peters! Not so e-e-easy!
Sorry to hear about the ex-Dishlex.
Posted by: TimT | 09 March 2010 at 16:40
Forgot to mention that although I love dishwashers, I detest unloading the fvckers. Does this represent a creeping over-reliance on technology? If someone invented a machine to unload them: "Hurry up, you bastard, unload!"
Posted by: Tony | 09 March 2010 at 21:16
I wouldn't enter Clive Peeeeeeeeeeters with a gun at my head. Three different Clive Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeters stores tried, all crap service.
Go to one of the other mobs, at least you occasionally get average service with them.
Posted by: Scubloke | 10 March 2010 at 06:09
Whenever my mrs breaks down I just show her the rounds of the kitchen and then everything kicks in to gear again.
The good thing about nippers TKY is now you have lots of dishwashers. It's a form of Kitchen RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Dishwashers.
Posted by: patard | 10 March 2010 at 09:01
I eat out of cartons from the Chinese restaurant.
No washing required.
Posted by: Pedro the Ignorant | 10 March 2010 at 23:13
When I was in Alaska, I had salmon cooked in the dishwasher. You would choose a different cycle, depending on the size of the salmon.
I agree with you Tony, life is miserable without a dishwasher. We recently had ours plumbed into the kitchen. It had previously been in the laundry and outside. But it was available.
Posted by: Colin Campbell | 13 March 2010 at 14:05
Finally a supporter. I've been taking flack all week. Thanks, Col.
People, get with the program. One you go electric, you never go back.
Posted by: Tony | 13 March 2010 at 18:02
I never bothered furiously agreeing with you because it seemed self evident that dishwashers are indispensible in any modern household. Amazing that the Luddites that disagree are capable of even posting a reply given their aversion to technology.
Posted by: Hangover Black | 15 March 2010 at 16:46
Its all about perspective: the people who do their dishes in the Ganges probably think kitchen sinks are the height of lunacy. Don't get them started on dishwashers. You'll be there all day.
Posted by: Adsy | 15 March 2010 at 18:54
Give 'em an inch and they'll take MÃele.
Posted by: Tony | 15 March 2010 at 19:15
We have a dead dishwasher whose current function is to suddenly drop open on one's foot and to secrete dead rats in its nether regions.
Posted by: schleppie the sealion | 15 March 2010 at 23:58
Schleppie,
The competition for the "best worst comment as a tagline for the AGB" is always hot, but you are way out in front for best commenter name.
Posted by: Tony | 16 March 2010 at 10:40
that is a fine name, isn't it. Boynton, I'm going to find some of those mats. I had child dishwashers but they grew up and left home. Something an electric dishwasher won't do of its own accord, I suppose.
Posted by: genevieve | 08 April 2010 at 12:41