The ‘HE’ washers! LOL
You have one? You, fortunate child, you!
You realize they now have on the market a substance which you add with the soap dispenser that helps to dry spotless. Seen it on the market and read pros/cons of using. Why buy when you can add a few teaspoons of vinegar to the rinsing device in the door and it does the job just as well with a good deal less cash flow?
Hubby does wash dishes on occasion, and I let him. :-)
Normally, I wash, and if here, he’ll dry and put away otherwise I place the dishes on a thick terry cloth tea towel to air dry and when he or I pass by later we’ll put away. Really prefer to put things away myself as he has been known to find a ‘new’ location and when looking, help is needed to find certain items. Drainers and drip pans. Did use these years ago, but so bulky: how do you store them, where do you place them when not in use. Terry towels, if thick work just as well. Why dish drainers? Do they really save glassware? In this house NOTHING saves glassware. CorningWare pots. Two saucepans with lids. BOTH lids broken. Now use a silicon cover (purchased at Wally World) when these are used in microwave. The range cook top (glass) recommends you DON’T use on their surface. ALSO they say do NOT use cast iron on their surface. The pans have been exiled to: corning = microwave; cast iron = oven
Did you know using cast iron you can actually cook a steak or thick pork chops as well as you can on the grill outside? Alton Brown’s method is highly recommended in this household.
Our Microwave died this year and we purchased a new one. EE GADS! The fireworks were amazing. Like crock pots, they have become more powerful and tend to heat up faster than two teenagers in a parked car. A small splatter, if left on the inside surface will be found to give a show HRC would find admirable if she had won. The small “plastic” square on the inside wall was scarred and burned. How to repair. We were able to call a local shop, order a small sheet of whatever this was, cut it to the size needed and replace the blemished piece. All for just a few bucks.
OH, While searching for a micro compatible lid for corning, also found a cozy plate cover microwave safe. This is great for placing over a plate of food which needs to be reheated; rather than using paper towel or whatever to eliminate the splatters. LOVE this piece of non electric equipment.
No heater in DW? Ours did have a heater which worked well. Plastic was lost and tossed, a few choice words uttered Only a fan? LOL know better than to ask if it osculates. :-)
P.S. STILL searching for a plastic butter dish to replace the glass which was broken. Have they ceased to make plastic butter dishes? Prefer glass, but trouble finding one, or more - need extras when the first crashes.
I found a somewhat pretty stainless steel dish rack some years ago at Costco. I just keep it to the left of the sink and use it all the time. It actually holds quite a bit, maybe 15 plates in the top part, there’s a little caddy for silverware. I ended up buying a portable one to use at the cabin, and I put a dish towel underneath it. It’s portable as in it folded up so it didn’t take up much room under the sink. But I pretty much left it out all the time anyway. lol, I forgot, it’s in the downstairs kitchen now. These things are such a fixture, like a sink, that I just don’t think about them.
I hate it when my hubby helps in the kitchen. We have a deal, I don’t go through his toolbox and rearrange things, and he stays out of the kitchen drawers except to get things. Not to put them away.
I had an HE washer here when we first moved to three years ago. It came with the house. It actually worked out pretty well because my husband stayed back in Bakersfield with the washer and dryer we had there. I didn’t move out until the house had sold. Anyway this washer was horrible. As you know. But I really hate is not being able to drawl the temperature. I know their hot is not hot because I supposedly used hot water once, interrupted the cycle and stuck my hand in there and it was warm at best. So not only are you not allowed to use much water, it can’t even be hot!
I never had a glass cooktop. When we were remodeling the kitchen I looked at them. They are very pretty. But I love my cast-iron so that took priority :-) I ended up getting a Viking want to be, about half the price. Absolutely no bells and whistles, I don’t even get a timer! But I love it and it hasn’t broken yet. You can tell my expectations are fairly low :-)
Hey, I need that plate covering! Where did you get it? I’m always having to clean splatters out of the microwave. I try using paper plates but they don’t necessarily fit over everything and they also get dislodged.
Oh, I can’t remember having seen a plastic butter dish in a while. I just take mine straight from the fridge, guests have to deal with the wrapping and everything :-)