dishwasher. it uses way less water than even filling the sink once. it obviously uses more electricity than doing it by hand though. you gotta think about the value of the time saved as well.

I have 4 children. I would literally sell a kidney to buy a dishwasher, if I couldn't afford one. Fuck washing dishes by hand. Anyone who doesn't agree with me is either brain damaged or a masochist.

Everything into the dishwasher. Why would I waste my time with washing dishes. Dishwashers are more efficient and often more hygienic because of higher temperatures and optimized wash and rinse cycles. I put everything in there, even the stuff that doesn't belong. Apart from my good knives. I hate washing by hand...

One tip though: if your machine is connected to hot water. Let the hot water on the tap run until the water is hot. This helps the machine get a better cleaning result.

Dishwashers are definitely the way to go. They use less water than hand washing (source: https://www.popsci.com/environment/science-of-using-dishwasher-vs-handwashing/).

I'm so firmly in the dishwasher camp that I installed a second dishwasher in my kitchen a few years ago and it has been one of the best upgrades I ever made on my house. I don't think I'll ever be able to live somewhere with a single dishwasher again.

Also, there's no need to buy any expensive pods or dishwasher detergent. The cheap store brand powder detergent works the best. Personally I use the Great Value brand powdered detergent and have been very satisfied with it. I do not pre rinse any dishes either. I just lazily scrape off my dishes in the garbage and put them straight in the dishwasher.

If you do go the dishwasher route, be sure to do your research and get a good dishwasher if you have a choice. I went with Bosch dishwashers based on reviews from Consumer Reports and have been highly satisfied with their performance. They're so quiet my wife sometimes opens them mid cycle and gets a surprise. I find this hilarious because they shine a red spot on the floor to let you know that it is running.

Dishwasher. I've done hand washing and dishwashing depending on where I'm living each year. Dishwasher does a better job than me, uses less water than me, and saves me time. I run it at night and put away the dishes in the morning.

Technology Connections and his stranglehold on dishwasher conversations lol

I use a dishwasher. It's easier and uses less water.

Machine, except those items that cannot go in (mostly wood and good knives)

By hand. I've only lived in a place with a dishwasher for 1 year. During that time I felt like the dishes never got truly clean. Like if shit was stuck to a plate or bowl it would need manual intervention. If a pan sat for a day and shit got really caked on it wasn't even worth putting it in the dish washer. I don't see how it saves on water either. Like I don't leave the water running while I wash the dishes. I don't fill the sink. I rinse a plate. Turn the water off. Scrub it down. Rinse it again. Water is on for maybe 5-10 seconds a dish. Scrubbing does all the work.

Mentally, it's kinda like taking a shower in the sense that my mind goes to a completely different place and all things that bothered me before are flushed out. That change in activity or environment really lets me process shit in a way that meling in front of a screen doesn't.

By hand. I don't have a dishwasher. The place I rent didn't come with one, and I don't have the space for my own (plus no money). I think I've only ever met one person with a dishwasher, although I suppose I wouldn't know if someone has one unless I either go to their house or they bring it up. I don't see the issue with doing dishes by hand, and I pay a flat rate for water so water usage is not a concern to me.

What am I, a caveman?

Dishwasher. It saves a fuck ton of time. I've heard it saves water, but I haven't seen studies. I have a hard time believing it could use more if it's full. Regardless, it's faster. I hate chores. Make machines do them.

Dishwasher! Only my cast iron and stainless steel as well as my knives by hand. I spend too much effort sharpening them to throw them in the dishwasher.

Dishwashers are superior to handwashing in basically every regard, and as such I lean towards it for everything in my kitchen that can handle it.

Dishwasher for dishes, pots and pans get scrubbed by hand, simply because I can fit 6 or 7 plates in the same space pots take while it only takes a few seconds to scrub a pot.

Recently, I was house-sitting for friends, and the dishwasher broke. I had to pause it every few minutes to empty the water by hand. It amounted to 2 shallow oven dishes' worth of water. And not filled to the brim, either: I had to be able to bring them to the sink without spilling.
It was a really, really small quantity of water.

I have read comparisons in the past. I don't have them to hand, but the conclusion was that dishwashers were more efficient in terms of water use and energy. However, the type of hand-washing that it was being compared to was itself a very inefficient style of washing (tap running continuously? two full sinks for rinsing? I can't recall, but not the way that we do).

So handwashing the way we do is probably more efficient but it seems that there isn't THAT much in it either way, and given the time taken and that we cook from scratch almost all the time, we use a dishwasher for the vast bulk of stuff.

By hand. We are only two people, and we usually clean after we cook/eat. When one is cleaning only 2 plates + a pot/pan at a time, it is easy to use little water. Spray of soap, metal scrub, sponge scrub, and then turn the tap on to rinse for a few seconds. Utensils get individually scrubbed and then all rinsed together for a few seconds.

Maybe when we have kids a dish washer will make sense.

dishwasher.

By hand. Haven't had a dishwasher or air conditioning for at least 10 years

I use a dishwasher, but half of the dishes either don't get cleaned or aren't dishwasher safe so I have to wash by hand. I tried cleaning the filter, using detergent in the prewash, and running the water until it's hot before starting the dishwasher, and none of it did shit.

Dishwasher for sure. Many years ago, I had a dishwashing job where I had to wash everything by hand, and that made me really appreciate dishwashers ever since.

Teeny tiny kitchen, I don't have the space to put a dishwasher, not even a small one on the countertop.

Both.

I tend to wash the larger stuff by hand so it's not wasting so much space in the dishwasher.

By hand.

One of my first jobs was a KP so I'm used to washing by hand.

Yes we had a dishwasher, had to prewash everything because it was so shit.

Also, never, ever put a chefs knives through the dishwasher.

I wash as I go when cooking because it's much easier and you're not left with a load of minging dirty dishes after a meal

I do it by hand because I rent a small 1 bedroom flat. Those don’t typically have dishwashers here.

My last place had one though, and what an absolute godsend. I’ll definitely get one when/if I ever buy my own place.

Both because the dishwasher in our apartment sucks ass and always leaves like 5 things that need to be redone by hand.

My sink is made for someone a good 3-4 inches shorter than I am and it absolutely kills my back to hunch over like that for any period of time so gimme that machine convenience over my slipped disk

Dishwasher for us, though the powder detergent suggestion absolutely did not work, big degradation in the results for us, went back to the orange pod things. Too many people and almost never eat out, so much cooking.

When it broke I had to fill a sink with hot soapy water (luckily ours is double) and everyone parked their dishes in there, scrubbed but left the water dirty, poured boiling water in occasionally to keep it warm and at the end of the day drain the water, rinse and dry. It worked and the easiest way I could manage but wasteful compared to dishwasher.

I never had one before living with my husband, and always hated washing dishes. Used to buy paper plates and bowls because with a big family and a job it was just too much, nobody wanted to do so many dishes.

Some things a dishwasher does not clean off the dishes. Avocado, eggs. And it doesn't work if you let them sit too long. But in general it does a good job and saves time and effort.

By hand. I find it relaxing and a good time to get lost in my thoughts or listen to audiobooks. It's also nice to just have some things that you do manually. I don't like the idea of a world where machines take care of everything.

The dishwasher never does a good enough job anyway

An in-depth research from MiniuteFood.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDfeLICMfNc

Dishwashers are not a thing where I live.

I wash my dishes in at least two passes. First (optional) pass is to remove the gunk, no soap, as little water as possible. Second is to apply soap, with just enough water to wet the surface for the soap to work. Third pass is the rinse, and this is where most of the water consumption happens. I plug the sink, put the soapy dishes in the sink, and let the slightly soapy water from the current item fill it, making sure that the rest of the items consume as little water as possible even in this step.

I think for an after dinner washing for a family of four, I take around 10 minutes for the entire thing.

I hate dishwashers, I wash dishes by hand.

I use the dishwasher for everything that can go in there, because I especially like the sanitization cycle.

When I worked at a summer camp, they had a commercial dishwasher that was amazing and could do a load / tray of dishes in about 45 seconds. But I don't think this was particularly water saving. I could be wrong, but that was my favorite dishwasher ever.

I usually do both because I have never had a dishwasher that actually cleans anything off the dishes, no matter what I do or what cleaner I use. I am at the point I think they're a myth propagated by Big Dishwasher. JK... or am I! Yeah, they probably do exist, but just for everyone else but me.

Yes.

The house we bought a few years ago had a dishwasher. It doesn’t work.

We’d like to replace it but we asked the shop guys if they can help with that they told us they don’t have any local contacts who do dishwasher installs.

We’ve never used one before, but with two little kids it feels like hand washing is getting a bit much sometimes.

I never had a dishwasher growing up. When I moved into my current home and It had a dishwasher, I thought it was dumb, till I started using it... But I do a little bit of both, on the days where I am super lazy and let the dishes pile up, I would put them in the dishwasher just to get them clean, but on the days where I am truly responble adult, I would just take the 5-10 minutes to wash the little bit of dishes by hand. So in short, both.

Handwash. I've only lived someone with a dishwasher once in my life.

I have a dishwasher (came with the place). I don't like it. I don't think it does a very good job.

I use it as a dish drainer. That is to say, when I hand wash, I open the dishwasher, and I use its racks to air dry my washed dishes. I don't even skip straight to the dry cycle, that's a waste of electricity.

I would not own a dishwasher. I would throw it out if it were up to me and use the space for shelves to store more gear, like my slow cooker, toaster oven, air fryer, stand mixer, etc. when they are not in use.

By hand but only because I took the kitchen of the previous tenants and it had none and there is no space to easily install one. If I ever buy a new kitchen I would by one.

Yes

By hand. I cannot manage to load a dishwasher without being worried about everything in the top rack breaking.

And I hate having to dry them because there is no reasonable way to load cups and bowls without it pooling on the bottom.

Drives me insane

I use paper plates and bowls and throw that shit away. Depending on what I ate, I can get a couple uses out of them.

By hand, don't have nor do I ever want a dishwasher. There is zwtro chance of a world full of fishwashers being enviomentlaly friendly.