For many years I had an unused dishwasher plumbed in because I had this idea that they were environmentally unfriendly. And I have an irrational distrust of machines that do things people can do perfectly well themselves (yup, irrational).
Then I began using it every Christmas - well, I was busy entertaining, and it was full. And now I have reached the bottom of that slippery slope and I use it ALL the time. It takes almost a week to fill, as I use the same plates all day for things like bread, and Little Un has school dinners, so I don't cook in the week. I've had the same box of dishawsher tablets for over a year. So this must be more ecofriendly, and better for me too. Hooray!
To be sure, I checked it out online, and sure enough, so long as you only run them when full, and don't use the drying cycle, dishwashers are reckoned to be better for the environment than washing up by hand. However suspiciously they may act.
