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Ewww you should get your dishrag swabbed.
I hand wash cause I have no choice >

Only legitimate argument for hand-washing right here. A lack of choice. >

Nay.
I hand wash because I like knowing my dishes are clean and don’t have a soap film on them.
I have an excellent dishwasher apparently.
Still don’t like using it. >

Unless you scald your hands every time you wash dishes they are not at all as clean as they would be in  a dishwasher (as long as you haven't overfilled it). Also if you use powder instead of pods there won't be a soap film on everything as pods contain way too much soap.
I'm not all all opposed to washing by hand as I've done it a lot while moving around but the dishwasher objectively wins on all but a few points (like living alone and barely using a plate and a fork per day). >

Gloves >

I don't use the dishwasher, but I think it gets hotter and is objectively superior in that respect.
You can run it without it being full. >

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Your argument that it is superior has only 1 real argument, about handwashing nice plates which is usually not recommended for dishwashers.
The rest do not make great argument. Anything over 6 dishes, you’re not saving money by the amount of water or electric used. Cycles are longer for a reason. 
You say you like clean dishes, but dishwashers clean better which you admit in another comment is true but argue that it cleans too well. Which is it? 
Last of all, filling it up is not needed. Modern dishwashers are highly efficient and does not need to fully be filled. 
Still you like it more, have the upvote! >

Anything over 6 dishes?  How does that work? >

The amount of water needed to hand wash vs what a dishwasher uses. >

Energy Star (a US efficiency standard) is 3.5 gal per cycle. You use more than three gallons of water to wash and rinse 7 dishes? Do you just like, leave the faucet running full blast while you're scrubbing and still while you're drying? >

I definitely do no turn the water off between each thing I’m washing when I do it by hand lol. Who does that >

Why are you switching between rinsing and washing? Wash everything (or a large batch) first, then rinse what you washed. Constantly switching between washing and rinsing is a huge waste of both time and water. >

I’m not sure what you mean, I just scrub the food off and then when it’s all gone and the plate is clean i rinse the soap off of it and then dry it off. I’m not turning off the water at any time during these steps >

So if you wash three plates, you scrub one plate, rinse it, dry it; then scrub another plate, rinse it, dry it; then scrub the third plate, rinse it, dry it?
Or do you scrub all three plates first, then rinse all three, then dry all three?
If you do the first, that's a waste of both time and water. If you do the latter, are you running the water on while you're scrubbing or drying? Do you run the water while you're brushing your teeth too? >

I do the first one so that I don’t get water all over my counter tops by leaving wet dishes sitting on them. I don’t hand wash enough dishes to justify taking up counter space with racks solely for drying a couple of dishes. If you rinse all of your dishes at the same time after scrubbing then what do you have two racks or are you mixing soapy unrinsed dishes with clean rinsed dishes then? Like what >


get water all over my counter tops by leaving wet dishes sitting on them.

Just like... set down a hand towel for 2 minutes. I don't know why you're trying so hard to justify wasting resources. >

Unpopular opinion indeed. Take my upvote.
I literally chose my appartment for it's dishwasher. But that's after living with my bf for over 2 years who makes WAY more dishes than necessary. He has eczema too, so I did the dishes 90% of the time. It drove me crazy. 
We went from agreeing with you (we also thought handwashing was superior.) To blessing all dishwashers in existence and all those who have invented and improved them. >

Fuck that - I have eczema too, and I hand wash (some) dishes. It's called dish gloves, ffs third-party anger >

cries in terminally undersized adult hands BUT THE GLOVES ARE TOO BIGGGGG >

Get small ones >


the heat from the dishwasher actually disinfects. with a rag you just rub the dirty plate with the sum of all the old dirty stuff on that rag
dishwashers save water. you use about 25% of the water w/ a dishwasher as you do by hand.
dirty dishes in a dishwasher don't matter since point 1 means they get clean. point 2 means you can run it early if you're antsy about point 1.
"it takes me few minutes" is true, but it takes even less time to put in the washer.
plates and glasses that aren't dishwasher safe are inferior to ones that are. it's like buying a "nice" toilet you can't shit in.

hand washing is done by people with mild OCD who can't stand the thought of a dirty dish existing in their house when they go to bed. there's no rational reason to handwash anymore. >

I always find handwashed dishes are so much more unclean and bitty because people don't actually check or can't scrub certain places. Dishwasher will always be supreme to me. >

Not to mention most people I've met who only hand wash keep reusing the same dirty brush or sponge. Eventually all their dishes smell like dirty dish soap. >

Ohhhh yeah. Atleast replace the sponge often but noooo keep using the same dirty thing. >

Hand washing is fine if that’s your choice, and yeah if you have a small family or live alone it can be beneficial if you don’t want to have a million dishes just for you.
But really there are very few things you can find that don’t have dishwasher safe versions (my husband and I always double check that new dishes can go in the dishwasher before purchase).  And the dishwasher uses less water while doing a better job, so I’ll stick with that as my choice. >

DISHWASHERS ARE MORE HYGIENIC
To kill most of the germs on your dirty dishes, you need water that's around 60°C or greater. This temperature is easily reached in 'super' and 'intensive' dishwasher cycles, but because of safety standards with most hot water systems, it's nearly impossible to reach via hand-washing. For clean plates, dishwashing wins. >

Would that mean: skip the eco mode? >

Do what you wish, but modern dishwashers are better and more efficient than hand washing. This isn't debatable. >

modern dishwashers are just redundant cupboards. when you need dish you always find it’s in there waiting to be handwashed >

Well yeah, if you don’t turn it on and use it. Who does that? Leaves them unwashed in the dishwasher for days. Do you want mice? That’s how you get mice. >

How the heck would mice get into the dishwasher? >

They wouldn’t. The food in there attracts them. >

Even if you did clean faster and better than a modern dishwasher (which you don't), the whole point is that you can shove your dishes in it and do something else with your time. I don't see the point of washing it by hand, unless you actually enjoy doing it. 
An unpopular opinion for sure. >

I can understand shove your dishes in it and turn it on but it's crazy to turn it on only with few dishes which means you need to wait. In essence you're storing dirty dishes until such time you can turn it on. On the other hand it takes only few minutes to wash the few plates/cups and put them away. >

I use a small dishwasher that goes on the countertop so it's not as bad. Also you'd be surprised at how little water a dishwasher actually uses, filling my sink takes more water than one load of my dishwasher... it's just that absurdly efficient.
Edit: Googling has been made, a modern full size dishwasher uses about 4 gallons of water per load on normal mode, an average sink holds about 5 gallons. So just filling up your sink takes more water than using the dishwasher. >

Even if you run a dishwasher early before it is full you will still use less time, energy, materials, and money than if you washed by hand. Hand wash only people are stubborn and ignorant. Congratulations on an unpopular and completely objectively wrong opinion. >

As a handwasher, disagree lmao. I only handwash because i don't own a dishwasher >

Dish washers use less water, and heat then you standing there.
It also frees up your time.
Dish washer detergents also do a better job washing because it doesn't need to be gentle in your hands.
Basically. If you wash by hand vs using a dishwasher, you are losing money, time, and cleanlyness. >

Dish rags are full of batería >

I use new clean dish rag daily >

wasteful >

I use the dishwasher for sanitizing. >

Me too >

If this person wants to spend their life washing dishes by hand and I presume taking clothes down to the river instead of using machine then leave them to it. >

Since they love washing dishes so much, they can come wash mine. >

You didn't even mention using soap, just a rag 🤢
A dishwasher is way superior than that. >

I'd say it varies. For a single person, you may not have enough dishes to really be able to fill it. But as a family, you'll fill it every other day probably. My family growing up was 5, so 5 bowls per breakfast, 5 plates from dinner, more on weekend when we'd have lunch. 2-3 cups per day from each person. So that's a lot of things each day, the dishwasher definitely ran every 1-3 days. 
But as a house of 1-2, it'll take like a week to fill, may not even have that many dishes. So handwash away. >

We can fill ours at least once a day and sometimes twice a day. Idk how entire families can run it only every other day >

Lol days to fill a dishwasher.
I just filled ours for the third time today >

How many people do you have in your house and what are you putting in there? Dishwashers are more water efficient but not when you're running it 3 times per day. >

5 people. 3 kids that will get a new glass every time they want to drink.
On school holidays at the moment which means 3 meals a day at home. >

That's 5 plates, 5 cups and 5-10 utensils. That shouldn't be filling your dishwasher. And teach your kids to reuse their glasses. It's a huge waste of water to be running that dishwasher all the time. >

We don't do 3 a day every day. Just happened yesterday. They had some friends over etc. Once a day everyday it's filled completely. Might even have to wash a couple by hand even putting it on. 
15 plates plus utensils plus pots go in as well. Serving spoons, cutting board etc etc >

Your only argumentation is based on "I don't want to keep things in the dishwasher!" without explaining why. Whats the matter keeping your dishes for a few days in the dishwasher? Because they are not available to use? Consider buying more dishes then. >

Why would I buy more dishes when I can just wash them? >

Because the dish cleaner will do the job with less effort? That's the whole point of that mashine. Lmao >

I feel like this comes up frequently.
It’s situation dependent. We’re a family of four and our dishwasher runs every night.