Summersquash wrote:

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 I know it has only been a few weeks, but I am surprised  that I don't find that I miss my dishwasher.  I don't need as many dishes since I keep them washed and put away.  Of course I am not cooking 5 or 6 course meals now.  Just simple meals of casseroles and a vegie, or  meat, potato, & salad.  How do others feel about not having there dishwasher?

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 Just a light bit of fun poking.... I immediately went to the idea, there's another "questions that make you laugh" to put on that thread. 

Explanation... while D/W's are a great convenience and we have one in our S&B we have such "busy" lives that we need one....(consumerist propaganda rattling around in my head.. Arrgh) I actually enjoy washing the dishes by hand,... the soothing feel of the mildy hot water, the slippery caress of soapy water.  Small daily experiences to soothe the savage beast of hectic work life (compared to a life of a nomad) and the continual bombardment of the cacophany of pleas to buy this, do that in the name of making my life easier or more productive. Ohhh for the simpler life, I am sooooo ready to start FT..... to trade my bonds of employment servitude to the system and to move on to new fresh experiences. Okay so maybe I will be trading one master for another.... but that is free will, right? To me, a dishwasher is a symbol of that life that I want to move on from.  So let it begin, my life.... without a dishwasher.  My opinion FWIW

Brian

-- Edited by biggaRView on Thursday 17th of April 2014 07:20:48 AM

cherylbrv wrote:

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So, Brian, when are you coming over to wash MY dishes? ;)

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 is that an offer for workamping? I'll need a site and darn... where's my checklist of needs 

Cindi cooks, I clean.  I think I get the better end of that deal.

manycats wrote:

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 We're just two people and three cats so ................................

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 Just have the cats lick the plates clean.

Done deal.

Here's a couple options:

http://www.camperpartsworld.com/Vesta-Camper-Dishwasher-Countertop.html

http://www.livingdirect.com/Avanti-Portable-Countertop-Dishwasher-DW6W/DW6W,default,pd.html?mtcpromotion=PLA%3eHome_Appliances%3eDishwashers%3eCountertop%3eDW6W&src=SHOPPING&kpid=DW6W&CAWELAID=120128520000036491&gclid=CJ_u4ZPBy7sCFShk7Aod208AQw

Chip

NWescapee wrote:

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I only miss the dishwasher when we're making holiday meals and I cook a little more than usual. One change for us was to drastically simplify those holiday dinners, plus with limited counter space and not near as many mixing bowls, pans, measuring cups etc. we have to do dishes as we go so we have clean dishes to start the next recipe.

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 You go to the relatives house and use their dishes to make the meal or special dish.  Then you use their dishwasher.  That is our technique.  

Not me but then we got one put into our New Horizons…a brilliant decision as it filled a bit of storage in the kitchen counter that was hard to reach and would have been mostly wasted anyway. It did cost us more of course…but it does a full load on 1.9 gallons of water and I can't wash that many dishes that efficiently. We run ours about every 5 or 6 meals we cook…it's not as big as the one we had in the S&B but plenty big enough.

I do not miss mine as I had quit using one a few years back when we replaced our old one with a new one and I could not stand how it washed my dishes (or really did not) and that my dishes did not fit in it right.  

Now that we have been in the RV a year and on the road a little over two months I am finding that I am getting better at not using as many dishes when I cook.  I love to cook and after being a Pampered Chef consultant for 20 years I love my kitchen tools too.  But I had to give up many kitchen things in our downsizing and although I miss many of them, I am finding that I can cook with less.  Now less to me is probably more to most, but it is working.  

I do not have a drying rack as it took up precious kitchen tool space, so I have one of those micro-fibre drying pads that I fold in half and put in one sink and I wash and rinse in the other and stack in the sink for air dry.  Sometimes gets a little crowded, but I am good at cleaning as I go so I do not have too much to wash after meals.

The big trick for me is learning to use less water.  I was blessed with an overflowing spring at our s&b home and did not have to worry about my water consumption.  Now it is different story.  i am having to learn not to fill my galley holding tank too quickly.  Also I use a wash tub when we do not have hook-ups, which has been often in this first two months on the road cause we like to stay in more rural camping places like state parks, national forrest, and friends yards.  So I have been washing with less water so I can throw out the sink water into the drain pits or bushes and that has been a learning curve for me.

Most of my cupboards are food related storage and I am finding there are probably things I will be able to live without.  But I wanted to give myself 6 months on the road at least before I started downsizing again so that I have ample opportunity to use is.  

Kim