What are you all up to

David 

My advice would be that if you have room go for the standard 600x600 footprint dishwasher. To me slimline dishwashers only make sense if you really don't have the room. Also, price wise there is no advantage buying a slimline dishwasher. Another way of looking at it is at the end of the day is how much you have to put in it. If most meals require a couple of saucepans you could struggle with a slimline model. We find an accumulation of breakfast/lunch/dinner things plus numerous cups of tea and coffee during the day soon fills the dishwasher up. If we find at the end of the day its not very full we leave it to the following morning and add the breakfast things. At least we have that option.

David

Thanks David.  Carol has got it into her mind that we need a,smaller one... I'm not so sure now, reading all the comments - I'm tending to veer towards a standard size one...   I'll let you know who wins....  🤣🤣

David

I agree David, a full size one is much more flexible, especially if it does a quick wash cycle.  Having used a smaller one on a couple of occasions whilst away, it was really frustrating if we wanted to put a lot in and ended up handwashing some items, which rather defeats the purpose!  We did find on one occasion that the larger plates didn’t fit in well either.  There are only 2 of us mostly and it’s put on about every one or two days, depending on meals and larger items (saucepans, etc.).  Would never choose to have a compact one unless serious lack of space.

We have a slimline DW, not because of lack of space, just that we don't need a standard size one. We did have a standard size when the boys were living at home but not now. 

Even though it's slimline it easily takes all the dishes from a meal for 6. I have never put saucepans in the dishwasher or oven trays. Just plates, cups, glasses and cutlery. I rarely have lots of pans to wash unless I've been doing a batch cooking session. My dishwasher goes on every second day, during the day when the SP are generating. A full sized DW can use rather a lot of electric. 

Totally agree with others, the smaller ones we have used were just so frustrating, not enough room even for two persons. We ended up putting it on twice a day, which defeats any kind of trying to save.

In Tescos' by 7.45 this morning, by self as OH only does that time when a ferry is involved. Nice and empty with all of the manned (personned??) tills devoid of customers.

Acting as taxi for Mrs.WN later on as she had an appointment at the Opticians. She always has eye drops inserted by them so I do the driving. Good news and not so good news. Prescription not changed so no new glasses needed but they're a tad worried by what's happening behind one eye so she'll need to go back in 12 weeks time for more tests.

Spent a good part of the afternoon sorting out some holidays for MiL. 2 cottages duly booked. One less thing to concern me. Have to think about ourselves now.

You must have had a very slimline one.

I've just been and counted mine. I can get 23 plates and 15 bowls + glasses, cups and cutlery in my slimline DW.

I only ever put it on every 2 days unless we've had company. Can't believe folk on here having to use a full sized DW for just 2 people 😳😳

Well, I’m one of them. Our full size D/W goes on every other day for 2 of us but when we had a slimline version it was used every day. I see no point in running a D/W yet paying to heat additional water to wash some items the hard way. Each to their own though. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Modern full size D/Ws can be very energy efficient and frugal with water and also seem to achieve better results than older models.

Quite impressed with our Tesco today. We went later than usual around 3.30, not too busy, OH helped with the shopping list items, which was helpful. Lots of tills open so straight through. I forgot some pasta so went back for the one item and again straight through on an empty checkout. Commented on this to the checkout lady and she said they were trying to keep it flowing. Much better service than our local Asda where there are long queues with only ever 2 checkouts open, they direct customers to the self checkouts, which I refuse to use for lots of shopping so I won’t use the store, even though the parking is better there, friends have also said the same, so obviously they are loosing custom.    Big baking day planned for tomorrow.

Cottage rental ones were the slim lines, we have a full size one at home. We are like Tinny, it probably gets used every day and a half, depends on what we are cooking, OH can sup tea by the gallon, so we have lots of mugs. We make/cook all our food from scratch, so usually a couple of pans, or oven containers for main meal, OH likes a cooked lunch sometimes, and we both eat porridge. We don’t have a microwave, not sure if this would mean less, but my dishwasher is the one thing I won’t be without. I put all sorts in it, if it’s safe to do so.

Apparently a dishwasher poaches salmon very nicely , not sure what programme that would be though🤣😁

I’ve just re read your post TG, and realised you don’t do pans or oven wear. That’s probably why you do fine with a slimline👍 There’d be a riot in our house if we didn’t put pans and stuff in🤣 Luckily, my pans are brilliant in DW, bought to be so. I did lose the handles off my Le Crueset pans eventually🤣