From: malkin	Date: June 27th, 2005 05:48 am (UTC)		(Link)

Portable dishwashers are intended for use in places that don't have one built-in. They usually have a hose that attaches to a faucet, to feed hot water into the washer. They often have wheels on the bottom, so they can be rolled out when needed, and then stashed away when you're done. Some small ones are even designed for sitting on countertops. My parents had one, years ago, which they gave to my grandmother. I had a countertop one in the exec suite I lived in when I first arrived in Sydney. I've thought about getting one for my current place, but right now, I need to replace the clothes washer, first!

As much as estherchaya entertains, and prepares real meals, a dishwasher will be a great boon to her. And it means more time with the big and little misters!

	From: sethcohen	Date: June 27th, 2005 09:07 am (UTC)		(Link)
	71 inch?

71 inches is about your height. That's pretty damn big for a dishwasher. 71cm is about 28 inches...is that what you meant?

	From: estherchaya	Date: June 27th, 2005 03:28 pm (UTC)		(Link)

we have a double sink and we are replacing it with a single sink, because a double sink is just two miniature sinks, rather than two real-sized sinks. With the double sink, we still have to treat our sink as treif and use only meat or dairy at one time and use dishpans and sink racks.

	From: estherchaya	Date: June 27th, 2005 01:41 pm (UTC)		(Link)

It's been many moons since I've had a dishwasher. And I'm just absolutely thrilled. And we'll have TWO! (Okay, the dairy one is tiny, but that's okay)

	From: estherchaya	Date: June 27th, 2005 01:45 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I'm just thrilled to pieces. Why two? Well, we were originally just going to get one of the 18" dishwashers for meat. But then we discovered we had enough space for the 24" to get between the back and front of the kitchen. So we decided to go with that. The 24" one can be converted to a built in one when we move into a new house! (someday...) I'm not exactly sure how we ended up deciding on two, except that we realized we had space to store both of them (something I never figured on). The dairy one is really small and cute and wasn't a ridiculous amount of money. And one of the things that keeps me from cooking more dairy (which I prefer over meat) is that we never have any place to deal with the dairy dishes. Well now we do! Whoo hooo!!!!!

I absolutely can NOT wait until the meat one arrives on Sunday! The same day that our washer and dryer arrive!! Yippeee!!! Appliancepalooza!

I absolutely cannot believe how giddy I am about a dishwasher, of all things.

From: gittygiggles	Date: June 27th, 2005 02:46 pm (UTC)		(Link)

do you have to rinse off your dishes first? we might get a dishwasher in the new house

	From: estherchaya	Date: June 27th, 2005 02:25 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I love it. I'm excited. The 18" one wasn't so bad. And we can't sacrifice any cabinet space to get a built in installed, so it is what it is. The bigger (24") can be converted to a built-in, so we'll take it with us when next we move and pop it into the kitchen. Hooray. :)

(I have to say, though, the idea of raising my counters anymore is horrifying. I want them lower!!!)

	From: estherchaya	Date: June 27th, 2005 02:23 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I looooooove it!

The little one is this one.

The bigger one (which will be fleishig) is this one!!

I ran a load of dairy dishes last night!