In my family home we never owned a dishwasher, (unless you count myself and my two brothers), so dishes were washed by hand. It wasn't a big deal, as a chore we were only expected do half of the work -- either wash or dry the dishes. Many a time we complained for a dishwasher to take over our chore. We envisioned that loading and unloading the dishwasher would take a lot less time than actually cleaning or drying the dishes by hand. We never did get one, and now I am glad.
In the apartment I currently live in, the dishwasher is a disaster. You can load it up any strategic way there is, there will still be food left over. Living with two other people is part of the issue of the remaining grub, not everyone is as effective at rinsing dishes before loading them into the dishwasher. And hey, I use about a third of the load, I'm not going to waste my time unloading to rinse and reloading to run the dishwasher when the dishes may or may not be clean at the end of the cycle.
So what I had envisioned as taking a lot less time for cleaning a load of dishes turns into either re-running the cycle or actually hand-washing the entire load of dishes just to get them clean. In my opinion, I think it's best to just wash the dishes by hand and forget the dishwasher.And may I say how gross it is to pick up a plate that was relatively clean that finishes the dishwasher cycle with someone else's soggy-then-dried food on it. Yuck!
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