The dishwasher in our beautiful duplex has quietly given leave of its will to live, and the process of getting it repaired is turning out to be long and slow. Repair people can be slightly unaccomodating, now and then.
Dish-doing has never been my favorite chore, but it's much better here than it has been in any of my previous apartments. There is enough counterspace to let me do things properly and still have room to do other things while the dishes are drying.
The one trouble was that we had left our dish drainer behind when we moved -- it was a cheapo supermarket model, chosen by virtue of being the smallest one we could find, in honor of our miniscule allotment of counter space. A tiny dish drainer is, of course, desirable only under those circumstances. That, in combination with the fact that it was rather beat up and unappealing, not to mention the fact that we had reached the stage of packing where one feels that all of one's belongings would be best set on fire and trampled by a herd of elephants, led us to give it the heave-ho. So we were entirely drainerless when the dishwasher went kaput.
Laying things on a dishtowel to dry is all very well when you are talking about a few items; when you begin trying to make it work for sinkloads of dishes it becomes rather more ridiculous. So, feeling exceedingly aggrieved by a week of repairmen antics, I decided that I was going to get a dish drainer RIGHT NOW, by God, and what's more I was going to get a VERY NICE dish drainer and it was going to have all the qualities I desired in a dish drainer, so there, TAKE THAT. And so that is how I came to spend more money than I ought to have on a beautiful metal drainer that folds up beautifully to fit in my cupboard when I don't need it, and I am so pleased with it that I almost don't mind that it will be at least another week before the repairs are done.
How utterly cruel of you not to disclose the name of the perfect dish drainer.....I'm left wondering and worst of all...WANTING one!
Posted by: Sugabaker | 05/11/2005 at 07:40 PM
It's from Williams-Sonoma. The last time I looked at the website, they were offering slightly different ones, more expensive with little plastic hooks for wine glasses... see what you can find.
Now that our dishwasher is fixed, I'm finding that I'm most discontented with the arrangement of the racks inside the washer. Wouldn't it be great/deranged if one could get beautifully and cleverly designed replacement racks to swap out with the ones that came with the machine?
Posted by: redfox | 05/13/2005 at 05:16 PM
Ha! Just read your procedure manual for the correct dishwashing technique. That is EXACTLY how I do it. Nice to know there are other clean dish freaks out there. I have a cousin who never quite gets all the soap off when he rinses. Oh the horror! I wash up when I'm over there.
Oh and...Please rinse and squeeze out the dish sponge before calling the job done.
Thanks for the laugh!
Posted by: Thumper | 05/18/2005 at 04:08 PM