2 Dishwashers Part 2: The Evolution

You have no doubt heard about or experienced the benefit that a dishwasher can bring into your life. You may have even considered the added convenience that a second dishwasher can bring into your life. You’ve seen the way, and now you can’t look back. You’re awake and you aren’t going back to sleep. You need 2 dishwashers to make your life whole and you won’t be complete until you own both of them. The only question now is; how do you justify it to your family?

Related: 2 Dishwashers, Part 1

Husbands, wives, girlfriends, and so on, are dismissive and skeptical by nature - and so should they be! It filters the bad ideas out (conservatism, libertarianism, deregulation) and allows excellent ideas to pass through unimpeded (owning two or more dishwashers), as long as one provides a convincing argument. If the idea of dish overflow doesn’t tickle the detractor’s fancy, then perhaps your significant other may be tantalized by the idea of never having to load or unload a dishwasher again. That’s right. Never. It’s the ultimate sales pitch: Get the benefit while dodging the pain. Who wouldn’t want that?

The only real problem here is that the benefit is just so amazing as to become unbelievable. It’s shot down before it starts merely due to it’s greatness. That’s what you need to overcome. Luckily for you, what we’re selling today practically sells itself, on the condition that you word it just right. We’ll be going through that today, but first, we’ll start at the beginning.

It’s a tale as old as dinner: Dirty dishes in, clean dishes out. Too many dirty dishes? Spill-over into a second dishwasher, baby! We discussed that in part 1, but today we go one step further: What do you do with all those wonderful clean dishes? Smart money says that you put them away into a cupboard - but why? Why do we take clean dishes out of a clean dishwasher, and out them in some shelf, only to take them out and use them again later? For storage? The dishwasher was storing them just fine! Is it to make room for dirty dishes? Dude, you make room for dirty dishes when you take a clean one out for any reason.

You’re constantly moving dishes between the dishwasher, the cupboard, and the dinner table. Why? What a waste of time. Take out the middle man! Go from dishwasher to table and back again. You know how the dishwasher holds your bowls and plates during the wash? It doesn’t need to be just during the wash. It can be until the next time you need to use them. With a little forethought, you can go from plate-stacking chump to master of machinery and mealtime. Just rotate your placements on the dishwasher racks.

Take a clean plate from one side of the dishwasher, and return it dirty to the other side. Easy. Do the same with bowls. Maintain a buffer of one or two spaces to keep dirty items from touching the clean ones, and just like that you’re off rolling. It’s simplicity and elegance itself.

The extra shelving space of an entire extra dishwasher also brings with it the benefit of rotation. Take clean items from one dishwasher and put them in the other once they’re dirty. You get the spill-over benefit of the second dishwasher, along with space to put dirty items without effecting your clean ones. It’s called ‘segregation’. Best of all: No stacking dishes. Ever. It’s all dishwasher action baby! Take from one, put in the other. Magic!

Now, you may be asking why you need two dishwashers to rotate some dishes. That’s a fair point, and it’s true. You do not need 2 dishwashers to complete this method. If you only own one dishwasher’s worth of plates, bowls, cups, and so on. If you only own or use enough items for 2 people, then you only need 1 dishwasher. Then again, if you have so few items, why are you thinking about owning two dishwashers in the first place?