I need a new dishwasher. Any suggestions?

[stopbush]

67. Possible and maybe - hedging bets so as to not offend those people

who still hand wash their dishes and want to believe they are being more eco-friendly by not using a dishwasher.

They aren't.

And the reason they aren't is that while a modern dishwasher has science and technology on its side, cleaning dishes better than ever and even adjusting a wash to the amount of dishes and soil it needs to clean and doing it consistently, the human hand washer needs to be so disciplined that they ALWAYS wash dishes at the most-efficient level they can achieve. That means never running the water too long to get the temperature up, never using more than a cup of water PER DINNER PLATE to wash and rinse, never rinsing the dishes for too long, never getting distracted and allowing the faucet to run longer than is absoultely necessary, not to mention the biggest variable of all: everyone else in the household - hubby, the kids, grandma and grandpa, the cousins visiting for the holidays - who might be called upon to hand wash the dishes having to be just as efficient as the most-efficient person in the household for the "possible and maybe" hand washing scenario to break even with what a dishwasher does as a matter of its programmed, mindless course.

And, you're hand washing your dishes in water that is at least 30-40° colder than the water in a dishwasher.

Good luck with that.

Oh, and the sources who you say need to "stop writing these articles" include Consumer Reports and the Washington Post. Right.

Hey - it' not 1920 anymore. Feel-good, old wives tales like "hand washing dishes is more eco friendly" died before cell phones were rampant. Get with the program - or deny the science and continue to be proudly and bullheadedly eco-unfriendly.