If you’ve got reusable dishes, utensils, cups, bowls, pots and pans and other kitchen items, you have to clean them. How you clean them, however, can be up for debate. Some people are adamant about ...

Consumer Reports has always advised that a dishwasher should not be run half-empty because it wastes energy and puts more wear on the appliance. They also say that washing dishes by hand can waste ...

Rinse the plate, pop it in the dishwasher, press start … repeat forever. Washing dishes is one of those monotonous activities we've done so many times, we hardly even think about it anymore. It’s ...

The common debate: do you wash dishes before putting them in the dishwasher? A CivicScience survey finds that 38% of U.S. adults say they ‘always’ wash dishes first, 40% say they ‘sometimes’ do if the ...

Let’s say that somebody in your family has been sick. To make sure those germs are gone, would it be better to scrub your dishes by hand or put them in the dishwasher? If you used water from the ...

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