There are a variety of reasons why you might want a dishwasher. We’ve come up with some tips for you.

First, let’s get this out of the way: You don’t need a 45 cm dishwasher (although it’s nice to have one). If you are washing dishes by hand, use a smaller dishwasher. They cost less; they run more quietly; they use less water and energy; they take up less space.

But if you can afford it, a 45 cm dishwasher is great. It is big enough to hold all the dishes that most people would ever need to put in it; it is big enough to hold all the dishes that most people like to put in their dishwashers; it is big enough to do what most people need done with it; and it is big enough to do it quietly.

You may be under the impression that a 45cm dishwasher is the best way to clean your dishes. In fact, it’s not. There are other ways, and many of them are faster.

In general, if you want to clean everything in one go, use a degreasing agent or bleach spray. If you want to do a fast job on just one part of an item of cutlery, use an abrasive pad such as those made from an old toothbrush. If you need to get into small places such as bottle tops and caps, use a brush with bristles about 60mm long. For greasy or oily pots and pans, there are various options; for example, hot water cleaning helps with oils and fats but will not remove mould or dust.

We live in a big house, so it seemed sensible to buy a big dishwasher. But are we really saving anything by buying a bigger machine?

The problem is that we have plenty of plates and cups, but not enough places to put them. The real gain from buying the 45cm dishwasher is that it’s easier to find where things go. Maybe we could get by with only one dishwasher if we had lots of different-sized plates and cups. Otherwise, if you’re like most people, you’ll never find all the stuff you’ve got.

There’s also the problem that the dishwasher doesn’t make washing more efficient than hand-washing. To see whether this is true, we tried hand-washing in a smaller dishwasher and found that it took longer and was less effective at removing food stains than hand washing.

If you want to use technology to reduce your washing-up time, here are some things to consider.

1. Don’t buy the cheapest dishwasher you can find. If you have space for a dishwasher, it doesn’t have to be big. If you’re buying a new one, or replacing an old one, go for a model that has all the features that are important to you rather than just looking at the price tag first.

2. Get a dishwasher that has enough room for all your dishes and cutlery, and isn’t too tall for your kitchen countertop.

3. Don’t buy a dishwasher with a built-in water heater. These are very expensive and wasteful and they really don’t work that well anyway, so if you’ve got enough space to store extra hot water in your house (like if you have a big deep freeze), then save yourself the money and the waste by not buying one.

4. The size of your pots and pans is also important. These days, most dishwashers come with their own built-in rack system so that small saucepans can fit inside them, but if yours doesn’t, don’t worry about it: there’s always a way around it, even if you

I have an old dishwasher that’s only able to put dishes in things that are about 1.2 metres tall and weighs about 100kg. It’s not a problem for the dishwasher, it’s my problem.

I got tired of lifting the dishes from the bottom rack and stacking them on the shelf above, so I decided to build myself a dishwasher that could do this job. The biggest challenge was finding a way that would allow me to adjust the height of the racks.

As you can see from the pictures, my dishwasher is designed as an open-top box with two shelves where I can stack plates as required. The top rack is adjustable from 25 to 45 cm in height, and the bottom rack is also adjustable from up to 30 cm. The top shelf has a removable plate holder which allows me to load special plates (like dessert plates or large bowls) without having to transfer them from the lower rack.

Dishwashers are the most popular appliance in the world, but they’re not that useful. If you want to wash a large number of dishes at once, you can use a big pot and a big bowl. Or you can wash by hand.

A dishwasher takes up more than half of your kitchen space. It wastes energy, uses water and detergent that you could have used for something else. It wastes more water than it saves, because dishes that go through the rinse cycle often don’t get clean (or are almost clean). And parts of it sometimes break down and need servicing.

After all this, you still have to scrub the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher (and even then some washing-up is still necessary). A lot of people find it just as hard to get their dishes clean without a dishwasher as they do with one.

We’ve come up with four alternatives if you don’t have a dishwasher:

1) Wash by hand using a basin full of soapy water and a scrubbing brush or a sponge;

2) Wash your own plates, cups, glasses and cutlery using soap and hot water;

3) Wash baby bottles using soap and hot water;

4) Wash some things in

If you have a dishwasher it will save you time and money. It will free up space in your kitchen, and make it easier to do some of the jobs that are inconvenient or hard. You can wash dishes at night, as well as in the morning, which saves energy.

But there is a more interesting reason for having a dishwasher: it’s efficient. That is, a dishwasher works more efficiently than doing dishes by hand. In fact, if you make all the classic mistakes about dishwashing—like not using enough detergent, or not washing your dishes carefully enough—you will probably spend more time and money on dishwashing than on making your dishes fit for eating.