You'll never have to put your crockery back in the cupboards! Three years ago, when we looked around our lovely old house in the middle of the Somerset countryside, I admit I scoffed when I noticed it boasted no fewer than three dishwashers. Who needed such an extravagance, I thought. Exactly how many dinner parties could one throw?
Surely — like a double garage or an iceberg basement — this was just another way to show off. Nowadays, I am eating my words. I wonder how I coped without my trio of dishwashers, such is the domestic harmony they’ve created in our family. Journalist Alice Smellie has three dishwashers - including this one in her utility room.
She says if you time it right you never have to bother unloading any of them. For aside from the three meals cooked and consumed each day, my children, Archie, 1.
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Oscar and Lara, seven, seem to be permanently snacking and leaving mountains of dirty plates in their wake. With back- up dishwashers, there’s always somewhere they can be stashed out of sight and smell. Also, if you time it right, with three dishwashers — two in a stacking set of drawers from Fisher & Paykel (A two- drawer set costs around . You just take clean crockery from one, and stack dirty stuff in one of the others. And, yes, when we have dinner parties I do have a sense of smugness if I ask helpful guests to take the dishes .
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I’d like to think they were impressed. Now I read that my dishwasher quota is a little on the short side. Marina Fogle, wife of explorer Ben Fogle, this week told a glossy magazine she has a whopping four. Matt Prall, managing director of kitchen design company Papilio, which fits kitchens costing up to . Having read the women’s stories below, you may find yourself doing the same. I've got FOUR! So no more sloshing around in the sink.
MARINA FOGLE, 3. 7, businesswoman and writer, lives in London with her explorer husband, Ben, 4. Ludo, six and Iona, four. Marina says: DISHWASHER COUNT: 4. For me, the desire for multiple dishwashers is rooted in my childhood, growing up in London and holidaying in Austria.
My mother is a great entertainer, but the downside of friends and family coming together for meals was, of course, the extraordinary amounts of washing- up created. My two younger sisters, Olivia and Chiara, now aged 3. I were always required to help with the washing- up. Marina Fogle hated washing up as a child - but loves to have a gleaming kitchen at all times. She always refused. Now I understand why.
If you leave piles of wet dishes, more are always placed on top of them — re- wetting the originals and streaking clean plates and glasses with rivulets of water. As an adult I, too, like to have a gleaming kitchen. My husband Ben and I love to entertain, and we hate to leave a kitchen dirty at the end of the night.
Of course, 1am isn’t the ideal time to tidy up, but it’s nothing compared with attempting it at 6am with a fuzzy head from red wine, two children running around and a kitchen reeking of alcohol. I do the cooking, Ben does the clearing up, and we both agree that everything has to be tidied before we go to bed. With the four dishwashers humming away, we can enjoy a final glass of wine rather than spending the last hour of a fun evening sloshing dirty dishwater around a sink. The washers, from Fisher & Paykel, were here when we moved in — two sets of two stacking drawers each which slide out from under the counter individually.
We put everything in the dishwasher and I only allow dishwasher- proof items into our home. Forget about delicate crystal and bone- handled knives. If you can’t handle a direct spray of hot water, then you have no place in the Fogle household. Marina says she puts everything in the dishwasher and so only allows dishwasher- proof items into her home. I am particularly appreciative of my four dishwashers at breakfast time. Ludo and Iona treat the first meal of the day as though it’s a running buffet in a five- star hotel. I’m happy to serve many courses of cereal, eggs, fruit and yoghurt.
I’m equally happy to throw everything in the dishwasher and turn it on immediately. Returning to a dishwasher smelling of stale milk is disgusting. The two of them can follow simple recipes. But the amount of dirty dishes created by a four- year- old attempting banana bread and muffins are extraordinary. Again, how wonderful to always have the space to put all the flour and butter- smeared plates straight into the washer.
I think it’s important for the children to learn about tidying up and they even know to bring their plates to the dishwashers. But do they appreciate them? Don’t be ridiculous. They’d rather play with bubbles. I need 5. 0 plates with so many dishwashers Jenny Weiss, 5.
She lives in Weybridge, Surrey, with husband Graham, 5. They have two sons, Jamie, 2.
Los Angeles and Dan, 2. Louise. Jenny says: DISHWASHER COUNT: 4. Over the 3. 4 years Graham and I have been married, we have moved 1. I find it fitting for the life we lead.
I come from a big family, with two sisters and two brothers who all have children, so whenever we get together there are around 2. I have one Miele dishwasher in the kitchen for pots, plates and pans, a Gaggenau model in the bar area for glasses and a Fisher & Paykel in the utility room for spillover pots and pans when we’re entertaining. Jenny Weiss has a large family - there can be 2.
Sunday lunch - so she needs four dishwashers. We bought them direct from the suppliers, because I’m an interior designer, but a similar Miele today might cost . Some people may think it’s excessive — particularly in the eco sense — but the one in the utility room is a two- drawer unit, so often if it’s only me and Graham in the house, we’ll only use one drawer to save water. We had this five- bedroom, 8,0. But I imagine in our new house in the UK, we’ll still have more than one dishwasher; I’ve grown so used to it now.
We knew we wanted a large open- plan kitchen, with all the appliances hidden behind cupboards. If you walk into ours, you might wonder if it is a kitchen because it’s designed as an entertaining area. It has a five- metre island with bar stools. Having so many dishwashers means Jenny need lots of place settings and has more than 5. The biggest party we held was for Graham’s 5. At family events everyone will chip in, loading and unloading the dishwasher. But at special parties I hire caterers who cook, clean and load.
I also have a lovely cleaner who comes twice a week and will load or unload it. Another great benefit is you don’t need to ever put things away — you can lift the clean plates straight from the dishwasher to the table, no more tedious hiding away in cupboards.
Having so many dishwashers means I need lots of place settings. I have more than 5. But I’m still happy to put on the Marigold gloves and do washing- up by hand occasionally, especially if I’ve done scrambled eggs in a pan and know it needs to be scrubbed quickly. I have some handmade glassware that I will only wash by hand as well as some plates with a metal rim which I don’t want to get cloudy. I regard dishwashers as an essential, not a luxury.
Lynda has two dishwashers in her kitchen and admits she would love a third in her home, near Reading Extravagant? No, it's essential AND it saves water. Lynda Mills, 4. 9, owns a kitchen design company. She is married to Christian, 4.
Reading with daughters Annabelle, 1. Jemima, 1. 4. Lynda says: FIVE OF THE BEST POSH WASHERSMiele Semi- integrated XXL, .
The racks have flexible elements and silicone pads to hold everything in place. The door has a patented motor which opens and closes it automatically. Samsung DW6. 0J9. BB Chef Collection Water. Wall, . Individual water pressures and temperatures can be set for different . Cutlery can be laid flat for better cleaning.
Fisher & Paykel Single, Wide Dish. Drawer, . This model pulls open like a drawer at waist height for easy loading and has space for nine place settings. Smeg DF6. FABR2 Freestanding Dishwasher, . More about looks than gadgets and gimmicks, this freestanding, decorative dishwasher, available in a glossy cream, black or red finish, can carry 1. Bosch SKS6. 2E2. 2EU Compact, .
It has a speed function which allows it to run through a full cycle in a flash. It’s also incredibly quiet. Mandy Francis. DISHWASHER COUNT: 2. I’ve had two dishwashers for the past seven years and I’d never go back to just one. It’s an essential in my kitchen and I’d love a third. That’s because I like to think of our kitchen not so much as simply somewhere to cook food, it’s more of a . It’s great for a party.
We often have 1. 2 guests and the last thing I need is for the worktops to be cluttered. I tend to alternate using each one, and one is usually going at some point in the day. Both of mine are Miele Turbothermic Plus models.
I bought the first from a shop in Slough, but got the second from e. Bay for . A bargain as they cost . Some people ask if it’s extravagant having two dishwashers and a waste of water. But, if anything, it saves water because you’re using a controlled amount and not always filling up the sink.
When I’ve suggested to clients that they have two dishwashers next to each other, they look at me a little oddly. If they have thought about having two in the first place, they think it’s a good idea to have one in the kitchen and one in the utility room, but if you’re going to have two, you need them in the kitchen so you can hide things away immediately. There are a couple of downsides in that it means we have to own a lot of crockery and cutlery. We’ve got enough for about 1. Plus, when both dishwashers are on at the same time it can create quite a lot of noise — even though we have models which have a low decibel rating.
Friends who have seen our two dishwashers have copied the idea when they’ve refurbished their own kitchens. Some of them have two washing machines, too, which I’d love if I had the space.