Get two dishwashers and put your clean dishes in one of them. Put a sticker on i...

anamax · on Sept 18, 2012

> Put a sticker on it marked "clean".

The sticker/magnet doesn't work.

What works is maintaining the invariant "if the door is locked, the dishes inside are clean". If you open a locked door, you either empty the dishwasher or relock the door.

mkl · on Sept 18, 2012

Double buffering with dishwashers turns them into magic cupboards. I don't know why most kitchens only come with one.

One is enough if it's a Fisher & Paykel DishDrawer. Two independent dishwashers in one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawer_dishwasher

For storing things it probably wouldn't be big enough for more than a couple of people though. Also, magnet is better than sticker.

tocomment · on Sept 18, 2012

It sounds good but I wonder how it would work in practice? What if you have a lot of guests over and use more dishes than usual?

What about items that you don't use fast enough? They'd stay left in the clean machine and you'd have to manually put them away before it turns into a "dirty" machine.

Maybe you really need more than 2 machines?

debacle · on Sept 18, 2012

Because if you have a family of four, all of your dishes wont fit in the dishwasher.

gsk · on Sept 18, 2012

Thank you! This is a nice hack. Going to implement this at home.