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Four humans, all home all day long. We cook.

Minimum one dishwasher run daily, maximum 3, average is about 2.

If the sink isn't clear, I can't refill the water tank for the chiller. If I don't refill the water tank, people don't drink enough water.

Running the dishwasher is cheaper than medical bills.

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You may want to consider a simple detachable hose you can connect to the faucet to fill up something external when the sink is full. I use such a thing for filling a bucket of water that can't actually fit in the sink. You will find it in your local hardware store.

> If I don't refill the water tank, people don't drink enough water

Huh? What's wrong with water from the tap?

Depends where you live. Where I live now, I filter all my drinking water. Across town where I grew up, the tap water tastes so good you could bottle and sell it. Both places have safe water; it's just a question of how it tastes, and that's highly variable.

Not everywhere has perfectly clean tap water. See https://www.today.com/news/family-discovers-their-tap-water-...

> If your water starts fizzing, that could be a red flag.

You don't say.

It's clean and tasty -- but it isn't cold. I can convince my family to drink water when it's cold. So I have a chiller that I refill from tap water, and everyone drinks water, and all is good.

Five humans, all home most of the day. We cook a lot. Minimum one dishwasher run daily, maximum 3, average is about 2.

And all of the pans, special cooking / prepping utensilien are done by hand.

You actually think you're going to get sick if you don't run the dishwasher multiple times a day? How do people become this detached from reality?

I grew up in a family of seven and we didn't even have a dishwasher. Believe it or not, we're all still alive.

I read it as "the family will become dehydrated and need to go to the ER if there's not water in the chiller, because straight from the tap is UNACCEPTABLE"

Correct. As it happens, my wife's side of the family is prone to kidney stones, and also has an incredibly high pain threshold.

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