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Meal? Washing machine wash clothes, dishwashers wash dishes, so something may have been lost in translation.

And even so, the energy efficiency of modern dishwashers with turbidity sensors is very good, and actually can be more efficient than hand-washing, especially if that requires multiple bowls full of water.

Obviously there are limits, but if you stack during the day and stick it on overnight, then it's pretty efficient, even for a single person.

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It was, a misunderstandment on my part, however if someone needs multiple bowls full of water for a single person meal, I wonder what kind of exquisite cuisine they are doing for so many pans, plates and cutlery.

Regardless of how efficient a dishwasher might be.

Both views feel extreme to me. When I was single, sometimes I used the dishwasher, and sometimes I washed by hand. In either case I wasn't wasting water, because I didn't run the dishwasher until it was full, which was roughly biweekly.

When washing by hand, I did what you imply you do, which is use much, much less than bowlfulls of water for my meal. I get what parent is saying though, because of the numerous roommates I'd had while single, some of them would use gallons of water to wash a single meals worth of dishes, i.e. the plate, cutlery, and maybe a cup. Much more if they had cooked their meal instead of microwaved it

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