The Home Ownership Thread

[double00]

OJFC. It is a one time choice you make when buying the thing. And it is purely a quality of life choice at that...my dishwasher works fine as it is, it would just have MORE capacity if my bowls fit better (and thus be even more efficient than it already is).

Do you not make similar decisions when buying any other appliance? Choosing a cooktop layout/burner size that works well with the pots and pans you most frequently like to use? Choosing a fridge design that fits with the way you like to store things?

You could make the same decision by looking at pictures/videos/manuals online, but @jbarwick's suggestion is incredibly simple...it is trivial to bring a dish to the store and try it first hand.

But sure. Keep being a slave to your sink and pretending you're making the superior choice.

yep . this threak has def consolidated my view that the sink is the aesthetically superior choice . I guess I am a slave to style .

 

[Fueco]

CORELLE4LYFE. Fiestaware seems like something Juggalos would use. Did I get that right? I'm still trying to figure out the ICP Juggalo thing.

Seriously though, Corelle may be a cheap pleb option, but for me they're 10/10 no notes. Perhaps it's their ubiquity, but they seem to be the protean design used by dishwasher designers because our experience has been a perfect match across multiple dishwashers. On top of that, but the finish seems to repel food so quick wash is all we ever need for things to come out spotless.

Lots of people don't like Corelle for a variety of reasons - they're not exactly a premium brand and not everyone prefers an industrialized product that is thin, light, durable, etc. Ours are frost white so devoid of cheesy designs that people typically identify with the brand and I haven't had a single complaint in around a decade of use. The only "problem" we've ever had is dishes getting chipped in transit. In actual use, even with my kids occasionally knocking them off the counter, we haven't had a single chip, stain or crack.

We have different dishes for when we have "guests" but those dishes are way less efficient to load in the machine and don't clean up as easily so I avoid them as much as possible.

We mostly use Corelle too, along with some Crate & Barrel stuff thanks to a gift card from the realtor who helped us buy our previous home.

Both hold up pretty well, and have worked fine in our dishwashers. With kids and dogs in the house, it makes little sense to get the expensive stuff.

 

[imatlas]

Corelle is very exciting when it does break - it pretty much explodes.

 

[double00]

Corelle is very exciting when it does break - it pretty much explodes.

tempered wares ? I suppose exploding is a feature , i've heard pyrex will fail similarly ( esp from thermal shock ) but i've never experienced it .

 

[brokencycle]

Is that pre-pandemic pricing or something? A bunch of places were running Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales and the 800 was going for $1100-1200 everywhere I checked.

September at Best Buy, $850: https://slickdeals.net/f/17754900-2...src=Thread:Expired:True&src=SiteSearchV2Algo1

 

[brokencycle]

CORELLE4LYFE. Fiestaware seems like something Juggalos would use. Did I get that right? I'm still trying to figure out the ICP Juggalo thing.

Seriously though, Corelle may be a cheap pleb option, but for me they're 10/10 no notes. Perhaps it's their ubiquity, but they seem to be the protean design used by dishwasher designers because our experience has been a perfect match across multiple dishwashers. On top of that, the finish seems to repel food so quick wash is all we ever need for things to come out spotless.

Lots of people don't like Corelle for a variety of reasons - they're not exactly a premium brand and not everyone prefers an industrialized product that is thin, light, durable, etc. Ours are frost white so devoid of cheesy designs that people typically identify with the brand and I haven't had a single complaint in around a decade of use. The only "problem" we've ever had is dishes getting chipped in transit. In actual use, even with my kids occasionally knocking them off the counter, we haven't had a single chip, stain or crack.

We have different dishes for when we have "guests" but those dishes are way less efficient to load in the machine and don't clean up as easily so I avoid them as much as possible.

 

[SixOhNine]

CORELLE4LYFE. Fiestaware seems like something Juggalos would use. Did I get that right? I'm still trying to figure out the ICP Juggalo thing.

Seriously though, Corelle may be a cheap pleb option, but for me they're 10/10 no notes. Perhaps it's their ubiquity, but they seem to be the protean design used by dishwasher designers because our experience has been a perfect match across multiple dishwashers. On top of that, the finish seems to repel food so quick wash is all we ever need for things to come out spotless.

Lots of people don't like Corelle for a variety of reasons - they're not exactly a premium brand and not everyone prefers an industrialized product that is thin, light, durable, etc. Ours are frost white so devoid of cheesy designs that people typically identify with the brand and I haven't had a single complaint in around a decade of use. The only "problem" we've ever had is dishes getting chipped in transit. In actual use, even with my kids occasionally knocking them off the counter, we haven't had a single chip, stain or crack.

We have different dishes for when we have "guests" but those dishes are way less efficient to load in the machine and don't clean up as easily so I avoid them as much as possible.

https://www.styleforum.net/threads/the-official-sf-pleb-thread.645540/

 

[RedLantern]

Bosch is the AE seconds of dishwasher. Miele is peak dishwasher.

 

[Fueco]

Bosch is the AE seconds of dishwasher. Miele is peak dishwasher.

We’ve had our Miele stick vacuum for fifteen years. It still sucks after all these years.

 

[otc]

i have IKEA plates and bowls.

Love the bowls, lukewarm on the plates…I wish they had an actual rim.

I is one of those things I’ve been meaning to replace but I just never seem to find the right thing. I have had them since 2010 and I think they extent of the damage is one or two chipped plates and one chipped bowl (all of which happened in the last couple years).

And since it is IKEA it isn’t like replacements in same style/color can be found easily…they rotate through designs too fast. But I have 12 place settings which means I have more than enough undamaged sets.

 

[double00]

30 CY of hardwood chips in .

 

[RedLantern]

U tryna grow some fungus?

 

[Numbernine]

Cat box?

 

[imatlas]

i have IKEA plates and bowls.

Love the bowls, lukewarm on the plates…I wish they had an actual rim.

I is one of those things I’ve been meaning to replace but I just never seem to find the right thing. I have had them since 2010 and I think they extent of the damage is one or two chipped plates and one chipped bowl (all of which happened in the last couple years).

And since it is IKEA it isn’t like replacements in same style/color can be found easily…they rotate through designs too fast. But I have 12 place settings which means I have more than enough undamaged sets.

Our every day stuff came from Bed Bath and Beyond which no longer exists. So much for matching our set!

 

[double00]

U tryna grow some fungus?

I've never seen fungus growing out of hardwood chips ? my neighbors' backyard has mildew and fungus but they have an enormous canopy/wall of green that encourages it .

anyways . on the other side of the creek that runs behind my place there's a park with a big lawn that is saturated during the rainy season , they mounded a hardwood chip trail that runs through it and no matter how soggy that lawn is the trail always has a dry and firm tread .

so back when I did the front yard I was thinking about that trail and decided to try it out here with a secondary walk . it worked so well that I borrowed the idea again for the backyard to lay trails around the lawn and build the two tier deck .

the lower part will have planter boxes for veggies , the upper part is leveled and connects to the back stoop . there is also a tree well punched out that isn't show in the pic ( crepe myrtle already planted ) .

for reference the upper part of the deck is ~600sf , the entire chip coverage is maybe 1000sf ? the whole thing was less than 2k to build . a timber deck would be some multiple of that and it doesn't work as well as this imho .

Cat box?

you might be on to something , my kiddo's daycare had a hardwood chips playground .

hardwood chips don't compact the soil , they do hold and release water , feed landscape , suppress weeds , vermin don't have a use for it . an absolutely beautiful solution here in the pnw .