Hand wash or dishwasher?

Married3.22.03

Do you hand wash sippy cups, Take N Toss containers, little spoons and forks, etc. or do you put them in the dishwasher?

I always hand washed DD's bottles every night, so I got in the habit of doing her sippy cups, etc. that way also, but I'm starting to feel laziness coming on...

brittneycc1982

The laziness hit me about a week ago.  I have been throwing everything in the dishwasher.  I NEVER used the dishwasher, even for our own dishes.  I use the Nuby sippys though and I find that the nipples gets foggy so I just wash those.

meganlela

I only have 4 sippy cups so I wash them by hand. Now I have about 20 spoons so I throw those in the dishwasher. I always washed the bottles by hand too.

Emmasmom30

I was handwashing everything until about a month ago and then I started using the dishwasher.  It's so much easier now.

W&J'sMommy

I hand wash bottles, sippies, pacifiers, plastic cups/bowls

High heat breaks down plastic and allows more chemicals to leach  into food.

 

Sept17.05Bride

I am lazy.....everything goes in the dishwasher.

MrsDR1015

We hand wash everything except her sippy cups, including the lids/valves for the sippies. We've had some negative experiences with the other stuff getting blown out of the dishwasher racks by the water pressure and melting against the heating element...

jeffs_baker

We don't put any plastic in the dishwasher. I worry about the plastic breaking down under the heat and leaching into our food and drinks.

 

babydubs5

JennMM:

I usually dishwash everything unless I need it right then or if there's nothing else to run the dishwasher for.

 

ditto.  

katy75

dishwasher

smiley2

The cup part of the sippy goes on the top rack.  Spoons go on the top rack in a special thing my dishwasher has to hold them.  Take N Toss containers go on the top rack (tops and bottoms).

Tops of sippies I take apart and wash by hand with a little bottle brush.

costfords

Everything has always gone into the dishwasher.  I just turn the heat off so I don't melt anything. 

During the BPA talk I opened our dishwasher manual to see how hot the water was to see if I could put bottles and such in the dishwasher.  I read in the manual that it didn't heat the water above what it was pulling from the hot water heater and that our dishwasher only uses 8 gallons of water to wash the dishes.  After reading that, I realized that washing dishes by hand was a huge waste of water (and money) so I turned the heat off and haven't looked back since!

Just FYI, anything that is soft clear plastic like nipples will get foggy so I still wash that by hand. 

amygauntt@windstream.net

dishwasher, always have

jen5-03

dishwasher.

I bought BPA free sippys so i'm not worried about leaching.

Small parts go in a dishwasher basket with a lid so they stay in place.

I've never used the heat-dry option on my dishwasher so nothing ever melts.

If you shake the water out of the straws/soft silicone and let it air dry, it does not get foggy.

FutureMrs.Brady

I hand wash everything...no dishwasher here...just me.

melsie

i hand wash unless we are just about to run the dishwasher then whatever space is left in the top rack gets her dishes/plates and spoons first then the gerber sippy cups... the nuby cups i do by hand the straw part... since it comes completely out of the lid and into 3 parts we don't have anything that can contain the parts w/o them falling into the bottom of the dishwasher... so always with those by hand.