Does your dishwasher eat your glassware?
1st world problems are my focus this evening.
I’m so sick of the dishwasher breaking my expensive glassware.
The cheapies? They seem to come out on top no matter what.
Things I don’t love when it come to vino glasses include—
Having an uneven number of glasses.
Starting with 12 of one glass type and now having two, especially when they are $60+ a glass.
Breaking glassware. Period.
Ugly glassware.
No stems—I’m not a fan.
I feel like I had a mountain of red wine glasses before I left NZ, and poof, now I’m down to 2 x 2 pinot glasses and two shiraz/syrah/tempranillo glasses. WTF.
So, is it user error?
Like, have we all had a few too many before we load the old dishie?
Is it a frequency error?
Like we drink far more red wine; therefore, they are eventually going to break since they are used so much and are fine?
Is this a lockdown issue?
Or something else entirely?
And do I need to consider swapping to everyday glassware and keeping the nicer stuff for nicer wine? Something I’ve not believed in my entire life.
I don’t do the whole expensive and everyday thing, except for cutlery—as no surprise there, the dishwasher also chews those up since they are used so much. I believe in using fine china and beautiful crystal glassware on the daily and always have. But after cleaning up broken glass and finding yet another glass put away with a fracture mark on it, and ordering more red wine glasses today, I got to thinking this might be seriously excessive behaviour.
I’m a grown-up, and this is money I could be investing in something meaningful rather than continuing to buy Riedel glasses I know I won’t necessarily have in the next year or so.
