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					Originally Posted by Wormius  I am curious about the trade-off point of how many things you need in the washer to make it worth running a load versus doing a couple of items by hand. | 
	
 
Average kitchen faucet is 2 gallons per minute and a decent dishwasher uses 4 (or even 3) gallons per cycle.  
So if you run the water for 2 minutes you might as well just run the dishwasher.