Dethroner Asks You: Dish Washing Strategies?

We cook a lot. I work from home and don’t leave the house for days at a time, plus Susie makes dinner almost every evening. We’ve got a dishes problem—there are always some in the sink, and even when we dig into them it seems like it takes hours to clean up even a single meal’s worth of dishes, plus the assorted accumulation of glasses.

Obviously our goal would be to have all the dishes clean at any given point. What’s the best strategy you’ve found? The only thing I can think of is to wash up all the dishes every evening after we cook, but by then I’m usually so high.