I don't like this metaphor at all. What are the features? The meals? Every day, the same meals? With clear recipes and easy estimating when they're done. Hundreds of features everyday and doing the dishes pretty much resets everything to a perfect clean slate for the next iteration of hundreds of features. Everything else needed for the features, stove, fridge, utensils, deteriorates on a totally different timescale, years and are always completely replaced.

I think the embedded video raises a very good argument that metaphors is dangerous and can/does shape thinking. So I don't want this to catch on and get people arguing with their stakeholders about "we need to do the dishes" when there are heavy refactorings that need to be done. :/