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Watched the whole thing, got really excited (as I always pre-rinse) and then discovered that my dishwasher doesn't have a pre-wash basin. More research is neede

Watched the whole thing, got really excited (as I always pre-rinse) and then discovered that my dishwasher doesn't have a pre-wash basin. More research is needed, I suppose, to convince me to move away from rinsing (which I would love, but have not been impressed with unrinsed results thus far). UPDATE: So I just went and read through my dishwasher's manual. Turns out there is a place to dump some detergent for pre-wash after all! Instead of living next to the main basin, it's built into the exterior of the dispenser latch itself. Really, just a little concave area that allows detergent to just fall out when you close the door and get used in the first cycle. Will be experimenting with this!

sparker72678 5y ago
My dishwasher doesn't have a pre-rinse basin, either. But, I've found that for heavily soiled loads, if I throw an extra pod into the bottom of the dishwasher before I run it, that helps. (The extra pod will be dissolved in the first rinse, giving a boost.)
DeRock 5y ago
Mine doesn't have a pre-wash basin either, so I just pour some directly in the dish compartment before closing/running. I feel its equivalent and it seems to work great.
- morsch 5y ago
  It's strictly equivalent, dishwashers with a separate receptacle just dump it in the compartment, too.
leviathant 5y ago
>So I just went and read through my dishwasher's manual. I had gone through life either using dishwashers that came with my apartment/house, or installing used dishwashers, because I was otherwise punching above my weight. My current home is the first place I've owned where I've bought all new appliances - which all came with manuals, which all have really good instructions for using the devices the way the product engineers intended them, and I can't believe it took me so long to come around to rtfm for day-to-day stuff. I'd basically leaned on techniques I learned as a kid in the 80s, for decades, even as technology changed. I know not to do this at work, but it was funny realizing what an oversight I'd made in my home life.
- romanhn 5y ago
  It is funny. I keep all manuals around, just in case, on rare occasions throwing away the ones for products that I no longer have. Yet not once have I actually gone back to a physical manual, finding it easier to grab one online (as I did in the dishwasher base as well).
teawrecks 5y ago
Was going to say, if there's not a pre-rinse basin, just squirt a bit anywhere. As you can see from the one you found, it just immediately falls out anyway.

sparker72678 5y ago

My dishwasher doesn't have a pre-rinse basin, either. But, I've found that for heavily soiled loads, if I throw an extra pod into the bottom of the dishwasher before I run it, that helps. (The extra pod will be dissolved in the first rinse, giving a boost.)

DeRock 5y ago

Mine doesn't have a pre-wash basin either, so I just pour some directly in the dish compartment before closing/running. I feel its equivalent and it seems to work great.

morsch 5y ago
It's strictly equivalent, dishwashers with a separate receptacle just dump it in the compartment, too.

leviathant 5y ago

>So I just went and read through my dishwasher's manual. I had gone through life either using dishwashers that came with my apartment/house, or installing used dishwashers, because I was otherwise punching above my weight. My current home is the first place I've owned where I've bought all new appliances - which all came with manuals, which all have really good instructions for using the devices the way the product engineers intended them, and I can't believe it took me so long to come around to rtfm for day-to-day stuff. I'd basically leaned on techniques I learned as a kid in the 80s, for decades, even as technology changed. I know not to do this at work, but it was funny realizing what an oversight I'd made in my home life.

romanhn 5y ago
It is funny. I keep all manuals around, just in case, on rare occasions throwing away the ones for products that I no longer have. Yet not once have I actually gone back to a physical manual, finding it easier to grab one online (as I did in the dishwasher base as well).

teawrecks 5y ago

Was going to say, if there's not a pre-rinse basin, just squirt a bit anywhere. As you can see from the one you found, it just immediately falls out anyway.