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It might be that my household eat food on plates very differently, but it's obvious if it's dirty or clean dishes in the dishwasher, as long as you open the doo
by capableweb 5y ago
It might be that my household eat food on plates very differently, but it's obvious if it's dirty or clean dishes in the dishwasher, as long as you open the door and look in.
But I guess as the other comment mentioned, if you pre-wash the dishes before putting them into the dishwasher (not sure why you would, but let's run with it), then I can kind of see how it can be confusing.
- mikestew 5y agobut it's obvious if it's dirty or clean dishes in the dishwasher, as long as you open the door and look in. Okay, let's go with that: why open the door when a $0.50 magnet can be glanced at, along with saving (what is probably a trivial amount of) wear-and-tear on the door mechanism? It's a dishwasher, not a box full of Schrödinger felines: we're allowed to cheat and put the current state on the outside of the box.
- sokoloff 5y agoHow is the indicated state maintained accurately? My experience is that clean-dirty magnets are quite prone to displaying a stale state frequently enough to not be reliable (which led directly to the suggestion).
- mikestew 5y agoHaving a household of nothing but adults probably helps immensely. But the procedure is: flip the magnet when starting the dishwasher. Flip it back when the dishwasher is emptied. However, I can see how young kids in the house, or just plain lazy roommates, could make this less optimal.
- capableweb 5y agoI guess in general I tend to ask myself "why do X?" rather than "why not do Y?" and if there isn't enough benefit to doing X, I just work with what's there. Premature optimization and all that yada yada :)