Pre-rinse is useful, and particularly for older dish washers, while the pre-rinse mode on dish washers themselves is EXTREMELY useful - probably necessary to be

Pre-rinse is useful, and particularly for older dish washers, while the pre-rinse mode on dish washers themselves is EXTREMELY useful - probably necessary to be actually water and energy efficient while still cleaning. Pre-rinse is generally ALWAYS done anyway but using detergent during it is a good idea. Pre-rinse mode in the dishwasher involves a first water and soap wash before the water recycling main wash occurs. Most grease can be removed with the pre-rinse cycle when detergent is used. This prevents having grease "re-applied" to the dishes during the main cycle and its repeated water recycles upon the dishes. Pre-rinse can always be done with or without detergent - some dishwashers do not have a dedicated holder for the detergent but only an indented space next to the normal cycle detergent holder. Use this for a detergent pre-rinse. Pre-rinsing in the sink before loading is still often necessary - no dishwasher is as effective at cleaning as hand washing. And especially when a dishwasher gets old, that already lesser effectiveness gets worse. Honestly this article sounds like a dishwasher PR story planted in the normal news. This IS HOW MOST NEWS SOURCES OPERATOR now: a PR firm/group at a corporation will write a bunch of pro-Firm/pro-Product articles FOR use by magazines, newspapers, syndication, etc. This started to happen in the 1990s and now is pretty much all stories because 1) news organizations no longer have reporters at all or have no reporters "in the field" at all, and 2) the pay isn't good enough to do "real journalism" any more. I worked for a Fortune 25 company that was on the vanguard of this kind of PR-to-News system. It worked really well because editors are LAZY as are far too many journalists!