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Most dishwashers are designed to do a pre-wash, change the water, then do a wash. Pre-wash requires detergent to work optimally, ideally one specifically design
by WastingMyTime89 4y ago
Most dishwashers are designed to do a pre-wash, change the water, then do a wash. Pre-wash requires detergent to work optimally, ideally one specifically designed for pre-washing. Even dishwashers which have no pre-wash detergent dispenser will typically tell you to add some detergent directly on the door in the instruction manual. Most packs are suboptimal for that. Technically they should be used in addition to pre-wash detergent but that kind of defeats the point of using a pack.
- oezi 4y agoPacks should be put in the dispenser so they don't act during prewash.
- Scoundreller 4y agoBest advice I learned from that channel was to run the sink faucet until it’s hot. Then run the dishwasher so it starts its cycle with actually hot water.
- oezi 4y agoA good dishwasher (based on testing) will never need some manual tinkering like this.
- blacksmith_tb 4y agoHmm, dishwashers I have had (including my current one) have a large heating element in the bottom, I would have thought that could heat the relatively small volume of water in there pretty quickly?
- zo1 4y agoMost (actually all) dishwashers that I've encountered are designed to not get hot water coming in. Where I live a high-pressure hot-water outlet is not the norm at all. And yet, we don't have a catastrophic country-wide problem with dirty dishes. I'd argue that something else it at play.
- Scoundreller 4y agoNot on this continent. But obviously the advice can be ignored if your dishwasher isn't connected to hot water. The reason for your setup is probably 240V electricity that is affordable enough to resort to resistive heating.