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• Extropy_ 10mo ago
  I understand your confusion. If you clean off and rinse your dishes before you put them in the dishwasher, it can sometimes get confusing
  • dolmen 10mo ago
    I don't get the logic of cleaning dishes BEFORE putting them in the dishwasher.
    • bgbntty2 10mo ago
      I think people don't want to clog their dishwasher with pieces of food. If I have a couple pieces of spaghetti, a part of a leaf and half a chickpea stuck on the plate, I would remove them with a paper towel. Not sure why anyone would rinse it afterwards, though. That reminds me of people who clean before the maid comes. I've never had a maid, but I've read that people do the easiest things themselves so the maid, who is paid by the hour, has to do the harder things only.
    • kj4211cash 10mo ago
      I do it and recognize that the logic is flawed, but it's a habit and just looks and feels correct at this point.
    • mhb 10mo ago
      You will after you have to pull the dishwasher out, turn it upside down and partially disassemble it to clean the filter which is blocking the flow of water intended to rinse your dishes.
    • quesera 10mo ago
      Not actually cleaning, just rinsing. The logic is to prevent: - Chunks of fibrous vegetables (e.g.) from clogging the dishwasher filter - Wet sauces (or egg) from drying and hardening over the hours/days before the next dishwasher cycle, and becoming more difficult to remove A lot of people don't know that dishwashers have filters that need to be cleaned regularly! And many of us grew up with older dishwashers that didn't work as well as newer ones. All of that said, modern dishwashers actually monitor the water (clarity, turbidity?) to determine whether the dishes are sufficiently clean. If you rinse your dishes too well, the dishwasher will prematurely think it has accomplished its goal, and reduce time/temperature to end the cycle early. This is why manufacturers recommend against rinsing or pre-cleaning. In my household, we have a pair of zealous canine precleaners, who do an excellent first-pass job. The dishwasher's only responsibility is to rinse and sterilize. :)
  • astura 10mo ago
    I might quickly rinse my dishes to remove large food particles. If you are cleaning your dishes so much before loading that you literally can't tell the difference between dishes that have been through the dishwasher and dishes that haven't, then just skip the dishwasher step. You're already done.
• gramie 10mo ago
  The issue comes when there are multiple people using the kitchen. Sometimes my wife runs the dishwasher when I'm not around, or vice versa. We usually rinse our dishes, so there is not always a lot of visible evidence. The problem is when you have a dirty dish and assume that the dishwasher contents are dirty too (because usually we unload the dishwasher soon after it finishes). Then you put a dirty dish in, possibly making other dishes dirty. So you have to either hand-wash several dishes or re-wash the entire load.
  • Dusseldorf 10mo ago
    Our dishwasher keeps its little screen on and blinking until you actually hit the on/off button, and we effectively use that as a cleanness indicator. We only turn it off after having cleaned out the dishwasher. So the off state always means dirty. On and full = clean, on and mostly empty = someone probably forgot to turn it off, easy to spot check.
• dang 10mo ago
  > Wtf? I never once in my life have any issues [...] What a weird problem to have. I'll give you a pro tip [...] Can you please make your substantive points thoughtfully? There's no need to snark or get personal. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.