Do you prewash your dishes before using your dishwasher?

[DivideBYZero]

Sorry, I do scrape left food off, obviously.

 

[shilala]

To add to what oldsmoboat already mentioned...
The spray bar (it's the thing that spins around and squirts water, located in the bottom of the dishwasher) can become plugged. Lots of times the holes in the end get jammed up with meat.
You have to dig that stuff out and keep an eye on it to see that it doesn't get plugged again.
Newer dishwashers can tolerate not rinsing dishes because they have choppers that shred the food chunkies and don't plug up the spray bar. Old dishwashers don't have choppers, and can't handle dishes that aren't at least reasonably cleaned/rinsed.
Our diswasher claims to be almost a garbage disposal, saying it'll take anything. I still scrape plates good and rinse dishes when we have spaghetti (don't ask me why, it just feels better).

 

[Peetoeng]

Originally posted by: Ronstang
I don't call them dishwashers, I call them dish sterilizers.

Dish sanitizer!

I used to work at dining halls. We scrapped soiled dishes and ran them through washing machines that used sanitizing powder and rinsing solution.

I don't see a big benefit for home dishwasher. If you have to prewash/scrape the dishes, it does not take much time to completely wash them. For restarurant use, it's different story when you need hundreds dishes and utensils to be washed and sanitized in short amount of time.

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: VanillaH
the most we would ever end up with is like 3pots, 4-5dishes, 4-5 cpus and 4-5 bowls and some other cooking utensils. hardly takes more than 15 minutes, not that it happens every nite 🙂

AMD or Intel?

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: VanillaH

i don't think asian people ever use their dishwasher. It's just there to store the dishes. They use it once in a while to get the smelly water out.

not sure what you mean by the smelly water part, but i am one of those people. it takes 5 minutes of your time at the end of the day to do all the dishes.. not only washing them by hand saves electricity, it also gets the job done better. when we tried the dishwasher briefly, there would be stuff stuck to the bottom of the cups unless we prewashed. whats the point if you have to prewash anyway?

when you put the clean dishes in the dishwasher, the water drip at the bottom. The water doesn't drain unless you use the dishwasher to suck it to the sink

 

[Ornery]

What incentive does the landlord have to put quality appliances in there? That goes for new homes as well. The uints will rent or sell just as quickly either way, so why spend the extra money?

 

[thraxes]

I don't really clean up my dishes all that much. A few weeks ago I had a bunch of freinds round and I made Spaghetti Bolognese... the dishes looked a huge mess with caked on bits of Parmasan and all just generally icky... Well all the leftover bits went into the trash can and the dishes still unrinsed into my Siemens Dirtbuster. It made a very quick job out of it all 😀

As a single there is no need for a dishwasher but I share the apt. with another person and we manage to fill up the machine pretty good so its worth running about 2 -3 times a week.

Ornery: I know that in the UK while my relatives were looking for a new house and selling their old one, if the kitchen listed German appliances the price of the house was deffinately affected by a few thousand pounds (more than the value of the actual machines) and buyers interest in those homes seemed to be slightly higher. Don't ask me why but that is how it was 4 years ago. This was just outside of London btw, homeprices in that area tend to be a bit "extreme".

 

[dman]

Our GE dishwasher is lousy. 2yrs old and we have to rinse off the food stuff before washing/sanitizing stuff. Also, seems like it doesn't rinse well, glasses get soap residue in them, takes a couple of rinses to get it out... I'm probably more sensitive to that than others, I drink mostly water and when I fill the glass it'll form bubbles on the top unless the glass is well rinsed.

 

[Ornery]

Not so around here, thraxes. New houses sell instantly no matter what kind of crappy appliances, fixtures, doors, and windows are in them. A builder would be a fool to put extra money into that stuff, because the POS house will be sold before it's even finished!

BTW, regarding "prewashing" dishes, I don't consider scraping and rinsing dishes to be "prewashing". My dishes could sit in the washer for days before being turned on. If they weren't rinsed, they would start to smell!

We renovated the house next door, which had been owned by an older couple with no kids. There was a 20 year old Kitchenaid in there that had literally never been used. It still had the original sticker inside the door! The people who bought the house ended up throwing it out anyway, because "the wiring was dried out and cracking". It was working when I sold the house, but whatever... 😕

 

[Shawn]

yea, I do.

 

[Toastedlightly]

In my resturaunt i used to work at... our dishwasher would sanatize the dishes. 90 seconds to run. It would do nothing for geting stuff off.