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Do you prewash your dishes before using your dishwasher?

aphex

aphex

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I swear, the disheasher in our new place SUCKS. If the dishes/silverware arent cleaned off well enough before you put them in, they come out with the same gunk of them.

Is everyone like this?
 
3 people live in my house. I make sure they abide this rule. WASH YOUR OWN DISHES!
Our dishes are all initialled, well short the silverware and cookware.

3 plates (initialled)
3 bowls
3 forks
3 spoons
3 butter knives
3 steak knives

I tell you what, washing them as you go makes it so easy. There are never any dishes in our sinks. We can't blame anybody else if our dishes are not done, no need for a dishwasher, no complaints about large amounts of dishes.

If we cook a meal for all of us, washing the cookware after dinner is determined in one simple formula.
Person who cooks, does not wash.
Person who buys, does not wash
Person who contributed gratitude for eating is the dishwasher.

Needless to say we wash the cookware after we finish easting if we cook for ourselves.

If we have guests, no problem. Give them paper plates and plastic utensils.

Point being, dishes are not a problem in my place... I do not see how anybody can let them build up till they need to be washed... let alone leaving gunk on them. If your rinsing your plate... you might as well wash it, your already ½ way there and it only takes a minute at the most.
 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I rinse them. I assume your dishwasher is hooked up to your hot water line?
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Yep. Definately has hot water.

We have to do more than rinse though, we basically have to clean them to about 80% cleanliness, and let the dishwasher do the last 20% 🙁
 
Nope to rinsing unless it's really, really bad (crystallized food product that's been sitting there for a few days...) We just got a new dishwasher 😀 Of course, the old one my family used to have wouldn't clean a filthy hooker with a two dollar bill. don't ask me what that means...I don't know.
 
I just get it as clean as I can because I dunno, it makes me feel better. I usually only want the dishwasher for sterilization.
 
I scrape any large solid chunks off. Sauces and stuff I leave on if I'm going to run the washer right then otherwise I rinse them off because the dishwasher can't handle stuff that's been drying for a while.
 
If you have hot water, there are three other issues I can think of.
When the DW washes, there is a "tower" that pops up from the center of the DW. If it isn't free, it isn't washing.
You have a spraybar that spins under the dishes, if it doesn't spin, it isn't washing.
There is an air gap (probably located on the sink) that must be clear for the DW to drain. If it is clogged, it isn't draining properly.
 
i no longer have a dishwasher, but when i did, i advocated if you're not going to put your dishes in there right away to at least rinse the dish right away with water so nothing would have an opportunity to get stuck there.

i advocate it more heartily now that i have to wash dishes by HAND. ugh you try scrubbing rice that's stuck to a plate. it takes quite a few rinses and is a pain. plus dishes that are sitting there attract these little gnats it seems so i like rinsing until i no longer see food gunk (i.e. if it was cereal, rinse out all the milk.)

makes life so much easier.
 
Originally posted by: aphex
I swear, the disheasher in our new place SUCKS. If the dishes/silverware arent cleaned off well enough before you put them in, they come out with the same gunk of them.

Is everyone like this?
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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.
 
I rinse them off and make sure there's nothing fused to them, and then put 'em in there. I'm pretty sure that, during the cleaning process, my dishwasher reaches temperatures rivaling the pits of hell, so it pretty much takes all kinds.
 
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