SkadiusGrim t1_jdw2gsj wrote on March 27, 2023 at 4:50 PM

Dude what? How the hell are you unable to tell if a dishwasher has dirty stuff in it? Are you exclusively putting in glasses that you drank water out of?

heidismiles t1_jdx2fhq wrote on March 27, 2023 at 8:39 PM

Some people pre-wash before putting things in the dishwasher.

Aeneis t1_jdx9pny wrote on March 27, 2023 at 9:26 PM

Yeah. I usually wash off anything I can see before putting dishes in the dishwasher. The dishwasher is for getting rid of any germs, etc. that I can't see. There's some old-school Foul Bachelor Frog stuff going on in the comments here, lol. I think maybe dish detergent commercials have convinced an entire generation to put food-caked dishes in the washer.

RegalBeagleKegels t1_jdxbwm1 wrote on March 27, 2023 at 9:41 PM

The dishwasher has a pre-wash cycle exactly for that purpose. The water is hotter, the pressure is higher, and the process more energy efficient than doing it with the sink.

Also, people are clowning on this post because it makes no sense. Remove clean dishes -> ??? -> somehow unsure whether dishes in dishwasher are clean

I'd assume the ??? would be "insert dirty dishes" but then where does the uncertainty come from? If there's dishes in the dishwasher, they're dirty. The only reason there would ever be clean ones is that you just ran it and it's time to empty it. I'm so confused

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vendetta2115 OP t1_jdx6fwd wrote on March 27, 2023 at 9:04 PM

I wash most of the visible stuff off of my dishes before putting them in there. You don’t rinse your plates and glasses before you put them in the dishwasher? That’s a really common thing. I’d actually wager that most people do it.

I don’t understand how everyone is so baffled that this could possibly be an issue. If you go on Amazon, there are dozens of these clean/dirty signs. This method does the same thing but you don’t have to buy anything, plus it’s more reliable.

Being a renter, I don’t have a top-of-the-line dishwasher that will clean any dish no matter how dirty it is. If I don’t pre-rinse dishes, they have a good chance of still having gunk on them when the cycle is done, not to mention all that gunk being spread around by the water.