Dishwasher Poll

[Deleted]

My fiance and I were arguing about this so now I am curious what everyone else does.
I rinse the big stuff off but leave smears of food and stuff. He puts dishes in with big globs of sauce on a plate or butter on a knife and doesn't rinse them at all and it drives me nuts.
So what do you do??

[teamhayes]

I rinse the big stuff too and bottles and forks, etc if they still have big chunks on them.

[rainbowchip]

I mostly rinse. I did read somewhere that the soap needs oils and fats to work effectively.

[mala]

Make your FI take the dishwasher apart and clean it. That should convince him to rinse his dishes! I just cleaned ours and it was NASTY.

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[Deleted]

Must be a man thing. DH does that too.....big globs and chunks of food. Rinse it!! I rinse most of it off, but if theres a little smear of stuff on the plate I leave it.

[dixeedeluxe]

I rinse because it's one of DH's "things". But, manufacurer recommendation is to NOT rinse because if you rinse, the detergent won't have food particles to stick to and it can ruin finishes on dishes.

[silverjm]

I rinse pretty thoroughly. Our dishwasher is an older lower end model so it doesn't do a good job at super dirty or crusty things.

[laurack]

I rinse mostly, unless I'm about to put it on immediately. It will take off food that is there but not crusted in from sitting on the dishes a day. But any thing that will sit there I will rinse.

[JuliaGulia]

We have an older dishwasher I pretty much rinse everything off before it goes in the dishwasher. Unlike DH who thinks you can put bacon pans with the grease and all in there and run it...

[jfh]

I rinse as little as I can get away with.

[lolaburns]

I rinse but don't scrub it clean unless something is dried on the plate and i don't think the dishwasher will get it off.


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