Dishwasher joy ? What have you discovered late to the party?

My dishwasher is very old so I didn’t realise that dishwashers had a drying time. I have always thought there should be something at the end of a wash to warm everything up. I hate putting dirty dishes in the dishwasher and tend to rinse everything!

MayBee70

My dishwasher is very old so I didn’t realise that dishwashers had a drying time. I have always thought there should be something at the end of a wash to warm everything up. I hate putting dirty dishes in the dishwasher and tend to rinse everything!

The whole point of a dishwasher is that you put things in dirty! I have a friend who rinses everything first. What is the point? Obviously big lumps of leftover food need to be scraped off, but that’s all. I love my dishwasher and wouldn’t be without it - or my washing machine, tumble dryer, three freezers, ice-cream maker, food processor and any other time saving device.

I don’t use ours much, but that’s because dh always loads and unloads it. Division of labour in our house - I do all the cooking, he does all the clearing up.
Suits me fine.
We’ve had one for over 30 years. First was during summer visits from abroad, when we’d have a lot of friends/family round for dinner, and often they wouldn’t leave until midnight or later. And we had a 15 month old, who used to wake at 5.30.

I refused to stay up any later, washing up by hand - dh couldn’t bear to leave it.
That’s up to you, I said.
He very soon decided that a dishwasher was the way to go. ?

Ladyleftfieldlover

MayBee70

My dishwasher is very old so I didn’t realise that dishwashers had a drying time. I have always thought there should be something at the end of a wash to warm everything up. I hate putting dirty dishes in the dishwasher and tend to rinse everything!

The whole point of a dishwasher is that you put things in dirty! I have a friend who rinses everything first. What is the point? Obviously big lumps of leftover food need to be scraped off, but that’s all. I love my dishwasher and wouldn’t be without it - or my washing machine, tumble dryer, three freezers, ice-cream maker, food processor and any other time saving device.

I’m a bit ocd I think. Albeit being terribly messy. My kitchen looks like a war zone if I as much as make a sandwich.,

crazyH

If I had the space, I’d have 2 dishwashers, so that one holds the clean dishes, which I will take out, as needed, use them and put them straight into the other dishwasher.

Oooh, I like this idea! Maybe when I redesign my kitchen.

I do empty the lower rack first, then take the mugs off the top and give them a shake over the sink (which is next to the dishwasher), that way they don’t drip over anything below - didn’t make myself very clear in my last post.?