Should You Be Rinsing Your Plates Before Loading the Dishwasher?

The fuck, this is literally just an ad with a clickbait headline:

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Says my totally normal not gpt ad robot interview candidate

Always a point of contention between my partner and I, but I am firmly in the 'rinse-before-loading' camp.

Theres only so much the filter in a dishwasher can take before it clogs, and it is easier and a better clean to simply rinse the bulk off quickly then pop it in the dishwasher for a proper clean.

The article addresses this by saying just to scrape it off first, but I am convinced I get a better clean if the bulk of the sauce etc., is washed off too. Maybe I am imagining it.

I've heard people say you don't need to rinse, but from experience this just doesn't seem to be true, or at least it's based on the dishwasher you have. I had a dishwasher 15 years ago where I tested the idea of not rinsing vs rising, and if I didn't rinse, I would sometimes have dishes that weren't completely clean (ie, hot chocolate residue in a mug, cheese from mac n cheese on silverware, etc).

The article is wrong. The drain hose from my air gap to the garbage disposal became clogged over time where it bends slightly, so I had to remove it and clean out the collected gunk. The gunk was just coagulated food particles, so I believe pre-rinsing dishes would have slowed this down considerably.

> You want to make sure to scrape off any chunks of remaining food that could potentially gunk up or clog your machine, but go ahead and leave that last layer of food soil, sauces, and grease on the dishes,”

If scrapping is needed, straight rinsing is faster and efficient, and probably keeps the outgoing water cleaner by filtering the junk chunks at the sink level.

So no, but actually yes.

Every dishwasher manual and the instructions for every dishwasher detergent I've ever bought/read pretty clearly instructs you to scrape debris off and then put them in the dishwasher dirty. I never understood why people feel the need to wash their dishes before washing their dishes.

I keep an old spice shaker loaded with dishwashing powder by the sink. For pots and pans that I hand wash, when they're particularly dirty, sprinkling in a little, running some water in them, and letting them soak even for just a few minutes makes the cleaning so much easier.

I'm surprised, four hours in and not one technology connections hasn't been mentioned yet.

> Be sure to load knives down for safety

The article image shows several knives loaded upwards.

Betteridge’s Law strikes again https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...