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a lot of people tend to think you need to pre-rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. no, you don't: in fact, this can remove the substrate that's n
by redmorphium 6y ago
a lot of people tend to think you need to pre-rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. no, you don't: in fact, this can remove the substrate that's needed for the detergent to be most effective.
most of my dishes, which I have a lot of: finish eating/drinking, straight in, no sink stage.
- nradov 6y agoSomehow I've never been able to convince my wife to stop pre-rinsing.
- aidenn0 6y agoMaybe because when people get their first dishwasher, they are single and it takes days to get a full load? When food hardens overnight they work a lot less well.
- wombatmobile 6y agoHow often do you clean the filter in the sump?
- crooked-v 6y agoMine has a line that runs to my garbage disposal, so normally no special cleaning is needed.
- vel0city 6y agoMost dishwashers are designed to drain into the disposal, but they usually still have some kind of filter going to the sump before that line. Maybe you have some extraordinary model which truly has no sump filter, but otherwise you should still regularly examine and clean out your sump filter even if your dishwasher drains to the disposal. The water in the dishwasher is being reused by the pump and sprayer while in cycle. The sump filter ensures no particles larger than the sprayer heads are being sucked up by the pump and pushed through to the sprayer jets, as tough food particles could damage the pump or get clogged into the sprayer heads.
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- rsynnott 6y agoEvery week or so; takes a few minutes. You'll need to do this even if you 'pre-rinse', btw.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoDon't most dishwashers do a rinse cycle first before adding the detergent?