Having survived grad school and then some without a dishwasher, I will never look at loading/unloading the dishwasher as a chore; it is a privilege to do so (and is always followed by a heartfelt Thank You to that most selfless of appliances).
I grew up poor. My chore was dishes, for a family of 5. I was also diagnosed with ADHD but not properly managed. And often I was punished with “wash every dish in the house”.
All that to say I spent a lot of time in the kitchen either hating washing dishes or procrastinating doing the dishes and hating my life because I couldn’t go do something else.
Then in class one day our teacher asked the class what everyone’s least favorite chore was, and one girl in the class said she hated unloading the dishwasher. The absolute gall.
I look at it as a chore- to make my daughter do since we need to give her chores. And she doesn’t like to do it, so it’s a chore for her.
Don’t worry, there is still time. My sister hated loading the dishwasher, always dating girls and whatnot. But then in college she came to appreciate the dishwasher and now she is married with a kid!
My daughter may very well get married, but I doubt a kid will be in the picture without artificial insemination or adoption. We shall see what her opinion of dishwashers is by the time she’s out of college.
Hell I still do them by hand… Almost 40 years old and I live in a garage without a clothes dryer or a dishwasher and my fridge/freezer is essentially “babies first refrigerator” size. I can’t even fit a regular tub of ice cream in my freezer lol
“I can tell you, Mr. Speaker, that many times I have opened the dishwasher, loaded properly, with the right amount of dishwashing liquid or pod put in, that all the dishes aren’t clean,” the orator declared.
Hmm.
Not really the point of the article, but that’s not really using the dishwasher in the intended fashion. Those normally use powder. Normally, liquid detergent is for hand dishwashing and pods don’t do an ideal job because they don’t dissolve and release their detergent until after the rinse cycle, whereas normally dishwashers do have a spot for putting powder used during the rinse cycle.
Technology Connections did a video on this a while back.
They make liquid detergent (It’s a gel) for dishwashers. Perhaps that’s what he was talking about.
I’m not defending the guy, I’m just saying that I’ve been using the stuff for a couple of decades. It’s made by Cascade.
What people forget is their own water hardness. It determines how much detergent you should actually use.
A small dish of white vinegar in the bottom is s great rinse agent.
I believe TC made a video calling out the inadequacy of liquid dishwasher detergent, and having made the switch to powder I have to say that I agree. I used to get discoloration building up on coffee mugs with the liquid stuff, this went away right away when switching to powder.
After that video, I did try switching from pods to powder, and for my dishwasher it sucked. The powder didn’t fully dissolve, and would end up settling all over everything, requiring me to hand wash or wash them again.
That’s too much powder, which can happen if your water’s not hard and you fill the space up.
I tried varying amounts, no matter how little I put in it always happened. I think it’s probably an issue with our dishwasher, it’s an old, crappy apartment model and probably doesn’t work 100% correctly.
Do you by any chance use an eco or quick cycle? That’s my last one, I won’t keep diagnosing your dishwasher 😂
Nope.
Also if you’re having to wash multiple times, there’s a good chance your mistake it’s not running the water until hot at the tap before running the dishwasher. First cycle is a just hot water rinse which actually does a pretty decent percentage of the debris removal. But that step works best with hot water when there is any grease or caked on food. The first cycle just uses a bit of water from the hot water line connected to it, no heater. So if your hot water line is still cold at the tap, it’s cold in the dishwasher too.
He uses liquid detergent in his extensive example and regularly has the bottle feature alongside a box of powder.
The big difference between liquid and powder is powder allows for two different cleaning agents whereas if they both are in a liquid, they react with each other. He doesn’t bring this up in the video, but I think he mentions it in another one.
Doubt liquid dishwasher detergent is the problem. He’s probably not pre-rinsing before loading them in.
Had a dumbass roommate that had steak and fries every dinner, and would leave the grease and a massive pool of ketchup on the plate every time, then run the dishwasher days later after everything was dry. All it did was bake it onto the plates and require some heavy scrubbing to get off.
Properly used dishwashers do not require pre-rinsing. It’s a waste to do so.
Some people take that to mean that you don’t have to clear the food residue off the plate I have found.
I mean, don’t leave half your meal lying around on the plate, for sure. Dispose of your food in the manner most appropriate if you’re not going to eat it, and then allow the dishwasher to deal with whatever is stuck to the plate.
You’re not supposed to pre-rinse dishes. It messes up the sensors by suggesting the dishes are already clean, and detergents are designed to bind to the particles on your dishes, making them work less well.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/cleaning/a33322/stop-prerinsing-dishes/
Pods seem to do a fine job in our dishwasher.
Pods leave the first cycle without any detergent. Having powder allows you to provide detergent for both cycles - as intended - your dishwasher will work even better.
Reminds me of Trump and his… frustration with low-flow toilets.
“You turn on the faucet and you don’t get any water. They take a shower and water comes dripping out. Just dripping out, very quietly dripping out,” the President continued, lowering his voice as he spoke about the drips. “People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once.”
I think the takeaway from this statement is trump takes some massive dumps.
He flushes evidence.
Remember the time someone saw him receive a note which he read and then ate?
Correction: this is reportedly a very frequent behaviour
I EAT PAPER ALL THE TIME.
I Think You Should Leave wasn’t meant to be reality.
I think he was trying to flush classified documents down the toilet.
Well yeah he is morbidly obese fat ass. I bet he also leaves shit stains on the toilet seat and doesn’t clean it up like my coworker.
I always knew he was full of shit.
As is his diaper.
That’s the joke, but the truth is even stupider. He hasn’t experienced a low-flow toilet in decades.
We have one. The multiple flush thing doesn’t happen. Having a different amount of flush for what you’re in there to do helps.
Same with low-flow shower heads. Yes they did suck 20 years ago. They work just fine now. They’re also helpful if you live somewhere which has low water pressure anyway.
TBH, I’ve got pretty low water pressure where I live. Low-flow shower heads are bullshit, and I would much, much rather have the bad, old, inefficient, high-flow shower heads, and a decent amount of water pressure. High efficiency toilets, washing machines, dishwashers, etc. are great. But dammit, I just want to shower under a high-pressure firehose, at temperatures that will boil my skin off in ten minutes!
That’s why my old boss always had a pipe wrench in his suitcase: To remove the pressure reduction piece from the shower head.
Wow Congress addressing the real issues. While we continue our brisk stroll into fascism.
This was an attempt by the GOP to stop improved energy and efficiency for hundreds of millions of appliances in the US, which will directly impact climate change.
This is 100% a real and urgent issue that dems had to address. The GOP acting like idiots doesnt change that.
Yes, that is a real and important issue. Talking about some congressmen snickering about some dumb shit a Republican said is not.
He cleans his own messes! Self responsibility! OMG… NOOOOOOOO.
Sounds like his dishes need to be seized to be redistributed
Besides being a privileged removed this guy is a fucking idiot.
Probably didn’t realize his dishwasher has a filter that needs cleaned, or he has a hard water problem.
Wait where is this filter?
Most if not all dishwashers have a filter in the bottom basin below the spinner that you twist counter-clockwise and pull out. Some, I believe, have built-in garbage disposals that may make a filter irrelevant.
(and no you’re not a fucking idiot; I merely reserved such strong words for that asshole representative).
So if I have a garbage disposal I’m probably good?
If that’s within the actual dishwasher, yeah. I’m not talking about the one in your sink. Do you have the brand and model of your dishwasher? I’ll look it up for you if you’d like!
Someone forward this to him quick.
He’ll have a staffer watch it, who then reports to him “you shouldn’t be using liquid detergent.” He will then bring a bill to make subsidies for liquid detergent makers to help ease their plight and continue complaining about “low flo” dishwashers.
