I realize this is a meme sub, but for anyone who needs to hear this:
If you have a modern dishwasher, you probably don’t need to do any washing yourself aside from scraping leftover food into your trash can or garbage disposal (where appropriate). Technology Connections has an excellent video going into detail. In short, make sure the water is hot just before starting the cycle, and don’t neglect pre-wash detergent.
don’t neglect pre-wash detergent.
Also, use powder/gel over packs/pods so you can use and close the detergent dispensers. You don’t want the portion for the main cycle to get rinsed away with the pre-wash.
The TC video covers that, and also use powder over gel, not only is it more economical but far superior. I forgot exactly, but 2 of the main cleaning agents can’t coexist in a liquid suspension so all gels have to pick which one. They can coexist in dry form so with powder you get the best of both worlds
Yup after first seeing this video we switched to powder - which was harder to find than I expected as everywhere sells tablets these days, but the difference was stark. My dishwasher doesn’t even have a prewash compartment but I just sprinkle some powder in the door chamber and that works well enough.
Since this I rarely have any issues with dirty dishes. The only problem I have is occasionally glasses will get covered with baked on dirt particulate, but I’m assuming that’s just my dishwasher being crap (I always clear out the filter between washes).
