I bought those clip-on angled racks that are supposed to help you fit more plates at an angle. Total waste of money. One snapped off after 3 washes and the other started rusting. I'm out $60 and back to just stacking stuff flat like normal. Has anyone actually had those things last more than a month?
I was loading the dishwasher after family dinner and my mom just goes 'you know those spoons are gonna nest together and stay dirty, right?' I looked down and sure enough I had tossed all the spoons in a pile facing the same way. She showed me how to alternate half facing up half facing down so water actually hits them all. I've been doing this for 3 years at my own apartment and never even thought about it. Has anyone else had a family member call them out on some basic dishwasher loading habit?
It bent on the third use and left plastic bits all over my silverware basket. Has anyone actually found a brush that lasts more than a week?
I came home from work and found my roommate had loaded the dishwasher with all the bowls facing upward, like little soup cups. Every single one had a puddle of dirty water sitting in the bottom after the cycle. I tried to explain the 45 degree tilt trick so water drains off, but he just shrugged and said it worked fine for him. Has anyone else had to deal with a house mate who refuses to angle their dishes properly?
I was pulling weeds yesterday and heard my neighbor telling her kid that her great grandma washed everything by hand her whole life. Made me stop and think about all the tiny wars we have over loading a machine that's basically a luxury. My own mom used to cram everything in there however it fit, no rules at all. Now I see people online arguing about fork direction and whether bowls should face the center or the edges. Kinda wild how something so simple turned into this whole system of rules over just 30 or 40 years. Has anyone else noticed their older relatives just didn't care about any of this stuff?
Loaded my dishwasher with bowls tilted over the bottom rack plates last Tuesday and woke up to a cracked cereal bowl and water pooled under every dish, took me 20 minutes to clean it all out - anyone else learned this the hard way?
I have been keeping a tally on my phone of every dishwasher load since the start of the year. This month I hit 100 loads and noticed something weird. My silverware has never been cleaner and I think it is because I stopped mixing spoons with forks in the same basket. I used to just toss everything in together but now I put all forks pointing down and all spoons pointing up in separate sections. The difference is huge. I am wondering if anyone else tracks their loads like this or if I am just being too extra. What number of loads did it take for you to figure out your perfect stacking method?
I was grabbing breakfast at Lou's Grill in Portland last week and the guy running the dishwasher saw me loading a rack at the counter. He straight up said forks pointing up just trap water and food bits that never rinse off, and showed me a rust spot on a spoon from it. It hit different because this guy does 300 covers a day, not my 3 loads a week. Has anyone else switched sides based on a real pro's take?
Last week my sister-in-law saw how I load my dishwasher and told me I was basically a criminal for mixing bowl types on the same rack, but back in October 2021 I tried doing every fork tines up and got stabbed twice grabbing a plate - is anyone else team tines down for safety or am I the weird one?
I visited my sister last weekend in Phoenix and watched her load the dishwasher after dinner. She put all the spoons facing up in the basket, which I just cannot get behind. Then she stacked plates facing the same direction with zero space between them. I tried to casually mention that angled plates clean better but she just shrugged. Is there a polite way to tell family their dishwasher habits are wrong or do I just keep my mouth shut? How do you handle this at other people's houses?
I was at my aunt's house in Cleveland last Thanksgiving helping with dishes and she pulled out half the glasses I'd stacked in the top rack because they were touching. She said my grandma always left a finger width gap between each glass so they'd dry properly and not chip. Has anyone else learned a loading rule from an older relative that totally flipped how you do things?
Honestly I used to stack all my pint glasses upright in the top rack for years. Last week my roommate flipped them sideways and I was ready to fight until I saw how much cleaner they came out. The water actually hits the inside instead of just pooling at the bottom. Has anyone else made the switch or am I just late to this?
I walked into the kitchen last week and saw my roommate putting bowls in the dishwasher face up. No joke, every single bowl was stacked right-side up like they were waiting for soup. The water from the top rack just pools on the bottom of each one and never drains off. I pointed it out and he said that's how his mom always did it. After 3 cycles with clean but wet bowls I ran an empty load just to watch the spray pattern. The top arm shoots water downward mostly so anything that faces up just catches all the dirty water. Now I flip them all at a 45 degree angle and they come out bone dry every time. Has anyone else dealt with a partner who refuses to learn the bowl angles?
Honestly, I got tired of pre-rinsing my cereal bowls before loading them into the dishwasher. Every morning there was dried milk or oatmeal stuck in there and I'd have to scrub for a minute. Then I tried something dumb: I just put a scoop of baking soda in the bowl before loading it, right on top of the gunk. Ngl, it worked way better than I thought and I didn't have to rinse anything. The baking soda seems to break down the dried stuff during the wash cycle. Has anyone else tried using a powder like that to skip the pre-rinse step? I'm curious if cornstarch or something else works too.
Last week I loaded the dishwasher after dinner and my wife walked over and flipped every dinner plate from flat to a 45 degree angle. Said I was trapping water on the tops and causing spots. I been doing flat face down for 3 years since we moved into this house in Austin and never noticed spots. She says I'm not looking close enough. Which way actually dries better? Anyone got a definitive answer on this?