Three months of proper angled loading saved my glasses from etching

I used to just toss everything in however it fit, but after my nice wine glasses got that cloudy film, I started tilting everything toward the center like the manual says. Has anyone else noticed a real difference in glass clarity just from changing the angle?

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sandrat247d ago

Oh yeah, tilting everything toward the center makes a HUGE difference. I was skeptical at first too, but after about two months of doing it with my everyday drinking glasses, I noticed they stayed crystal clear while the ones I used to just stack sideways got that foggy buildup. It's like the water actually runs off instead of pooling and leaving deposits. What kind of wine glasses were yours? Were they the thin crystal type or the thicker ones?

grant_hart6d ago

Man, that's exactly what a buddy of mine told me. He's got this set of Riedel wine glasses he's had for like a decade, and he always just stacked them sideways in the cabinet. Then one day he decided to try tilting them all toward the middle of the rack. He said after a few months the glasses looked brand new and the ones he didn't change still had that cloudy water stain ring near the rim. He called me all excited about it, which I thought was funny at first until I tried it myself with my own cheap glasses. I think his were the thin crystal type, the really fragile ones you're scared to touch too hard.

morgan_ramirez6d ago

Push back a little on that timeline. Two months sounds too fast for me to notice any difference unless you're scrubbing them down every week. I left four pint glasses tilted on one side of the rack and four regular ones on the other for a solid three months and the only thing that changed was the tilted ones had less of that scummy line right at the bottom rim. The cloudy ring was basically the same on both sets. @sandrat24 was your water hard or soft? I'm wondering if that matters more than the angle itself.