I’m so thankful for the invention of the dishwasher. Without a dishwasher, I’m the dishwasher. I was the dishwasher for my entire childhood. My parents graciously waited until I had moved out to buy a mechanical replacement.
I only have one real complaint about the dishwasher. You have to pre-wash dishes before loading them. It’s a dishwasher. It should wash the dishes. Why am I pre-washing dishes if I have a dishwasher?
If I just had to knock the left-over food into the garbage can or garbage disposal and give it a rinse, I would have no problem with the process. But the instant that I pick up a scrubbing instrument, I’m washing. Given an additional 10-30 seconds, I’ve basically washed the dish. Why am I washing dishes if I have a dishwasher?
Arguments I’ve heard and my responses:
“You have to get rid of the things that stick.”
Anything beyond basic scraping amounts to dishwashing and has left my jurisdiction.
“The dishwasher is less about cleaning and more about sanitizing.”
Then they should be called dish sanitizers; not dishwashers.
“If you loaded it better…”
:PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
“If you loaded it sooner…”
Yet more :PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
“Just do it, Greggory! Jeeez!”
Fine!
If I put my dirty clothes in the washing machine, they come out clean. I don’t have to pre-wash them (and I don’t consider pre-treating stains as pre-washing… not that I do that, either). If a washing machine can wash clothes without pre-washing, why can’t a dishwasher wash dishes without pre-washing?
To the manufacturers: Make a better dishwasher and save my marriage. Go on now. Get to it.
-CG
Better dishwashers don’t need all that rinsing. Because our contractor did such a crappy job installing our very pricy dishwasher it broke last year. However, before it broke down, I could put any filthy dish or pan in without orewashing and it would come out clean. In fact, the high end dishwashers have a mini garbage disposal built in. We let our plumber put a new dishwasher in (Whirlpool) and it is total junk. (this was about three months before Richard died.) ever since, I have been doing exactly the same things you have been going through, plus about one in four items has to be put back in the washer or washed by hand. Further, nothing feels really clean. After Christmas bills are paid off, I am buying another, better dish washer, probably a Bosch.
It’s kind of screwy to have to do the job of something that you paid for something else to do. It’s a bit like getting ready to make a phone call to a friend, but first driving to that friend’s house so that you’re close enough that the signal doesn’t have to travel too far. I think I just want things to do what the heck they’re supposed to do. It doesn’t seem like it’s that much to ask for, but maybe I’m being unfair. 🙂
I hope that was a different Richard, because I think I’m still here.
Of course the type face on this comment is a hazy gray so maybe I just think I’m typing. Neo can I get a little help here?