My mom taught me to always wash dishes by hand. She hated dishwashers, because they would leave spots, and that wasn’t acceptable. For the longest tine, every dish I washed had to pass her inspection. If they looked anything less than perfect, she would point it out and/or rewash then herself. Eventually she trusted me enough to not double-check, and honestly my eyesight was better anyway.
Correctly used dishwashers are generally better at cleaning dishes than cleaning by hand, plus they are way more energy/water efficient than cleaning by hand.
Can you tell me how to correctly use mine? It doesn’t actually clean my dishes properly unless I pre scrape, scrub, and rinse most things…and then at that point it seems almost pointless to be using the dishwasher.
If you have hard water, look in to citric acid. Rinse aid alone still left my dishes cloudy no matter the quantity of detergent I tried. A bit of powdered citric acid leaves them shiny.
My mom taught me to always wash dishes by hand. She hated dishwashers, because they would leave spots, and that wasn’t acceptable. For the longest tine, every dish I washed had to pass her inspection. If they looked anything less than perfect, she would point it out and/or rewash then herself. Eventually she trusted me enough to not double-check, and honestly my eyesight was better anyway.
I have to this day never used a dishwasher.
Correctly used dishwashers are generally better at cleaning dishes than cleaning by hand, plus they are way more energy/water efficient than cleaning by hand.
Can you tell me how to correctly use mine? It doesn’t actually clean my dishes properly unless I pre scrape, scrub, and rinse most things…and then at that point it seems almost pointless to be using the dishwasher.
Check out Technology Connection’s video on dishwashers: https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04
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FYI, rinse aid is a thing these days.
Yeah, but studies have shown it’s not great for us https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36464527/
This is a very useful link, thanks. I may have even experienced this effect in 2021 (hard to be sure though)
If you have hard water, look in to citric acid. Rinse aid alone still left my dishes cloudy no matter the quantity of detergent I tried. A bit of powdered citric acid leaves them shiny.