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Showerthought: I timed myself loading the dishwasher two ways and the lazy way won by 4 minutes
Last week I got curious and ran a little test in my kitchen over 3 nights. Night one I rinsed every plate and bowl by hand first, stacking everything neat, and it took me 22 minutes before I even started the machine. Night two I just scraped the chunks into the trash and loaded it messy, no rinse at all, and I was done in 18 minutes with the same clean dishes. I honestly felt dumb for all the nights I stood there rinsing like it mattered. So my real question is, does anyone actually rinse first and have a good reason, or did we all just learn it from our parents?
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the_thea1mo ago
The part about learning it from our parents is what gets me, because I think that is exactly it and it goes back even further than them. Our parents grew up with dishwashers that were way worse than what we have now, like the old ones would straight up bake food onto the plates if you did not rinse it off first. So rinsing was not some weird habit, it was actually needed back then or you would pull out a plate with crusted lasagna still stuck to it. The tech caught up and nobody sent out a memo telling everyone to stop. Now we are all standing at the sink doing a job the machine already does, and the dish soap companies are not about to tell us to quit it either. You basically ran an experiment that proved a whole generation is doing extra work for a rule that expired like 20 years ago.
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