Yep. I don’t give a shit. If it’s dirty, I cram it into the dishwasher.
Pre-rinse? HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!!
Today you were gone. It was garbage day. I put every decrepit post-Christmas dish in the dishwasher and didn’t rinse one before hand. They came out SPOTLESS! Like I told you they would. But you never listen.
I am the dishwasher king. I can clean anything. (Without pre-rinsing. Subject to approval. OAC. YMMV.)
ETA: Sigh - shame the title can’t be edited. Little help?
Vaht are you talking about?
Dude, you’re just now doing dishes from Christmas?
Feel powerful now. When the queen comes back, you’re back to being the court jester.
She’ll probably notice the dirty dishes when she gets back.
Hah! I do this too Leaffan, when my housemate isn’t around. He insists that eveything be rinsed all over with water and detergent (usually until it’s clean enough to eat off of again :rolleyes: ) and then it can go in the dishwasher. Christ, the country is in the middle of a long drought to the point where we are undergoing mandatory water restrictions and you think we should wash every kitchen implement we use twice?
Just scrape anything chunky into the bin and stuff it in there.
Also, when he isn’t here, I cram stuff in there until it’s totally packed and it STILL comes out clean. He thinks you have to do things like only put plates in every second or third division of the plate racks or ':eek:… they won’t be cleaned! Yeah, that’s why every single dishwasher in the world comes with racks that allow for much closer stacking than that and whose very arrangement implies that this is the intended way to use the machine. Because that would totally be the case if stuff regularly didn’t get clean that way.
I swear I get at least twice as much done my way than he does with his clearly inferior way.
Lick it, Housemate of Swashing! Sometimes when I’m cramming stuff in there - the things touch. Yeah, you heard me.
You guys have it better than you think… my housemate leaves sponges in the sink with food and water and yuck all mixed in there. I can’t pick up a sponge to wipe the counter, because it leaves a horrible smell on my hand. The really amazing part is how quickly she does this to new sponges.
I think anal-retentive tidiness is silly too (and oppressive); I blame the Puritans. But …
Oh, I’m doing it again. Clearly I have no sense of humor left at all about this. Sorry!
It’s all about how you pack it. I load the dishwasher and the dishes are clean when done. Ma loads it and everything is dirty when the load is done. She apparently can’t figure out the path of the water spray and line up the dirty area with the spray instead of away from it. She wipes down the counters with dirty stinky rags when I’m cooking to and puts my cooking utensils in the sink. I no longer cook if she’s anywhere nearby, and will quit until she leaves the kitchen.
Oh god, my wife does this and it drives me potty. She is an intelligent woman but apparently cannot comprehend that if you lay a pot lid flat across the bottom of the rack and then put a dish face down over the top of it, the water will not miraculously pass through the lid and clean the dish. What’s more annoying is that she will not check whether things are clean when removing them, she will just put them away because they’ve just come out of the dishwasher so they must be clean, right?
And yet she complains that I am untidy. Maybe, but I’d rather be untidy and hygienic rather than a neat freak with dried on gunk on my utensils. 
We don’t have a dishwasher, but my wife is about the same: She just baptizes the dirty dishes, puts them in the drying rack, and (if I don’t rewash them first) puts them away in the cupboard. She just gives the business end or surface of a dish a desultory wipe & rinse and it’s done.
Nice, big chunk and smears sticking there. I don’t understand it. If we’ve got company coming over, I try to take everything that might have a remote chance of being used and make sure that it’s washed properly. Otherwise, I just give everything a visual inspection before use to make sure it’s not a dish that she’s “washed” and left a substantial amount of food on.
I have been looking forward to the day when we get a dishwasher and I can be more confident about it… ah well.
My MIL must “pre-rinse” things to near spotlessness and it drives me batty. I try to be a good guest and put my dirty dishes away, but 90% of the time it is impossible to tell if the dishwasher has already been run or not. Of course, this is all her husband’s fault because he won’t get a water softener and so the dishes won’t come out clean (not that she has tried since they finally upgraded their 20+ year old dishwasher) if she doesn’t rinse them, blah blah blah …
My roomate runs the dishwasher when it’s less than half full. I hate that. I gradually fill the washer as I finish with each dirty dish or utensil. I like to wait until it is pretty full so that I’m not always running it. But he seems to think that 4 dishes and 4 forks constitutes an acceptable load.
Grrrr.
My dishwasher has the strength somewhere between King Kong and Godzilla. In the four years that I’ve lived here I think that I’ve had one dish that didn’t come out clean and that was a heavily crusted on casserole dish.
I do agree on the importance of knowing how to stack the dishes and pots and pans in the dishwasher. My ex had trouble with the concept of no overlap of dishes also.
My parents always pre-wash dishes before they put them in the dishwasher. I buy Cascade Complete and forget it. I’d far rather pay a little more and not have to spend time scrubbing dishes. I did pick up her idea that “it’s not really clean if it hasn’t been through the dishwasher” (the only exception is non-dishwasher-safe things).
Mr. Neville got in trouble with my mom once over dishes. She had pre-washed some dishes and put them in the dishwasher. He opened the dishwasher, saw what looked like clean dishes, and started putting them away. Which of course freaked my mom- those dishes were still dirty! (We’ve since reassured him that you aren’t really a member of the Neville family if Mom Neville hasn’t gotten mad at you about something like that)
What brand is it?
I once had a roommate who would get on my ass for not doing the dishes. (We didn’t have a dishwasher.) One night I was in the kitchen and he scolded me for not doing them, much unlike him. In that moment he took a glass off of the shelf, filled it with water, took a drink, poured the rest out, then put the glass back on the shelf.
Yes, he got an earfull.
One day a friend of my son’s was over here and we invited him to eat lunch. After he was through, the friend rinsed his plate in the sink and put it up in the clean dishes. :eek:
ETA: The most egregious thing I ever witnessed was a former SIL wiping her son’s nose on a dishtowel - and promptly hanging back on the stove handle (people dry their hands on that thing, you stupid git!).
I’d be happy if my husband actually crammed everything into the dishwasher while I was here! He loads the dishwasher so infrequently, that I can probably recall each time. He’s a total slob. If we had to share a bathroom, our marriage would be ending much faster.
What is this pre-rinsing of which you speak?
Our dogs gladly handle that chore. . .
My ex-gf used to load the dishwasher so the spinning spray-bar thing would hit the tops of the plates and stop. Needless to say the dishes didn’t get very clean.
I love my dishwasher. I don’t mind washing by hand, but it takes time, something I don’t have a lot of with a new baby in the house. So I bung everything in. However my husband seems to have a moral objection to dishwashers, so when he does the washing up he’ll actually take dishes OUT of the dishwasher and do them by hand. This would be fine except that he doesn’t take them all out, just certain ones (and I have no idea of his logic when he’s doing the selecting). So then the remaining dirty dishes, usually cereal bowls, sit in the dishwasher for days because it’s not full enough to justify running. And then we run out of cereal bowls because they’re all still sitting unwashed in the dishwasher. Drives me nuts, but he and I’ve gone around and around about it and he won’t budge.
When our old dishwasher broke, we splurged and got a fancy-schmantzy Bosch.
Although we really like how quiet it is, we both agree that the interior racks are designed such that it is tougher to load than any dishwasher we have had before.
I guess that is supposed to be the maid’s problem. . .