Are you loading your dishwasher wrong?

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  @neddypwnz · 2 years ago

  Appliance repair technician here: one thing a lot of people miss when talking about this topic is that while you CAN skip the pre-rinse, if you want to keep your dishwasher I still recommend getting as much as you can off. Leftover food stuff clogging pumps, pipes, and spray arms are the most common causes of service calls and premature wear.  a little sauce left over is fine, but anything oily or solid needs to be removed if you want to keep your dishwasher healthy.

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• MR

  @MrBubmer · 2 years ago

  If you guys want a more in-depth series on how a dishwasher works, go watch the technology connections series on them. He goes into a TON more information and details on how they work, what soap to use, prerinsing, how important adding soap to the prewash is, etc.

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• CH

  @chadeller5588 · 2 years ago

  Cutting my hand on upward facing knife tips (multiple times!) has made me a life long pointy-side-down advocate.

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• PA

  @paulfrank8738 · 1 year ago

  My mother is an adamant utensils down person. Her reason, the person unloading the dishwasher handles the clean utensils by the handle instead of the part you put in your mouth. (I don't think she trusted everyone to wash their hands before unloading the dishwasher.)

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• DA

  @dabundis · 2 years ago

  I think one of the big reasons that so many of these topics are argued about so often is that there are lots of different ways to load a dishwasher that will result in clean dishes.  Then people find one method that works, and assume it's THE correct method, remaining unaware of the many other perfectly functional methods.

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• MO

  @monicajohnston8364 · 2 years ago

  One other reason to put plastic in the top rack is because there's usually a heating element on the bottom of the dishwasher, so the bottom rack often gets hot enough to melt, crack, or warp plastic

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• CE

  @celestialstar6450 · 10 months ago

  How to load dishwasher starts at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_haQLmfoWxI&amp;t=365">6:05</a>

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• RU

  @runthefuture · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_haQLmfoWxI&amp;t=430">7:10</a> respect to your previous owners. I&apos;ve moved into a house where the previous owners documented the installs of all the appliances, inspections of the HVAC, and labeled the circuit breaker and it&apos;s incredibly thoughtful

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• PO

  @pokelover02 · 2 years ago

  I have a food handler’s certificate, and in my training we’re taught to load flatware face-down because it’s much more sanitary when you pull them out by the ends and you’re less likely to make someone sick when they use the utensil.

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• ZS

  @Zsomi8 · 2 years ago

  Additional tip about the utensil direction. If you put your forks, knives or any other stuff with slim pointed ends in the basket, make sure they don&apos;t poke through the bottom too much. In some dishwashers as much as 0.5cm is already enough to collide with the bottom spinner during operation.

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• NA

  @namenamename390 · 2 years ago

  This video reminded me of a thing I saw ages ago, a German kids TV show, Die Sendung mit der Maus, meant to answer questions children might have about how things work. So obviously they had one episode where they explained how a dishwasher works. However, it was filmed before GoPros were a thing, so instead of putting a camera inside the dishwasher, they asked a manufacturer to make a transparent dishwasher door.

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  @IAmTruth-xj4es · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_haQLmfoWxI&amp;t=467">7:47</a> ANSWER: Doesn’t matter which way. You can even mix&amp;match, put some utensil up and some down.

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