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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll join with Technology Connections in being that guy who says (in a friendly way, not condescending):

If you have to rinse your dishes ever then you're using the wrong soap, have a reeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaally crappy dishwasher (like a multi decade old cheapo model that's breaking), or are loading your washer wrong. I think TCs video showing literally cooked on cheese coming off of dishes is pretty good proof that no dish out there needs rinsing.

I used to think my dishwasher couldn't handle most things without rinsing, then I realized one of my sprayers had been blocked up and i also switched to a powder soap and suddenly everything is clean as fuck without any other changes to my loading habits. This was on a model slightly cheaper than the one TC uses in his video, and was about 7 years old when I saw improvement.

This is not criticism or anything, but simply trying to spread awareness of a simple thing I know a lot of people are surprised by when I tell them. Many of us are wasting time and effort on rinsing shit that doesn't need to be, free yourselves!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Heard, thanks!