When we rebuilt our house, DH insisted on an automatic dishwasher. I relented and he got one. I hate it! Seems like I get dishes out that are dirtier than when I put them in. I have also had many conversations with him about what can and absolutely cannot go in the darn thing. He ruined several of my vintage aluminum tumblers and a few vintage pyrex pieces. When he melted a plastic (bpa free) sun tea jar. I lost it. It went in a gallon size. It came out jelly jar size.
Do any of you have the dirtier dishes problem? How did you solve it. We scrape and rinse (a complete waste of time to me - why not just wash them in the sink if you are going to do all that.) and we have cleaned the drain screen. I even bought a container of dishwasher cleaner thinking that would help. A waste of $4, but it did smell better.
I don't have this problem but I do give everything a good wash with a sponge, rinse and then put it in the dishwasher. This way there is nothing in the screen and the dishes come out perfectly clean. A dishwasher does sterilize everything and is a more sanitary way of doing dishes. I have a Maytag and it works perfectly for us. Good luck on learning what works best for yours.
Dawn in IL
Edited by - ddmashayekhi on Oct 08 2014 3:58:05 PM
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Diana
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Posted - Oct 08 2014 : 11:21:53 AM
Check water pressure, water temperature, kink in the drain line. My spigot on the water was not turned on all the way. The old hot water heater was not heating the water hot enough. And when we pushed the dishwasher in it kinked the drain line and it shot all that food back to the dishes. I would never want to go back to doing dishes by hand. Now if I could just get a automatic vacuum that would be able to do all the floors in my house. These are the 2 jobs I do not like. Oh and get good soap for the thing cheap soap does not do it.
You are absolutely right on the cheap soap. I was having to use more than one "cell" for each load. Now he buys Cascade platinum. I still don't like the darn thing, but if it gets him to clean the kitchen and dishes - then so be it.
Dishwasher question
Posted - Oct 07 2014 : 1:54:38 PM
