I start by stating that my experience may not be typical. I live in a household with my wife and two daughters in their twenties. All three of them seem utterly incapable of stacking a dishwasher properly. It would appear that they think it works by magic or alchemy Crockery is jammed together and scissors are put in in the closed position. There seems to be absolutely no recognition that water and detergent need to circulate freely between items to clean effectively. Some items such as a lemon squeezer must be stacked vertically to avoid it retaining dirty water in the top or bottom but this particular anomaly seems to be too difficult a concept to grasp. They never check the top or bottom spinner arms to ensure they are not impeded by a long spoon or knife for example. Inevitably, if anyone of the three females has stacked the dishwasher I find myself re-organising the contents before switching it on. I explain and demonstrate patiently how and why items should be arranged but I know I am wasting my time. "You do it then" is the usual response. Which I usually do. Bizarrely, I take pride in a properly stacked dishwasher. Anyone else find the same?
"Bizarrely, I take pride in a properly stacked dishwasher." Help may be available, but the pandemic may make it difficult for you.
My wife has many idiosyncracies that I could let annoy me, but I wouldn't dare! Mostly because it would be thrown back in my face doubletime! Viva la difference!
Here’s an instructional video for them to watch https://fb.watch/4iIbTVoS6k/ Here’s the full audio, they will have to listen
I got so sick of my family not scaping the plates of food and rinsing them before loading the washer...I would literally find steak, vegetables and pasta in the bottom of the machine. So when it broke through fat blocking the pipes for the third time.. I waited 4 months to repair it and had everyone wash the dishes by hand. Did the trick though!
wow, you have four dishwashers in your house. but only one you can switch off when you choose. you have got the balance all wrong my friend.
More to the point.... Members of your family "put" stuff in the dishwasher..... If there was a competition for placing stuff as near to the dishwasher as possible without actually putting it in there my kids would be world champions.
Tessalational Blindness Syndrome. My 28 year old son also suffers from this so it is not gender specific.
Ah now you see its a bit different in my house, my Mrs stacks the dishwasher better than I do, but it's lead to her almost exclusively only ever wanting everything to go in the dishwasher. No matter how small an amount of pots have been used to make a meal, as soon as I go old school and start running a bowl of water to wash up as I'm going she wades in picking stuff up to put in the dishwasher
There's only me and the wife, however so much of this rings true. She will literally toss stuff in there, scissors closed is a classic, but she just doesn't stack correctly and will literally turn it on for 3 plates and a cup. If I leave her to it I know it will be 1/2 full at best which niggles me knowing that it's inefficient. I'm always restacking and organising to get the most in but cleaning as effectively as possible.
I know someone who did live on his own but had a dishwasher. Never used it for dishes, it was exclusively used for car parts, motorcycle parts and tools. "Look, they come up gleaming." he would say. I suspect this use of them is not that uncommon.
I worked with a lady once who was a little OCD. One of her pet hates was the dishwasher being stacked badly by her husband, especially the cutlery not being sorted into separate sections in the little basket. So she would fill the dishwasher, her husband would start it as he went to bed, and she would empty it in the morning. If her OCD had caused any issues during the evening, or they just weren't getting on, he would mix up the cutlery, and maybe swap a few plates around before starting it. He would then go off to work really early in the morning before she was up, and await his fate that evening. But, we all suffered in the office all day because of her mood, and knew the moment she walked in that dishwashergate had reared it's head again. Nasher.
I did mean to mention that it was started by his sister who would sometimes clean the house for him. She found dirty tools lying on the worktop awaiting cleaning in the sink - she stuck them in the dishwasher.
It's really not an uncommon thing to do, I thought most people who like to play with old mechanical things do it. It particularly works to get the salt/corrosion build up out of an Outboard cylinder head. Nasher.
Why do people spend 10 minutes rearranging the content of the dishwasher. To fit in an item that could be washed by hand in 20 seconds?
Yes everyone else in my house suffers the above issues. However I do have a rare illness, I love washing up by hand, just live it. Take great pride in figuring out the order of washing things, proper rinse and good stacking while allowing water to drain away. I also always wash up straight after using pots and pans etc and keep all my dirty laundry in a linen basket. As I said I am a rare species, certainly in my house. Oh and while we are at it, do the other monkeys in your house ever replace toilet rolls in the holder!! In my house there are several of the cardboard tubes always on their bathroom floor, and the bin is 2 feet away.
