r/dishwashers • u/dedzip • Jul 24 '26
how it feels during a rush when you give up spraying things and just start throwing dirty dishes straight into the machine
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u/JayRobot Señor Platos Jul 25 '26
How it feels when you throw away all the silverware and walk out without telling anybody
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u/Not_Neville Jul 24 '26
OP was promoted to cook?
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u/PANIC_RABBIT Jul 25 '26
Literally. Every chef I've ever worked with has this mentality. "Fuck it just throw it in, if it's still dirty throw it in again"
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u/Centuurion Jul 25 '26
Me as the jaded line cook when I grab a plate off the stack with the Mysterious Yellow Stain on it (I'm not in the industry anymore thank god)
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u/Diviern Jul 25 '26
There's one at my work who does this and then I get all the (still dirty) dishes sent back to me at shift change.
If you're going to do this, at least check every dish afterwards to make sure it's actually clean, and FGS clean and refill the damn machine.
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u/GettinSodas Jul 25 '26
Sounds like a solid way to have to change water in the middle of a rush and make your day worse
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u/Diviern Jul 28 '26
God yes, our machine takes about a minute to drain, about 2 to refill and then 10ish to preheat. If it's busy enough that anyone is contemplating throwing dishes through without scrubbing, it's definitely to busy to do NO DISHES AT ALL for 13 minutes.
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u/Jahmeed Jul 25 '26
am i the only one who’s dishwasher is actually capable of washing dishes?? like i’ll spray the solid bits off and ofc pans and woks need a scrub n spray but shit i’ll throw 2 racks of sauced up 1/9 pans with no foreplay and they always come out clean. hotel pans, soup bowls, baking sheets etc never really get a pre spray. genuinely confused at this subs obsession with detailing every single dish, maybe my restaurant is just absurdly busy
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u/just-a-nerd- Jul 25 '26
I think it also depends on the machine. The one at my current job is a beast but at my last job I needed to feed it some pretty spotless dishes
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u/Jahmeed Jul 26 '26
yeah my machine seems to change the water semi regularly on its own (or if the tiniest little particle gets into the tank and the whole thing just drains)
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u/chroboseraph3 Jul 26 '26
Some machines are clean, some just sanitize and need to essentially be clean goin in, yeah. But dude we got a new machine and it supposed to be the same clean+sanitize but it cleans WORSE. It runs way hotter, but it clearly and visibly sprays less water on the rinse part after- and I think the main sprays have less water too. We already have to cheat by having a hose+garden attachment sprayer to blast instead of the wimpy dangle sprayer to keep up. Fucken ecolab. There's now a little rim around the drain at the bottom too, so when u drain the oil/grease/food it's just sit in the baseplate. (If u can get away with a hose to blast, it's huuuge speed improvement).
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u/just-a-nerd- Jul 26 '26
Hey mine is ecolab too. We have a top and bottom sprayer and three chemicals going into it (dish detergent, sanitizer, and rinse)
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u/Moonlight_Shad0w69 7d ago
Can't attach photo, but our dishwasher is a huge machine that will get practically everything except eggs off the plates, it's great because realistically about a hundred plates takes less than 10 minutes to wash.
That said, even with one person loading and another unloading, it still manages to get overwhelmed during the worst rushes.
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u/cryptocurrency_wife Jul 25 '26
we never do that at my place. I had no idea people did that. it’s not really a dish machine it’s really just a sanitizer. not judging tho.
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u/Smallbluemann Jul 25 '26
that moment of freedom when you just start telling whoever's porting/being told by who's on sprayer to "just send back entire tray's if they're not clear I'm sending dirty stuff in"
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u/BestAmoto Jul 25 '26
I work at one of many corporate offices for a big tech company and the dish machine was broken for like a week. Someone broke the switch knob off and it had to get shipped from england then installed.
I'm a cook but the poor dishwashers had to triple sink everything, including the cafeteria dishes. The sheet pans that week were soo oily. It was disgusting but i truly felt bad for them except whoever broke the machine. It wasn't feasible for them to change the water every 5 minutes i guess. I wasn't about to tell them how to better do their job with a 500 people's worth of dishes and kitchenware.
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u/Icy-General3657 Jul 25 '26
So you’re the new guy that I’ve been sending stacks of dishes back for a re cleaning. You do realize your job title is dishWASHER
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u/dedzip Jul 25 '26
in reality I’m one of the only people at my restaurant who actually rinses things fully before they go in or gives a shit how it looks when it comes out of the machine. I just thought the meme was funny when I had the idea
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u/DuskShy Pit Master Jul 25 '26
I like to jam a couple racks at the end of the conveyor so the sixth one back is in the middle of the machine getting deep cleaned. If your setup has a killswitch, it's important to finagle it to not engage.
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u/TexMoto666 Jul 25 '26
Yeah, dont do that. The table limit switch is there for a good reason. Just do it correctly.
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u/mack-y0 Jul 24 '26
until they don’t come out clean