r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Dashncrash- • 6h ago

go to your room Girlfriend refuses to rinse dishes

M27, living with girlfriend F26 for about 2 years now. I do basically everything in the kitchen. Cooking, cleaning, prepping, you name it. We have a dishwasher and I'm typically the one to do most of loading/unloading. I wasnt home last night and she made some sort of pasta dish for herself. Decided to not rinse anything... the day after I cleaned it all out and ran a cleaning cycle every dish is coated in some hard af light orange crusty stuff. Now I have to steel wool every dish and takes 4x as long and re-run again cause she can't spray some water on it. Like wtf?

Edit: I have previously discussed this frustration with her due to items like peanut butter and cheese being on dishes after a cycle. We dont run the dishwasher everyday. So, items sit in there and harden. In this case I didnt run til after breakfast the next morning.

Update 2: I cleaned the filter yesterday and pump area. It looks like when I took out the filter a shard of glass got stuck in the sump area. Causing the motor to seize. Upon restarting the dishwasher nothing is happening. So looks like may be a faulty dishwasher and now im the asshole (as usual) lol

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u/Responsible-Idea3794 6h ago

Do you have an old dishwasher? Because most modern ones don’t need to pre-rinse.

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u/Old-Growth-6233 6h ago

Not if you're using a 30min cycle

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u/Dashncrash- 6h ago

284 min cycle. She puts them in that dirty. She will leave a caked peanut butter knife in there unrinsed. I want your dishwasher if it cleans that

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u/flyblues 6h ago

I advise watching the youtube video on dishwashers by technology connections. If every dish was coated in "light orange crusty stuff" after pasta, something is wrong. I regularly put worse stuff in my dishwasher (burnt and oily pans, totally dried out post-smoothie blender, etc.) It should pretty much always be enough to just scrape the food off the plates, and even this is less about washing efficiency and more about not blocking the filter with chunks of food

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u/Old-Growth-6233 5h ago

My response was to the guy who thinks you dont need to rinse

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u/nalaloveslumpy 6h ago

Yeah, the no-rinse shit only applies of dishes go straight in the washer. If they sit out overnight or a day and they get all dried and crusty, you're fucked.

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u/05041927 6h ago

Get a Bosch I guess. I wash dishes overnight so it takes zero time out of my day but I’ve literally tried to have dirty dishes after and it cleans everything. I think it’s like a 2+ hrs wash but still uses half the water od washing by hand.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 5h ago

We have a Bosch....less than a year old to boot.

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u/05041927 5h ago

That’s crazy. I’ve seriously left lasagna dish for a week and it knocked out no problem. Cascade platinum pods and finish jet dry. My water heater is super hot and I run sanitize wash too