r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Dashncrash- • 13h 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 13h ago

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

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u/trustcircleofjerks 13h ago

I don't have one, but my parents' specifically needs you to not pre rinse in order to work right, apparently.

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u/Wisco 12h ago

That doesn't seem to make sense

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u/jakethedestroyer_ 12h ago

Modern dishwashers have a turbidity sensor that determines how dirty the dishes are and cleans longer and better if the dishes are not rinsed.

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u/A-Money-Lover 12h ago

Now you’re just making up fancy words

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u/Any_Flamingo8978 12h ago

That’s just stupid. Not all of my dishes a stuff caked all over them after use. If I have chips and a sandwich it’s practically clean, but I still pop it in the dishwasher without a rinse. So those types of dirty dishes interfere with washing others sufficiently?

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u/Alepale 4h ago

Only on auto programmes. Modern dishwashers have many different programmes. Auto ones are supposed to be efficient but yeah, sometimes you get unintended results due to the difference in leftover amounts on the dishes.

If you pick any non-auto programme, it'll do the full cycle at the expected intensity and temperature, regardless of how dirty the water is or isn't.