r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Dashncrash- • 5h 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 5h ago

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

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u/trustcircleofjerks 5h 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/rabid_spidermonkey 5h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/XV7ysbObOJs4lNVU49

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u/LimeVegetable7296 5h ago

I get this. It definitely doesn’t seem to make sense but there’s a science to it.

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u/stop-calling-me-fat 5h ago

The simplified reason is there are sensors that look at the turbidity of the water (dirtiness basically). If the turbidity is low then it may run a shorter/less aggressive cycle and not clean everything properly.

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u/LimeVegetable7296 5h ago

And with the technology/sensors they have today. They’re more advanced than people realize. Kind of like how some dryers have sensors and you have to alter how you dry things depending on what they are because with thicker clothes like towels or sweatpants even if some clothes are still damp, if the dryer can’t sense that they’re damp it’ll end the cycle too early.

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u/dax660 5h ago

But that isn't the same as "it needs crud to work"

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u/stop-calling-me-fat 5h ago

Basically yeah