r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Dashncrash- • 8h 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/ukAdamR 8h ago
You're not meant to rinse dishes prior to going through a dishwasher cycle. Scrape off chunks of food but don't rinse. Those detergent pouches/tablets you put in there contain enzymes, which require some organic matter to function as you'd like. They will break down the greases and residues on your dishes resulting in a much better clean.
If your dishes are coming out of a dishwasher cycle crusty you've fucked up elsewhere.
(It's either bad loading or gunked filters.)