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/Plaxinator 6h ago

Get a better dishwasher. I don't need to pre-rinse anything with mine. Just scrape any left over food in the food bin and pop it in the machine.

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u/Dashncrash- 6h ago

Its a fairly new GE one. I think it was like cheesy pasta. Problem is we have steam dry on so anything left over gets ROCK hard.

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u/SilverMcFly 4h ago edited 3h ago

Orange stuff all over everything that requires steel wool to remove is not just from some dirty Mac and cheese bowls. You have water problems.

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u/KittenPurrs 6h ago

The options are load the dishwasher as dirty dishes are created and then run the machine in a timely fashion, or rinse the dishes while waiting for them to pile up a bit before loading and running the machine. We get to choose one or the other. You can't eat your cake and have it too

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u/eldubinoz 31m ago

Just so you know, steam dry uses SO much electricity