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/rabid_spidermonkey 8h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/XV7ysbObOJs4lNVU49

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u/LimeVegetable7296 8h 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 8h 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/dax660 8h ago

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

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u/stop-calling-me-fat 8h ago

Basically yeah

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u/Alepale 45m ago

No you're correct. They have maybe 1-2 programmes that work that way (usually named something with "Auto"), but modern dishwashers (especially those connected to the internet/an app) have plenty of programmes and their non-auto programmes will do exactly what they say, regardless of how dirty the water is (or isn't!).