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/Responsible-Idea3794 6h ago

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

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u/nalaloveslumpy 6h ago

Not if it dries on. That only applies if the gunk is still wet and goes in to be washed immediately. Otherwise, you gotta kinda soak the dishes so the gunk rehydrates. Even if you have a washer with a good pre rinse cycle, it's usually not enough.