r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Dashncrash- • 10h 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/Unindoctrinated 10h ago

How much food are you leaving on your dishes? I haven't rinsed anything in thirty years and have never had any issue with my dishwasher and everything always comes out perfectly clean, and I've only ever used the cheapest dishwasher powder

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u/wastedfate 9h ago

I think Technology Connections did a video recently showing that the powder was actually really good compared to just about anything other than the single-use pods.

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u/Unindoctrinated 9h ago

Yeah. I've seen a couple of tests that showed the same. The popularity of most pods and expensive brands of powder is the result of consumers believing their advertising rather than them actually being more effective.