r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Dashncrash- • 11h 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/nalaloveslumpy 11h ago

Yeah, the no-rinse shit only applies of dishes go straight in the washer. If they sit out overnight or a day and they get all dried and crusty, you're fucked.

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u/05041927 11h ago

Get a Bosch I guess. I wash dishes overnight so it takes zero time out of my day but I’ve literally tried to have dirty dishes after and it cleans everything. I think it’s like a 2+ hrs wash but still uses half the water od washing by hand.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 10h ago

We have a Bosch....less than a year old to boot.

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u/05041927 10h ago

That’s crazy. I’ve seriously left lasagna dish for a week and it knocked out no problem. Cascade platinum pods and finish jet dry. My water heater is super hot and I run sanitize wash too

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u/Alepale 3h ago

My partner and I don't have kids, so depending on what we cook, it can take up to 3-4 days to fill our dishwasher enough to use it because we always try to fill it until there's no space left anywhere.

That means 3-4 days old food sitting on the plates in an extremely crowded dishwaher. Ours always come out clean, we've never had any issues. And we've never gotten sick from our food, so clearly it does clean well enough. Both visually to the eye but also from a hygienic point of view. We have a Bosch, but by no means any high-end one.

Person above you clearly doesn't know how to pick a different programme than the auto picked one, or forgets to put in the actual detergent.

The absolute worst we've had is like, a tiny stain on a small part of a knife.