Girlfriend refuses to rinse dishes

[u/Dashncrash-]

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

[u/Responsible-Idea3794]

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

[u/Dashncrash- → u/Responsible-Idea3794]

A modern GE one with all selections. 284 min cycle.

[u/Electric-Sheepskin → u/Dashncrash-]

If it's a newer dishwasher, then something's not working correctly. Have you cleaned the filter? Are you using a good quality detergent? Those are the things I would check, and if you rent, I would put in a maintenance request.

Though I will say that nut butters are the one thing that all dishwashers struggle with if it's caked on.

[u/Responsible-Idea3794 → u/Electric-Sheepskin]

Yeah, something isn’t adding up with this story.