Rinsing / washing plates and pans .....

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Before you put them in the dishwasher?? Is this weird?

I do this all the time and my sister in law finds it really strange. I always thought you are supposed to rinse off you plates and pans and either wash or soak those that have tough to shift food stuck on.

My sister in law simply scrapes off food and then put them in the dishwasher. Doesn't this just make the dishwasher struggle to clean everything efficiently?

Genuinely curious question.

No rinsing here either, what's the point?!

When it was just the two of us we used to put it on roughly every other day

Why would you wash dishes then put them in the dishwasher though?

i just bung it all in, my mother on the other hand washes everything then puts it in the dishwasher... drives me mental when shes staying, bloody washing dishes, let the machine do it

I always rinse first.
As I understand it, dishwashers use a finite amount of water. Who wants dirty water swishing around all their pots and pans.

Surely they do washes and rinses like a washing machine would. It wont be the same water in the machine for the whole wash

I have a full size dishwasher, live alone and don't really cook much, hence only running it every four days or so - when it's full, basically. Obviously if I have cooked or had guests it goes on more frequently, I was just making the point that it still cleans plates when they've been sat for a while.

I usually scrape but some things don't scrape off well, where there's loads of little bits ,so I do give them a quick rinse just so there's not bits in the dw.

The manual on mine says to scrape not rinse.

What’s the point otherwise? It’s like handwashing clothes then putting them through the washing machine.

We usually rinse if there's food bits on the plates