Does any sane person rinse the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher?

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Having a mental discussion with dh. We have just got a dishwasher, have been renting for a long time and this is our first. He has read the manual which says to rinse the dishes before you put them in.

This sounds like complete madness to me. If you are going to rinse them you might has well wash them while you are at it making the dishwasher pointless.

Does anyone actually rinse their dishes before they go in the dishwasher.

I do, it's why I bought the kitchen tap that I did, as it pulls out to hose each plate off.

I scrape all the food off but dong rinse.

Ooo Missus :o

I do. I'm one of those that rinse them first, but it's only a recent thing. Mainly because if I don't then the dishwasher doesn't get all the crap off, and the cycle will finish, you'll go to pull your clean stuff out and you'll find they've all got last night's dinner smeared all over them.
So yes, a cursory swish of the dish under the tap to get rid of all the yukky stuff first is always preferable, then they'll come out sparkly clean instead of still caked in muck.

Food will stick to the dishes if you don't rinse.

Yes. Because of filter, as others have mentioned.

And what Doinghousework said too.

whatmeworry

I do, but am having a horrible moment because I think it might be due to the fact I am turning into my mother.

My DP does and it drives me mad. We live in a drought area (not UK), and he rinses the whole flipping lot under a full on running tap for absolutely ages. We have a water bill of over $1,000 and we can't afford to pay it.

God, that would drive me mad too, Tolalola.

It's a dishwasher not a garbage disposal unit. Rinse em!

So presumably you can't claim to be sane, then?

Scrape the big bits off, being vigilant about rice and eggshells which get stuck in the whirly bits. The stuff always comes up clean if the dishwasher's any good. And the DH doesn't overload it an loony attempt to get "full value" out of the wash, in which case it DOES come dirty and has to be done again.

Rinse? Not on a water meter, not in a drought-ridden country, though, again DH likes to rinse, instead of wash small things, not seeing it's a waste of water when the dishwasher is there.

Yes. Put some water/soap liquid in the sink or washing-up bowl and get rid of the baked on stuff, hardened porridge etc. Saves cleaning the dishwasher or you can run it on half-load or a lower temp wash

I scrape and rinse - otherwise you end up with a stinky dishwasher

No. I scrape off any actual pieces of food, but never rinse anything. Have never had a problem with my dishwasher smelling, getting clogged, not cleaning anything properly. I don't even put it on the hottest wash and I use the cheapest of the cheap dishwasher tablets.

My parents rinse everything and have an extensive list of things that mustn't be put in a dishwasher for no scientific reason - just because they have some strange notion that it may either harm the item or the dishwasher. I've tried explaining that there are very few things these days that you can't put in, but they won't have it!!!!!

Not sure who is sane - but I know I'm right!

You're not supposed to (at least with newer dishwashers):
www.gogreenzine.com/rinse-dishes-before-dishwasher/

shine.yahoo.com/green/should-you-pre-rinse-your-dishes-before-loading-the-dishwasher-1677291.html

So I don't. Unfortunately my dishwasher is not a newer one. So I also regret my smug but slatternly ways.

I don't. Quick scrape off of any big bits into the bin, then into the dishwasher.

Even if it sits for a day or two, it gets everything clean - and that's using value tablets in an old dishwasher.

I am not sure I can be considered sane though...I spotted a couple of dusty looking candles in glass pots the other week, thought I'd run them through the dishwasher...ended up with two lovely glass jars and a beautifully scented dishwasher. Damn you 'organised and together' thread!

If it's a crap dishwasher, like ours, then yes, you need to

If it's an excellent dishwasher like our old one (got rid of because it no longer fitted after kitchen revamp ), you don't need to

You will quickly find out which yours is, if you don't rinse

Yes I do, as think the dishwasher filter gets clogged up otherwise? Anything with a tomato based sauce (ketchup/beans etc) turns anything plastic a horrible colour .

I do a quick rinse under the tap if we've eaten anything with a tomato based sauce. If I don't, then it turns the baby's bottles orange! If I'm feeling really lazy then I leave the bottles out and run the dw's rinse program first

Oops didn't see pigeon's post, which had already said that

Only deep pans with gravy or scrambled egg which I know my dishwasher will cook on not remove.
Or dried on porridge, that also doesn't shift.
I do take roaring tins out side and pour boiling water over them and tip the grease onto a dark corner of the lawn.
It's an old house and neither the sink or dishwasher drains are very tolerant of grease or unscripted plates.

Unscrapped plates.
Yes I used to rinse very tomatoey things if I had bottles and some of the plastic boxes and ice cube trays I used for weaning because they went orange very easily.

I rinse. A teensy piece of plastic (one of those little tabs that you pull off to get into a food tub) went in and got caught in one of the tubes. Cost me big bucks to get it fixed as it was somewhere I couldn't get into! The engineer said that you needed to rinse to get rid of all the gloopy yuk that goes down into the pipes and festers. Eurchh