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 Moms View Message Board: General Discussion: Archive August 2007: Dirty/Clean dishwasher magnet
Scott has been driving me nuts asking, "Are the dishes clean or dirty?" He's just too lazy to open the door and look for water on the top level glasses, IMHO.
You think he will get it on his own if you use something like that? LOL Very cute, by the way.
My in-laws have clean/dirty magnets. They're just round with the words on them.
Deanna, my grandparents had those magnets, too. *That* magnet is certainly eye-catching!
That's cute!
We have a system worked out so that everyone in the family knows if the dishes are dirty or not. If the dishwasher is locked, the dishes are clean, if not, dirty. Works for us! It also helps to put away clean dishes ASAP.
Oh my gosh, Dan does this too, and it drives me batty! Cute magnet. A magnet would never work here, because I know I'd forget to change it, LOL. He'd still ask!
It's just not a question at our house. I think everyone can figure it out.
Ditto Dawnk...it's never been an issue here. You can tell if they're clean.
It's an issue here! I made a clean/dirty magnet (family friendly) years ago, but *I* never remember to USE it, and my husband DOES, but I'm always suspicious since I don't use it!! So I always end up calling him at work to ask the status.
LOL Kate. I don't think you need therapy. You just need to stop rinsing the dishes so well before putting them in the dishwasher!
Yeah, a locked door wouldn't help here either. It locks automatically.
Dishwasher is run every night and my daughter puts them away every morning.
ROFLOL, Melanie with the comment to Kate! I don't know why it struck me as SOOOOO funny, but I'm still laughing as I type this.
I know, I know... I could probably save a ton of money on water and Dawn if I didn't rinse AND soap everything INDIVIDUALLY before putting them in the appliance that is supposed to do all that FOR me!!! At any rate, if any of you were to come over to eat you could rest assured the dishes would be clean, what with the cleaning them by hand, then putting them thru the dishwasher twice since we didn't know for sure if they were clean or not....
You actually wash the dishes before they go in the dishwasher?? I get food debris off the plates, but then into the dishwasher they go! LOL! I don't think my mom was much of a rinser, so I'm not either!
OMG-I LOVE that magnet! That would be a cute gift!
I'm confused about something. If you don't get the food off the dishes BEFORE going in the dishwasher, then doesn't all that food and grease become part of the 'bathwater' of the dishwasher?? Doesn't all that stuff get flung about with the water and soap? I realize clean water is coming from the jets and that the machine does not fill up with soapy water like a washing machine, but still...that food must manage to get onto the other dishes as they are being washed. It seems counter productive to allow that to happen. Do you guys really put actual dirty dishes into the dishwasher?? Does that WORK?? I don't soap EVERYTHING, but if plain rinsing won't remove food, then yes I use soap and a scrubbie. I especially worry about food caked dishes sitting for 12 hours until the dishwasher is run. I suppose I could experiment if I could get past the anxiety....
We rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher, but that's it. After all, that's what a dishwasher is for. I don't see the point in washing them by hand and then washing them again in the dishwasher. We soak and wash our pots and pans by hand because they're not dishwasher safe. Dirty dishes are never sitting around for 12 hours. We clean up after each meal.
I just put dirty dishes in the dishwasher and they come out clean. The dirty water is pumped out and new water comes in, for the rinse part. That is part of the noise from a dishwasher.
But do you run the dishwasher after each meal, Trina? Because we don't, that's why dirty dishes easily sit in the dishwasher for 12 hours, waiting for more dirty dishes to make a full load worth running. The dirty dishes are put in the dishwasher after each meal, but the dishwasher is not run until nighttime, so breakfast dishes on up are hanging out in the dishwasher anxiously awaiting their bath.
We run our dishwasher once daily, usually after dinner. We spray/rinse dirty dishes with hot water before putting them into the dishwasher after every meal. That is sufficient, because we rarely have food caked on dishes after the wash cycle is done.
I will scrape plates to get all solid pieces of food off, but that's as far as it goes.
We never rinse just load and wash once every other day. The newer machines like mine have built in food grinders for any food particles left on dishes just like the commercial where they put the casserole with baked in mac and cheese and they come out sparkling clean. No problem here on if their clean or dirty because I wash and the boys put away when I tell them too. Love the magnet!!!!
But Kate if you go by that principle then your clothes are getting washed in dirty water with other clothes too. You don't wash your clothes before putting them in the washer do you? We rinse our dishes off and wash once a day and everything is clean.
Pam, Pam, Pam, Pam, Pam.....PLEASE don't go there!!! Have I not evidenced enough 'issues' on this board?? Need we add more?? Sigh....
And I suppose that you always shower and NEVER bathe...
That would be correct.
This is getting too funny!
Even if you wash dishes by hand, the water gets dirty. I know that when I did dishes by hand, I usually would change the water 2 or 3 times, because it would just get too icky, after a while!
Oh well that's why when our dishwasher broke I washed each dish individually with its own squirt of Dawn and some running water. I don't even own a dishtub.
That uses a lot of water, though! LOL! My mom would have killed me, if I'd washed dishes like that, when I was a kid!
Reds, there have been times, when I've washed my dog's crate stuff, that I've washed it twice, to make sure it's clean!
We rinse and put in dishwasher too. I never wash the dishes first. Now if there is something stuck on to it, I will get the sponge out and scrub it off, but not a full force wash.
We rinse and put in dishwasher too. I never wash the dishes first. Now if there is something stuck on to it, I will get the sponge out and scrub it off, but not a full force wash.
I'm with Dawn on this one....we just scrape the food off and then directly into the dishwasher. No rinsing, and definitely no washing. We wash once a day. We start the dishwasher when we go to bed.
I find that eggs are the worst in the dishwasher. If I don't rinse them all off the plates, then it will be there after the wash.
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