do you let anyone else load your dishwasher?

[vacuumfreeeke]

I think I am going to stop doing that! I had a friend over last night to help me with some baking and he insisted on helping me clean up. Since I've only had my dishwasher for a couple of weeks, I'm still in the midst of a love affair with it and still a little jealous when someone else wants to "play" with it. Well, to my horror I opened it up and you should have seen the way he loaded it. Each of the glasses were stuck between two tines. They have a special flat spot along either side of the top rack made specifically for glasses. Why would ANYONE straddle them over the tines unless they were simply too large to fit in the designated area? The best is yet to come. He put my Kitchen Aid mixer bowl right over where the wash tower rises and I told him distinctly to keep that area clear. He put a plastic mixing bowl OVER the silverware basket. And made all the plates face the exterior walls of the dishwasher. I should have taken a picture! I knew he didn't know anything about dishwashers when he started trying to rinse the dishes off first! He has one in is apartment and I assume he uses it all the time... we're both 23 (for a few weeks!) how could someone be so clueless? He's not a 4 year old child and even if he had never even heard of a dishwasher before don't you think he'd use this thing called logic? I think I'm going to just be rude and start forbidding people with "good intentions" to help me in the kitchen. I'd better check the Jet Dry dispenser for dawn hand washing soap!

 

[rp2813]

If my partner or anyone else loads the dishwasher I usually have to follow up and do some rearranging. I agree that you would think logic would figure into how they place things in there, but let's face it. Not everybody is into appliances and how they function the way we are here on AW. Plus, I'm a Virgo so it's pretty tough for anyone to get things done exactly the way I'd do it. I do have a Pisces buddy who comes pretty close, though.

 

[danemodsandy]

It Ain't That So Much...

I don't mind re-arranging dishes after people who don't have a clue about how a dishwasher is loaded.

What I mind is that when you rearrange dishes after people like that, they often start using terms like "anal-retentive" and "obsessive-compulsive" to refer to people who like things done right.

If it's an obsession to prefer eating out of clean dishes, I guess I'm guilty.

 

[jetcone]

You would be amazed the loading we have

ALL SEEN!

You can always tell who grew up with a dishwasher and who didn't-- that is for SURE!

Now if you are into "Oragami Packing" like someone here I know then Vintage Frigidaire is the dishwasher for you.

To my utter amazement I have seen that machine clean the inside of a Cory glass Coffee pot! The narrow neck version!

If not then get a KitchenAid 14,13,12,11,or 10 series. They will blast anything clean. In fact the dishes will be screaming for you to let them OUT! Which by the way is why KA put on those big handled metal door locks! TO keep the dishes in so they wouldn't hit you in the face trying to flee the power of 50gallons/minute spray!

At my house it depends on how much wine I drank. If it is a real catastrophe then I reload in the morning and start over. I won't let them pass out of the dishwasher. But usually I put the guests to work and supervise the loading and make them correct any mistakes while I finish my Mogan David standing over the machine in real time!

 

[frigilux]

There are dinner guests here frequently. When an offer to help with post-dinner cleanup is made (and this is smalltown Minnesota, so it happens 100% of the time) I suggest they clear dishes from the table and bring them into the kitchen while I scrape 'n' load. That seems to take care of the issue.

Unless the other person has the same dishwasher as you, it's difficult for them to efficiently achieve a BobLoad®. And if someone else does try to load, I'll wait for them to leave the room, then stealthily re-arrange if necessary.

 

[toggleswitch]

Vintage Frigidaire is the dishwasher for you.

Surely you don't mean the one that has one horizonal spray tube between the racks(only)?

**SHUDDER**

 

[appnut]

Not only NO but HELL NO!!! Between them not knowing how to load the machine and trying to rinse stuff off, I at best do a "Eugene" and just tell them to clear everything and bring it into the kitchen. I may gi ve them some plastic storage stuff to put leftovers in, THAT'S a big help for me!!

 

[pturo]

Let them Load it

I just re-arrange later before it is run. I never let them run it, though, so I am closet anal retentive with a facade of the the devil may care, but I dont, until the guests have left.

 

[pulsator]

My grandpa taught me how to load a dishwasher properly when I was about 12. He has a WONDERFUL old Maytag dishwasher, anyone else in the family tries to load it, he will take everything out and do it all over! I'm the ONLY one in the family of whos loading techniques he approves! I hate it when people don't think about how the dishwasher washes when they load it, it varies from dishwasher to dishwasher, but thre are general rules that apply to all dishwashers! Simple thing like smaller plates go in the center, and progressively larger plates go on the outside, plates always face inward, silverware goes in handle first, etc. I'm falling into my grandpa's habit of reloading the dishwasher entirely. In my experience, the older Maytags are by far the easiest to load, but then again, I really don't have all that much experience!

 

[aamassther]

I have an ongoing mantra. I would rather dishes make it into the dishwasher, even if done badly. As opposed to sitting on the limited counterspace. Because I'm going to rearrange it anyway. I always look at it a "work in progress", as you put new things in, old things get shifted. That way I dispel that whole being anal or whatever BS. If we're having a dinner gathering, I do what Frigilux does. Works really well. T

 

[saltysam]

Oh the HORROR

had to laugh at this because my wife does the exact same thing...just throws the dishes in and turns the knob.....I literally have to take everything out and re-arrange things either to get more stuff in or to make sure that everything will get clean.....I have a mid '80s Maytag portable.....
Mark

 

[scott55405]

I don't have one in my home here, but generally I prefer to do it myself. The ones at work it's just a travesty, and fortunately most people just put the stuff in the sink and leave me to it. I've had glasses and cups laying on their side stacked, plastic stuff where it would never stay, bowls nested two and three high on top of one another, you name it.

I generally always did it at my parent's house, and my mom and I generally worked well together in the kitchen. As to whether I do it at the homes of others just depends on the situation and I pretty well have a feel for it as to whether someone wants me to do it, do something else or whatever.

I think I do a pretty good job of it. Seems to me I sent Bob a picture of my machine loaded one time and he thought so too. Last time I was a guest in a dishwasher equipped household it was Bob and then Glenn, so I knew I wouldn't need to worry!

 

[petek]

Around our house I load, he unloads and peace reigns supreme. One of the problems with others, outsiders doing it, is that their dw at home is usually a different one with different patterns and tines.

 

[~sudsshane]

My other half is a domestic nightmare...so NO!, he is banned from the kitchen. LOL!..Honestly, I don't even think he knows how to work the BOSCH..He certainly has no idea how to work the LG Washer/Dryer..

He knows what his strengths are and sticks to them.

Honestly, I prefer to load and unload my own dishes. Just as I prefer to do my own laundry. When Mom comes to visit, she tries to help, but I would rather she not.

I would let AndrewinOrlando load the BOSCH...only after I rinsed them first...hehehe, =)

 

[appnut]

Andrew, we'll hogg-tie him like Venus and make him watch us load the Bosch as a Bob & Andrew dish load should be done!!

 

[maytagbear]

I'm single

and I rarely entertain.

So if it gets loaded, it gets loaded by me.

There are times when I wish Boris the Bold Russian Blue Cat had an opposible thumb, however.

Lawrence/Maytagbear