Glad that I caught this topic brought-up, because:
I'm running a marathon--to wash my dishes or use my machine about every-other-day, just to bring back a lot of stuff we use that we'd dirtied up that I miss, just to be able to cook in, bake on, or broil off of, if not have more dishes, silverware, utensils, etc. available...
And the fact, that the more dirty stuff we accumulate, the harder it is to get it crammed in the machine or the harder my dishwasher is to just fill; usually the top rack gets fully loaded first, but there is the exception where there is plenty of space for stuff normally done on the bottom rack...
Last of all, my dishwasher IS capable of getting EVERYTHING clean WITHOUT pre-rinsing... My wife last night, despite me repeating this philosophy STILL rinsed out a ceramic serving/storage vessel, that merely had some olive oil in it from chicken it was keeping, that I insisted I would have re-used in a skillet that had a frozen squash vegetable mixture complete with seasoning and even pumpkin seeds that I added an ailing zucchini to that she would not touch, of which at least one hunk of that chicken, which she had all three pieces of, to...
She left the dish on the counter, not even in the dish rack, and hadn't bothered with the lid, and claimed she couldn't get it in the dishwasher, but it would fit sideways, on the left, which is where I'd put it, given she'd not used any soap, causing it to really not be deemed clean... And of course, the puddle of water under it that the dish pisshed on the counter? $@€¥£^*#@!!!!
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Of which in that case, my skillet I added a little water to as opposed to additional oil, or the oil that would have been left in the pan (along w/ perhaps some juices from the chicken) just went in behind it with the handle resting on it (though I'm notorious to leave it on the stove doing additional frying with residual oil from previous cooking until I have just the right amount of remaining space in the machine to hold it...
And I still held out for room on the right for my cookie sheet, a spatula in the top rack (joining two other spatulas, and a glass butter dish with its own lid already there)... --Plus a medium-sized saucepan I cooked some frozen vegetables in, placed--or rather JAMMED!--in a small saucepan that merely was used for making a box of Kraft Cheese & Macaroni (with garlic, herb & Alfredo seasoning) I still am going to wait a little while & make myself a little more hungry for, along with frying some onions in a tiny skillet which will be the last thing to add (that is, when I'm up to cutting the onions & not minding it being hard to get the smell of 'em off of my hands!)...
-- Dave
[this post was last edited: 5/24/2016-00:00]
