I'm not a prerinser, but when I don't turn on the dishwasher immediately after loading it, I prerinse things with tuna on it. Tuna can stink up the dishwasher immense. And I rinse out the cans too before I put them in the bin.
How often do you run your dishwasher?
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Sensitive Noses
Maybe some of our noses are more sensitive than others? I dunno.
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I don't have a sensitive nose so I don't have the same experience, however I can attest to the fact that some people do. My partner has an unbelievably sensitive nose. He smells things I never smell especially food related. He also has many allergies to airborne things so I don't know if that's related or not. His sensitive sense of smell has gotten worse since he started using a Neti Pot a recommendation I made to him based on some of my family members who swear by them. I feel really lucky that I don't suffer with these kinds of airborne allergies like so many do especially early spring here in the south when everything is literally yellow with all the pollen dust.</span>
Maybe some of our noses are more sensitive than others? I dunno.
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I don't have a sensitive nose so I don't have the same experience, however I can attest to the fact that some people do. My partner has an unbelievably sensitive nose. He smells things I never smell especially food related. He also has many allergies to airborne things so I don't know if that's related or not. His sensitive sense of smell has gotten worse since he started using a Neti Pot a recommendation I made to him based on some of my family members who swear by them. I feel really lucky that I don't suffer with these kinds of airborne allergies like so many do especially early spring here in the south when everything is literally yellow with all the pollen dust.</span>
Another notable offender:
[Me:] "Are you gonna drink that?"
[Brother-In-Law:] "No..."
[Me:] "Then why are you watering my dishes?!"
Yes, my wife's brother, Elliot... --After he drinks just about a little of everything in the house, then gets too full to finish that last ___(Juice, GatorAde, Soda Pop)___, in which case, his glass is emptied down the drain, and the glass is rinsed with NO soap and allowed to stand in the basin... --And really, I think even HE can be allowed to have his used stuff in our dishwasher, as we have other guests' stuff often with ours... It gets washed, rinsed, sanitized and no one has yet ever died...!
Then, there's rinsing stuff that is going in the recycling, which my dad does--and even with a bottle of chocolate milk from McDonald's my daughter brought home, lost the lid to, it got left on my wife's dresser, or maybe it was the kitchen counter, and made damn sure it would not spill in the fridge when I put it there, so after grandpa baby-sat I begged him to drink it before he left as I got home from work...
Then I wondered why he had to rinse it with water we pay for coming in and going out and probably creating a bubble in the ecological process--he does that with cans and bottles that have our MI Deposit & Return--which is another rant of mine, why we still have to bother with that system--, and I tell him it's pretty pointless if the containers are going to get washed, rinsed, and NOT re-filled with product, but likely to be crushed, hence just made into new containers or rather something else made from plastic, metal, glass or steel...
Pointless, there, too... --We need more clean water we dirty up just cleaning our selves, as well as what we wear... --And what we use to cook, drink out of & eat off of... --Properly, in a perfect world...
-- Dave
[Me:] "Are you gonna drink that?"
[Brother-In-Law:] "No..."
[Me:] "Then why are you watering my dishes?!"
Yes, my wife's brother, Elliot... --After he drinks just about a little of everything in the house, then gets too full to finish that last ___(Juice, GatorAde, Soda Pop)___, in which case, his glass is emptied down the drain, and the glass is rinsed with NO soap and allowed to stand in the basin... --And really, I think even HE can be allowed to have his used stuff in our dishwasher, as we have other guests' stuff often with ours... It gets washed, rinsed, sanitized and no one has yet ever died...!
Then, there's rinsing stuff that is going in the recycling, which my dad does--and even with a bottle of chocolate milk from McDonald's my daughter brought home, lost the lid to, it got left on my wife's dresser, or maybe it was the kitchen counter, and made damn sure it would not spill in the fridge when I put it there, so after grandpa baby-sat I begged him to drink it before he left as I got home from work...
Then I wondered why he had to rinse it with water we pay for coming in and going out and probably creating a bubble in the ecological process--he does that with cans and bottles that have our MI Deposit & Return--which is another rant of mine, why we still have to bother with that system--, and I tell him it's pretty pointless if the containers are going to get washed, rinsed, and NOT re-filled with product, but likely to be crushed, hence just made into new containers or rather something else made from plastic, metal, glass or steel...
Pointless, there, too... --We need more clean water we dirty up just cleaning our selves, as well as what we wear... --And what we use to cook, drink out of & eat off of... --Properly, in a perfect world...
-- Dave
toploader55
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Maybe some one mentioned this already, but when I went to my Dad's house and they're prewashing everything as they load it into the Dishwasher I said one time... "Do you prewash your clothes before putting them in the Clothes Washer ?"
Imagine the stare I got after saying that.
And of course they use the Economy Cycle with Cheap Detergent and wonder why WHEN they throw something dirty in the machine it comes out like crap.
I close my eyes and look the other way.
Imagine the stare I got after saying that.
And of course they use the Economy Cycle with Cheap Detergent and wonder why WHEN they throw something dirty in the machine it comes out like crap.
I close my eyes and look the other way.
I'm a rinser of anything to be recycled--glass, plastic, aluminum. Labels get removed from cans, too. It used to be a requirement of our recycling program; force of habit, I guess.
Recycling is picked up once every two weeks and the bin is located in a tuck-under garage. I don't want smells wafting up through the garage ceiling, so everything gets rinsed---and I try to use as little water as possible for that process.
I've been using front-load washers, low-flow shower heads (which get turned off completely during soap-up), restrictive flow aerators on all faucets and low water-use toilets since the mid 1980's, so I don't worry about using an extra gallon to rinse recyclables.
Having said that, rinsing recyclables would probably be the first thing to go if water became scarce here on the prairie.
Recycling is picked up once every two weeks and the bin is located in a tuck-under garage. I don't want smells wafting up through the garage ceiling, so everything gets rinsed---and I try to use as little water as possible for that process.
I've been using front-load washers, low-flow shower heads (which get turned off completely during soap-up), restrictive flow aerators on all faucets and low water-use toilets since the mid 1980's, so I don't worry about using an extra gallon to rinse recyclables.
Having said that, rinsing recyclables would probably be the first thing to go if water became scarce here on the prairie.
Recyclables go in the Trash Compactor
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">In my house we rinse the recyclables only because they go in the trash compactor. It only gets emptied every couple of weeks so if stuff isn't rinsed out I'm afraid it will start to smell. Nothing worse than a smelling waste bin or trash compactor.</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">So while we may use a little water to rinse them out I feel like I am still doing some good by recycling. Wet trash goes into the kitchen waste can that gets emptied just about every day or the stuff goes in the disposal depending on what it is. All the recyclables like plastic, paper, etc. all go in the trash compactor but since there are only two of us it could take two weeks to fill it up. Nothing that will spoil goes into the compactor. But I can't imagine how a plastic milk jug that hasn't been rinsed might smell like after two weeks in the compactor.</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">In my house we rinse the recyclables only because they go in the trash compactor. It only gets emptied every couple of weeks so if stuff isn't rinsed out I'm afraid it will start to smell. Nothing worse than a smelling waste bin or trash compactor.</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">So while we may use a little water to rinse them out I feel like I am still doing some good by recycling. Wet trash goes into the kitchen waste can that gets emptied just about every day or the stuff goes in the disposal depending on what it is. All the recyclables like plastic, paper, etc. all go in the trash compactor but since there are only two of us it could take two weeks to fill it up. Nothing that will spoil goes into the compactor. But I can't imagine how a plastic milk jug that hasn't been rinsed might smell like after two weeks in the compactor.</span>
mayken4now
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murando531/Andrew
Love your postings on usage of a dishwasher! You are so right. That's great the way you explain.
And, Dave, your BIL needs to be popped into sense.
--Steve
Love your postings on usage of a dishwasher! You are so right. That's great the way you explain.
And, Dave, your BIL needs to be popped into sense.
--Steve
Do you wash your clothes before you put them in the washer?
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">ROFL!! I love that!!! I have to steal that one if you don't mind. I'll see what my 92 mother says to that one. She has been prerinsing since her first dishwasher which was a Youngstown top load spin tube way back when. I've never been able to break her of the habit. When I visit I rinse nothing and I show her how well things come out but she doesn't care. I guess old habits are hard to break.</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">ROFL!! I love that!!! I have to steal that one if you don't mind. I'll see what my 92 mother says to that one. She has been prerinsing since her first dishwasher which was a Youngstown top load spin tube way back when. I've never been able to break her of the habit. When I visit I rinse nothing and I show her how well things come out but she doesn't care. I guess old habits are hard to break.</span>
Now we're talkin' RECYCLE-IN'...!!!!
We keep our recycling trough outside... And somehow I don't think it ever gives out any offending odor...
Now back when I lived at home w/ my parents and we had all this cats: We had to wash out the cat food cans, until we realized there was so many & not worth all that work, we'd resigned them not washing them, or they went into the regular trash! (And that was before we had curb-side pick-up; the recyclables went to the recycling center, going from a "voluntary operation" in a small shed, to probably a still-optional element "for those who care about our earth, still reflected in how FEW of those bins go out, to these huge dumpsters and depositories in this vast parking lot, where the small substation used to be, then eliminated to be sub-planted by home-pick-up)...
My dad, really, did the dirty, arduous, and disgusting task of cleaning out cat food cans as he does before taking cans & bottles to the grocery market--and all points in-between, though as a "doing dishes-by-hand man", really just recycles his dish pan's old water and soap...
Gee, in the newspaper cartoon strip, Pogo, when the animals there did Recyco-bobbles, Miggles the Stork collected all the trash, offered to pay Albert the Alligator for it, then had to charge him nearly all of--taking most of it back, for all these numerous fees--including: "We have to feed the HORSE!"--as in, the equine pulling the junk wagon...
-- Dave
We keep our recycling trough outside... And somehow I don't think it ever gives out any offending odor...
Now back when I lived at home w/ my parents and we had all this cats: We had to wash out the cat food cans, until we realized there was so many & not worth all that work, we'd resigned them not washing them, or they went into the regular trash! (And that was before we had curb-side pick-up; the recyclables went to the recycling center, going from a "voluntary operation" in a small shed, to probably a still-optional element "for those who care about our earth, still reflected in how FEW of those bins go out, to these huge dumpsters and depositories in this vast parking lot, where the small substation used to be, then eliminated to be sub-planted by home-pick-up)...
My dad, really, did the dirty, arduous, and disgusting task of cleaning out cat food cans as he does before taking cans & bottles to the grocery market--and all points in-between, though as a "doing dishes-by-hand man", really just recycles his dish pan's old water and soap...
Gee, in the newspaper cartoon strip, Pogo, when the animals there did Recyco-bobbles, Miggles the Stork collected all the trash, offered to pay Albert the Alligator for it, then had to charge him nearly all of--taking most of it back, for all these numerous fees--including: "We have to feed the HORSE!"--as in, the equine pulling the junk wagon...
-- Dave
Just ran a "not-necessary" load:
The DW was loaded with mondays dishes, and as I prepeared pasta for the evening, I popped the pot and the strainer in and ran it on Auto with VarioSpeedPlus.
Funny thing: I always forget how powerfull the EcoSilence pump really is. It starts with medium spray pressure in the pre rinse, then it ramps up in the main wash.
I admit that I sometimes prerinse plates to get rid of ketchup because I hate scraping that off.
Oh, and pots get a short rinse with vinegar to get rid of that white residue our hard water leaves behind.
The DW was loaded with mondays dishes, and as I prepeared pasta for the evening, I popped the pot and the strainer in and ran it on Auto with VarioSpeedPlus.
Funny thing: I always forget how powerfull the EcoSilence pump really is. It starts with medium spray pressure in the pre rinse, then it ramps up in the main wash.
I admit that I sometimes prerinse plates to get rid of ketchup because I hate scraping that off.
Oh, and pots get a short rinse with vinegar to get rid of that white residue our hard water leaves behind.
lordkenmore
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I always rinse recycling. Well, stuff like food jars/cans. Rinsing mixed paper would create more problems than it would solve. LOL
The place where I take recycling insists that it be in clean condition--thus, just emptying a jar of whatever and tossing the jar into recycling won't fly.
The place where I take recycling insists that it be in clean condition--thus, just emptying a jar of whatever and tossing the jar into recycling won't fly.
I only rinse the recyclable plastics and tin cans.
ilovewindex
Well-known member
Im lucky.. I dont pay for water
In the time i've lived here i've never paid a water bill... No meter, just straight piped in
City told me not to ask... SO i dont
However,
i hate recycling, so i just throw it in the huge lided container the city provides and go on with life.. WHne thats full i use the red bin for glass..
Too much to sort it all
I do rinse tuna cans and put lids on things
In the time i've lived here i've never paid a water bill... No meter, just straight piped in
City told me not to ask... SO i dont
However,
i hate recycling, so i just throw it in the huge lided container the city provides and go on with life.. WHne thats full i use the red bin for glass..
Too much to sort it all
I do rinse tuna cans and put lids on things
Yes,I rinse out containers for my recycling bag-otherwise there will be a fat roach in the bottom of the container.Take my recyclables to the dump station out here-a dumpster is for cans,bottles and such.A compactor for trash-Baker.Other dumpster for newspapers,cardboard,electronics,and so on.Go to the Classic Refuse Trucks site and you see videos of RL and SL trash trucks collecting recyclables-now,how are we going to "recycle" these things when they are crushed together?
bottles pulverized,cans crushed,and paper contaminated with all of this.Guess they have good separation equipment at the dump point-or is this stuff "recycled" at all?Could just end up at the landfill!!
bottles pulverized,cans crushed,and paper contaminated with all of this.Guess they have good separation equipment at the dump point-or is this stuff "recycled" at all?Could just end up at the landfill!!
Now we're really talkin' TRASH!!!!
I still wish I could have my compost pile...
Years ago I bought a storage bin and just didn't put the bottom on it... Just to find it attracted rats, and even when I put rat poison there, there were dead ones all over the neighborhood...
To me, composting doesn't give me the feeling that I'm wasting food, a much as I feel when I put everything in the regular garbage... And I put out a lot less of it, too...
Luckily my dad can still be the Compost King! With a specially-made bin for composting, no rats in his side of our town, and all...
-- Dave
I still wish I could have my compost pile...
Years ago I bought a storage bin and just didn't put the bottom on it... Just to find it attracted rats, and even when I put rat poison there, there were dead ones all over the neighborhood...
To me, composting doesn't give me the feeling that I'm wasting food, a much as I feel when I put everything in the regular garbage... And I put out a lot less of it, too...
Luckily my dad can still be the Compost King! With a specially-made bin for composting, no rats in his side of our town, and all...
-- Dave
Addendum
The entertainment director at our house wishes that it be pointed out that until recently, the sewage system had been untouched since 1896, the dishwasher a BOL Hotpoint with rust holes one could (and, apparently did,) poke steak knives through, and a garbage disposer emptying into a calcified drain pipe with 3/8" opening.
I came at the same time as STTP, new sewage system, new dishwasher, new garbage disposal, new drains and a trash compactor.
The entertainment director at our house wishes that it be pointed out that until recently, the sewage system had been untouched since 1896, the dishwasher a BOL Hotpoint with rust holes one could (and, apparently did,) poke steak knives through, and a garbage disposer emptying into a calcified drain pipe with 3/8" opening.
I came at the same time as STTP, new sewage system, new dishwasher, new garbage disposal, new drains and a trash compactor.
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