Post Cycle Dishwasher Rituals?

[mark_wpduet]

I've noticed that too

with my Maytag stainless. My ritual is as soon as the machine's clean light is on I open door, shake racks, and sometimes I'll unload a couple hours later or next day. But there are times that I've gone to bed with the dishwasher running and can't do that & it ends up staying closed over night and the next day, with no dry cycle, the dishes are pretty dry considering the machine was closed the entire night. Not perfectly dry, but dry enough to get a paper towel to get a couple of wet spots and put them away.

 

[iej]

I have to say I love the auto-open door on my Miele. It makes a huge different to the residual heat drying to have the door ajar when the cycle’s finished and it even gently blows air over the top to avoid steam condensing on the countertop.

Overall, I don’t think I do anything in particular with my dishwasher, although I would say I’ve found the Miele tablets a waste of time, they don’t seem to shift tomato stains from plastics, including the diwasher’s own plastic components. I’ve found Finish (power ball or quantum), or Sun (Unilever, and I don’t think it’s available in the UK) absolutely excellent and generally Fairy (same as Cascade in the US) is effective but WAY WAY too foamy.

I wouldn’t write off the Miele detergent range though - the TwinDos laundry detergent is giving me excellent results and it’s not that expensive relative to Ariel / Persil here anyway. The price of the cartridges actually dropped and Miele’s wool detergent is phenomenally good. I wouldn’t use anything else, but the dishwasher tablets are far from amazing.