A well worn topic on here, but the wife admitted to me a few days ago that she deliberately does the loading of the dishwasher badly so that I won't ask her to do it as I'll have to redo it all again anyway.
I'd always suspected but now I have proof.
I did briefly consider divorce, but then I remembered how expensive that was. I'll plot my revenge in other ways.
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:51 am
by V8Granite
Dishwashers are shit.
That is all.
Dave!
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:00 am
by mik
Mrs mik is very capable of loading the dishwasher appropriately.
The miklets however are prone to randomly mix bowls and plates with an mission to fight space optimisation, and inexplicably try to get away with laying cutlery on top of the holder rather than sticking down into it. Grrr.
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:00 am
by mik
Edit: duplicate post - can’t delete
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:02 am
by Rich B
I love the dishwasher.
It's like playing Tetris slotting everything in the right place - I'll spend 10 minutes rearranging the whole thing to fit in a single Extra bowl that would have taken 1 minute to wash by hand just for the satisfaction of getting it all in.
And like you I regularly have to rearrange the frankly ridiculous way she has loaded it.
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:23 am
by Simon
Rich B wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:02 am
It's like playing Tetris slotting everything in the right place - I'll spend 10 minutes rearranging the whole thing to fit in a single Extra bowl that would have taken 1 minute to wash by hand just for the satisfaction of getting it all in.
Rich B wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:02 am
It's like playing Tetris slotting everything in the right place - I'll spend 10 minutes rearranging the whole thing to fit in a single Extra bowl that would have taken 1 minute to wash by hand just for the satisfaction of getting it all in.
^^This x 20.
It is the principle. If I have a machine to do the job, I want to maximise the utility of it.
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:01 am
by Mito Man
Time to have more kids to fill up that ford Galaxy then
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:35 am
by Ascender
Mrs Mike does this as she knows it winds me up. I also like the cutlery tray to be grouped by type - all the spoons, then all the knives etc, just to maximise space and makes it easy when emptying it in to the drawers as you just grab all the spoons in one go.
She also just throws the dishwasher tablet in to the thing now instead of using the small door as that also annoys me. She claims it "doesn't make any difference" anyway.
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:45 am
by DeskJockey
Mito Man wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:01 am
Time to have more kids to fill up that ford Galaxy then
No thanks. Seats in the boot are for guests.
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:51 am
by Zonda_
Ascender wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:35 am
Mrs Mike does this as she knows it winds me up. I also like the cutlery tray to be grouped by type - all the spoons, then all the knives etc, just to maximise space and makes it easy when emptying it in to the drawers as you just grab all the spoons in one go.
She also just throws the dishwasher tablet in to the thing now instead of using the small door as that also annoys me. She claims it "doesn't make any difference" anyway.
Ours pumps water for a good 5 minutes before you hear the door release the tablet.
Ascender wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:35 am
Mrs Mike does this as she knows it winds me up. I also like the cutlery tray to be grouped by type - all the spoons, then all the knives etc, just to maximise space and makes it easy when emptying it in to the drawers as you just grab all the spoons in one go.
She also just throws the dishwasher tablet in to the thing now instead of using the small door as that also annoys me. She claims it "doesn't make any difference" anyway.
Ours pumps water for a good 5 minutes before you hear the door release the tablet.
presumably it rinses/drains off the worst mess before releasing the detergent. Chucking it in early probably means it just goes with the initial dirty rinse water.
Ascender wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:35 am
Mrs Mike does this as she knows it winds me up. I also like the cutlery tray to be grouped by type - all the spoons, then all the knives etc, just to maximise space and makes it easy when emptying it in to the drawers as you just grab all the spoons in one go.
She also just throws the dishwasher tablet in to the thing now instead of using the small door as that also annoys me. She claims it "doesn't make any difference" anyway.
Ours pumps water for a good 5 minutes before you hear the door release the tablet.
presumably it rinses/drains off the worst mess before releasing the detergent. Chucking it in early probably means it just goes with the initial dirty rinse water.
Something like that, I know the different coloured sections of the tablet are meant to dissolve and release the different cleaning stuff at different times in the cycle so putting it in early will throw that out too.
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:14 pm
by Ascender
You're all mansplaining how dishwashers work to the wrong person
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:26 pm
by Mito Man
You should put a GoPro in one
Actually, please don’t!
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:33 pm
by mik
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:53 pm
by Zonda_
The noise ours makes I expected it to be more high pressure than that.
Re: Women and dishwashers
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:57 pm
by Carlos
My wife's the same, plates layed flat and sometimes face up, cups and glasses upright occasionally with drinks still in them. It's basically a means of getting them off the worktops and out of her mind lol
