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Does the machine result in clean dishes? If yes, all good. If not, she dumb, u dumb. You built her
If containers are not facing down, may not result in clean dishes.
We can rebuild her. We have the technology.
“You’re broken. We are still your friends. Do you still believe that? I’m still here. I will put you back together.”
She’s trying, and she’s already got the concept of “concave side down” so you need to acknowledge that. Moving on, “water sprays from the center” and “similar shapes share space” are good concepts to add. She can’t exactly do “Don’t crowd” because there are just too many here. But she’s fully grasped “you can always rerun anything that doesn’t come clean the first time.”
concave side down
Yeah, she doesn’t seem to be applying that, I see sideways containers.
But you don’t see any that will pool water. Sideways is perfectly fine if they face generally toward the center, or in any direction the machine sprays, if it has side sprayers. What you want to avoid is catching the wash water so it pollutes the rinse water.
Her brain is capable of detecting error and correcting it without any intervention at all.
I’m in the gratitude-only camp here.
She’s already got the senses and reasoning capability to detect and correct the problem. Fastest way to improve her effort is to provide the thing she cannot provide herself: evidence that her efforts are appreciated.
Agreed, although if OP is specific about it, telling her they noticed she remembered to put the glasses on the top rack, etc. then they can do a little “I’ve found this makes it easier…” to show how a row of same-sized bowls on their sides can fit on the bottom rack. Because then you can Wolverine them all out at once and stack them on the shelf in one movement! Dishwasher Tetris can be a fun challenge.
I tried dishwasher tetris for a while but I got too good at it, and ended up losing all my flatware
Take out half the stuff and do two loads.
Then OP would come along, see a pile of dishes still in the sink, and post it on Lemmy. There’s probably only 3-4 items that are really going to be left with food residue here. She can put the others away and leave those in the machine for another go.
Throw it away and make a new one
You only have yourself to blame. You raised her, but clearly not better than this.
She is the embodiment of your failures, and thus should be purged from your life so that you can become the ultimate sigma male.
If I won’t be able to get my child to properly load a dishwasher by the time she’s 18, I’ll have failed as a parent.
Not all of us are blessed with the smarts.
I remember my first time loading a dishwasher 😂
Lets just say I wouldn’t eat her cooking
Nah my mom does the same thing and tells me im wrong. Some people are just tornadoes.
Man your daughter is lucky, I don’t even have a dishwasher. I am the dishwasher. I used to have one, but then we moved house.
In the end it doesn’t matter how it’s stacked so long as they come out clean - don’t forget to fill the prewash section with powder, it helps immensely.
OP is lucky. I don’t even have a family.
My adult step-kid can’t even think to put something in the dishwasher without being asked, so it could be worse?
Have you considered sitting down with them and savagely beating them?
There are fresh young adult organs to harvest, why would I risk bruising them?
That is why you only hit them with an orange in a tubesock on the back and thighs, won’t damage those organs and will show them who is boss; plus you can juice that behavior correction citrus and get some vitamin c after.
We need an Onion episode… Oh wait, here’s one:
This honestly looks fine. (Assuming this is before the dishwasher has run). There’s not like solid chunks of food or anything just the actual stuff that you own a dishwasher to wash off for you so you don’t have to. The configuration of the dishes is haphazard and chaotic but if you want to fit a lot of dishes it usually ends up that way. The cup and cup like vessels being upside down is a problem but for the most part things are upside down or on their side as they should be. I want the dishwasher to wash dishes for me not the other way around. If you get the occasional dish after a cycle that hasn’t completely cleaned you have to wash it yourself, which sucks, but that doesn’t always happen so there’s a reasonable chance you won’t have to, and when it does happen, it’s still way cleaner than it was so you’re talking a cursory fix up of very few dishes. I’d take that over rinsing each and every one every time or having to hand wash half the load when there’s a lot of dishes in service of a neater stacking configuration that’s optimal but less space efficient.
The problem is that ceramic and glass dishes often chip if they are in contact with each other in the dishwasher.
Do you have a dishwasher or a rock tumbler at home?
You can tell the people who use plastic dishware in this post.
Animals.
You lost me, can you provide some context?
Plastic dishware doesn’t break on impact with like.
Those who say this is fine seem to not be taking into account the fact of brittle materials touching like here.
Indicating they aren’t aware of the problem, indicating they don’t have brittle dishes.
Or, and this is a stretch but stay with me, their glass/ceramic dishes don’t randomly chip in the dishwasher.
Okay. Stay with me here, cause I guess we’re being contemptuous now.
You asked for context. I provided it.
I was naive to trust you were being genuine. Won’t happen again.
Yes.
Ahh yes, the inclusive or. We meet again!
The dishwasher also reduces clean water usage by a significant amount.
When my colleagues load the dishes haphazardly at work, I find I can fit several more cups, plates, and bowls by reorganizing them neatly.
I guess I should say “appears haphazard” as I don’t know if it really has been stacked with reckless abandon or of it’s a kind of organised chaos as the two tend to look very similar. When your colleagues stack the dishwasher at work, they’re adding to the load a little at a time until there’s literally no room and someone has to run it. In such an instance there’s no particular method to their madness other than fitting their one plate or one cup that they’re personally trying to deal with.
When you’re stacking a full load start to finish you’re stacking with the aim of fitting everything you have from a large load of dishes of which really don’t want to have any left out. In doing so, I at least, find that while one starts with some attempt at being organized, you’ll eventually realise that if you just slightly lift this concave object slightly up so it’s still upside down but not completely, you can squeeze this one awkward shaped small object in next to it, and this large flat but not very deep baking dish for which there is now no room on the bottom shelf will juuust fit if I kind of wedge diagonally a little and over the top some cups and small objects which hopefully will be small enough that some water can get between them and spray up and clean the baking dish. In the end it it can look like you put no thought in to it all but you know that you tesselated a 3d puzzle quite nimbly to squash the maximum possible number of dishes in there and then more often than not, despite all the fretting that certain types have over correct stacking, it ends up coming out much the same as when it’s a lightly stacked load with optimal spacing. It definitely sometimes doesn’t work out that way, but even then, in the absolute worst case scenarios where several dishes, not just one or two, didn’t get all the way clean, you need only then unstack those that did clean fully and the remainders are already stacked ready for another cycle right away or to wait til later to make a fuller but hopefully not as full load.
She loaded it, but poorly. Which is a vast improvement on my wifes not loading it at all.
Isn’t it more work to undo it and then do it again than just do it in the first place?
Ah, your wife has discovered the system at our house- let the dishes pile up in the sink until someone can’t take it anymore.
I’d prefer that to her removing my carefully placed dirty dishes from the dishwasher, fully washing them by hand, then running them through dishwasher. Thanks for running up our utility bill for no appreciable reason and making me feel like I’m not doing my part! You could’ve just used the dishwasher as a drying rack or just stayed the fuck away from my dishes which you’ve seen come out of the dishwasher spotlessly clean!
I love her dearly and I’m literally in awe of her on a daily basis. Just one of those little things you have to laugh and accept.
Are you me?
That depends, is nobody else in your house capable of carrying a bag out to the bin or breaking down a box before it goes in the recycling?
At least you have multiple wifes
Yeah just switch to the wife with dishwash loading skills next time.
Idk I would rather have one wife who did dishes than 2 that didn’t know how to lol
I’d rather have one wife than two
Hmm, depends largely on how hot they are and if they’re into each other.
If they are into each other Im out of a fuckin job. Literally and figuratively.
Sorry Hank, but we’re replacing you with a pair of lesbians.
But I’ve been with this company ten years!
I won’t even let my wife touch the dishwasher. Nobody does it right, but me.
If you think “loading the dishwasher” means getting your wife drunk, you might be a redneck.
-Jeff Foxworthy
My wife refused the dishwasher for months after moving in. Hand wash only.
“It is not clean.”
Fuck I know. Maybe they don’t have good ones in the Philippines? Still trying to deprogram the “tradwife” out of her. 😂 But now she uses it! And sometimes allows me to do our dishes!
Some of y’all need this video. Enjoy.
Yup and the newer one : https://youtu.be/Ll6-eGDpimU?si=hDUzHVjKej_EnkSR
