buckle up boys. our dishwasher hasn’t been cleaning dishes very well.
well, mrs clams thinks the dishwasher doubles as a garbage disposal and barely rinses her dishes before loading them into the dishwasher. i’ve tried telling her that she needs to rinse the food off of the dishes but she’s convinced i’m a mongloid and none of that rinse nonsense is important.
there’s two filters in our kitchenaid dishwasher, but they can only catch so much food before the pieces start clogging up the spray jets. i’ve taken the spray arms apart and cleaned the food out of the jets with toothpicks.
she also puts approximately 2x the amount of dishes into the dishwasher every load. despite me telling her that we need to do more loads of less dishes.
finally, she bought these large plates that stop the middle spray arm from spinning fully around because she lowered the top drawer down so she could fit her many tall travel coffee cups into that drawer. i explained that there’s only two spray arms in the dishwasher and if one is stuck, we’re reducing the efficiency of the machine by 50%, she reasoned that the plates weren’t in the way, despite me showing her that they obviously were stopping the spray arm from spinning all the way around.
so i’m like ok let’s call a repair guy to come check on the machine and I schedule him to come on tuesday while she’s at work. he’s here for about five minutes, testing everything and he’s like, your machine is in perfect working order. i tell him that I know that, and then give him basically everything that i’ve told you guys in this post and that I was paying him that day to write down on his appliance repair invoice that dishes need to be rinsed, the washer was overloaded, and the top drawer needed to be raised. he did as he was told and he left, I went back to work, leaving the invoice (w/instructions on how to use a dishwasher, something most learn in 3rd grade) on the kitchen island.
she got home and reviewed his analysis and now does the crap right. i’ve not said a word except go cats.
