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Stop Loading Your Dishwasher Wrong—Here’s the Best Way to Do It, According to a Pro

Scrape off chunks of food but don't rinse plates to the point where they're visibly clean—dishwashers and their detergents ...
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The 5 cleaning rules you can actually break – from loading the dishwasher to sticking to a strict schedule

Among tricks, hacks, and how-to's, the internet is filled with hard and fast rules for scrubbing, dusting, and polishing. But, as the old saying goes, some rules are made to be broken. Whether it's ...
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5 Ways You're Still Loading Your Dishwasher Wrong

The dishwasher might be one of the greatest time-saving appliances in your home, but it's not always as simple as tossing in dishes, pressing start, and walking away. In fact, many of us unknowingly ...
Wired

The First Rule of the Extreme Dishwasher Loading Facebook Group Is

How you stack and load your dishwasher is extremely important. Journalists, YouTubers, and dishwasher experts have all written guides on how to do it properly. One PhD student even wrote a 300-page ...
NPR

When loading dirty dishes into a dishwasher, there are a lot of things to consider

Carolyn Forté, executive director of the Homecare and Cleaning Lab at Good Housekeeping, weighs in on whether dishes should be rinsed before they go into the dishwasher. Sometimes, it feels like this ...
The Daily Dot

‘Why didn’t we know this?’: Woman says she just found out the right way to load the dishwasher

Is there a right way to load cups into a dishwasher? One woman thinks so after loading a dishwasher wrong for years and shares the correct way to load cups on the top rack. “We’ve been loading the ...