Has anyone else noticed that women seem to lack genetic code to properly load a dishwasher?

[T2T III]

This is the situation in my house. The damn dishwasher has been stacked with pots and pans that should have been hand-washed due to their sheer size. As a result, many of our dividers were bent one way, then the other. Finally, a few of them have broken off and exposed bare metal -- which has now started to rust.

 

[Ricky Seacrest]

To top it off, when they don't come clean (loading all the bowls on the bottom rack) she just runs them again the same way.

consider yourself lucky, mine just puts them away! dirty forks with mayonnaise on them, greasy pans, you name it.

 

[zinfamous]

...why do I get the feeling we are about to be spammed with more requests for BF appliance deals on electric or maybe some electric that are the right cost?

 

[GrumpyMan]

Wow, didn't think this was an issue with women, anyway, I think the problem stems from them not being able to visualize how the water will be spraying from the blades or arms inside the dishwasher. You may have to explain to them that a dishwasher is not like a clothes washing machine where the items to be washed are moving around to get clean. Tell them that it's the exact opposite with a dishwasher. Items stay put so you have to place the surface you want to come clean in the direction that the water spray with detergent will be coming.
After you tell her all that and she tells you to "F..k off Mr. Know it All, you think you are so smart and perfect!", just take her out to eat and hope that she forgets about the incident.

 

[Ricky Seacrest]

The biggest failure is not that women can’t load a dishwasher, but how men to not be able to solve this simple problem:

GET RID OF YOUR DISHWASHER


When your single - you own a dishwasher.
With roommates- you own a dishwasher.
When your married- you have the greatest dishwasher known to humanity. A machine dishwasher is an insult.

Men understand appliances mostly because we are the ones buying, installing and servicing them. Ever met an appliance repair women? I’m sure they exist, but I’ve never met one.

It’s simply unrealistic to expect women to understand how dishwashers operate on a technical levels. To them, it’s a magical box that makes things clean. To us, it’s a machine that uses a 120V solenoid to power a motor that pumps 5 gallons of 140° water through an impeller which circulates 2 arms by 110 PSI jets through 5 wash cycles followed by rinse and drain.

 

[MrSquished]

This may be a necro but last year I was taking to my therapist who deals with a lot of couples. I asked her what's the single biggest issue between couples in therapy - she didn't hesitate and said 'oh I don't know, how to load the dishwasher'

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Everytime my wife places something into the dishwasher I yell out "Square Pegs!" But my wife has serious inabilities to efficiently use the dishwasher and would get about 1/3 the dishes I do in loading it. And then she wants to know why the water bill is so high.

 

[Eno Safirey]

There have been more "disagreements" in my house concerning the loading of the dishwasher that any other issue. I have been cucked down to the point where I always find some task to busy myself with when I see her rearranging the placement of dishes.

 

[Raizinman]

My wife loads the dishwasher so tight that it's almost impossible to pull the dishes out. We once had this argument about how to load the dishes and I'm glad I lost. It use to be when I had a dirty dish she would say: "You know where to put that dish" implying the dishwasher. Then I would always put it into the dishwasher "my way". Consequently, she would then need to re-organize it. Now she says it takes here more time to redo my loading of the dishwasher, so I just leave my dirty dishes in the sink. Yes, her loading the dishwasher very incorrectly got me out of work and I'm thankful. Glad she doesn't read this forum. LOL

 

[MtnMan]

Do you think this is their most important problem that needs fixing?

I mean.. there's an entire 'bug list' they're working on for female v2.0.

- drive safely
- curb emotions
- common sense
- leakage
- dependent independence
- load dishwasher properly
- cook better

leakage?

 

[Sukhoi]

Yep, wife has no clue how to do it. Whenever she partially loads it I pull everything out and can get 25-50% more in.

 

[TXHokie]

I have to ignore the issue or my OCD will unload the whole thing and redo it in neat order that maximize the water spray. To be fair the automation of neatly folded laundry is amazing.

 

[Lanyap]

My wife loads the flatware in the basket slots next to each other so they are too close, like one spoon covered by another spoon. Water can’t get to the inside of the spoon. When she unloads the flatware she pulls out the full basket then puts it back in the wrong way - the clips aren’t hanging on the edge of the big basket. She puts plates and bowls too close so they don’t get fully washed. I’m always having to rearrange everything to make sure everything gets cleaned properly. I have to do it when she’s not around. If she catches me she gets mad. When I try to explain why I’m doing it she doesn’t want to hear it and walks away.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Wow, didn't think this was an issue with women, anyway, I think the problem stems from them not being able to visualize how the water will be spraying from the blades or arms inside the dishwasher. You may have to explain to them that a dishwasher is not like a clothes washing machine where the items to be washed are moving around to get clean. Tell them that it's the exact opposite with a dishwasher. Items stay put so you have to place the surface you want to come clean in the direction that the water spray with detergent will be coming.
After you tell her all that and she tells you to "F..k off Mr. Know it All, you think you are so smart and perfect!", just take her out to eat and hope that she forgets about the incident.

Fucking this.

My mother in law puts shit in sideways. Last I checked, it's kind of hard to clean shit inside the dish if it's sideways and the water shoots up.

Last I checked there isn't blades on the side shooting side to side.

 

[IronWing]

In That Hideous Strength, CS Lewis states that both men and women are perfectly capable of doing kitchen work but that they can't do kitchen work together. Based on this thread, maybe he was right.

 

[Lanyap]

My wife loads the flatware in the basket slots next to each other so they are too close, like one spoon covered by another spoon. Water can’t get to the inside of the spoon. When she unloads the flatware she pulls out the full basket then puts it back in the wrong way - the clips aren’t hanging on the edge of the big basket. She puts plates and bowls too close so they don’t get fully washed. I’m always having to rearrange everything to make sure everything gets cleaned properly. I have to do it when she’s not around. If she catches me she gets mad. When I try to explain why I’m doing it she doesn’t want to hear it and walks away.

Now with pics. Spoons are spooning and forks are forking.

 

[snoopy7548]

Here is how I load mine (did a load last night). For some reason I don't use the silverware thing as you're supposed to and, with the exception of this load, always put forks in with forks, spoons with spoons, etc. Never had a problem getting everything totally clean.

 

[sdifox]

Err those rubbermaid containers, are they dishwasher safe?

 

[zinfamous]

The biggest failure is not that women can’t load a dishwasher, but how men to not be able to solve this simple problem:

GET RID OF YOUR DISHWASHER


When your single - you own a dishwasher.
With roommates- you own a dishwasher.
When your married- you have the greatest dishwasher known to humanity. A machine dishwasher is an insult.

Men understand appliances mostly because we are the ones buying, installing and servicing them. Ever met an appliance repair women? I’m sure they exist, but I’ve never met one.

It’s simply unrealistic to expect women to understand how dishwashers operate on a technical levels. To them, it’s a magical box that makes things clean. To us, it’s a machine that uses a 120V solenoid to power a motor that pumps 5 gallons of 140° water through an impeller which circulates 2 arms by 110 PSI jets through 5 wash cycles followed by rinse and drain.

oh I can tell you're going places.

 

[snoopy7548]

Err those rubbermaid containers, are they dishwasher safe?

Yep! Been washing them for years. Still holding up.

 

[herm0016]

vailed dishwasher brag thread.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

vailed dishwasher brag thread.

I can assure you - seeing the dishwashers posted here - they aren't even stainless inside so the last thing they are doing is bragging.

They look like the type of dishwasher where you have to pre-wash so damn much that you might as well just hand-wash lol.

 

[herm0016]

yea, my meile is much prettier on the inside. but in 2004, i bet most of them were plastic still.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Lol stainless inside would probably be quite expensive. Probably need to go to commercial grade to get that. Some of those are pretty skookum though, you need a 100 amp circuit for it and it washes everything in like 5-10 minutes.

 

[BurnItDwn]

leakage?

For most, there is a Hydraulic fluid drain process that happens once per monthly maintenance cycle. If this process stops happening for 9 months in a row she may be forking a child process. Resource shortages are likely, especially when there are too many child processes, or even worse, runaway processes!