Today, I washed my hands at the kitchen sink while making lunch, and was unexpectedly chastised by my partner because she had just started the dishwasher. Apparently, she has recently come across something that has convinced her that running the hot water in your sink means the water that enters your dishwasher will be hotter (checks out), and thus the dishes will be cleaner. I tried searching startpage to see if this is real, but I couldn’t make it through even one llm-slop-ticle about it before my eyes rolled back into my head, so here I am asking y’all: chat, is this real? Doesn’t my dishwasher have a heating element? Is there any meaningful difference between heating the water with a hot water heater vs a dishwasher, other than I can’t use my sink while the dishwasher is filling and I have to pour a bunch of cool water down the drain?
I run the dishwasher every night, even if there’s just a few dirty dishes, so I’m pretty hard on my dishwasher. I use the heck out of it.
It’s caused lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth in my family but I can’t stand unloading a dishwasher packed to the gills with a week’s worth of clean dishes. Just get it done as part of a daily routine.