Quote:I confess, we have the clean/dirty dial. But we have a good reason for it. There are two of us, only, so it takes a while to accumulate enough dishes for a dishwasher load. And, we like to keep the sink clear because we've had mice (and they love to eat the food on the plates) and ants (same reason). And, we rinse the dishes, so it's tough to tell if a batch is clean or dirty unless you start taking out plates and inspecting them, one by one.
Okay?
No.
Here's the method. All dirty dishes, rinsed or otherwise go in the dishwasher. Use CLEAN dishes from the shelves to eat off of until the dishwasher is full enough to run. When it is full enough to run, run the dishwasher.
(Now here's the hard part.) The first person up in the morning after the dishwasher was run (always run it at night) EMPTIES the dishwasher, putting all the dishes on the shelves.
Therefore, all dishes in a dishwasher are always dirty unless you are the first person arising after it has been run in which case it is your task to put them away. AND you won't have any mice because they can't get to the dirty dishes in (where are they?) the dishwasher and there are never any dirty dishes in the sink because all dirty dishes go in the dishwasher.
Natch?
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