Wednesday, September 15, 2010

For all you "pre-rinsers" out there...

This from the NY Times:

Also, remove baked on food and large chunks, but for the most part, everyone I spoke to said prerinsing dishes before putting them in the dishwasher was not only unnecessary, it wasted thousands of gallons of water and could actually result in dirtier dishes.

“The soap needs something to work against to get the dishes clean,” said Lou Manganiello, who owns Household Appliance Service in Hawthorne, N.Y., and has been doing repairs for 23 years.

3 comments:

Marissa said...

Good to know!! lol

Chelsea said...

THANK YOU! I'm posting this on my blog too.

Rachel said...

I love you for posting this. And like Chelsea, I may post this as well...although, probably on face book!