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We rinse them, especially because we don't do dishes every day.

we rinse or soak them if there's a lot of stuff on it, but sometimes it still comes out dirty, especially things in the top rack, which weren't as dirty to begin with (like water glasses) we've noticed it's related to the brand of dishwasher soap we use--it's worse when we use tabs instead of fluid. and, we have a kind of funky dishwasher since it's part of our rental unit--we're supposed to feel lucky since not all the other apts in our building have them, but it's really not so good!

I only get the food particles off of them. If they have sauce on them, I leave them be and the dishwasher takes care of business.

Nope. I read it's a waste of time/energy and that it's better to just run the rinse cycle on your dishwasher, which we do when there's a particular need for rinsing.

We rarely use the dishwasher, we hand wash all of our dishes and let them dry in the dishwasher. It's more like a drying rack to us.

we rinse but don't scrub unless needed. I soak some stuff like oatmeal bowls before putting them in the dishwasher.

i feel guilty about it, but i usually rinse things. you shouldn't need to & it wastes water, but because there are only two of us eating maybe one meal a day at home, we don't have that many dishes & if we left them unrinsed until the whole dishwasher is full (i only run it full, partial loads are a giant water waste!), it would be a nasty stinky mess!

@TurtleDoves: same! we still wash dishes and use dw for sanitation!

I always rinse and wash really good. I might as well not even use the dishwasher, sometimes I don't.

we rinse them or let the dogs do pre-wash ;). If we don't the dishes just don't get clean.

I rinse and scrub. DH always complains that I clean the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher but they don't get clean if I don't!

At our old house we had a high end Bosch. You could throw anything in and it came out sparkling. Now we have a piece of crap ASCO that does nothing for us. The plates must sparkle before going in to the washer. It's only good for sterilizing. We hope to get a new dishwasher soon!