Key Points Properly loading the dishwasher ensures the spray arms reach all the dishes and the dish detergent is dispensed ...

A dishwasher is a convenient appliance that can clean a week's worth of dishes with the simple press of a button. But few things are more frustrating than when you go to unload your dishes and find ...

Few topics are as polarizing among roommates and clean freaks as the best way to load a dishwasher. Everyone has their own “system,” which they believe to be infallible. But in reality, it’s probably ...

Plates, larger bowls and dishwasher-safe pots, pans and baking dishes. Silverware usually goes on the bottom, too, although ...

How you stack and load your dishwasher is extremely important. Journalists, YouTubers, and dishwasher experts have all written guides on how to do it properly. One PhD student even wrote a 300-page ...

We've known since January of this year, thanks to a study in the Chemical Engineering Journal, that pretty much everyone loads the dishwasher wrong. Researchers encouraged people to place their plates ...

Are YOU loading your dishwasher right? Let me put this delicately: Consumer Reports doubts it very much. The venerable magazine published an article on this site a few days ago that touched off an ...

Experts have revealed a key reason we should not be rinsing off dirty dishes before loading them into the dishwasher. It has to do with the amount of water that's reportedly wasted by this habit.

End the household battle now between who's doing it the right or wrong way, and get sparkly clean dishes after every cycle (guaranteed!) with these expert tips. Stanislav Sorokin/Getty Images We’re ...

Brought to you by the researchers who spend their time studying the mysterious mechanics that happen behind the closed dishwasher door. Of all the complicated things we have to contend with in ...

Many people have a specific way they load their dishwasher—but the silverware basket often sparks the biggest debate. Some have turned to social media to proclaim that loading the silverware basket by ...

Alina Bradford has been writing how-tos, tech articles and more for almost two decades. She currently writes for CNET's Smart Home Section, MTVNews' tech section and for Live Science's reference ...