Nah, someone else posted a video that goes through it in detail. The pre-rinse is 10 mins (depending on dishwasher) of splashing plain water around and around to get the grubbiest bits off, then it dumps the prerinse water and gets clean water for the main cycle where the detergent goes in.

One of the key tips in the video was to add detergent in the prerinse detergent section (some open section that lets it go in straight away), or if your dishwasher doesn’t have one then just straight on the door or in the bottom. Just a small amount so the pre-rinse cycle has detergent in it so can get more off before the main cycle.

The only thing I’ve found about putting dishes in dirty is that some fancy dishwashers on the “auto” setting will sense how dirty the pre-rinse water is and set an appropriate wash cycle. If you’ve pre-rinsed, then it won’t find much and will put it on a light cycle. This can lead to dishes not being clean if they are actually really dirty but you rinsed off the loose stuff already. But it can be worked around by just setting the cycle instead of leaving it on auto.

The QI monkeys are just buzzing around on the net finding factoids for the show, you can often find untrue or misrepresented ones.

Did you ever try it? Or is kombutcha just what they wrote on the label?

If that were true, dishwashers wouldn’t start with a pre-rinse before the detergent goes in?

Yeah I got that from the video, just throw it in since it’s the first cycle anyway.

Unfortunately fediverse.observer went down about a day back. But there was a noticeable drop in Lemmy activity. From memory it went from 53k to 50k or something like that. Now you’re gonna ask “50k of what?”, well I don’t remember. Perhaps posts or comments.

I wanted to see per-instance but they didn’t seem to track daily stats per instance. And now it’s all gone 🙁

That was fantastic, thanks!

Some of the key things were to put separate powder in for the pre-wash (mine doesn’t have a separate pre-wash section as far as I can tell), and to not put so much detergent in. We have soft water, and apparently that means if you fill the thing up (or use a tablet/pod) then you might be using too much detergent which means it might not all come off in the final rinsing stage.

Just watched the video someone else posted. My machine doesn’t have a pre-wash section as far as I can tell, but I’ll throw some extra powder into the bottom for the pre-wash cycle and see how it goes.

I just watched through the video someone else posted, and connecting to the hot water line seems to be a North America thing. Presumably due to the 110v power supply taking a really long time to heat.

Confirming, connected to cold water here in NZ.

Interestingly, where I live I have never, ever seen a dishwasher installed with a hot water line. Even the cheapest dishwashers heat their own water, and around here we apparently always plumb them to the cold water for some reason, even though I’m sure plumbing to hot water would at least save time if not get better results.

Thanks!

I don’t but have you tried the usual tricks? Arcive the page and try to view the archived version, use a VPN to connect from a different country, look for browser scripts, etc?

If you link the article I can have a play.

I agree. OP is 20 and not enjoying Australia, and has an opportunity to move to the other side of the world. Do it!

Here in New Zealand we call this your “big OE”, a large proportion of people will go and live overseas somewhere in their 20s to see what it’s like. We even have a mutual agreement with the UK to take a quota of under-35s and give them a 2 year working visa without having to meet normal working visa rules.

A single space shown by the editor at an arbitrary width is basically what a tab is lol.

Oh I never got more button presses than the initial 2 I started with. Must have been in the wrong house!

Last season you could buy button presses for your whole team, so we all ended up with heaps. This time you could buy them for yourself but I had better thinks to spend gold on!

I also wasn’t around much this weekend, maybe if I had more time I would have had my gladiator trained earlier and then had more surplus gold.

What happened? I had it open, I was cooking and suddenly it was finished. We forgot to press?

I don’t know about you, but I didn’t spend much time looking at the button this season or caring who held it, and instead was training up my gladiator for the next games. I was disappointed they never arrived.

I wonder if it needs a giant flashing banner in the last minute (no matter what you’re looking at) to make sure people remember to go any press it?

Oh weird, you hadn’t already voted with that email? I was able to confirm my vote.