80: Good Night, Sweet Pre-Rinse

If your dishwasher is failing to, you know, wash dishes, what should you do about it? Do you delve into the potentially-nightmarish drain trap thingy and root around? Do you add a new solution to your dishwasher’s cycle? Or maybe you, like Andrew, go down a rabbit hole and learn everything there is to learn about this mysterious box of water and wayward bits of whatever you’ve been eating?

No need to choose just one. This week, we’re going hard into the secret lives of dishwashers. For listeners who are in the Wash By Hand camp, well…sorry. Hopefully you’ll still learn something?

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We received a listener tip on this subject that included some VERY in-depth videos. You can find them all here or watch this BEEFY explainer and feel like you just went to Dishwasher U and got a bachelor of science in Did You Know That The Soap Door Thing Doesn’t Open Until Way Later Than You Thought.

In other news, we got into a lengthy conversation about whether or not laundry baskets are ACTUALLY clean and ultimately determined that sometimes even if your spouse is being a TEENY bit irrational about something, you should probably just make them feel better even though you are 10000% correct.

You know, just life stuff. We also ended up on a pretty extreme tangent about what makes for good bar viewing and also our mutual love of Ninja Warrior, so, all in all, a pretty good episode.