If you’re anything like me, you always rinse off your dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. However, it has now been revealed that this is actually the wrong way to wash your dishes!

Morgan Bashear, a scientist who works for Cascade, explained that “it’s actually more beneficial to not rinse our dishes before putting them in the dishwasher.”

It turns out that modern dishwashers have a smart sensor that decides how long to run a cycle and what temperature should be used. Regardless of what settings you put in, the wash cycle is different every time depending on what is in the dishwasher.

During the prewash cycle, the sensor checks how much “loose” food like sauce or crumbs is floating around in the machine, and it then decides what needs to be done to get your dishes clean.

“If you pull a helicopter cleaner and rinse all of your dishes […] nothing will come off in the pre-wash,” Bashear said.

If you have a tray full of clean dishes with one cheese-crusted casserole dish, the sensor might miss it and not clean the dirty dish. That’s why you may have opened your dishwasher in the past to find rows of clean dishes with one crusty dish.

There you have it, folks. When you finish dinner tonight, simply load all the dishes right into your dishwasher instead of taking the time to rinse them off! Your nightly cleanup just got a whole lot quicker!

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