This guy clearly doesn’t subscribe to technology connections
…or has much common sense—what did he think that thing on the door was all about.
Wait till this guy discovers he should probably use rinse aid and salt too
Edit: oh…and he’s definitely never cleaned the filter
This guy clearly doesn’t subscribe to technology connections
Guys, guys…guys…
LET’S TALK ABOUT HEAT PUMPS!!! :D
Did you know that most central heaters are over sized and inefficient?
Did you know most residential “car chargers” are just glorified extension cords?
Did you know all but one specific brand of LED Christmas lights fucking suck?
Two brands now! He did it!
I’m always baffled about people looking at things like this compartment and don’t think it has any kind of significance whatsoever.
Like do they think it’s just put there fore giggles? How uninterested in the world around you can you be?
It drives me nuts when i encounter people like this.
Not quite fair, since once you know it’s a compartment it’s obvious that it’s for something, but with all the sensors and access panels appliances have that are not user serviceable it’s not that surprising that there could be a plastic panel in the door of your dishwasher that appeared to do nothing.
Really the only thing that might raise an eyebrow is that it is in a door that gets wet so limiting extra things like that would be good, but perfectly reasonable to assume it was for some type of sensor if you didn’t notice the little latch for the door.
There’s a little protrusion in the base to check the height of the water, have you ever closely examined that to see if it says ‘put bleach in here’ or something?
but the door usually snaps and stays open after wasching, so it’s clear that you cand put something in there
My 15 year old dishwasher has a hanging basket for tablets… It also has your standard drawer for tablets / powders / liquids.
The impression it’s given me is, you do you; I’ll spin the hot water and give it my best.
Wait until he discovers that you can clean the filters at the bottom and get things even cleaner.
Everyone saying to rtfm has not lived in rental housing with the landlord special dish washer. You can only rtfm when you have tm.
But anyway, putting a bit of soap in with your pre wash isn’t a bad idea. Maybe not a whole tablet but then again, maybe they never thought to look for powdered soap before. I certainly didnt until I watched the technology connections video.
In this day and age, a manual pdf is only a search away. All you need is the model number which should be easy to find for any appliance.
I bought a new Bosch dishwasher this year, we’d been using our old broken one as a place to dry dishes for about 2 years. Supposedly this new one has wifi and whatnot. Only ever pushed the “start” button. Yes, I work in IT. 🤷🏽♀️
I refuse to buy a dishwasher with any kind of wifi or network connection in it. This is a hill I will die on. I will wash my clothes with a god-damned washboard before I buy a washing machine with wifi in it.
It’s pretty obvious where they want to take these things. The clothes washer and dish washer companies look at the printer companies with envy. Why do you think they’ve been pushing dish and clothes pods so heavily? Eventually your washing machine or dishwasher will not work off of generic powder or liquid at all. Instead it will only use “cartridges,” plastic boxes maybe the size of 1-lb box of butter. Such a thing would have enough detergent to supply a dishwasher or washing machine for many months. But if they really want to pull the printer game, they need the devices to be wifi enabled so they can let them phone home to keep the DRM working properly.
They are trying to turn dishwashers and clothes washers into printers. That is the ultimate goal of connecting these devices to the net.
I would argue that your career has given you the wisdom to understand how the phrase “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” applies to technology. So you just instinctively know that a dishwasher doesn’t need a network stack to do the job it was built for. And adding one is creating a lot more complexity for very demising returns.
We had a new washing machine that for the first two washes smelled really bad and made a screeching noise as well. Just before sending it back I noticed that we forgot to remove the styrofoam around the drum…
My parents insist that it works the same either way despite me explaining that there is a pretty wash rinse. But because they put the powder or tablet in while the little compartment is still wet, the detergent occasionally doesn’t release properly.
So pretty
I’ve been using the soap compartment for years, I only recently just started chucking the packet into the silverware holder because I’ve heard that might be better (the little compartment might open too late and be less effective). I’m not totally convinced OP was doing a worse job accidentally
Maybe it depends on your model(like it was poorly designed or something), but in general the soap compartment should deploy precisely when it needs to. But, hey, if it’s working for you then who am I to say otherwise
I am currently on the other side - my soap compartment broke, and so I have to throw the packet in the bottom of my washer. It works… okay. The problem is, most of the soap goes out with the pre-rinse. So I often have dishes that I have to re-wash by hand now, versus never having to do that before. I dream of the day where I fix my soap dispenser.
My wife refuses to load the dishwasher because to her she “doesn’t do it right” or “don’t want to fight with it”
So I get OP.
I’ve had to teach people how to mop a floor, and how you should sweep first, it’s just deer in headlights when explaining it. People just don’t go outta their lane to learn new things or fix things that don’t work right.
I’ve switched from using the little door to just chucking the tablet in the bottom. Works just as well, if not better.
If it works for you go ahead… but something is wrong with your dishwasher or you’re using the wrong mode (eco) then. This is absolutely not the correct way to use a dishwasher.
The pre-wash cycle is the shortest cycle and by using all of your soap in the beginning you are spending the majority of the wash cycle without soap.
I came here to suggest people not use the pods for the exact reason you mention. My dishwasher went from mediocre to pretty good by switching to gel instead of the packs.
I wash by hand. Please convince me to use a dishwasher?
One of my former room mates had the same problem with the washing machine. They were two compartments and you put the main detergent in the smaller one. In practice it didn’t make much of a difference, but still.
Assuming the other one is for fabric softener, the clothes got agitated with plain water, then soap added during the final rinse. But if you ask my 90 year old uncle, laundry soap is a capitalist scam anyway (their pillow cases feel like they are made of old fashioned oil cloth).
Meanwhile, I know people that should just not use a dishwasher bcz they can’t load it properly. Honestly, dishwashers are bloody useless. Washing by hand is faster and cheaper.
The trick to having the dishwasher work is to run the tap on the sink until the water is hot. Using powder or liquid dish detergent instead of those sub-optimal expensive tablets also helps, as does leaving sauces on some of the dishes or cookware (only scraping off solid chunks of food)
Even cheap dishwashers clean very well (assuming no clogged filters or mechanical faults) if you follow the above steps.
Dishwashers may not be as fast as going by hand, but the idea is that you free up time requiring active attention by using the appliance. Dishwashers also use much less water for a cycle than 99% of hand washing setups.
lol
So not only was he an idiot about the soap, he also didn’t scrape or rinse his dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. Awesome.
Only remove solid chunks, you don’t need to rinse them before hand. That’s exactly what the dishwasher does in its first washing cycle (the one without the soap) and doing it by hand only wastes a lot more water.
Not if you’re stuck with a shitty and/or old dishwasher like most apartments and older homes have. Growing up in the 80s/90s with a brand new house we still had to scrape/rinse the crap off if we didn’t want to find crud in the bowls and such. All y’all downvoters are some privileged mofos.
Some modern dishwashers don’t need a pre-rinse (and are actually more effective if the dishes aren’t rinsed first due to how fats work). See this video from Consumer Reports or search dishwasher rinse first.
I mean, if you wash the dishes before they go in the dishwasher I guess they come out clean, but to me the point of a dishwasher is to do a more efficient job of it than I can. I scrape but do not rinse, because rinsing then washing is using more water, not less.
obligatory technology connections comment
The most annoying thing for me is that i can’t find any powder detergent where I live which worked best in his videos, and the compartment is so poorly designed that i frequently find half the detergent pod still in the compartment after the dishes are done.
Seconded, however:
WARNING:
if you go to Technology Connections YT channel, we are not responsible
ifwhen you find yourself watching a 6 hour play list on light bulbsOr even worse, six hours of video making LED christmas lights look like the incandescent light from 30 years ago.
At least that particular quest is finally at an end
It finally ended‽
Yes, hopefully. For his own sanity. Someone finally made commercially available LED bulbs the way he was trying to DIY it.
But they were a tad pricey…
Should a cheaper alternative come along, won’t we all be curious whether it might suffice? 😇
That was already addressed in his latest video: his local home center (Menards, I think?) came out with a cheaper version (it tried to have old-timey colors, but still used colored LEDs underneath instead of white), and no, it didn’t suffice.
The series about the RCA video disc player thing is WILD. That they made that fucking thing work at all is a testament to what can be accomplished if you throw a huge sum of money and enough smart people at a problem .
I also have strong opinions about Christmas lights.
Unfortunately, they do not perfectly align with Technology Connections. We agree is almost all respects: flickering is bad, purple is not a valid Christmas color, white lights should be warm and not bluish. I just can’t agree about this one thing though, I LOVE the super saturated colors of LEDs for the red, blue, and green lights. I care much less about the saturation of the yellow and/or orange lights.
I agree with you, but my excuse is being in the southern hemisphere where Christmas lights must compete with summer evenings. The bold colours do better at early twilight
Indoors though I like the less saturated colours, and lack of options has had my tree lit with warm white only for the last decade - I get colour only where the white light plays off transparent and reflective baubles (decorations, I think they’re called in America) and tinsel
It’s all decorations, baubles specifically are ‘ornaments,’ though in the deep south you’ll sometimes hear baubles, but generally only when referencing something as frivolous and stupidly expensive, not in reference to Christmas ornaments.
When I say bauble I’m always referring to one of two things:
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A mock scepter carried by a court jester.
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A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
😉
In Australia all the ball style things you hang from the tree are definitely baubles, other hanging things are mostly still baubles, candy canes are candy canes and tree toppers are tree toppers varying between stars, angels, and anything else for the non-religious
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being in the southern hemisphere where Christmas lights must compete with summer evenings.
That must suck. I don’t even turn on my Christmas lights until the sun’s gone.
WHY is it so hypnotic??
The subjects are interesting, the script is tight and packed with insight, and he uses the magic of buying two of them
I now say that damn phrase whenever I buy two of anything. No one gets it :(
There’s a third video now (A condensed version I think)
Nice! Thanks for that
Well now I’ve gotta see if he’s on Nebula.
Sadly no. I wish he was.
We all came here to say this ^
Well since nobody else is giving away the spoiler on the 6 hours of technology connections videos( didn’t know there was a third now), it’s to fill the little compartment with the dishwasher manufacturers(not the detergent bottles) recommended amount of detergent and to also add a little bit in the bottom of the dishwasher too to help that pre rinse cycle before the main cycle begins.
I love watching his videos but not everybody does. To those people, you’re welcome
Thank you. I got about 1/3 through, checked to see if it was almost over, and proceeded to close the tab.
Note that this is only true when not using eco mode, which opens the door right away so you can just chuck the tablet in like a caveman. Mine happens to work well enough in eco mode and the little door tends to get stuck on things, so that’s what I usually do.
If your (modern) dishwasher isn’t cleaning properly in eco mode, either you have very hard water, or you should clean the filter more often.
If you don’t remember when the last time you cleaned the filter is, go clean it now.
As Tech Connections points out, knowing what your water is like is crucial.
I use powdered detergent - 1 Tablespoon in the wash door, one in the prewash. This is about 1/3 of what I’m told to use.
I pretty much trust Technology Connections and their advice is to use the machine’s smart setting (or whatever it’s called on your brand) as the main job of eco is to score well on water and energy usage. Mine has “6th sense” as its second program which is the only program that does a pre-wash
Eco on my machine doesn’t dry the dishes well. We have pretty soft water
Ah, mine straight up doesn’t have a smart setting, but eco mode works for me so I’m using that, no need to waste water and electricity if it works…
