Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
A wee bit like hosing down your car before you take it to the carwash surely.
Not really. There are enclosed spaces and plumbing going on, which raises the question of what happens to all the gunk and crap? I have bad memories of visiting my dear parents' house where rinsing does not happen and the glasses seem to have bits of last week's dinner attached to them.

In my home the dishwasher has never worked and I have washed up by hand for the last ten years.