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1. use powdered detergent, the cheapest available. NOT PODS
2. Buy rinse aid.
3. fill the rinse aid compartment
4. fill the given soap cup all the way AND the prewash. Sometimes the prewash is just an indention in the little door flap for the soap cup. If you dont have one, just sprinkle like 30% of the amount of powder you put in the cup.
5. if theyre still coming out with residue, consider cleaning/descaling the jets, the filter, and try putting less dishes in.
6. if that all fails, read the manual. The dishwasher company wants it to work. They know how it works. They wrote a guide. Look up something like "whirlpool washomatic manual" or whatever is printed on the front of it/inside the door. Mine has a sticker with instructions.

Ive dealt with 5 dishwashers that "dont work" and after kindly instructimg the owner over the course of maybe 15 minutes, they save 30 mins a day washing dishes. Still less water/energy (water heater) to run twice than handwash once.

My dishwasher somehow checks how dirty the water is after the first rinse and adjust ms the washing time accordingly, so getting ketchup and sauces from the plates before makes it run shorter.

Residue is a sign of too much soap in the dishwasher. Try reducing the amount of soap. Also, it massively helps to put a little bit inside the chamber and not just the soap compartment. The dishwasher has two washes, pre-wash and main wash, and without soap, pre-wash will be almost useless. With soap, it will drastically reduce the necessary amount of soap in the main wash, meaning no more residue for you.

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If you haven't cleaned your filter recently I will recommend you double check it. It's probably not it, but it's an easy thing to check

Some things you can just put in, some things need a long soak and a steel wool scrub.

Fond on stainless? Baked on protein? Ancient debris? You might need to do it manually.

I don't know, man, just put it through and if it doesn't come off, LEARN what you can and can't like a normal human being, jesus.

A good way to start, if you're an infant, is to soak all your dishes for like 6-12 hours, and inspect to see what comes off easily and what doesn't.

All this talk about soaking or not soaking is like mormon young adults trying to bend the walls that skydaddy built.

I have an old (must be 20yo) budget bench dishwasher and never have any issue with anything not being clean. Never done pre-wash and often overpack it.

Watch this if you think your dishwasher sucks.