Are people really leaving dirty dishes in the dishwasher for a week? That sounds like it would smell terrible and anything left on the earlier plates would be dry as cement by then.
I'm not sure what you leave on your dishes, but generally it's just a few crumbs, maybe a bit of butter, if it's obviously too much for the dishwasher - oatmeal does get as hard as cement for example - you need to rinse it off first anyway.
Dishes have been known to sit in my house for 3-5 days depending on how many we use. The only reason we don't run it every day is to save on washing pods.
Ideally, I would probably run it every day right before bed and then unload it first thing in the morning. As is, I forget, then there are too many dishes to fit in the machine and I need to wash them by hand to cook with immediately.
I know I'm a little late replying here, but I wanted to follow up anyway. I have seen this video before and used the powder when I lived in the US. Now that I've moved to the Netherlands in 2022, I cannot find the powder easily in stores. I don't really want to order it online as it's so cheap I might spend more on shipping than on the product itself. The pods work "good enough" for our purposes.
Maybe the appliances sold here are also better optimized for pods? I do have a brand new dishwasher so that could be a factor as well.
My family will not start the dishwasher until it is completely full or we have otherwise run completely out of clean dishes of some category that they want to use. Tends to stink quite badly eventually, yes. I have failed utterly to persuade them to do otherwise, so mostly handwash my own dishes and let them do their thing.
Are you putting dishes directly from eating into the dishwasher? Most people rinse it off, especially anything that could dry out. The dishwasher is more to automate the application of soap and water, not to literally remove every piece of dried food from a dish.
It's highly dependent on the dishwasher you have then. Maybe he has a more powerful one because mine often does not get food that's stuck onto the plate and it just have to wash it again. I'd rather rinse it before putting it in than after, then.
