Is it healthier to wash your dishes by hand or in the dishwasher? Which one is better for the environment? Why won’t your plastic ever dry in a dishwasher? Those are just a few questions that can be ...

What do rockets have in common with your dishwasher? Appliance Science looks at the physics that get your dishes clean. Richard Baguley has been writing about technology for over 20 years. He has ...

A clean dish is a clean dish. Sure, you can spend thousands if you want a whisper-quiet dishwasher with hidden control panels and other tailored touches. Stainless-steel facades, for instance, can ...

Dishwasher pods sometimes get lumped into the same category as microplastics, but technically they’re different. The pods—used for laundry as well—are wrapped in a type of plastic called polyvinyl ...

If you've ever unloaded a dishwasher and found everything sparkling dry, except for that one plastic container still clinging to a puddle of water, well, you're not alone. It's one of those everyday ...

It's one of the most argued-over of all the household chores, even at Number 10 Downing Street. And with so many ways to stack a dishwasher, it's often confusing knowing how exactly to get the ...

Whether you load your silverware upside down or not is a different discussion. Doing the right thing for the environment often means extra work. Biking or walking to the store, for example, is less ...

The science is in. Dishwashers save water — especially if you run them only when you have a full load. Experts will also tell you that you don’t even need to pre-rinse the crusty, sticky residue off ...

The best part? It's the easiest method, too! Doing dishes can be a real drag of a chore. And no matter how you do it, it uses a lot of energy, whether you're relying on the electrical power of a ...

A few months ago, a semi-frustrated dad posted a YouTube video that featured him giving tongue-in-cheek instructions to his teens on how to load a dishwasher. It turns out most of us could use a ...

It’s annoying to open your dishwasher after the cycle is finished only to find half of the dishes still wet. Instead of being able to stack them away, you end up with a full drying rack. And you’ve ...