As dishwashers have evolved, so have the techniques for loading. Here's how popular dishwasher manufacturers say to load your dishwasher correctly.

Few topics are as polarizing among roommates and clean freaks as the best way to load a dishwasher. Everyone has their own “system,” which they believe to be infallible. But in reality, it’s probably ...

There are some things in life that spark never-ending debate. Pineapple on pizza, for example, delicious or gross? Or the correct way to hang toilet paper. Is it over or under the roller? And right up ...

Here at Consumer Reports, we take dishwasher loading pretty seriously. For our performance tests, we load each dishwasher with 10 place settings of white ceramic dishes with baked-on food, then run it ...

Bowls on the top or bottom? Fork handles up or down? And what about plates − small in front and large in back or the other way around? Just what is the correct way to load the dishwasher? It's a ...

Darron Cardosa is a food service professional with over 30 years of restaurant experience. He has written more than 1,500 articles and blog posts about the hospitality industry, including for Food & ...

Cleaning your kitchen doesn’t have to be a nightmare. Dare we say it could be fun? Welcome to BA's Cleaning Week: Consider this your trusty guide to the nooks and crannies that you definitely are not ...

Some people (notably college roommates and coworkers in the office kitchen) think you can throw plates and silverware hither and thither in the dishwasher, what does it matter, it’ll all get cleaned ...