A small amount can help dishes dry faster.

You know that little compartment in the dishwasher for rinsing solution? It’s usually marked as “Rinse Aid.” Confession: I've always ignored it. That's because I didn't know what rinse aid was, and I ...

If you want your dry dishes at the end of a cycle, we have three words of advice: Use rinse aid. Dishwashers dry items in a variety of ways. Some use electric heating coils, others raise the ...

Welcome to part four of our household appliance tips series with Renae DuHaime—an appliance repair technician and content creator with over 500,000 followers on TikTok. We asked DuHaime to provide us ...

Scrape off all the chunks of food from the dishes, but don’t pre-rinse. It’s not necessary and only wastes time and water. Unless you have particles of food on your dishes, pre-rinsing could actually ...

Q. Your answer to the “wetness” with Bosch dishwashers is not entirely correct. Plastics like Tupperware will almost always have some residual water droplets due to the surface of the product. It is ...