Hi it's Kelly and welcome back to Me More TV. In today's video I'm going to show you how to pack a dishwasher. Now I'm quite passionate about this because running a family of five I need things to run efficiently and I need all my kitchen wares to be cleaned properly. Before anything goes in the dishwasher there's a few things I'd like you to know, things that I've learnt along the way. First of all do not put wooden utensils in the dishwasher they split no crystal any good kitchen knives don't put them in the dishwasher. Insulated cups will not be insulated if you put them in the dishwasher and what you do need to do is make sure you pre-rints majority of plates and cups and bowls that go in there. A couple of reasons why. One if it's going to be in the dishwasher for two or three hours it's going to dry off so it's going to be really hard to clean. And the other thing is if you're using your dishwasher a lot just make it efficient. Soon as you've finished with a plate rinse it put it straight in so they're not stacking in the sink as well. So let's get to know our dishwasher a little bit better. These are your spray arms you've got an upper spray arm and a lower spray arm. Now if you can see here this is where your salt goes it's important to make sure that's topped up most dishwashers will tell you your little light will come on that's quite normal for the water to be like that the light will come on telling you when there is salt just watch how it sort of pour it in. This is dishwasher salt. It definitely needed some salt. The salt just takes the harshness out of the water and will out with lime scale and things like that. Don't worry about the little leftover salt around it put that back on. Now if you're having problems with your dishwasher or it looks like it's not cleaning like it usually does come and take out your lower spray arm. Now I'm about to take out the filter. This is your water filter to unlock it turn it away pull it out. Now there's a bit of overflow water in there just from the salt. Don't be afraid of the water filter get to know it. This little contraption here to to remove it press these two together and open it up. So make sure you give this a good rinse you may find food in here you may find it just needs a good clean a general clean. I have found glass in here I have found a safety pin in here. The safety pin had actually become rusty and it was feeding through the through the machine onto our cutlery. Just take it up to the sink give it a good rinse when it's open like that rinse all in here with hot water warm water then we put it back in and it's as simple as just making sure those arrows are lined up again and it's secure. Put your lower spray arm back in that's what you have to do make sure this one is moving freely which it should be. When you're stacking the bottom tray never put plastics on the bottom because it's the heat and the pressure will mostly come from below so you want to use the plates and pots that are always your plates first then your bowls just to smooth the line. Some dishwasher it works better if you stagger your plates large plates small plate large plates small plate if you need to get the water flow a bit better in your dishwasher. It's larger items like the breadboard they can always go on the side or at the very back on the last row. Ideally the middle shelf or top shelf depending on the arrangement of your dishwasher where your plastics should go so it plastics up the top glasses and what I try to do when it's a tall glass if your dishwasher isn't fully stacked you want to make sure these don't the tall glasses don't fall over so make sure you secure it with a shorter glass beside it and then with your bowls I just try to you don't need to leave a whole space depending on the bowl you want to make sure the water can flow through the bowl plastics everything facing down or you're going to have cup fulls of water utensils can also go in here if you don't have the top so with the um safety rack or the wine safety rack you'll see you've got these little spaces in between here you have it up if you have no wine glasses at all to put in and you can put taller glasses as normal in there just like the other side ideally it's up when you have long stemmed wine glasses which means the actual base of the glass would sit there I don't have any long stem and even my champagne glasses are not long stemmed so I need it down as you can see with my dishwasher I have a top shelf cutlery holder a lot of other dishwasher you'll still have the cutlery holder in the bottom rack this will can still apply when you're using the cutlery holder in the bottom in the bottom shelf still group your different sizes of knives and forks in separate compartments so as you can see here I've got all the starter knives and forks the main soup spoons teaspoons I put some utensils in there if your knives are dishwasher friendly this is a place that they can go okay now for the detergent and rinse aid I am a fan of rinse aid I use the cova which is eco friendly the whole idea of rinse aid is to take out all those watermarks out of your glasses so the difference I don't know if you can see that that is streak free and that's got a way too many streaks in it so rinse aid will reduce all the the watermarks and streaks there has been a lot of talk about putting vinegar in as your rinse aid but putting it actually in this dispenser now it is highly acidic so anything rubber it's just going to wear it down I think on an empty dishwasher throwing in a cup of vinegar not a problem but I'm not a fan of the rinse aid especially when this is eco friendly detergent what detergent you use is entirely up to you but just play around with a few until you find something that works please don't overcrowd your dishwasher it won't clean properly and you'll double up the work and you'll use twice as much water and electricity to do so as you know I'm a family of five so we actually do this probably twice a day but at the end of the day we stack it up leave it overnight and it's lovely and clean to come into for the morning when you're programming your dishwasher make sure it suits what's in there if it's a light load it's a full load but it's a light load just do light lightly soiled if it is heavily soiled you's heavily soiled but I always push the energy save on and your water should be around 40 to 50 degrees depending on what you're washing one other thing when you're unpacking your dishwasher if there's anything is wet especially sometimes your plastics dry them straight away or you'll have water marks on them so there you have it that's how I load my dishwasher I'm sure there's a hundred other ways to do it but that's what works for me if you've enjoyed this video remember I do lots of other videos on beauty paleo and lifestyles so please subscribe and you can find me on social media at memore.tv so these are your there is my cat what's wrong