​Want Cleaner Dishes? You Should Start With Dirtier Plates

Pre-washing dishes is one of those divisive things about life at home. If you're secretly (or not so secretly) a pre-rinser, it's because you think it's the only right way to do it, and that not pre-rinsing is gross/dirty/lazy/doesn't work/what-have-you. I know because I'm one of them. I grew up with a dishwasher that really didn't get dishes clean on its own, so pre-washing became my practice. But I recently discovered something that has me rethinking my pre-washing ways.