How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work?

> The dishwasher works most efficiently if chunks of food are removed (scrape into trash), but not rinsed.

Do you have any sources? My wife and everybody in my family insists on rinsing.

I suspect it's a holdover practice from the early days of dishwashers, where they weren't so reliably good at cleaning. Now it's generally irrelevant, but like all rituals that once made sense it's now taught as gospel.

Even when the dishwasher is good at cleaning, too much stuck-on food starts to gunk up the drain and jets of the dishwasher. It gets the dishes clean, but there are definitely still long-term maintenance headaches that you avoid. IMO, that maintenance is easier than rinsing every day, but it's concentrated pain rather than diffused.