10 Tips to Help the Dishwasher Run Better — Cleaning Tips from The Kitchn

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If you’re lucky enough to have some (mechanical!) help with your dishes, how’s your helper doing these days? Winter cooking can be tough on the dishwasher. All those goopy soups, milk-crusted mugs, and baked-on casseroles can overload it; perhaps you’re feeling like things aren’t running so smoothly or smelling as good as they ought to in there.

Well, we’re here to help, with ten tips for making your dishwasher run its best.

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A Very Sweet and Charming Disruption — Weekend Meditation

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There’s a rather large, rather old, but very sweet hound dog in my kitchen right now. She’s making sloppy slobbering noises as she eats her dinner, pushing the thin tin bowl that contains her kibble plus two scoops of wet food and some warm water (to make ‘gravy’) around the kitchen floor. This long legged, floppy-eared, all-nose invasion is a temporary situation. I’m just keeping her around for a few days while her real mom handles some family situations. We’re still figuring things out, Sadie and me. I’m a little awkward and nervous and Sadie, well, Sadie is infinitely patient.

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