Cleaning the filter in a Miele is a breeze. Twist, take out, rinse under a hot water spray. Replace, twist into place. Five minutes tops.
Being grossed out by a filter? Come on, parents, who changed your kids’ diapers?! 
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So my wife cooks and I clean. I grew up without a dishwasher so I am so used to doing it by hand. Some dishes will look clean when I put them in lol. I definitely rinse at least first. If not you all should really clean out your trap often in the washer.
I kinda just put the silverware in but will try somethings in the article.
Cascade liquid - Costco.
We have several cycles including the 1 hour one and that works well. I will do the full cycle when it gets kinda packed.
Just the two of us but sometimes we do fill it up it seems but like every other day run it.
Our dishwasher was broke for awhile and just doing it all by hand for two people might just be easier. Lol.
We usually run it at night. I wake up early and put it all away, usually.
Pots and pans by hand. Once in awhile will run something in the dishwasher.
Certain knives I do by hand.
First some advice from someone who DID have their dishwasher catch on fire - DO NOT run it when you won’t be around through the entire cycle. We had a DW fire about 10 years ago.
We pretty much wash most dishes BEFORE they go into the DW, and then we only run it when it’s mostly full. We wash all pots and pans, large knives, and oddly sized things (big bowls for example) by hand.
We are tines up and knives down for sure. (I had a friend who would tell you that disagreeing on how to load dishes was part of the reason for why they got divorced - obviously they weren’t so good at compromising).
We don’t usually argue about putting dishes away, but we don’t have any system of responsibility. Dishes get put away promptly. Husband does leave some things on the flat top stove for me to put away.
Husband has a real issue with things staying in the dish strainer after they are dry. He would accuse me of putting wet things on top of dry, instead of putting them away, and I would say it’s sometimes a fair complaint.
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Do people usually put the dishes in the DW as they are dirtied, or at the end of the day, or when there are no more dishes to be used :).
We are as we go people, but my son has become a before he goes to bed person.
I don’t like dishes to sit unwashed overnight, but I know some people don’t wash them daily.
I dream of two dish washers and just loading from one to the other.
For whatever reason, unloading the dishwasher is one of my hated task therefore hate full loads. I also hate a piled on drying rack. But mostly, it’s about rhythm for me. I run the dishwasher every evening, and quickly unload it while making my coffee. If the house is full, I prefer to run it twice, after lunch and then again in the evening.
DH is on the full load camp and incapable of remembering to turn it on if he is the one cleaning up after dinner. He doesn’t get why it makes a difference for me, but this often leaves me with full dirty dishwasher AND a sink full of dirty breakfast dishes!
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When it’s just the two of us, we run the dishwasher maybe 2 -3 times/week. We do a quick rinse off and then. load. Everything has its place and is clustered together for easy unloading.
I didn’t know my dishwasher had a filter either until our heating element broke last year. The repair guy said it looked pretty good considering I hadn’t cleaned it in 6 years. He said if you pre-rinse before loading it’s typically not a problem
The one thing we do is run a cup of plain vinegar through the machine once/week. That was a tip from an old repair person in our last house to keep the washer clean.
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Same with my Bosch.
Some people are super grossed out by blood, vomit, poop, rotten food, whatever – not me. It just happens to be dirty / slimy drains for me. It didn’t get really bad until I took microbiology and learned about biofilms.
It’s visceral, I can’t help it! It feels a lot like I imagine someone afraid of snakes or spiders feels (I don’t have any creature fears). But instead of screeching, I retch.
Yet I can eat just fine while running animal experiments in the lab (though I don’t since that’s against safety protocol). Brains are weird!
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We rinse what belongs in the DW after every meal/food prep and hand wash the rest. Nothing left in the sink ever. I had to break DH of the “I’m letting it soak” habit. Nothing needs to soak. Get busy!
We also clean as we cook, so nothing much to clean up after we’re done with a meal.
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We put stuff in the dishwasher…never let it pile up in the sink. Isn’t part of having a dishwasher hiding those used dishes?
Neither of our kids have dishwashers, and both are just fine with handwashing.
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Oh, I SO need a life-size poster of that on my fridge. Thanks for this morning’s chuckle, @Hoggirl.
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Definitely as we go. I hate dirty dishes in the sink. The dishwasher is RIGHT NEXT to the sink - it’s literally the time it takes to open and shut the dishwasher door.
When my oldest had an apartment by herself with a small kitchen and no dishwasher it became a joke whenever we visited her to check her oven - because she admitted once that if people were coming over that is where she would shove some of the dirty dishes - cause she would not always do them right away!
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I can’t stand a “dirty” sink. Apparently, I am the only one, in this whole house, who is bothered by dirty dishes.
Routine:
Soap: Costco pods
Rinse Aid: Cascade
Pre-rinse
Sharps: hand washed and placed on top of counter (drying mat from Sur le Table)
Cast iron skillets: Dawn liquid.
Pans: DW
Loading: as I go
Family: doesn’t care
Frequency: 1x Daily (4 adults)
Washing dishes is my most hated chore. I grew up with seven siblings. My job was always to do the dishes. We couldn’t afford a dishwasher so everything was done by hand. Washing dishes since I was seven years old.
The area we live in has lots of “critters”. Yes we live amongst the scorpions. Thankfully I’ve only had one in the house in the whole time we’ve lived here!
I figure, if I keep the kitchen and sink clean and sanitized, I can avoid pests. We have lots of fruit flies and I need a clean “canvas”.
I also use the lemon sanitizer that goes in the sink to clean the garbage disposal. I don’t know if they work but it leaves the sink smelling like lemons!
There’s a filter!?
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We are members of the “run when full” club. We run it about twice a week. We do rinse stuff a bit before loading.
We use our DW for plates, silverware, and most glasses (a few are only wash by hand). Everything else is hand washed - not entirely sure why we have this habit, but there you are. We pre-rinse, run it when it’s full, or when H sees we’re out of one kind of silverware (usually dinner forks) and decides to run a partially full DW rather than just take one out and wash it by hand.
There’s a section with slots just for knives so they go blade down. For the rest, H puts them tines up; I put them tines down so I am only touching the handles when we unload. I’ve read that alternating is a good way to keep them from nesting during the wash.
Periodically I’ll put one cup of white vinegar in the upper rack and run empty without the heat/dry cycle. Then afterwards wipe down everywhere I can reach. I’ve tried formal DW cleaning solutions but this works fine.
Anyone remember cleaning their dishwashers by using Tang instead of soap…and no dishes?
I remember that. For dishwasher and garbage disposal.
Timely. 
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An appliance salesperson recently told us plastic pods weren’t good for dishwashers because the melted plastic can gunk it up (my term - I don’t remember exactly what he said). We really like the pods, but I think when I’m out of my Costco sized bucket I will go back to the pour in kind.
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