“When the plates touch, the water circulates less well”: the madmen of the dishwasher

LCertainties are not always nested where you expect them. Nearly two out of three French people are equipped with dishwashers, and if you raise the question of the position of cutlery in front of them (head up or head down), some can catch fire even more quickly than during a debate on Macron, the presidential election or vaccination. Almost everyone has very strong ideas about how to load a dishwasher.

If they had spent as much time learning a foreign language as reorganizing the dishwasher, they would have reached an excellent level in Mandarin.

Better: some people can sacrifice precious time to take over the work done by others if it does not suit them. While we are only on Earth for about seven hundred thousand hours, they do not hesitate to draw on these minutes of life to move a small plate from one floor of their machine to another or shift all the glasses five centimeters walk.

If they had devoted to learning a foreign language the time spent in their life reorganizing the dishwasher after others, they would have reached an excellent level in Mandarin. Regardless of the taunts and teasing, the months of confinement spent in the kitchen have confirmed them in their obsession, which is far too widespread to call it fake. Voltaire invited to cultivate his garden? They decided to properly load their dishwasher.

How do we recognize them?

They pick up the dirty knives after the person who put them in the dishwasher to turn the tip the other way. They think it’s important to interrupt a conversation in the kitchen to say: “I prefer that the plates are further apart. » They also find it useful to explain why. If you pack too much of the dishes, they explain at length why it will be poorly washed. If the dishes are spaced out too much, they cry out for waste and now even invoke the protection of the planet.

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They can spend ten minutes rearranging the baskets to fit one more pan than they could have washed by hand in two minutes. When they have lunch or dinner, they would rather miss the conversation and the coffee than leave the crockery untidy in the dishwasher. When they were younger, they liked to play Tetris. They also have theories on how to fill the trunk of the car and prefer ratatouille to be prepared by cooking the vegetables separately.

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