You’re Definitely Not Cleaning Your Dishwasher Filter Enough, According to an Expert

Your dishwasher’s filter is a key contributor to the machine’s cleaning effectiveness — and the reason why pre-rinsing your dishes before loading the dishwasher is largely a thing of the past. (Still, you should absolutely scrape larger food scraps into the trash.) The dishwasher filter’s job is simple: keep stray scraps of food from circulating through the system during the cleaning process.

In fact, every expert I surveyed while creating our list of the best dishwashers said one of the biggest…