Who’d have thought it?
Dishwashers are good for lots of things.
Washing dishes… Not having to handwash dishes… The list goes on.
One thing that dishwashers tend to not be the best for though is fitting in big plates.
How many times have we, collectively, as a nation struggled to load those giant plates in there, accidentally dropped a few in the fight to fit them on the lower track, and just ended up washing them by hand anyway?
A lot of times, is the answer.
As it turns out though, there is a pretty simple way to fit those big plates in there that we’ve all (most of us, anyway) been oblivious to for all these years.
All you need to do is adjust the height of the upper shelf. Because it actually moves.
We know. We were shocked too.
The revelation came from Irish Twitter user Mike Mc Loughin, who admitted that for the past 10 years he had been handwashing all of his large dinner plates because they just wouldn’t fit in the dishwasher.
Then, one day, he realised that the upper shelf of the dishwasher could be moved and his life was changed forever, probably.
He took to Twitter to share his discovery.
I moved into this house in 2008. It always annoyed me that the lower level of the dishwasher wasn’t tall enough to fit my biggest dinner plates. Been handwashing them all this time. This week I discovered you can raise the upper shelf and all my plates fit fine. TEN FUCKING YEARS
— Mike McLoughlin (@zuroph) January 26, 2018
Ten fucking years, indeed.
Mike’s revelation wasn’t just significant to him either.
As it turns out, a whole load of people also hadn’t got a clue that this was possible – about 100,000 of them, to be exact.
My jaw has just dropped and I’m running to my irritating dishwasher!!!!
— Anna Nolan (@annanolan70) January 26, 2018
You see, this is one of the great things about Twitter. Sharing important information. And I am totally serious, not being snarky.
— vangoe (@vangoe) January 28, 2018
Wait, what? @emma_lumley pint glasses upstairs and big chopping board downstairs. Game changer. @zuroph any advice on dishwasher salts? pic.twitter.com/PtbhphKR2T
— Emma Allsebrook (@emma_live) January 28, 2018
Nearly moved house on the strength of this massive problem….you sir are why the internet was invented. Can now spend more quality time with my family #lifechanging pic.twitter.com/uHpDTE3Hdh
— Ian Dunbar (@Dunbarian) January 29, 2018
There were some, whoever, who were aware of this knowledge and had decided to keep it to themselves for all of these years.
So selfish.
Ah Mike, i think all dishwashers do that.
— Adrian Shanahan (@adrianshanahan) January 26, 2018
Our lives will never be the same again.
