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I normally never use the dishwasher, except as a drying rack for the dishes I wash by hand. But, it sure is nice to have when there's lots and lots of dishes (like for Thanksgiving dinner and such). You can't safely wash non-stick pans and such in them. But, it still helps take the edge off a huge volume of dishes.
Only thing is. Our dishwasher runs forever! That's a lot of electricity and water!
Yeah, sterile tomato sauce? It may be sterile. But, it's not clean.
Yeah they do run for a long time. But time your dishwashing some time.
As far as dried sauce or whatever... that would be a sign you have lousy soap or really need a new dishwasher. Sometimes I think even our old one would take dried paint off! Still works but makes one heck of a humming racket.

