We live in a townhome that really isn't that great, hence we are breaking our lease and will be out in a week, but after all this time I finally figured out how to get our dishes clean in our 30 year old dishwasher.
In Maryland (at least here) you can't have the sprayer on your sink as the dishwasher back flows into the sink and overflows there if the sink is clogged (like ours was with tree roots a few months ago) so that the dirty water doesn't go back on the dishes.
No matter how much rinsing we'd do ahead of time, no matter how it was run, no matter that the sink was clean and the disposal run, the dishes would still come out dirty, or with this film of dust all over them.
Then I decided to clean out my disposal with baking soda and vinegar, then I ran the dishes, spotless.
I did it again, just to be sure, this time not rinsing the baking soda and vinegar down, just letting it sit until the dishwasher took over, even cleaner.
Regardless of what the code is here (I'm sure this isn't up to code anyway) the dirty water goes back onto the dishes. The only way to get clean ones (after 9 months of hit and miss) is by doing this first.
Sucks to "waste" that much baking soda and vinegar, but it's only a few more days, and at least I'll have clean dishes without a ton of extra work finally.
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