Mike McLoughlin was always annoyed that the lower level of the dishwasher wasn't tall enough to fit his biggest dinner plates. Photo / Supplied
Doh — raise the rack
Mike McLoughlin has made a life-changing discovery about his dishwasher and he shared the revelation on social media. He has lived in his current house since 2008 and it always annoyed him that the lower level of the dishwasher wasn't tall enough to fit his
biggest dinner plates. So he'd just end up hand washing them.
This week he discovered you can raise the rack to easily accommodate the dinner-sized plates. He had been hand washing dinner plates unnecessarily for 10 years! And according to the responses, he wasn't alone ... "18 YEARS! I've had mine 18 years and only just realised! I used to lie the plates down so they would wash! I'm raging and ecstatic all at the same time." Others shared their own domestic ignorance: "This is a bit how I felt when I discovered protective film on my fridge, five years after I got it,"said one tweeter.
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