No more dishpan hands for DH

After almost 19 years of wedded bliss, and heeding the adage:
"No man was ever killed by his wife while wa****ng the dishes"
my husband told me Friday that we were buying a dishwasher
he'd seen on Craig's list.

After the initial shock, I said ok, and yesterday we picked up
the ****table Maytag and hauled it into the house.  Silly him.
we had no dishes to pile in and wash, he'd done them before
we left!

Now, as dishwasher virgins, we assiduously read the manual,
which told us to run a rinse cycle on the breakfast dishes if
we weren't wa****ng them right away.

Does anyone else do this?  Is it necessary?  Do you run
a regular wash cycle or use the sanitize feature that heats
the water up? (Since most of the detergents I've run into
have bleach, is it necessary to sanitize the dishes?)

Will the dishes dry overnight if we don't run the dry cycle but
just open the door?

Inquiring minds want to know....

maxine in ri
cleaning out the pearl-handled .44
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