First off, kudos being > gold surviving with ‘the boss’. I’m scratching the gold ceiling at 49 years, or as a Google anniversary list has it, 49th = Luxuries almost sounds better.
But back to the important stuff, “my superior Male Brain” and the ability to successfully mansplain all things manly. As you know the winning combo coexisting with ‘the boss’ is to use their main tactic against them which boils down to winning but win in such a way that they believe they are winning, this is the main arrow in ‘the bosses’ ordnance quiver.
Victory through ally (with ‘the boss’) negotiations. Yes, keep on pre-rinsing, for-ever(!), and don’t ever listen to any of that gen-xyz-whatever nonsense being spewed out about how fk’ng green we’ all can be, blah blah blah. Pre-rinse with hot/warm water and kitchen sink brush and always have the most normal setting, set, that also includes heat drying and or sterilization mode however your dishwasher model defines same. Mansplain point: Dishwashing tech hasn’t really changed much in the last several decades, what changes every year is the marketing hype, but the working operations, not that much change.
This leads to a few pro-tips regarding your kitchen appliances, focus on the dishwasher.
P-tip #1. Should you need a replacement dishwasher perchance, do go for a stainless metal finish on the showy facing side since obviously magnets won’t work anymore, problem solved, for-ever!
P-tip #2. Make sure if you obtain another appliance (dishwasher here) that it has a normal wash cycle including some kind of heat drying that helps to sterilize the dishes. Is this advice energy correct? Of course not, but it gets the dishes clean and sterile especially with a pre-rinse. Whatever you do never listen to any BS from salespeople including anyone in the aforementioned ‘woke crowd’ - (gen-xyz-whatever) to get the one with all the shiny buttons that espouse miraculous functionality which really means it has more ‘idiot’ buttons to play with which we instinctively know due to the whole ‘manly’ thing is total malarkey! Inbred dish cleaning knowledge -> pre-rinse in hot/warm water using sink brush, assign normal hot water wash, use heat drying. Done-over-finished put dishes away.
P-tip #2a. Don’t worry about those yellow energy reporting stickers for your model. Basically, they are more marketing to make the sucker, I’m sorry, the customer feels placated in their choices of models. Anyway, kitchen appliances will probably have that sticker inside the appliance, they would only be stuck on the outside for utility room or white goods room devices like where laundry is performed. Further, these stickers are sales gimmicks for people who believe they are ‘woke’ (whatever that means) aka ‘brainwashed’.
I’d say you have the manly chops to handle most anything that could crop up coexisting with a Boomer boss, good on you. But one more kitchen pro tip:
P-tip #3. Over time this is a key tactic for boomer men, Whenever you walk into ‘the bosses’, (that’s key in this room), kitchen, assume a state of being equivalent to that of a zombie flatlining idiot! Simple right? As if you knew where nothing was in the kitchen and had suddenly no knowledge of kitchen anything. Yeh, you smell what I’m stepping in, surely? :-)
Boomers forever! (until of course, we die)
