Grandmother Shares 'Life-Changing' Method for Washing Dishes

Emptying a clean dishwasher is a task that very few of us find fun, especially if the dishes are still wet when we need to put them away.

However, if this is an issue that happens in your kitchen, one woman on TikTok has shared her brilliant method for avoiding drying items by hand.

A grandmother by the name of Babs, known on the app as Brunchwithbabs, showed her technique, which can be viewed here, to her 880,600 followers by explaining: "Hi, it's Babs, has this ever happened to you?

"You just washed the dishes but everything is still wet. No hand drying those dishes. Do this instead."

Babs, who has eight grandchildren, then hung a drying cloth over the door of her washing machine before closing it, revealing: "At the end of the cleaning cycle, terry cloth dish towel, close the door and wait five minutes.

"You won't have to hand-dry the dishes."

She adds: "Need more mom or grandma advice in your life? Follow along."

Babs captioned the video, which was shared on July 26, writing: "Life Changing Dishwasher Hack #tutorials #kitchenhacks #parentsoftiktok #dishwasherhack."

The clever tip has so far been viewed by more than 4.2 million people and surpassed 518,300 likes.

Many took to the comments section to discuss their thoughts on the cleaning tip.

One TikTok user, Audrey, asked: "Hold up! We don't all just put them away still wet?!"

Another person, April Wilson-Courtney, added: "If this works I'll love you forever!"

Good Karma wrote: "Are you kidding? I'm trying tomorrow and coming back!!"

Kelli Rihtar160 confirmed the trick was successful for her, stating. "I did this. Worked perfectly."

BattBatBat went on to explain why the method works, revealing: "This is absorbing the moisture (steam) in the air. not the inch of water chilling in the concaved bottom of a cup from the jet cycle."

Likeswaggerbutwithano joked: "Oh I just leave them in there and they dry over the course of three days it takes me to use all the clean dishes out of the dishwasher."

However some felt it was not that the tip was not a help to them, with Meno writing: "My dishwasher dries the dishes after the wash and sanitize cycles. Other dishwashers don't do that?"

Whereas Celine simply put: "I tried this. Did not work."

In other dishwasher-related news, a woman on TikTok also recently shared her hack for ensuring silverware stays sparkling and appears unscratched.

According to Carolina McCauley, known on the video-sharing app as @carolina.mccauley, all you need is to to use a scrunched up ball of tinfoil in the machine.