We’ve all been there: The kitchen is a disaster, the dinner dishes have piled up, post-dinner exhaustion has set in, and the temptation to just toss everything into the dishwasher and hit "start" is ...

Here at Consumer Reports, we take dishwasher loading pretty seriously. For our performance tests, we load each dishwasher with 10 place settings of white ceramic dishes with baked-on food, then run it ...

I eat a significant amount of Thai curry takeout for dinner. Each delicious meal comes in a plastic soup container which, despite the fact I already have 20 of them, I always decide is a thing I ...