Barbara Costello is better known to her TikTok fans as “Bootcamp Babs.” She’s also known for her posts called “Brunch with Babs,” where she gives tips on recipes and general life hacks.
One of her most recent and popular posts had to do with the dreaded dishwasher.
During the minute-long video, she shared over a dozen do’s and don’ts regarding loading a dishwasher. One of her tips has blown the minds of social media junkies.
“For tall wine glasses, don’t forget to drop your top shelf down before closing,” Costello, who calls herself “Everyone’s ” on social media, instructed before demonstrating how to lower and raise the top rack of her dishwasher.
Well…who knew? The video in just one day had garnered almost 4 million views on TikTok, but it was also going viral on Twitter with 2 million views and counting.
One Twitter user who shared the video in a tweet accompanied it with the caption, “I was today years old when I realized the top shelf in the dishwasher can be lowered.”
Another Twitter user shared a video for those with older dishwashers who may not know that they can lower their top shelf as well.
“Can’t find the lever on your old or cheap dishwasher? Don’t despair, they all have that feature, I promise!” they wrote in a tweet. “Sometimes the wheels run in the metal rail, so you have to turn a little plastic cover at the rail end first and need a little more patient to put the wheels back in.”
Costello had a whole lot more advice about loading your dishwasher:
- Scrape the excess food off of your dishes, rather than rinsing them, to give the detergent a surface to stick to.
- Don’t load the dishwasher with items that shouldn’t be in the dishwasher, including wooden utensils or sharp knives.
- Place all fragile items on the top shelf and put items between prongs to save space.
- Place your bulkier utensils between items on the top shelf.
- If loading wine glasses, make sure you use a stabilizer to keep them balanced.
She had these instructions for the lower shelf:
- Face all of your dishes toward the center of the dishwasher so they can all get cleaned by the spray arm.
- If you wash your pots and pans in the dishwasher, they should be placed on the front of the shelf.
- In the cutlery tray, knives should be placed upside down for safety purposes.
- For ease of putting your cutlery away, organize all your knives, forks, and spoons in separate compartments.
- The spray arms should be unobstructed.
Costello had this to say about her notoriety: “Everything has been a total surprise to me,” Costello said. “Sometimes you just can’t plan things. We’re having fun, we’re sharing things and we feel like our followers are family.”
Watch:
I was today years old when I realized the top shelf in the dishwasher can be lowered ???? pic.twitter.com/WIRTdRQr7T
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) September 30, 2022
Can’t find the lever on your old or cheap dishwasher? Don’t despair, they all have that feature, I promise!
Sometimes the wheels run in the metal rail, so you have to turn a little plastic cover at the rail end first and need a little more patient to put the wheels back in. pic.twitter.com/pCwgLF8UGY
— ???? Friedrich Merz ???? ???????? (@vonneudeck) October 1, 2022
