I try to optimize my microwave button pushing too. I also have a +30 seconds button, so for 1:30 I can hit "1,3,0,Start" or "+30" three times and save a press!
My rule is that loading the dishwasher means that one loads all the available dishes, and runs it, even if it's only x% full. We use the (large) sink as an input buffer.
If the dishwasher has dishes in it and it's not running, they're clean.
This is exactly our algorithm as all. I can't really imagine flipping it the other way, since leaving dirty dishes in a dishwasher will just let them completely dry out, making it more likely they won't get fully clean when the cycle is eventually run.
I want to have two dishwashers. One with the dirty dishes and one with the clean dishes. So you never have to put the dishes away. They go from the clean dishwasher to the table to the dirty one. And then flip them.
There’s a community near here with a high fraction of Orthodox Jews. One condo I toured in my 20s had two dishwashers and without thinking about why they did it, I commented how I thought that was awesome that you’d never need to put dishes away. (They of course installed two dishwashers for orthodox separation of dishes from each other.)
Not the OP, but I have the same problem. For some reason that escapes me, pressing the “10 sec” button 7 times produces 00 70 instead of 01 10. If you then press the “1 min” button you get 01 70
