Curious. Do you pull and inspect the dishwasher filter?
No, do you? and if so, why?
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No, I’m not there to perform maintenance!
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IV. The inspector is not required to:
open sealed plumbing access panels.
determine the water quality, potability or reliability of the water supply or source.
Assuming that you’re referring to the drain screen/filter, I don’t check them, but, it could be the reason why I have found some that failed to drain. 
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Nope. This morning I pulled the filter on my Miele dishwasher. It is easy to check it.
But it got me to wondering, if any of youse guys and gals are checking these?
Yeah, maybeeee…
BTW, after five years of use, this is the first time I ever thought to check it. Whadyaknow…almost nothing on it. Easy-peasy.
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That likely comes from ‘old school’ habits of rinsing off the dishes prior to loading the DW.
Now-a-days, everyone thinks they can be lazy and load right into the machine… in fact, I recall seeing commercials that specifiy ‘no-need-to-rinse’! Bet they sell lots of machines or soap, depending on what the commercials are trying to sell. I usually ignore anything I am not needing at that moment!
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Probably because you rinse your dishes before the dishwasher.
My son watched something on youtube by a guy who claimed you didn’t need to rinse your dishes beforehand. While that may be true if you run the dishwasher after every meal, I may only run mine once a week.
What my son fails to realize (and that youtuber) is that before the 1930s or so woods (furniture) were glued with animal byproducts. Glue was made from old horses. Elmers was made from dairy products and that’s why they still have a cow despite being totally synthetic now. Antique furniture with failing joints is typically an adhesion (glue) failure.
Fast forward to your dishwasher with all those unrinsed plates and dried food turning into glue . . . .
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