Google failure ? WTF is "inherent" drying (dishwasher)

If you are in a soft-water area, you don't need it - it is only used to regenerate the resin water softener in the machine.

Ours can be set to not light the low salt warning light.

I'm not sure of the cycle, but I'd have thought that it blasted cold water around to dislodge loose stuff, then drained and refilled before turning the heater on and opening the tablet door, so your tablet will be in too early.

As long as it's cleaning well enough though.

I manage to break them while loading the dishwasher - particularly high-balls, which are fine when at least 4 are in, but with 2 or 3, the end one(s) often fall over and smack into something else, before I can get the 4th in place. It's just a case of the glasses we prefer having a diameter that isn't compatible with the dishwasher basket spacing.

With 5 of us, the sink is usually too full to use. The waste-disposal is in a half-bowl, so still accessible.

I've found that if, say, something has fallen through and fouled a spray arm such that it can no longer rotate causing the rinse cycle to be ineffective then the subsequent drying cycle can 'bake' on tiny particles that presumably would've otherwise been pumped away in the water. Whilst not easily visible they do leave a rough feel.

I don't know what it is with our house here - there are only three of us but the dishwasher is maxed out daily. It often feels like I'm doing the washing up for a busy restaurant. We do put *everything* in though (I think the one exception is a wooden pizza cutting board which always annoys me when it comes out as I'm sure we really don't need to use it).

Golly. I am a one man household and often do a once a day wash.

:-) SWMBO seems to enjoy getting her hands in warm soapy water so dishwashing cooking utensils is rare. This may stem from an unshakeable belief she can outperform any machine WRT hygiene

No need to do any of that with any of my dishwasher.

Or that either. When it comes from where I ate from it, it goes into the dishwasher.

keeping it fed with

Don?t do either of those either. I just put a tablet of dishwashing detergent in the little container for it with a little door just before I close the door and push the button to start the dishwashing cycle.

I don?t ever do that and the dishes come out gleaming clean.

In fact it?s a massive time saving if you do it right.

I can live without it but like with the washing machine, I'm not silly enough to do it by hand unless I have to.

Mine is a hell of a lot more than that.

That?s bullshit too.

You don't stack the plates etc properly in the dishwasher Rodney? What d'ye do then, shy them at the machine from across the room? You fancy yourself as a clown, then? (No need to answer that).

That's not so common these days following the move from in-tank to flow-through heaters (more efficient, saves space, safer) and the design of the latter is such that it wouldn't be effective at heating the load compartment up.

More of you mindless bullshit. Mine washes FAR better than washing up ever does and that?s with no scraping, or hand rinsing whatever.

but at drying stuff in a

It does that too.

Never seen one that does it like that, they all rinse with hot water because that works much better drying wise.

I just tip chop bones off but don?t eat chops very often at all and don?t bother with T bone steak either, I much prefer the better steak cuts.

just running any plate with food still on it

Don?t ever do that, even when there is anything left.

Me too, I always used to hate having to do it as a kid and wasn?t stupid enough to keep doing it as an adult.

- to the extent that when I bought

When I built my house I bought a new one.

I used to hate doing that too.

And never washed the clothes by hand either.

Mine have all done cookware fine.

Not with mine.

That?s bullshit too and they aren't the same two with those who only ever use two too.

Attention. Rod Alert

Tim Lamb snipped-for-privacy@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk> wrote

Yeah, bet that's it, badly designed filter which sees small particles circulating in the final rinse water that get baked onto the plates in the drying phase.

Tim Lamb snipped-for-privacy@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk> wrote

She is wrong with a dishwasher.

Until dishwashers gain cameras so they can decide they've missed a bit, she'll sometimes be right.

Andy Burns snipped-for-privacy@andyburns.uk wrote

Nope, because she can never get the stuff in the dishwasher as clean by hand washing it.

When Mythbusters tried cooking in a dishwasher, they fitted a see-through panel to the front. Which made me wonder why (unlike most washing machines) you don't see the insides running ?