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Nobody needs a faster dishwasher – solve real user needs

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Re: Nobody needs a faster dishwasher – solve real user needs

#13
My dishwasher has a beeper for when it’s done like a microwave. It drives me up a wall!!

I don’t care when dishes are done, I don’t need to attend to them urgently. They can sit there clean until I’m ready for them.

There is no way to disable this beeper and it goes off every minute after the cycle is complete. Thank god the dishwasher has a wall switch to the circuit so I can just kill it but oh man. Never buying Bosch again

(Edit) I say all this to say my dishwasher was engineered by the same kind of engineer who 1) has obviously never used the product or washed dishes and 2) optimized for “dishes are clean out them away RIGHT NOW” even though nobody uses a dishwasher like that

Re: Nobody needs a faster dishwasher – solve real user needs

#15
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I'm sure that some restaurants could use a faster dishwasher.

Having washed dishes for a while, actually no. A commercial dishwasher only takes ~2 minutes to cycle and dry. They run hot as all fuck. It's the people like me you wanted to be faster.

Commercial dishwashers are not as good at getting food off plates. Any crap left on the plate will get spread on everything else, so you have to pre-wash everything first. You should really do it at home too, but most of the reason a home dishwasher is slow is because it is actually trying to spray every dish, knock stuff off, and then grind it up enough to go through the exit filter. Also, you should clean your filter.

Re: Nobody needs a faster dishwasher – solve real user needs

#16
post #4

I'm sure that some restaurants could use a faster dishwasher.

Restaurant dishwashers are a different beast to what you have in your kitchen. Gets the job done in seconds. Of course, they are also very expensive, really loud, uses very hot water, are really large, and probably use harsher chemicals.

Re: Nobody needs a faster dishwasher – solve real user needs

#17
post #4

I'm sure that some restaurants could use a faster dishwasher.

I think they already use professional dishwashers that blast the dishes clean in about a minute. This guy has one at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnKAVFBIH1c

This french company sells 'Bob', a miniature restaurant-like dishwasher: https://daan.tech/ch/discover-bob-mini-dishwasher/

Re: Nobody needs a faster dishwasher – solve real user needs

#18
My dishwasher has a setting that finishes in 1 hr. I always use it and would use a faster setting if available.

First order reasoning often fails in light of actual experience. It isn't that the reasoning was faulty, it was the underlying knowledge of reality was incomplete.

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