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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

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Post by hedora »

dahfizz wrote: post #186
goblinux wrote: post #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 Bo…

My Bosch clothes dryer does the same thing. It will continue to beep at you forever after drying my clothes. Who thought this was a good idea??? Interestingly, my Bosch clothes washing machine has a button to disable the beeper. But not the dryer, even though they come as a stacked pair. ???? Edit: yes, I did read through the manual and entered the magic cheat code to make the dryer silent. Still a befuddling and fru…

That makes sense. If you disable the beeper on the washer, your clothes will get all smelly and moldy when you forget to unload it. At that point you’ll probably turn it back on.

The poor little beeper on the dryer is defenseless by comparison. If you leave it disabled, how will it find meaning in its life?

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

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Post by djbusby »

phkahler wrote: post #188
wheels wrote: post #175

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Yeah, I often also do parties, where I cook for 20-ish people, and often have 3-4 dishwasher loads after a party. Speed does matter some. Where it matters a lot more is that I live in an condo where officially I'm not supposed to run my dishwasher after 10:00 p.m. The difference between 1 or 3 hours is significant there for running it after dinner. (I basically only run it after 10:00 p.m. after parties; got a very q…

Imagine a dishwasher that cleans a single dish in a few seconds. You could wash and put away in similar time to loading a regular dishwasher, and capacity would no longer be an issue. Taking something from being a process to being a single step in a process can have huge impact to how we do things and what is possible.

Commercial kitchen ones, one single tray load, washed in 120s, comes out hot as fire so they air dry quick.

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

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Post by hedora »

gvb wrote: post #80
goblinux wrote: post #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 Bo…

Our new(er) Bosch dishwasher beeps three times at the end of the cycle. I like it because it alerts me to open the door a couple of inches to promote drying. All the dishwashers[1] I had previous to this had a real drying cycle that actively vented the humidity and was effective. My Bosch doesn't vent the compartment so the dishes take forever to dry if you don't open the door. [1] Said dishwashers all manufactured o…

Current Bosch dishwashers are packed full of something that absorbs water as it cools. So, that’s solved. As a bonus, there are no heating coils above the top rack to melt plastic stuff.

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

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Post by randomdata »

krono wrote: post #144
randomdata wrote: post #102

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There is an opportunity cost. Time spent washing dishes means time not doing something more productive.

That is precisely why you should let your $0/hr spawn pick up this menial task rather than doing it yourself - assuming your time is worth more than theirs, obviously :)

If your spawn is only worth $0/hr., they won’t have the capacity to handle it. If they are worth anything more, they would be more productive elsewhere. The income they produce for you will more than pay any dishwasher costs.

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

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Post by FooBarWidget »

hdhrufjdi wrote: post #172
FooBarWidget wrote: post #162

Slow dishwasher is a huge pain. When relatives visit and join dinner (and they do so often) I end up with more dishes than I can fit in the dishwasher. I can wash the remaining dishes the next morning, but this wastes energy and water because the dishwasher is not full. I can also "preventatively" turn on the dishes in the afternoon, to wash the breakfast and lunch dishes, so that it's completely empty for the dinner…

How does a faster dishwasher help here? Also: you can't cook without the dishwasher running everytime before you cook?

It helps with the "wash in the morning" strategy. Right now I manually wash big pans because they don't fit in the dishwasher when there are also dishes. But I need those pans tomorrow morning as well. If the dishwasher finishes before I need to go to sleep then I can just put those pans in the dishwasher.

The "wash in the afternoon" strategy also becomes more viable. That way I don't have to turn on the dishwasher before 13.00 in order to have it finish before people start cooking. Relatives often visit unannounced, or maybe they change their minds around 16.00 and decide to join for dinner anyway, so I can't always plan for this.

A fast dishesher lets me "batch dishes" (maximize efficiency, save resources) without worry.

Cooking with the dishwasher running is a huge pain. Most of the utensils and chopping boards are in the dishwasher right when you need them for preparing a meal. And when you're done eating, the dishwasher still isn't done so your kitchen and dinner table are left dirty for an hour or two.

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

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Post by hedora »

pchangr wrote: post #148
speed_spread wrote: post #143

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This feels like it's just nagging you to install the app and hook it up to wifi. I've worked for $big_appliance_company and let me tell you... You don't want to connect your appliances to the Internet.

Well… what I want to sleep. Worse case scenario is my washing machine ends up DDOS’ing a poor guy’s website

Samsung has started meshing their stuff. Worst case your washing machine forwards on a video feed from your fridge of you in your undies binge eating spray cheese at 2am while watching a Taylor Swift concert.

You’ll be doing this as a direct result of years of careful psychological conditioning via maliciously placed ads chosen by some 4chan group.

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

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Post by egypturnash »

I have a small counter-top dishwasher. It gets water by hooking hoses to the sink's faucet. When it is in use, the faucet is unavailable for something like two hours.

It is better than having to do all the dishes by hand. But we have to make sure we've done things like refil the water pitcher before running the dishwasher. And there's only so much hot water in the hot water heater before it runs out, so we need to make sure nobody's about to take a shower before running the dishwasher, too.

I would love to have a larger one that connects directly to the water pipes, but there is no room in this apartment's kitchen. So I deal with the dishwasher blocking other uses of the kitchen sink, and the shower, for a couple of hours.

If I had a small counter-top dishwasher that somehow got my dishes just as clean in a half an hour, that would make a few low-level annoyances go away.

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

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Post by r2_pilot »

_joel wrote: post #39
shellfishgene wrote: post #28

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It can be useful because if you open it while the dishes are still warm, they dry better. Usually you can turn off the beeping with some button combination, just google it for your model.

Mine beeps and opens it's door, I quite like it. The washing machine make a Yazoo style beep to that I sing along to. Definitely need to get out more.

If the washing machine is a Samsung, that tune is Die Forelle, or The Trout (Schubert).
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