There's also just no point. What exactly would one hope to accomplish in having a window in their dishwasher? With a microwave, you can monitor food and make sure it's not boiling over, smoking, exploding, etc. With an oven, you can monitor goods to see if they're done or not. But a dishwasher? Unlike a cooking device, there's no harm in leaving dishes in the dishwasher too long. You don't need to pull them out at just the exact moment they're fully clean.
Unless you're one of those weirdos that cooks things in their dishwasher, I can't see any reason why you would need a window in one.
They're attractive, but they also have a much bigger problem with gaskets getting moldy, and I personally think getting clothes in and out of a top-loading is more convenient unless they're stacked.
To see the mold growing in the side loader machine's silicon gasket that never dries out of course!
Also because that's what the house came with and it didn't break yet.
I kill it with vinegar filled wash cycles now and then but it's annoying and recurrent. Top loader with dumb knobs and a metal lid next if they die before me.
my mom'll never get a side-loaded washer for that exact reason. Clothes also may get a musty smell even when cleaned in one. We've got sensitive noses so it'd be unbearable for us
You can get anti fungal liquid that you add to one of the secondary dispensers which should keep that at bay while also keeping mould off your clothes, and also you can leave the door open between cycles to dry it out. I've been told it's important to leave the door open when it's not in use.
I leave the door open yep, clean the drain trap too.
I should try anti fungal instead, we'll see if it does better than vinegar. The cheap bulk white vinegar does work, I just have to do that twice a month and remember to wipe down the gasket frequently.
Your gnomes shouldn't be dead, they're technically immortal and a stint in the dishwasher is their ticket out of the salt mines. If you've got dead gnomes the last thing you want is to keep their bodies on the premises. If you leave them in the cartridge they can be revived when you exchange it for the new cartridge. If you put them in the ground they will find... other ways back to their realm, and they will remember what you did.
And please remember to buy gnomane dishwashing tablets, I cannot stress enough how much they should not be dead.
Also don't ask me why the gnome salt mine slavery exists, I didn't create it, I just benefit from it.
For the purposes of saving water, your dishes are repeatedly washed in dirty greasy brown water before rinsing. This does not look good, but in fact it is alright.
Not true. They are hiding the fact that there's a group of tiny gnomes forced to work the dishes. No one wants to see tiny slaves in their kitchen. They are pathetic and do not fit the rest of the kitchen ambiance.
This one kinda makes some sense. Screens and text are often small enough that properly punctuated sentences can almost feel cramped. Adding visual space helps emphasize pauses and full stops. I use hyphens often in Discord when chatting, instead of periods or commas, since comments and convos can shift pretty quickly.
A grammar Nazi takes time out of their day to give someone crap about a comma splice or argue about whether or not it's appropriate to capitalize the first word after a colon. OPs like this are not "Grammar Nazi" fodder. It's just language anarchy normalized by terminally online brainrot.
Maybe they're not a native speaker? German for instance capitalizes all nouns. You'll often find weird capitalizations in my (mobile) writing when my phone didn't correctly guess what I wanted to type. At least some words in the OPs text are German nouns (e.g. See, All), while others aren't.
Reading though the comments I think something I said earlier today is going to be true. Technology Connections is going to be the XKCD of video explainers.
Yeah, but there are unwritten rules of how most people do it. Whole caps or asterisks for emphasis, ellipsis, hyphen or tilde for pause - things like that.
Same. I had a tiny countertop one with a little window on it.
On the one hand I get that people with large dishwashers don't want to learn how many times the same goopy water is recycled to splash over the things they put in their mouths, but it's kinda mesmerizing, if I'm being honest.
Duh. If they let you see how it's done, then you'll know how to do it yourself. And once you know how to do it yourself, you won't need to buy one of their expensive machines every time you want to wash dishes.
Knowing how "fun" it is to make a truly watertight window, even with low pressure, matching both cold and hot and detergent and whatever's flying in there, I'm glad there isn't a glass pane to view into the dishwasher.
Also, I'm usually doing things that are not reliant on seeing what's happening in a dishwasher when it is running, so the cost effectiveness would not be great there.
I'm not sure… as my current washing machine don't have one. It's a top-loader. I do see washing machines with a round door, though. Maybe the difference is that the whole door is the glass part, so there's no seal to make with the rest of the "door" part, but that's not satisfying.
Like those cows with the portal in their side that they bring around to elementary schools to show kids how chambered stomachs work! (Just now realizing this might not be a universal experience and may have had to do with my elementary school's proximity to UC Davis (Agriculturally focused college).
It is. No glass, they just take the lid off when they want to look inside, and it’s a flexible material . The thing on top of the cow here is the lid. Search Fistulated Cow for more info.
My old dishwasher was malfunctioning and I bypassed the door switch to see what was going on inside. That was a big mistake, water in my face and on the ceiling lol.
Negative. Being struck with water pressure is what opens the detergent door. That's why it's sprung like a mousetrap and so easy to jostle open accidentally. You can take the door and dispenser apart if you like and you will find no electronics in there. Also, if you look carefully at the middle/upper wash arm you'll see that it has one nozzle I was talking about on the tip that points outwards, not up. That's the one that makes the stream designed to hit and open the detergent door.
Of course, the dishwasher's program determines when to blast it at full pressure to pop it open. So it is "timed" in that sense.
I remember a while back discovering GE made a clear door that could be used for diagnostic purposes on some dishwashers they had built. Never got to try one out, just thought it was cool they made em.
Hell yeah ... just like washing machines ... I'd love to be able to see what's going on side a dish washer ... even put LED lights on inside it and do a light show ... or control the lighting so that you can turn it on and off if you want
I was once helping a previous landlord install a new dishwasher and during the first test cycle I opened it and he yelled “NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING”. Turns out he thought they filled up with water like a clothes washer. A window really would have helped him.
A surprising amount of people labor under the assumption that they lock shut somehow and the door can't be opened while the machine is running which is bad in case "something goes wrong."
A) No they don't, and you can easily open the door as you have observed, and
B) If the thing were having some manner of hypothetical catastrophic meltdown, why would you want to open the door as your first impulse anyway?
People also near universally have a serious misconception about how much water a modern dishwasher uses, or rather how much it doesn't. Everyone unanimously insists to me that they can hand-wash the same amount of dishes using less water than a dishwasher. No, you can't. They think it's running water constantly while it's in operation and don't understand that it fills with 1.5-2 gallons of water and recirculates that through each phase of the wash, usually resulting in only two or three fills.
My new washing machine has a window on the top and it's pretty cool watching how fast things whip around during the spin cycle. Definitely have a greater appreciation for the amount of force those things put out.
Back before they changed the latch design, for safety, we would use a penny to trigger the lid sensor(just a simple pressure sensor) and watch it spin.
I'm actually more pissed off that here in 2025 we haven't developed a dishwasher that has a blow dry cycle. Like, just have a small water tight door that flips open to reveal a fan that circulates warm air to dry the dishes.
But no, instead we have the dubious development of dishwashers that no longer have a cup for the prewash soap (which is still 100% necessary) because those stupid pods exist and on some models all the indicator lights have been relocated to the inside of the door where you can't see if the cycle is done unless you open the door which, if the dishwasher is still in the middle of washing, will disrupt the cycle.
They actually do have that, warm air circulation. The real problem is though that the moisture has to go somewhere for the dishes to actually get dry. It's why a clothes dryer won't dry your clothes if the vent is clogged. Some of them have basically something akin to a still inside the door - a path for the warm and moist air to travel through that has a lot of right angle turns giving lots of opportunity for moisture to condense out of the air and then it can drain liquid water out the bottom. Some other models have automatic door openers, so once everything inside gets nice and hot and humid, the door pops open and it all just gets spit out into your kitchen.
Brother I'm not sure what kind of dishwasher you're working with but my LG dishwasher will peel paint.
Everything comes out crystal clear clean no matter how dirty it goes in, they specifically say do not pre wash anything and we don't, everything ends up 98% dry too. There might be the odd bit of pooled water in some crevace of a container or lid to something. I use the steam cycle with normal wash and extra dry and overnight dry. All buttons are on top and just remember their settings so you don't really need to do anything but slap the pod and shut the door.
Dishwashers like everything run the price and features gambit. For performance like this we spent around $800. Worth every penny.
Yeah, the bargain bin whirlpool my apartment grudgingly provides does not perform the same. Convincing them to shell out $800 or even to let me do so would be like convincing DOGE to fund universal healthcare—impossible.
Damn that's rough. Appliances in general are pretty shit lately. On the high end theres only like Bosch LG and Samsung. With the 2 Korean ones have all kinds of scandals and recalls. I've sworn off Samsung completely. But even within all brands it's the high end stuff works as advertised and mid and low range stuff kinda sucks or works enough to not be returned.
The one we have is a Bosch and IMO it's the worst. If I had been in charge of replacing our old one I would have chosen something way better.
It's indicator for the cycle being done? A tiny beep that goes off like every 5 minutes or so for maybe an hour. Otherwise, the first person to open the door gets to see the clean dishes indicator light. After that it's anyone's guess. And the wash cycle is extremely quiet (this is actually a nice feature if it weren't for the fact that it's impossible to tell if it's in the middle of a cycle or fully done other than the afore mentioned faint intermittent beep).
Edit: oh, and all of the dishes are basically soaked when you open the thing. Especially if it's been done for a while and everything has cooled down. Happen to have a light bowl in the top shelf that got flipped during the wash cycle? Now you have a bowl of dishwater that will dump out onto everything below it unless your real careful taking it out. Every glass has a tiny bowl of water in the divit in their bottom. And all the silverware is covered in water droplets that will spray everywhere as you attempt to put them away.
The technology connections guy has a video where he puts a window in one to show how it works
And it looks like sudsy vomit recirculating over your dishes. Ain't nobody wanna see that.
Except Alec apparently
And everyone who clicked on the video.
Some of us more than twice!
Wanna go a fourth time?
Hun I've told you there's a refractory period. Give me 5 minutes before we go again 👍
Fine.
/eats another detergent pod
There's also just no point. What exactly would one hope to accomplish in having a window in their dishwasher? With a microwave, you can monitor food and make sure it's not boiling over, smoking, exploding, etc. With an oven, you can monitor goods to see if they're done or not. But a dishwasher? Unlike a cooking device, there's no harm in leaving dishes in the dishwasher too long. You don't need to pull them out at just the exact moment they're fully clean.
Unless you're one of those weirdos that cooks things in their dishwasher, I can't see any reason why you would need a window in one.
Okay, but why then is there a window in my washing machine?
Usually only on front-loading models so you can see if there's water in it before trying to open the door.
Which is what most of the world uses. And it's also kinda nice to look at, which isn't the case for dishwashers.
They're attractive, but they also have a much bigger problem with gaskets getting moldy, and I personally think getting clothes in and out of a top-loading is more convenient unless they're stacked.
Because people like watching the spinny go spin.
To see the mold growing in the side loader machine's silicon gasket that never dries out of course!
Also because that's what the house came with and it didn't break yet.
I kill it with vinegar filled wash cycles now and then but it's annoying and recurrent. Top loader with dumb knobs and a metal lid next if they die before me.
my mom'll never get a side-loaded washer for that exact reason. Clothes also may get a musty smell even when cleaned in one. We've got sensitive noses so it'd be unbearable for us
You can get anti fungal liquid that you add to one of the secondary dispensers which should keep that at bay while also keeping mould off your clothes, and also you can leave the door open between cycles to dry it out. I've been told it's important to leave the door open when it's not in use.
Good advice for everyone.
I leave the door open yep, clean the drain trap too.
I should try anti fungal instead, we'll see if it does better than vinegar. The cheap bulk white vinegar does work, I just have to do that twice a month and remember to wipe down the gasket frequently.
Leave the door cracked after washing until it dries out.
I can see myself meeting that guy in a bar and both of us complaining about shit for hours and hours
Now I want an ancient greek drama about dishwasher detergent.
Don't kink shame.
Hold my beer.
Minutefoods does a video with the camera inside the dishwasher, also pretty cool
And my Amazon order for pre-wash detergent tells me it was already 4 years ago, OMG. It took 4 years to go through that bottle, we're a family of 4.
And it started leaking.
They don’t want you to know about the dish gnomes forced to work in tight spaces under terrible conditions.
You don't replace your dish gnome cartridge every 3 years? I was told it was a feature. They get tired.
Oh you absolutely need to replace the gnome cartridge, my dad would always freak out if we didn't. That's like day 1 of dishwasher school.
I hate when the dishwasher says it's low on cyan gnomes, but I can see them right there
First, you have to remove the dead gnomes. Straight to the compost heap, not in the regular garbage! Cause nature and stuff ...
Your gnomes shouldn't be dead, they're technically immortal and a stint in the dishwasher is their ticket out of the salt mines. If you've got dead gnomes the last thing you want is to keep their bodies on the premises. If you leave them in the cartridge they can be revived when you exchange it for the new cartridge. If you put them in the ground they will find... other ways back to their realm, and they will remember what you did.
And please remember to buy gnomane dishwashing tablets, I cannot stress enough how much they should not be dead.
Also don't ask me why the gnome salt mine slavery exists, I didn't create it, I just benefit from it.
I'll guess then that they'll prefer the salt mines above me. Those little bastards, playing for dead! I will shave all their beards!
Your funeral, don't say I didn't warn you.
They better don't disobey their lord and master, or I'll pee over the shoebox that is their home again.
This is praxis
Technology connections put a window in one, it’s just nasty water swirling around and a lot of people would be grossed out by that so they hide it lol
I also don't want to be looking at the dirty dishes throughout the week as I'm waiting for the machine to be full enough to run.
You don't want to see it.
For the purposes of saving water, your dishes are repeatedly washed in dirty greasy brown water before rinsing. This does not look good, but in fact it is alright.
Not true. They are hiding the fact that there's a group of tiny gnomes forced to work the dishes. No one wants to see tiny slaves in their kitchen. They are pathetic and do not fit the rest of the kitchen ambiance.
They're just in there licking all the food off the dishes after getting drunk on the "rinsing agent".
If you forget to fill their booze, they just piss all over your dishes, that's where the spots come from.
Immigrants taking my good old American Jack Russell Terrier's job. They took her jerb!
Even worse! They're all nude!
They have big dicks though
And they glow in the dark!
But they eat the boogers out of each other's noses. Which happen to be glow in the dark as well.
In proportion to their bodies, yes?
No. That's why there's no window. Otherwise all women would dump their partners for a glow in the dark big dick dish washer gnome.
Edit: which happens to be the name of my future band: the Glow in the Dark Big Dick Dishwasher Gnomes
why do They capitalize seemingly random Words in each Sentence?
Brainrot
And the , commas with , spaces on , both sides
This one kinda makes some sense. Screens and text are often small enough that properly punctuated sentences can almost feel cramped. Adding visual space helps emphasize pauses and full stops. I use hyphens often in Discord when chatting, instead of periods or commas, since comments and convos can shift pretty quickly.
I think it Was on purPose To trigger Some Grammar nazis.
A grammar Nazi takes time out of their day to give someone crap about a comma splice or argue about whether or not it's appropriate to capitalize the first word after a colon. OPs like this are not "Grammar Nazi" fodder. It's just language anarchy normalized by terminally online brainrot.
I think they were just emphasizing what they found important, like cummings. To each their own.
I guess it's a stylistic choice to express emphasis instead of using italics or bold text.
Maybe they're not a native speaker? German for instance capitalizes all nouns. You'll often find weird capitalizations in my (mobile) writing when my phone didn't correctly guess what I wanted to type. At least some words in the OPs text are German nouns (e.g. See, All), while others aren't.
Functional illiteracy
Reading though the comments I think something I said earlier today is going to be true. Technology Connections is going to be the XKCD of video explainers.
this Capitalization is Giving me a Fucking stroke
But why the bizarre spacing on the commas...
I've got it! It's Shatner's alt account!
I see the vision but that's not how you type on the internet.
Yeah, but there are unwritten rules of how most people do it. Whole caps or asterisks for emphasis, ellipsis, hyphen or tilde for pause - things like that.
Per internet rules, capitalization can only be used for emphasis LIKE THIS. Doing it any other way is just bad grammar and, as a result, confusing.
It's the fact that it doesn't spell out a word which gave me one
What do you mean, it clearly spells out "wadnnrs." If you know, you know
It's to keep people from seeing the reality of recycled dishwater being sprayed at the plates you eat off of.
It's because they are usually insulated and there is no point putting a clear surface over insulation.
My oven is super insulated, yet it still has a window
What kind of insulation is behind the window?
None, which is his whole point. If the oven can manage to hold heat the dishwasher can aswel
Insulation on the dishwasher is mostly for noise and stopping moisture or heat from damaging surrounding cabinets.
The dishwasher is using new water or heating water. It is not designed to keep the same water hot for an hour plus.
The whole back of the dishwasher is a tiny piece of plastic. Not insulated at all. Some fancy ones now put a little insulation on back.
But the idea isn't to keep heat trapped to wash dishes, but to keep heat from being released and damaging things.
I haven't seen anything that says how hot it gets in the window . Just that it's "super insulated".
I'm not an engineer, I don't know how it works. I can touch the transparent window without getting burned, so it appears the window is insulated.
Maybe it works like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulated_glazing
It's just an air gap in the window. It's double pane just like good windows for your house.
Obligatory Technology Connections
he left out cleaning the hose that leads to the sink.
My washer and dryer have tinted windows. I have no idea why. I'm guessing their chief designer drives a heavily modded Scion though.
I have a window in mine. It's great, I can see when something's not cleaning right and I fix it. Saves on redos.
Same. I had a tiny countertop one with a little window on it.
On the one hand I get that people with large dishwashers don't want to learn how many times the same goopy water is recycled to splash over the things they put in their mouths, but it's kinda mesmerizing, if I'm being honest.
It's more salubrious than having that nasty dishwater all over your skin, eh? And yeah, it's fun to watch.
Jack Donaghy approves.
Duh. If they let you see how it's done, then you'll know how to do it yourself. And once you know how to do it yourself, you won't need to buy one of their expensive machines every time you want to wash dishes.
just buy plastic cutlery and throw it away after each use
Hack the system
I have a countertop dishwasher that has a giant window in the front. Wanna know what's in there?
Bubble bath shower for the dishes. It looks fun.
Knowing how "fun" it is to make a truly watertight window, even with low pressure, matching both cold and hot and detergent and whatever's flying in there, I'm glad there isn't a glass pane to view into the dishwasher.
Also, I'm usually doing things that are not reliant on seeing what's happening in a dishwasher when it is running, so the cost effectiveness would not be great there.
How is it different from a window in a washing machines, because those are quite common.
I'm not sure… as my current washing machine don't have one. It's a top-loader. I do see washing machines with a round door, though. Maybe the difference is that the whole door is the glass part, so there's no seal to make with the rest of the "door" part, but that's not satisfying.
I'd be curious to ear from an expert about this.
Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?
I saw a see through dishwasher at a department store when i was a kid. a demo thingy. it was magical
Like those cows with the portal in their side that they bring around to elementary schools to show kids how chambered stomachs work! (Just now realizing this might not be a universal experience and may have had to do with my elementary school's proximity to UC Davis (Agriculturally focused college).
Yeah, they put a lid on the side of the cow and can reach in and grab a handful of stomach sludge.
I'm assuming it's not a window on a real cow, or "cowborg", turning it into some sort of unholy fusion of metal, bovine, and glass.
It is. No glass, they just take the lid off when they want to look inside, and it’s a flexible material . The thing on top of the cow here is the lid. Search Fistulated Cow for more info.
I remember seeing one of those! Wasn’t brought to our school, though (I went to school in the middle of the city), we went to a farm.
Did they slice a cow in twain lengthwise?
No, but they have that at a museum in town!
It’s because watching a bunch of food water swirl around for half an hour is gross.
Table top dishwashers usually have a window. My kid considered it a major disadvantage when we got a real dishwasher that the window was missing.
Your kid spoke the truth
The Sears appliance departments usually had at least one with a clear front for demonstration purposes.. But you know what happened to them
Thanks, Obama
My old dishwasher was malfunctioning and I bypassed the door switch to see what was going on inside. That was a big mistake, water in my face and on the ceiling lol.
Specifically in your face because one of the nozzles on the middle spray arm is aimed outwards to hit the latch on the detergent dispenser door.
I think the door is timed, not depending on a jet of water to manually open it...
Negative. Being struck with water pressure is what opens the detergent door. That's why it's sprung like a mousetrap and so easy to jostle open accidentally. You can take the door and dispenser apart if you like and you will find no electronics in there. Also, if you look carefully at the middle/upper wash arm you'll see that it has one nozzle I was talking about on the tip that points outwards, not up. That's the one that makes the stream designed to hit and open the detergent door.
Of course, the dishwasher's program determines when to blast it at full pressure to pop it open. So it is "timed" in that sense.
The reason you dont is because it would probably disturb people to see their dishes slamming into each other.
Maybe they would then stop putting the fucking knives into the fucking dish washer.
Omg, when you have to saw through a tomato slowly? Or when a knife can't use a generic sharpener because a chip in it catches? Absolutely wretched.
Plus, it's not polite for company to see all my dildos flailing around in the water.
I remember a while back discovering GE made a clear door that could be used for diagnostic purposes on some dishwashers they had built. Never got to try one out, just thought it was cool they made em.
Hell yeah ... just like washing machines ... I'd love to be able to see what's going on side a dish washer ... even put LED lights on inside it and do a light show ... or control the lighting so that you can turn it on and off if you want
There are good reasons to hide what's going on inside. Some are simply not prepared: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIKJ6n-vSKt/
I was once helping a previous landlord install a new dishwasher and during the first test cycle I opened it and he yelled “NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING”. Turns out he thought they filled up with water like a clothes washer. A window really would have helped him.
A surprising amount of people labor under the assumption that they lock shut somehow and the door can't be opened while the machine is running which is bad in case "something goes wrong."
A) No they don't, and you can easily open the door as you have observed, and
B) If the thing were having some manner of hypothetical catastrophic meltdown, why would you want to open the door as your first impulse anyway?
People also near universally have a serious misconception about how much water a modern dishwasher uses, or rather how much it doesn't. Everyone unanimously insists to me that they can hand-wash the same amount of dishes using less water than a dishwasher. No, you can't. They think it's running water constantly while it's in operation and don't understand that it fills with 1.5-2 gallons of water and recirculates that through each phase of the wash, usually resulting in only two or three fills.
This doesn’t make any sense because to be a landlord he must be rich, and to be rich he must be smart…right?
/s
To be fair he was the best landlord I ever had. Took care of like everything as soon as we said the slightest word there might have been an issue.
The dishes want some privacy in their bath.
W A D N N R S ?
Here you go.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_W3aR15B44&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
(Skip ahead to about 8:30 once he gets it built)
This is oddly rhythmical/musical.
Why tho'? Apart from curiosity, what do you need to see? How will you utilize the information?
In an oven you can check on the food, and to a certain extent in the MW.
Front load washing machines let you see, but it's a tease because they lock the door.
It's so that you can pontificate on that tissue you left in your pocket as it dissolves into little bits of paper snot and gets stuck on everything
My wife only said "Don't you dare". And now i'm confused. The words imply a dare, her tone sounded like a threat
Since noise reduction is an important part of a dishwasher, it wouldn't make sense to overengineer a viewing window.
I would accept a 4-5db performance hit in exchange for a window.
My new washing machine has a window on the top and it's pretty cool watching how fast things whip around during the spin cycle. Definitely have a greater appreciation for the amount of force those things put out.
Back before they changed the latch design, for safety, we would use a penny to trigger the lid sensor(just a simple pressure sensor) and watch it spin.
I'm actually more pissed off that here in 2025 we haven't developed a dishwasher that has a blow dry cycle. Like, just have a small water tight door that flips open to reveal a fan that circulates warm air to dry the dishes.
But no, instead we have the dubious development of dishwashers that no longer have a cup for the prewash soap (which is still 100% necessary) because those stupid pods exist and on some models all the indicator lights have been relocated to the inside of the door where you can't see if the cycle is done unless you open the door which, if the dishwasher is still in the middle of washing, will disrupt the cycle.
They actually do have that, warm air circulation. The real problem is though that the moisture has to go somewhere for the dishes to actually get dry. It's why a clothes dryer won't dry your clothes if the vent is clogged. Some of them have basically something akin to a still inside the door - a path for the warm and moist air to travel through that has a lot of right angle turns giving lots of opportunity for moisture to condense out of the air and then it can drain liquid water out the bottom. Some other models have automatic door openers, so once everything inside gets nice and hot and humid, the door pops open and it all just gets spit out into your kitchen.
Brother I'm not sure what kind of dishwasher you're working with but my LG dishwasher will peel paint.
Everything comes out crystal clear clean no matter how dirty it goes in, they specifically say do not pre wash anything and we don't, everything ends up 98% dry too. There might be the odd bit of pooled water in some crevace of a container or lid to something. I use the steam cycle with normal wash and extra dry and overnight dry. All buttons are on top and just remember their settings so you don't really need to do anything but slap the pod and shut the door.
Dishwashers like everything run the price and features gambit. For performance like this we spent around $800. Worth every penny.
Yeah, the bargain bin whirlpool my apartment grudgingly provides does not perform the same. Convincing them to shell out $800 or even to let me do so would be like convincing DOGE to fund universal healthcare—impossible.
Damn that's rough. Appliances in general are pretty shit lately. On the high end theres only like Bosch LG and Samsung. With the 2 Korean ones have all kinds of scandals and recalls. I've sworn off Samsung completely. But even within all brands it's the high end stuff works as advertised and mid and low range stuff kinda sucks or works enough to not be returned.
The one we have is a Bosch and IMO it's the worst. If I had been in charge of replacing our old one I would have chosen something way better.
It's indicator for the cycle being done? A tiny beep that goes off like every 5 minutes or so for maybe an hour. Otherwise, the first person to open the door gets to see the clean dishes indicator light. After that it's anyone's guess. And the wash cycle is extremely quiet (this is actually a nice feature if it weren't for the fact that it's impossible to tell if it's in the middle of a cycle or fully done other than the afore mentioned faint intermittent beep).
Edit: oh, and all of the dishes are basically soaked when you open the thing. Especially if it's been done for a while and everything has cooled down. Happen to have a light bowl in the top shelf that got flipped during the wash cycle? Now you have a bowl of dishwater that will dump out onto everything below it unless your real careful taking it out. Every glass has a tiny bowl of water in the divit in their bottom. And all the silverware is covered in water droplets that will spray everywhere as you attempt to put them away.
The warm air thingie is pointless, it wouldn't dry anything quicker. Instead, they simply open the door and it airs it out.
I hang my dishes outside on the laundry rack
I have a light that is underneath projecting onto the floor that tells me the status of the washing.
Are you from the future?
Yes :) https://youtu.be/QUeQITct9aw
I have big window in mine
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I have to conjecture this didn't sell very well.
my counter top dishwasher has a window, and i love watching that thing while I cook. It's hypnotic almost https://youtu.be/FpMVsGYbhcc?t=258
My countertop dishwasher has a window. Not much to see tbh, it's interesting to watch what it does the first time and then it gets old.