My wife only said “Don’t you dare”. And now i’m confused. The words imply a dare, her tone sounded like a threat
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.
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
Obligatory Technology Connections
he left out cleaning the hose that leads to the sink.
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
In proportion to their bodies, yes?
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.
There are good reasons to hide what’s going on inside. Some are simply not prepared: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIKJ6n-vSKt/
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.
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.
The technology connections guy has a video where he puts a window in one to show how it works
And it started leaking.
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!
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.
Leave the door cracked after washing until it dries out.
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.
I can see myself meeting that guy in a bar and both of us complaining about shit for hours and hours
I love the right kind of complainer friends
Now I want an ancient greek drama about dishwasher detergent.
Don’t kink shame.
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.
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.
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
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.
I have a light that is underneath projecting onto the floor that tells me the status of the washing.
this Capitalization is Giving me a Fucking stroke
Your comment made me reread the post and it seems intentional to stress those words
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.
If those capitalized words were in all caps, it wouldn’t read the same way. I agree it’s confusing at first, though.
But why the bizarre spacing on the commas…
Long pauses I would guess
I’ve got it! It’s Shatner’s alt account!
I see the vision but that’s not how you type on the internet.
It looks weird but admittedly, once deciphered, it’s a pretty good way of making you read it in a very specific way.
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.
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
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
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.
