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 dishes want some privacy in their bath.
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.
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
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).
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.
we went to a farm
Did they slice a cow in twain lengthwise?
No, but they have that at a museum in town!
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.
Yeah, they put a lid on the side of the cow and can reach in and grab a handful of stomach sludge.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?
when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?
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.
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.
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
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.
I have big window in mine
why do They capitalize seemingly random Words in each Sentence?
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.
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.
I think they were just emphasizing what they found important, like cummings. To each their own.
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.
Functional illiteracy
Brainrot
I guess it’s a stylistic choice to express emphasis instead of using italics or bold text.
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
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
