Submitted 10 months ago by bees@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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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 thoss 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
Why tho’? Apart from curiosity, what do you need to see? How will you utilize the information?
I’m 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
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.
I have a light that is underneath projecting onto the floor that tells me the status of the washing.
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. 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.
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 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.
There are good reasons to hide what’s going on inside. Some are simply not prepared: www.instagram.com/reel/DIKJ6n-vSKt/
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.
Obligatory Technology Connections
he left out cleaning the hose that leads to the sink.
This is oddly rhythmical/musical.
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
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.
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
VERBOTEN
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
Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?
The dishes want some privacy in their bath.
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.
The reason you dont is because it would probably disturb people to see their dishes slamming into each other.
Plus, it’s not polite for company to see all my dildos flailing around in the water.
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.
this Capitalization is Giving me a Fucking stroke
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.”
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.
But why the bizarre spacing on the commas…
My washer and dryer have tinted windows. I have no idea why. I’m guessing their chief designer drives a heavily modded Scion though.
W A D N R S S ?
I have big window in mine
They don’t want you to know about the dish gnomes forced to work in tight spaces under terrible conditions.
This is praxis
You don’t replace your dish gnome cartridge every 3 years? I was told it was a feature. They get tired.
First, you have to remove the dead gnomes. Straight to the compost heap, not in the regular garbage! Cause nature and stuff …
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.
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.
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.
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.
INB4 KDTM804ESS.
I have to conjecture this didn’t sell very well.
Here you go.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_W3aR15B44&pp=0gcJCdgAo7Vq…
(Skip ahead to about 8:30 once he gets it built)
redlemace@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My wife only said “Don’t you dare”. And now i’m confused. The words imply a dare, her tone sounded like a threat