| ▲ | Skwid 4 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
Those I've used in the UK aren't so bad, they're cold fill only with a heating element in the sump. It takes maybe 15 minutes to fill and get up to temperature at the start of a shift, after that each cycle is ~2 minutes. The hot water is recirculated during the wash, the rinse uses fresh water from the tap with the excess going out an overflow. A little sump water gets replaced every cycle, but enough stays that it's back up to temperature before you've emptied and refilled it. There's also a small peristaltic pump to top up the detergent directly from the bottle. Not much benefit in a home setting unless you fancy having it hot and ready 24/7 though. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | swiftcoder 4 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
They also have the clever system of standardised, removable baskets. Need to increase dishwashing throughput? yank the clean basket, line them up on the counter to dry, and run a new basket through This is probably the one trick consumer dishwashers should emulate | |||||||||||||||||
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