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but it's obvious if it's dirty or clean dishes in the dishwasher, as long as you open the door and look in. Okay, let's go with that: why open the door when a
by mikestew 5y ago
but it's obvious if it's dirty or clean dishes in the dishwasher, as long as you open the door and look in.
Okay, let's go with that: why open the door when a $0.50 magnet can be glanced at, along with saving (what is probably a trivial amount of) wear-and-tear on the door mechanism? It's a dishwasher, not a box full of Schrödinger felines: we're allowed to cheat and put the current state on the outside of the box.
- sokoloff 5y agoHow is the indicated state maintained accurately? My experience is that clean-dirty magnets are quite prone to displaying a stale state frequently enough to not be reliable (which led directly to the suggestion).
- mikestew 5y agoHaving a household of nothing but adults probably helps immensely. But the procedure is: flip the magnet when starting the dishwasher. Flip it back when the dishwasher is emptied. However, I can see how young kids in the house, or just plain lazy roommates, could make this less optimal.
- capableweb 5y agoI guess in general I tend to ask myself "why do X?" rather than "why not do Y?" and if there isn't enough benefit to doing X, I just work with what's there. Premature optimization and all that yada yada :)