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One thing that you can do that will greatly simplify dishwasher management, is to have two dishwashers. There is one clean dishwasher and one dirty dishwasher.
by jbandela1 4y ago
One thing that you can do that will greatly simplify dishwasher management, is to have two dishwashers.
There is one clean dishwasher and one dirty dishwasher. You take plates from the clean dishwasher, use them, and put them in the dirty dishwasher. Once the clean dishwasher is empty, the dirty dishwasher is run, and then becomes the clean dishwasher, and the empty one now becomes the dirty dishwasher.
There are analogous situations in system design as well.
- thedougd 4y agoI’ve wanted to do this forever but struggle to accept giving up the cabinet space.
- taeric 4y agoHaving a front/back buffer design is interesting to me. I say that as someone that does like the idea of having multiple dishwashers. I don't see myself doing that sort of treatment, though. Building on how I think I'd treat them is closer to a ringbuffer of workers. Would look a lot like the front/back idea in slow use, but I could easily see bursting through to where I have both running at once. And the destination of dishes out is still to the cabinets, for many other reasons.
- askvictor 4y agoThere are a number of designs that have to half-height dishwasher stacked atop each other, so only takes the space of a normal dishwasher, that accomplish exactly this. The only problem is they tend not be as good quality as conventional dishwashers, and you only have half of the usual capacity (which can be worked around in many cases when necessary)
- londons_explore 4y agoSome half height dishwashers are decent. The real trick seems to be to very carefully measure dinner plates - the dishwashers only just fit most plates, and if you put just one plate in that's slightly too large, it blocks the washer jets, and then the whole load comes out dirty and people curse the poor performance of the machine.
- londons_explore 4y agoI did this for a while. It doesn't work as well as you imagine. There will always be some items that are left in the 'clean' dishwasher - eg. that lemon squeezer you only use once a month. Also, with two dishwashers, thats a lot of cutlery/crockery in one or other dishwasher. Sometimes the cupboard is empty. Now every time you want an item, you need to check the cupboard and the dishwasher. You might say, why have a cupboard, simply only store your plates in the dishwasher. But sometimes I have stuff that needs washing but I haven't yet used up all the clean plates... So I need somewhere to empty them out to.
- londons_explore 4y agoI have an improved idea... every cupboard in your house is a dishwasher. The dishwashers are smart, and if they have been opened, they know there might now be something dirty in them, so they will wash overnight that night. It's wasteful of energy because you'll be washing 99 clean plates and one dirty plate, but I think it would lead to a good user experience.
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoSorry if this was meant as a joke, not surely systems engineering doesn't commute with use of 100x the necessary resources?
- nerdponx 4y agoIt's a great example of how pretty much everything we do is done with some kinds of constraints, even when we don't actively think about them.
- ryle-goehausen 4y agohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-self-cleaning-home-was-essentially-floor-ceiling-dishwasher-180964115/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-self-cleanin...
- jameshart 4y ago
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoSurely that's far less efficient than just having removable trays / draws / shelves that you swap between a cupboard and a dishwasher. In the past I envisioned this as being a rack on wheels that rolls into the door but continues on an opposing cupboard door (like a dummy dishwasher, with no internal parts). At which point you put a fresh rack in the dishwasher proper.
- j45 4y agoMaybe it’s a function of dishes per day, but two makes sense from having lots of dishes in a single day, or one for large pots and pans should that be ok in your world.
- hummus_bae 4y ago[dead]
- c22 4y agoThis is how I did my laundry for many years (washing machine and dryer are already separate), but I had to give it up when I started a family.
- count 4y agoThis is the way. Alternatively, you can be SUPER lazy and just let the clean ones rest while you fill up the second dishwasher. Not that I'd ever do something like that.