Do you use heated dry on your dishwasher?

[gelaundry4ever]

to askolover

Have you tried using a rinse aid?

 

[appnut]

Don't be absurd Jerome, of course he's been using rinse aid!!

 

[gelaundry4ever]

rinse aid

It's good to know he's been using rinse aid. Sometimes no matter what you do, it's not enough to keep plastics dry.

 

[agiflow]

I hardly ever used the heated dry on my Whirlpool portable. The final rinse temp I believe was always 145 degrees because I always used hi-temp wash when ever I ran a load. My current GE portable has no heat dry in the thing. Though it is nice being able to put plastic wherever and not worrying about it getting melted. Drying with this machine is so-so. Rinse aid is definitely a big help.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

I hardly ever used the heated dry on my Whirlpool portable. The final rinse temp I believe was always 145 degrees because I always used hi-temp wash when ever I ran a load. My current GE portable has no heat dry in the thing. Though it is nice being able to put plastic wherever and not worrying about it getting melted. Drying with this machine is so-so. Rinse aid is definitely a big help.

I prefer Finish products over Cascade, especially in my last apartment. I prefer heat dry in conjunction with rinse aid and matching detergent.

 

[wholelottared]

I have no idea what i'm using lol. Zeolith model dishwasher, Auto program, intensive dry turned on, EfficientDry turned on.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

Don't be absurd Jerome, of course he's been using rinse aid!!

Good!

 

[neptunebob]

It helps to open the door if the machine is still warm and let the dishes dry. I have the Bosch 100 series premium. John is right in that I should have bought the KitchenAid but the KA had too "funky" and I liked the styling of this one better. It will sometimes leave wet dishes, even with a rinse agent. If you can catch it just as finished and open the door, that helps dry everything. I like the way the Bosch cleans always, and it is quiet but the drying is kind of a disappointment, even the crappy D&M Kenmores my parents bought every 3 years were dryer than this one. They made the dishes much hotter too.

 

[vacerator]

I use the anti bacterial cycle with added heat. I think the beginning of the dry time is heated. GE profile 2011 4 cycle with steam. Heated dry is an option button. Some people hang a towel inside the door to dry the dishes better.

 

[maytaga806]

Yes. Every cycle. It’s a 20 minute dry cycle and the dishes are bone dry afterwards, if I don’t use it the dishes won’t dry easily and there’s spots. This is with my 2006 Powerclean. Hi temp scour is always used so that it does two rinses, without using that option it’ll only do one rinse cause it’s an energy star model, plus the extra heat assists in the overall cleaning process as I don’t pre rinse anything at all, so I hardly ever do use anything less than normal hi temp heated dry.

 

[maytaga806]

Also I forgot to mention that lately when I have plastics in the load, I open the door at the end of the heated dry and drape a thick kitchen towel over the interior of the door and close the door and it’s absorbs so much moisture, standing water on cups and whatnot and removes the water off the plastics if left for a few hours. I never unload it until the next business day…I run it and forget about it until I run out of dishes

 

[appledude1]

This is a question that has been floating around in my head for quite a while now. I ask this because of potential energy saving concerns.

Personally, I've been an advocate of heated dry for as long as I can remember. It significantly cuts down on the time I need to towel-dry the clean dishes.

At my old house, our first dishwasher, which was a Kenmore (GE), had a drying cycle labeled as "Plate Warmer (Heated Dry)". That DW got the dishes bone-dry, even without rinse aid.

Later on after 10 years, the Kenmore broke down, and we eventually replaced it with a Samsung that had a stainless steel interior. Initially, its heated drying performance was poor, (it left plastic items wet) but after adding rinse aid, it dried the dishes a lot better. As I recall, there was no way to turn off heated dry.

Where I'm at now, I have a Frigidaire, which has three different drying settings: air, heat and "Sahara Dry." Heat works very well, but Sahara Dry makes everything nearly dry, particularly pots, pans and certain plastic items. However, Frigidaire states that the performance of Sahara Dry will be improved by using the hi-temp option (for increased wash performance), or even better, sanitize rinse. This in turn uses more energy, though.

One day, out of curiosity, I turned off heated dry, and ran the DW with a Finish Powerball Quantum tab, along with Jet-Dry rinse aid. When I cracked the door open at the end of the cycle and waited some time, some of the dishes were still wet, particularly some silverware and plastics. So I ended up going back to heated dry.

So, fellow members, do you use heated dry on your dishwasher, or do you do without and let your dishes air dry? Can you tell the difference?

YES, I love it - it makes me feel that the dishes are so much more sanitary than letting them air dry -

 

[vacerator]

With my first dishwasher in 1989, a base model Maytag belt drive, it had fan drying with or without heat.