How long does your dishwasher take?

[dj-gabriele]

If you want an even faster machine seek for the SMEG STP374 (built-in) or LP364X (free standing). That is not a commercial machine but a "stronger" and more powerful domestic model.
It can do a complete pots&pans cycle in only 16 minutes if used with three-phase electric supply! And still manages A++ energy class!
I definitely want one

 

[rolls_rapide]

My circa 2003 Bosch takes around 2hrs 10mins to complete an "Auto Superwash". The machine is connected to hot water, but the water is usually cool as it is at the furthest end of the plumbing.

I don't usually use the other programmes; I like decent rinses between washing and drying. Auto Superwash has a mainwash, 2 intermediate rinses, a final rinse and drying as standard. Automatic pre-wash might kick in if the computer says so, according to soiling.

 

[optima]

Dishwasher times

I have had my fully integrated Indesit DI450 9 Place Dishwasher since 2006 & it has never let me down. It has always washed great. Normal wash time is 1:33 but i tend to use the rapid & dry programme that will wash & dry the load in only 44 minutes.

 

[ultramatic52]

Electrolux Wave Touch Dishwasher

Mine takes about 2:30 hrs or a little bit less. It depends on the water temperature on each fill.

 

[foraloysius]

Miele high end machine

Well, sort of. It's a Miele, but a BOL one. I bought it for 600 euros.

Louie,

Do you have a picture of your Elux dishwasher?

 

[jerrod6]

I have a 2006 Miele G2830. It was actually sold in Germany in 2004 so I guess I am using 10 year old DW technology. The machine has a lot of cycles but I tend to use 4 the most. Listed in order of use:

Water Saver: This cleans my every day soil and is a wash, two rinses, and dry. It takes about 1 hour 36 minutes. It does not use a soil sensor but it does sense the size of the load and adjusts the amount of water taken in each fill. I wash dishes every other day and I don’t pre rinse and this cycle cleans it all very well.

Sensor Wash: I use this for more heavily soiled loads. This uses the soil sensor, and load size sensor so the time for this varies. The prewash, main wash and first rinse time varies and it may add another rinse before doing the final rinse followed by dry. The time for cycles is between 1 hour 36 minutes and 2 hours 12 minutes. Water temps are between 104F and 150F for the wash depending on soil amount and type and the last rinse is always at 150F.

Cheese: This is for burned on cheese mainly on plates and the baking casserole. This consists of a longer heated prewash, a 170F main wash followed by 2 rinses and dry. Times are between 2 hours 19 minutes and 2 hours 27 minutes depending on incoming water temperature.

Quick wash: I use this for lightly soiled glasses, plates, and small loads. Main wash two rinses. Takes 23 minutes.

 

[bob]

YOU ALL ARE LUCKY

I have a new Kenmore, and it runs for over three (3) hours, and we essentially wash our dishes and silverware before they go in the machine. We prewash because the dishwasher doesn't do a good job of cleaning.

I cannot believe this piece of junk is "energy efficient" when it runs for 3 hours and 10 minutes.

Last Kenmore appliance for me.

 

[bob]

UPDATE TO MY NOTE ABOVE

I translated my 3 hour washtime into MONEY ($), and we are not going to use our dishwasher until the industry fixes this INSANITY. These dishwashers have the SMARTWASH FUNCTION, yet it is the dumbest thing that I could have ever envisioned.

Any dishwasher that runs 90-180 minutes is NOT your friend. I had a three (3) hour runtime with clean dishes. Are these companies in collusion with the utilities?

Think about this. Dishwashers never took so long. Commercial dishwashers, today, wash the dishes in 2-4 minutes. I remember working for a restaurant when I was a kid, and one of my duties was, you guessed it, washing the dishes. Back then it took maybe 10 minutes. Some of today's smaller machines might draw 4-6 times the electricity, but they finish in as little as two minutes. The focus on these machines is sanitation (#1) and clean (#2), but believe me when I say they do a good job of getting the dishes clean.

There has to be a much happier medium than these clowns (the manufacturing companies) are currently producing. Personally, and in the sake of GREEN, the cost to run these junk machines has doubled or quadrupled and YOU are the benefactor.

As for me and my wife, we just purchased a dish rack and will be using more high-end paper plates.

Please don't be a dupe. Don't worry about the time. Worry about the much higher cost in electricity that these "feel good" names (smart wash) are costing you. You will be surprised if you take the time I did in looking at this.

Leaving your coffee pot on after brewing is another major no-no. My darling, my dearest, now brews her coffee, turns off the pot, and pours it into our $24.95 EMSA 19 hour carafe from Amazon.

 

[mich]

I hope you realize..

On these newer Dishwashers that take longer to wash dishes, The Water Pump uses significantly less power & energy to operate, as well as much less water (to fill up with). And Since there's less water, there is less water for the heating element to heat up, plus, there's even less water being drawn from your Hot Water heater, meaning even less of an electric bill. 

 

They do take more time (because there washing one rack at a time) but, I can attest, they are saving money. Probably about 10-20 cents worth a load, vs previous machines. 

 

[washer111]

Also Hope You Realise...

Comparing consumer to residential machines is an Apple - Oranges case. Commercial dish-machines DO NOT wash the dishes. They "wash" the dishes - all the dishes are pre-rinsed, to save detergent, and to prevent water soiling. Those machines exist to sanitise dishes

I agree with the comments made about water/pump sizes above - considering each fill on a machine now uses 1/2 or even just a 1/4 of traditional levels, pumps are at least 50% smaller, more so for conversational measures with low fills/alternating wash-arms.
Less water needs a smaller pump, smaller heater to work (again, where a 700w heater was inadequate with large fills, it is now very adequate!). But less water needs more time to wash effectively, as there is less volume, but more scrubbing taking place.

And unless you re-use your grey-water to wash dishes, or refuse to use enough water to wash properly (which is far more than ANY machine will EVER use), then you aren't doing your dishes properly.
Hand-Washing Requires:
~ Pre-Scraping, with water if using a disposer. Then Pre-Rinsing
~ Fill the sink with Hot water + detergent. Several water changes throughout washing to ensure the water remains clean
~ Thorough rinsing of ALL articles, to prevent ingestion of detergents and harsh chemicals
~ Then a thorough cleaning of pots/pans - maybe overnight soaking, and extra filth waiting when you arise again
~ Clean sink after use

This involves lots of water. The dishwasher saves all that water and extra effort AND the incredible wastage of Paper/Plastic plates.

If you're concerned about cycle times, get a vintage machine. There are plenty of them around and most can be had for a good price, plus some minor maitenance (cleaning, descaling). Sell the dishwasher to someone who wants it, for a good price. Easy.

 

[logixx]

This is from our latest consumer magazine's dishwasher test. It gives power, water and time consumption values for the tested cycles (Eco, Sensor and a fast cycle for capable of washing a full load).

 

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bosch</span>

Eco: 3:19 hrs. - 0.69 kWh

Eco + Speed Perfect: 1:07 hrs. - 1.36 kWh

 

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Miele</span>

Eco: 3:19 hrs. - 0.81 kWh

Eco + Turbo: 1:31 hrs. - 1.25 kWh

 

[volsboy1]

Mich they might save you money on heating the water or using water.BUT these new machines don't last like the old ones not even

close.My Brothers Whirlpool runs for 5 hours this just runs the machines in the ground.When you add it up replacing a dishwasher every 4 years instead of 15+ years like

they used to.I think in the long run it costs more because, more of them are going to the dump.I am talking about normal price

dishwasher's Miele is a different story.I have a K-Aid KDS-21 and a KDS-20 and the normal wash cleans great on them and

is done in less than a hour.

 

[jerrod6]

I have an older machine from the mid 2000 so I am not sure it’s times matter that much anymore in today’s energy conservation environment.
I have it connected to hot water, but the heater is on the other side of the house with insulated pipes running through an unheated basement, so the times decrease in the summer and increase in the winter.

There are no times given in my manual, and the cycle times indicated on the control panel display, change to match the last time that cycle was running because time to heat the water is included in the displayed estimate but here is what I see from the display using cooler winter temperature hot water. I took the temps from the Aussie manual so they may approximate.

For 65c or about 150F in the USA.

Heavy soil 2 hours 15 minutes. 4 water changes

Sensor or automatic which varies temp from 104F to 150F – 1 hour 50 minutes. This cycle has also taken as little as 1 hour 8 minutes based on soil level. 3 to 5 water changes, usually 4 changes

Other cycles:

Pots and Pans at 170F – 2 hours 3 minutes 4 water changes

Cheese at 170F – 2 hours 27 minutes, 4 water changes

Water save(my current daily use) at 130F 1 hour 32 minutes, 3 water changes

Normal at max of 130F (which I don’t use because it always takes more water than any other cycle on the machine) 2 hours 12 minutes 5 water changes.

There are other cycles on the machine but these are the ones I use the most except for the one named Normal which has been used 4 times since I had the machine because it takes too long and uses too much water while other cycles clean just as well, are faster, and use less water – but may use higher water temps.

 

[mark_wpduet]

My Whirlpool tall tub

isn't BOL, but it's certainly far from TOL. It's from 2005, so it's over 9 yrs old now.

I always use pots & pans because it rinses twice instead of once. I use hi-temp wash, no heated dry, and it's about 90 minutes.......I think normal wash is 70 minutes with no heated dry. It also has light wash and rinse only but I've never used those so I dunno. I never use heated dry because the dishes are almost dry if I open the machine right away after it's done and let them dry for about 30 min's.

 

[super32]

Only a Bosch here

About 2-1/2 to 3hrs on the auto cycle depending on soil level and time of year. It cleans very well, but usually turn it on and go on to something else.

 

[hoover1100]

My 12 year old Hotpoint DWF31

Takes 90s mins to complete a normal wash.

Btw Robliverpool the dishwasher you have pictured at the top of the thread is at least 14 years old, as the model I have replaced this in late 2000/2001. It could be up to 17 years old as they were introduced around 1997.

Matt

 

[jeffg]

"Are these companies in collusion with the utilities?"

Short answer to that question is yes. E.g. General Electric not only makes appliances, they make many of the parts for power plants (especially nuclear) that provide the energy to run these appliances. Many years ago they (or was it Westinghouse, I forget, another party to the above scam) were successfully sued over this issue.

Our family had a DW, but it saw use only in overflow situations (parties etc). The concept of waiting even one hour for clean dishes was ridiculous to us, when manual cleanup (including drying/putting them away) took all of 10-15 minutes. 3+ hours would have been considered something well beyond ridiculous.

 

[norgeway]

My Custom 21 Kitchenaid

Takes maybe an hour on pots and pans..less or light loads, yeah its old and not quiet..BUT my dishes are clean..baked on casseroles too,... and dry when you take them out!!

 

[rolls_rapide]

As a further test, I have been using the normal "Autowash" programme, with Fairy Platinum. Duration was about 2 hours, but consistently with two intermediate rinses between the wash phase and final rinse. Always sounded lethargic in washing.

Using a cheaper store brand tablet created far fewer suds, and only one intermediate rinse. It managed to to wash a similar load, virtually identical actually, in 1hr 40 mins.

 

[polkanut]

<span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The normal cycle on our 12 year old Whirlpool Gold takes about 90 minutes.</span>

 

[countryguy]

I just got a new Miele dishwasher and the normal cycle takes 2 hours 23 minutes. It was surprising to me but the Economy cycle takes longer at 2 hours 43 minutes supposedly because it uses less water and the water is not heated as much.

Gary

 

[mich]

About

Two Hours, give or take