Following the thread "Dish-Drawer Performance, Part 2," (Link below), I got some lovely comments (not naming names!) suggesting that the DD was under-loaded, and that 114 minutes was unreasonable, given some newer dishwashers can do the same in under 1 hour.
In response to: "But all in all you are using a lot of water and electricity and time to wash little loads that would only 1/4 fill one of my WPs or KA DWs"
Well, here is my attempt to be more frugal. By the way, DD uses just 134KW/h per year when using Normal Eco, which wouldn't be much more with Normal, especially when connected to Solar heated water!!! Remember also that this machine uses just 6.7L/1.77 US Gal in all cycles (except rinse), so you don't feel so guilty, especially when compared to BOL Asko's, which use around 15-18L of water to wash
Below, you see a picture of the dish-drawer, this time loaded with dinner plates where they normally go, but with small bowls and toast plates on the angled left rack. This allows around 2-3 days worth of general bowl/toast plate use, and 2 days worth of dinner plates on the right (3-4 people in house, 8 dinner plates). This means, we can use the DishDrawer (top or bottom) just once every 2 days! So, on average that would be 182.5 days per year, saving (roughly) 1222.75L/323 US Gal per year, if we used the dish-drawer every day.
Another comment stated, "my dishwasher is able to shift such dirt in the quick 45 minutes 38°C cycle."
Here's my response to that. See the photo below:
*** Note that the bowl above the cutlery basket had around 4-5 bits of oat's nibble in it, because of it's placement above the cutlery basket, the other 2 bowls came spotlessly clean! I moved that dirty bowl to the bottom drawer, which was being used at the time to clean some pots and pans.
I used the "Fast" cycle, which is 49 minutes, and uses a temp of around 45ºC/120ºF to wash. Main-wash is around 20 minutes, has a fast post wash rinse, then a longer, hotter final rinse.
See the results below
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?40287_10
In response to: "But all in all you are using a lot of water and electricity and time to wash little loads that would only 1/4 fill one of my WPs or KA DWs"
Well, here is my attempt to be more frugal. By the way, DD uses just 134KW/h per year when using Normal Eco, which wouldn't be much more with Normal, especially when connected to Solar heated water!!! Remember also that this machine uses just 6.7L/1.77 US Gal in all cycles (except rinse), so you don't feel so guilty, especially when compared to BOL Asko's, which use around 15-18L of water to wash
Below, you see a picture of the dish-drawer, this time loaded with dinner plates where they normally go, but with small bowls and toast plates on the angled left rack. This allows around 2-3 days worth of general bowl/toast plate use, and 2 days worth of dinner plates on the right (3-4 people in house, 8 dinner plates). This means, we can use the DishDrawer (top or bottom) just once every 2 days! So, on average that would be 182.5 days per year, saving (roughly) 1222.75L/323 US Gal per year, if we used the dish-drawer every day.
Another comment stated, "my dishwasher is able to shift such dirt in the quick 45 minutes 38°C cycle."
Here's my response to that. See the photo below:
*** Note that the bowl above the cutlery basket had around 4-5 bits of oat's nibble in it, because of it's placement above the cutlery basket, the other 2 bowls came spotlessly clean! I moved that dirty bowl to the bottom drawer, which was being used at the time to clean some pots and pans.
I used the "Fast" cycle, which is 49 minutes, and uses a temp of around 45ºC/120ºF to wash. Main-wash is around 20 minutes, has a fast post wash rinse, then a longer, hotter final rinse.
See the results below
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?40287_10
