I never use the heat option. It’s a ‘Funny Smell Generator’.
Or, in our Bosch it was the “melt the plastic dishes” setting. We didn’t use it much after that, and were sure to put anything plastic on the upper racks if we did.
My Bosch dishwasher has a drying cycle and it does it well. I am still mystified how it does it (I see no heating element) (the link below explains it) but everything is dry when I remove the dishes.
Here’s their page on it and they note in big letters that it dries plastics and things can be uncomfortably hot if you empty as soon as the cycle ends:
I will add that, by default, the drying process is turned off. I need to press a button every time I run a cycle if I want the drying to happen. No biggie but I kinda wish I could set that default.
Oh, interesting. I have the same model. I should try turning on the drying cycle!
Do you happen to know if there’s a way to cancel/drain if i start a cycle by mistake?
I’ve never tried. I assume the choice is turn it off and on again to clear the current cycle and start over. If you don’t it will just continue. Not sure if you can turn on the drying thing mid-cycle since it adds it to the end of the process. Worth a try, for science.
I don’t have any need to turn on the drying cycle after i start the machine. But i did once start it by mistake, and i couldn’t fit the life of me figure out how to cancel the cycle and drain it – a function that’s been a clearly labeled button on every other dishwasher I’ve ever owned. After we had water sitting in the bottom for several hours, i gave up and let it finish the (incredibly long) cleaning cycle with no soap and about 4 dishes.
This WikiHow article suggests that just opening the door during a cycle will make the water drain (it may take a minute or more). Pressing and holding the START button for three seconds will cancel the cycle entirely.
I’ve never tried it so grain of salt and all that.
I checked the manual for my unit and it says:
Terminating the wash cycle (Reset) Terminating the wash cycle
- Press and hold Start button for approximately 3 seconds until the display reads 0:01;
- Wait about 1 minute while the dishwasher drains.
- Press On/Off button (. You may now power the dishwasher back on and begin a new cycle if desired.
Of course, your unit may work differently (although a manufacturer usually standardizes these things on their product line but you never know).
Am I reading that article correctly? That a Bosch dishwasher will not stop its cycle when you open the door? That seems … odd.
^They should name that particular model “Maddie”.
I saw the same thing. I can say mine stops.
I am surprised that there would be some that keep going. Not sure what happened there.
I was wondering if WikiHow was the DIY website that has been notoriously unreliable for me, but it’s eHow that I was thinking of. Seems WikiHow is fairly well-regarded, so I don’t know.
I’d think it is dishwasher-101 that the washer stops if the door is opened. I have never seen one that doesn’t. I can only assume that was bad writing. That said, never say never. Maybe there are some. That would surprise me though.
Is there a transcription or synopsis or something? I don’t have the time or interest to sit through 48 minutes of some dorky guy talking about detergent when he could sum it up in a couple of paragraphs of exposition and a concluding paragraph.
Most of the dishwashers I’ve had will interrupt the cycle when you open the door and re-start it once you shut the door, the caveat being that you do it quickly. If I leave the door open too long, it will then end the cycle. I’ve had no issues popping in a dish that I wanted to add at the last moment.
For the record, I still haven’t gotten that dishwasher.
With the Bosch, if you open it after starting it, you have to push the Start button again. If you don’t, it just beeps.
My Kitchenaid is the same way: Opening the door will stop it, but you have to hit Start/Resume and close it to continue, otherwise you get blinking lights and possibly beeping (can’t remember.)
Which, as we all know, is the first step on the path to Appliance Anarchy.
Or, at the very least, kitchen cacophony.