My answer also. There are forks that hide till I’ve started the cycle - forks is sneaky!!
I can’t imagine why one would remove items before the cycle ends.
I voted no, but sometimes I start the dishwasher, turn around to walk away and spy a spatula that should be washed. Then, and only then, do I immediately pop it open again to add the utensil. Otherwise, I wait.
Certain glasses are even sneakier. They run away and hide in various other rooms of the house in a desperate attempt to avoid the dishwasher. Occasionally they pair up with a delinquent plate and run away together. Sometimes I find them in time, sometimes not.
That explains the Hiss mine makes
No. If I catch a spoon or something that somehow missed getting loaded with the rest of the dirty dishes I’ll simply set it in the sink to wait for the next time the dishwasher is ready for dirty dishes.
The only time I’ll open it during a cycle if if there’s something I absolutely need in there and can’t wait for the cycle to end. But that’s exceedingly rare.
Somewhat related to some of the responses, I find that newer dishwashers do not have any accessible controls or visual status lights once the door is shut. Everything is on the top edge of the door panel and obscured by the counter when the door is shut. That fact, combined with how quietly they run, means that one is really not sure if it is running or not so opening mid-cycle can be unintended.
I hate this. There’s actually a cheaper model of our dishwasher with controls on the front, and i would have been much happier with that. But…supply chain problems. That one was on order, and no one knew when it might arrive. The more expensive one was available in two weeks. And we were sick of doing dishes.
Yep. I can not for the life of me understand the logic of this design decision. How is hiding the controls and status lights in any way an improvement for consumers?
My last hidden-control dishwasher (Miele) had a rather large bright red light on the top face of the door. With the door closed you couldn’t see the face of the light, but you could sure see the glow. If it was on steady, the dishwasher was running. If it was flashing, the cycle was done but it was still real hot in there. When it was not flashing, the dishes were done & cool enough to handle.
Doesn’t sound like too difficult a thing for other makers to do. But apparently they don’t.
Is rarely do, but maybe once every twenty washes or so I want to get just one more thing in there or, like more recently, want to get a cooking utensil out that I need to use to cook with at that moment that I had forgotten was in the dishwasher.
I generally do it within the first five or ten minutes of starting the cycle. Not much is going on then anyway. Midway through? I’ll just hand wash whatever it is I forgot to put in.
Oh, I voted “yes,” despite the infrequency.
My dishwasher is a Bosch, built-in with no visible controls and it projects a red dot onto the floor when it is running
If it’s in the drying stage and I need something that’s in there, I might open it up. That maybe happens once every 2 or 3 years.
Likewise.
We have a temperamental Frigidaire which has a tendency to not go through a complete cycle if the contents of the bottom rack aren’t just so. About once a month, we have to open it to rearrange the contents down there and restart.
Yeah, this is ours. I’ve never found it a problem. And I don’t open mid-cycle. Anything left out can go in the next load. It’s not like that’s going to be weeks.
Mine, too. It seems like a really stupid interface. I’d much rather it display on its huge front panel what it was doing in there. (And ideally, where it is in the cycle, not just “on” or “off”.) But it’s minimally adequate.
As mine is integrated into the kitchen there is no panel to see, the washing machine on the other hand (also a bosch) does project the cycle status and time remaining onto the floor, very useful.
You mean you’ve covered the front of the machine with paneling that matches the cabinets?
If it had a top portion that had controls and a small display, you could still have covered the rest of it.
Anyway, our dishwasher is still new enough that we think about it. And it holds a lot of dishes and gets them clean. So, good enough. But i hate the interface. I hate that all the controls are hidden. I hate that it only tells me “on” or “off”. I hate that it wants to be explicitly turned off between uses, and that if you don’t, it’s easy to accidently trigger a cycle. And i hate hate hate that there isn’t a way to cancel that cycle and drain the machine. (Or maybe i should look online to make sure there isn’t some hidden way to do that. But every other dishwasher I’ve owned had a clearly marked “cancel/drain” button.)
Overall, “it gets lots of dishes clean” makes it a win. But I’ve never before been this annoyed by a dishwasher that does its primary job just fine.
yes, that’s the way it is often done in UK kitchens for many appliances.
Because the integrated option is so common in the UK and Europe such appliances are designed with that in mind so the controls are often on the top edge of the door. Our is one of these, can’t recall which.
That’s often done in high-end American kitchens, too. I’ve been in kitchens where i had to guess which door is the fridge. It’s not a style i care for. I want to know what function is where, form should reflect function, not hide it, IMHO.
Independently, I strongly prefer easy access to the controls.
I end up opening it to add an item. Glasses holy cow with my kids and their kids here every day all my glasses are dirty and randomly left in quite creative places.
I also open if I need an item that I am out of. Last night I wanted pie. I worked hard baking those pies, and I finally was at a time and state of non TG overfill that I could have PIE. Yes we had a huge multi main course meal that I cooked all of. I wanted PIE. My dishwasher was stuffed and I had turned it on about 5 min. prior. I had no FORKS. I wanted pie very much, but not enough to eat pumpkin pie/w whipped cream with my hands. I opened the dishwasher for a fork. I hand PIE. All was well.