One of life’s little annoyances. You draw up fresh steaming hot dish water. Put on the gloves and start washing dishes. 20 mins later the dishwasher is tepid. Just as you’re ready to tackle the greasy skillet. Time to add more hot water. You can never get the dishwater very hot again.
The problem seems worse with steel sinks. Cast iron holds the heat a little longer.
A heating strip wrapped along the outside of the sink would help keep the dishwater hot. I’ve seriously considered buying one of these and wrapping my sink. https://goo.gl/images/fqJ9MY
My Uncle used them on his farm to keep the cows water trough from freezing.
The goal is to warm the water a little. It’s not meant to turn cold water hot.
Hard to believe I’m the first to think of this. What happened to American innovation?
The Investors on Shark Tank would love this product.
Except I’d have to prove the concept first. Actually market it and show sales.
Then I’d have Mr Wonderful offering to invest for a percentage of the sales. He’d take my safely built product and get it manufactured in China for half the cost. It would be a POS that electrocuted consumers. Thanks Mr Wonderful.
Truth is. I’m too old and tired to jump into something like this. You’d have to mortgage everything you owned for capital. Borrow from relatives and roll the dice.
Heating strips produce too low a temp to keep the water warm as their design is simply to prevent freezing. Your best bet would be to fill the sink with hot water and them immediately light gasoline soaked logs strategically placed under your kitchen sink. This method will provide you will ample prison time to contemplate design and construction of the sink you desire.
Simple solution: Glue a magnet to an immersion heater (intended to boil a cup of water for tea) and put it on the side of the sink. It would only work on non-SS sinks, but we could come up with a solution, I’m sure.
In case you actually care, I can suggest why this isn’t a product. Quite simply, there aren’t ENOUGH people like you in America, who want to wash dishes in large quantities manually, and demand that the water stay hot while they do.
Personally, were I still hand washing dishes, I would much rather have a sink that constantly circulates the water through a combination filter and heater, so that the sink was always full of hot CLEAN water. Maybe have soap auto-added as well. Of course by the time you take things that far, you are back to having an automatic dishwasher that’s open at the top, with low enough water temp that you can reach in and rub on the dishes.
If you have so many or so dirty dishes that it takes more than 20 minutes to wash them, shouldn’t you change the water out at that point? It seems like you’re going to be dipping them into a soup of old food bits by the time your water gets cold. “20 minutes” is closer to ‘clean the kitchen’ time than ‘do the dishes’ time for me.
I’ve always been a slow dish washer. A bit OCD. I feel the need to wipe and wipe and wipe each item repeatedly.
Doesn’t seem right to run the dishwasher for just two people. It would be half empty.
It takes maybe 25 mins to wash dishes. Sometimes less.
I was taught to NEVER EVER wash greasy items first. Like a skillet. That ruins the dishwater and the glasses will have a film on them. Glasses are washed first, then silverware, then plates etc.
