Dishwasher tip I learned

amynicole21 wrote: When we got our new dishwasher installed (Yay!) the guy gave us a handy tip that I thought I would pass along. If it takes a few minutes for the hot water to get going in your kitchen faucet, then your dishwasher isn't using hot water when you first start it up either since they use the same water source. You should run the faucet until the hot water starts flowing, then start the dishwasher. This way you are getting the full sanitizing water from the start

mom2my2cuties replied: Oh I never thought about that! Thanks for that tip Amy!!!! I am all for SUPER sanitized and clean dishes

MoonMama replied: Hey that's a wonderful tip it never would have acured (sp) to me. Thanks so much for sharing it.

booey2 replied: Glad to know I am not the only one doing this. It helps a lot.

Terri

Kaitlin'smom replied: I noticed that once, after just running it before bed and not right after I loaded it. they were much cleaner if I run it after its loaded, since I am running the water to get and thing off I dont want int he dishwasher, than if I wait.

coasterqueen replied: Oh wow that's very good to know. Wish I would have known that when I was sanatizing all those bottles for the girls for daycare.

C&K*s Mommie replied: Thanks for that tip! Sometimes I delay start the dishwasher for nighttime so it will not make the house hotter than needed. But when I manually start it, I will use that tip. We have a hot start feature on our dishwasher, I wonder now if it really starts "hot". Since it takes about 10-15 seconds for the hot-hot water to come out of the tap.

booey2 replied:
It may start hot but not as hot as you think it would. It will use more electricity because it takes longer to heat up the water- or so I was told.

Terri

C&K*s Mommie replied: Thanks Terri! I now know two good tips regarding the dishwasher.

TheOaf66 replied: good to know now all we need is a dishwasher

mom2my2cuties replied:
Didn't you know - That is your job

redchief replied: For the night delay folks, have no fear, the water should be fine. All dishwashers heat the incoming water to a degree. More expensive models generally have more powerful and efficient elements, and so can heat the water to sanitizing temperature from luke warm (this on initial rinse anyway, so by the time the wash cycle starts, most dishwashers have full hot water coming in). Having hot-hot water at the faucet doesn't hurt though!

C&K*s Mommie replied:

That is a third "did not know" thing for today. Thanks Ed!

holley79 replied: My dad mentioned this to me a while back. TFS.