Whose turn to dry the dishes?

But you've still gotta wash'em. If you've room in your kitchen to park this, why not a proper dish-washer, that'll do the whole job?

Dish dryers are even more useless than dishwashers. For cryin' out loud, you just fill up a tub with soapy warm water, wash the dishes by hand and put 'em in the rack to dry. Now clothes washers, that's another story. Those are necessary!

waste of space and money...and how does it allow longer use ?

For cryin' out loud, you just fill up a tub with soapy warm water, wash the dishes by hand and put 'em in the rack to dry.

Twenty minutes or so spent doing something a machine can do better. A waste of time, Sarge!

Life ain't long enough to waste it washing dishes - or arguing about who should dry them. Let the machine do it.

Actually, dishwasher or dish-dryer, both increase heat and humidity in the house. So when using this gimmick in summer, it is necessary to use the air conditioner more often to remove the humidity and the hot air created by this device. So, the efficiency goes down the drain.

Then again, you could just open a couple of windows.

What? It'll dry my paper plates in only a fraction of the time? I needs me one of doze!

Cleo, sometimes in summer, also outside it is hot and humid. Then opening a window will not help.

electric -

sometimes in summer, also outside it is hot and humid

Yup, and that's one time I do not want to be standing at the kitchen sink, up to my elbows in hot soapy water! :-)

(only sometimes...?)

Or you can switch it on a night, when there's no one in the kitchen. Let the machines do what the machines do best. The dishwasher uses water far hotter than I could bear to stick my hands in, uses less water than your average human dishwasher and doesn't leave soapy suds on the crockery. I think a dishwasher machine is quite eco-friendly.

And even if you prove to me that it isn't, there's no way I'm giving mine up - it's cleo-friendly!

Man, think of what it could do for my socks and skivvies. Then I could dry my paper plates after that :-(

My wife has recently departed for a month long trip back to Japan. Since her departure I have discovered a quirk of nature. If you put the dirty dishes in the sink at night they are still there in the morning! Bloody amazing. Never happened when she was here. She comes from Kyushu where I am sure they practise some form of black magic(meet the mother in law and you will understand). So I checked out the kitchen and pulled every handle until Hey Presto! I came across a device similar to that pictured above although a lot bigger. So I put all the dishes in it and closed it up. But the funny thing was the next day not only were they still there but they were dirty! There is something she does, some little mantra or spell she invokes that cleans them and magically moves them into the cupboard. I'm working on it. So these items are useless unless you know the magic words.

Fortunately I am very good at budgets and have calculated how many meals I can have with the remaining plates - including those ones she told me never to touch - and can last until next Sunday if I use the cutlery we brought in Bangkok many years ago. After that I guess I will just have to have takeaways and buy extra fly spray.

@simondb - How could you let her go without invoking the copy wife function?

do this instead: pile all your dirty dishes in the sink...when it overflows, fill the sink with water and jello (any flavor will work) and put 2 pot covers on top...let it harden over night and in the morning pick up the entire blob using the handles from the pot covers, and throw it away...then buy new dishes

Stirfry, I have developed a similar system. After I have cooked roast spuds, chicken and buttered veges I put the plates and pans in the sink, just cover them with cold water and wait for them to congeal. Then you need to get under the sink the next morning and gently, and I really mean gently, warm the underneath of the sink with a blow torch. Overdo it and you have a mess. Just right and you can lift it out in one go. Do this early and you can throw them into the neighbours garden and then deny all knowledge. And you end up feeding stray dogs so God smiles on you. But I like the Jello idea because then you can lick the plates twice. And let us not forget many people in Africa are starving.

But I like the Jello idea because then you can lick the plates twice

If you licked the plates properly the first time there'd be no need to waste water washing them.

:-)

Where would you put that thing?

By the time you finish loading it, you could have dried the dishes by hand.

Women con their husbands into buying this crap with the reason: "Oh, my hands are getting chapped."

Anybody know where I can get a washboard? I'm going to start washing my clothes by hand for exercise.

Cleo, you misunderstnd the dynamics of licking plates. A plate is about the size of a kitchen clock. Hold it up against your face and begin licking from the bottom. As you move up the plate will naturally move to your forehead. This has positive effects for young Brit guys because it means they have spikey hair in the morning. Also for women it leaves them with a nice sheen which will last a few days in UK's current weather. Then of course some people get the grease or oil embedded into their skin, get acne and feel youing again.

Moderator: All readers back on topic please.

@hellokitty

Anybody know where I can get a washboard?

Not sure how you would use it to dry dishes - but they are easy enough to make. The larger home center hardware stores sell corrugated metal roofing which can be attached to a board with a few whacks of a dirty skillet. Any man should have one of those in their kitchen sink.

Back on topic. people in Japan in summer need a dish dryer like fish need an union organiser.

Or a hook salesman.

At my highest peak in Japan I lived in Azabujuban with a three ring stove (and then spiralled down to a two ring stove in Yokohama). Table dishwasher maybe - a dish dryer for what? How many dishes can you create in an inner city kitchen that need drying? And where would you put it? And how long doesa it take dishes to dry? Just leave them overnight. Or put them in the magic dish washer and wait for the wife to come home.

That is what I am doing.

Cleo: You don't need to give up your dishwasher. My family also has one. And, yes, we use night mode. Still, I do not understand, why a Panasonic dish-washer in night mode has to tell with loud 6 beeps that it is ready. At day time, when it is noisy, OK. At night it should be as quiet as possible.

Back to the topic: the problem is that these dishwashers and dryers send the hot and humid air into the room. Would be better to send the hot and wet air outside. Same with dryers for clothes: Would be better to have a hose to send it outside. Is this difficult? No!

German maker clothes dryer models (Miele or Bosch) have such hoses to send the hot humid air to the outside. And the dish-washer (same companies) has a condensation function, so that the water taken from the dishes is send where it belongs: into the kitchen sink.

I don't want to take away your beloved kitchen item. I just want to point out, that there exist even better models - but not made in Japan. One can get as import model.

Put all your dirty dishes on your bed. Wrap them all up with your sheets and put them in the washing machine. Was sheets and dirty dishes at the same time. Spin dry baby, spin dry.

the dish-washer (same companies) has a condensation function, so that the water taken from the dishes is send where it belongs: into the kitchen sink

???

Where else would it go?

the dish-washer (same companies) has a condensation function, so that the water taken from the dishes is send where it belongs: into the kitchen sink

i have a device that has a very similar function. it's called a drying rack

A bit of elbow grease never hurt anyone. Dishwashers and dishdryers(!) are simply for the lazy. Who said the washing up takes 20 minutes? I get it done in 5 minutes on a slow day.

jonnyboy:

me too, I have a drying rack. Let nature take care of the drying.

the dish-washer ... has a condensation function, so that the water taken from the dishes is send where it belongs: into the kitchen sink

Where else would it go?

I was talking of the dish dryer function of the dish-washer. With domestic models, as the one displayed here, the water from the wet dishes is basically send as some kind of steam into the room.

Now, in the import models, this wet air hits a cooled pipe, and then the water is collected and goes to the kitchen sink, not into the room.

More explanation found at:

http://www.boschappliances.com

For details you can look at (for example):

Ascenta Dishwashers SHX3AM05UC

and then click on the link named "Condensation Drying".

"Who said the washing up takes 20 minutes?"

Cleo did! ( the old girl is slow, ha ha ha! )

Simon "Just leave them overnight."

yeah right this is japan not the Uk... not an option mate.

this sounds like a gadget that in some place would be high on the mans shopping list thus to avoid what they might have to get involved with manually.

seriously though if you can get a dishwasher the dishes are dried ( and washed) when finished.

In a normal Japanese kitchen- where would you put it ?