Sheldon wrote:

> Stagnant water is a great way to encourage bacteria... dishes need to
> be dried as soon as possible... water where food is involved should
> never be left to evaporate. By your methods if you ran a restarant
> the board of health would shut you down.

And yet I can't recall ever hearing of illness caused by dishes air
drying? The food should be long gone by the time the dishwasher has
done its job and the dishes left to dry.
Restaurants serving the public have much stricter rules for many reasons
that have nothing to do with what is commonly done at home.