Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> In article >,
> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>
>>> The water doesn't care what generated the heat. During the heating
>>> season, that heat is going to come either from the dishwasher
>>> heating element or from the furnace, but either way you're going to
>>> pay for the heat. It may be marginally cheaper to use the furnace,
>>> if you have an up to date high efficiency furnace, but not enough
>>> to notice.
>>
>> ? The dishes dry themselves whether I have the furnace running
>> or not.
>
> The furnace heats the house. The heat in the house is used to
> evaporate the water.

The fact that the water the dishes were washed in is super hot
makes it just evaporate. This is why they also dry themselves in
the summer when the heat isn't on ... or the A/C.

Geez, when I take my dishes out of the cabinets on that same
wall in the winter, they are freezing cold because I didn't think
to have them replace the insulation when I replaced the kitchen.
If the heat isn't forcing itself into my kitchen cabinets, I sincerely
doubt it's pushing past the hot air leaking from the dishwasher
to dry them.

Regardless, I don't see the worth to using the electric heating
coil in my dishwasher to gain warmth in the house, but to each
their own.

nancy