"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
>>>
>>> ? The dishes dry themselves whether I have the furnace running or
>>> not. As a matter of fact, the dishwasher is closed so I don't think
>>> the furnace heat has any affect on the dishes one way or another.
>
>> Other way around. The heat you call wasted goes into the living
>> space and helps to heat it. It may be wasted in summer, but during
>> heating season, it is not wasted at all. It just helps to heat the
>> house, as does the TV, computer, light bulbs, etc.
>>
>> The difference it the cost of electricity versus the fuel of your
>> furnace. If you dry the dishes on the heat cycle, the furnace runs a
>> bit less.
>
> Actually, I run my dishwasher in the middle of the night. My heat
> doesn't run during the night unless it's crazy cold out. I don't gain
> anything by using heated dry for my dishes, they just dry by themselves.
>
>
Yeah, but... they don't begin to dry until you get up in the morning and
open the dishwasher door... and then it still takes 3-4 hours to air dry...
so any dishes used that morning need to be stacked in the sink, or
somewhere. It's really false economy not to use the heated dry... the
machine is already hot inside from it's normal run, it still uses the blower
motor but without the heater... adding the heater at that point costs like
what it costs to run your bread toaster 3-4 times... the energy used to run
the heated dry cycles cost like 5% of the total cost of running the
dishwasher... not using the heated dry cycle to save energy is like saving
energy by using your TV/PC without audio.