brooklyn1 wrote:
> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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.
>
>
I disabled the drying cycle on our last and current dishwashers and the
dishes dry just fine without opening the door. I have never seen a
blower motor fitted in a residential dishwasher. Maybe all of this is
just your imagination?