100 Ways in 100 Days-10: Turn Off The Auto Dry on Your Dishwasher
Posted By Mr. Imperfect on November 20, 2008
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This is another simple process that will take little to no time, but will show dividends on your next electric bill. For those of you without a dishwasher-hopefully our next article will help you. For those with a dishwasher-lets go.
Most dishwashers that are in production today have an automatic dry cycle at the end to dry the dishes. The way the dishwasher accomplishes this by heating the inside of the dishwasher via a heating element. Now, if you think that sounds like an oven you are 100% correct. We know what a energy hog a conventional oven is, and this is the exact same process. The temperature settings vary slightly between diswasher manufacturers, but Federal law requires all new dishwashers to have a no dry option.
The prelude has led to this-“If your dishwasher has an air-dry setting, choose it instead of the heat-dry setting. You will cut your dishwasher’s energy use from 15 percent to 50 percent.” Now that is a significant reduction. If by chance your model does not have an air dry option, simply open the door after the last rinse cycle.
Well, we are one tenth of the way through this series. We hope that you are receiving some help and we would love to here any measures that you have tried to reduce monthly expenses. We are also working on a resource page for this material as well as other things.
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