We have a counter top dishwasher. It has a window. It’s not that interesting though.
Yup, was coming to comment the same. Mine has one too, it’s just not very interesting or even necessary to see.
God I fucking hate how they chose to punctuate/capitalize. What the actual fuck? Just use italics if you want to emphasize something, good lord.
Can you use italics on Twitter?
I guess it’s a part of the Twitter Blue sub, but there are workarounds.
My point still stands ‘This is a stupid fucking Way to emphasize things’.
yes, IT, reall,Y is.
i bet it’s mostly because it’s fucking nasty in there.
The author’s unique approach to capitalisation and spacing really makes this.
I always automatically assume that a space before a comma means it’s a bot.
I was thinking the same thing. I had to read it out loud to fully understand
It makes me wonder if their native language doesn’t have upper/lower letters. Chinese does not, and doesn’t really use spaces the same way we do.
I think it just might be because the seal around the glass would inevitably fail from constant thermal expansion during normal use, thus leaking all over the damn place.
How does that differ from current metal door?
Ovens have glass. And in my experience get much hotter than dishwashers.
Ovens don’t have a bunch of high pressure water sprayers in them. They just leak hot air at worst.
‘Just hot air’ is a bit of an understatement. Mine goes to 500°C during a cleaning cycle. It physically locks the door so you can’t open it when it does this. My dishwasher I can open at any time.
Fun fact you can hack a self-cleaning oven to use the hellfire temperature of 500 ° F to make good ass thin crust pizza!
you have to figure out how to bypass the door lock, use a pizza stone, and put the pizza as high up in the oven as possible. but you can get a damn good thin crust pizza with enough creative engineering and some experimentation.
recommended to try this project in winter as it dumps loads of heat in the house lol
Dishwashers need to be water-tight, ovens don’t…
Mainly brown water would be my guess, they an keep it to themselves.
Watching food cook is appetizing and also a necessity to know when it is done. Watching the slurry of fat, food rests and soap is not.
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Then why do washing machines for clothes have windows?
They didn’t back in my day.
Pretty colors spin round make fun watch
To check the progress before electric displays and fancy indicator lights. Windows came before those upgrades when machines were still dial controlled.
Mine has a window, but if you saw something through the window that made you want to intervene, there’s precious little you could do
But they still have windows. Plus I think old fashioned top loading ones didn’t actually.
Because people liked the feature. Look, I’m just saying WHY they added windows. That was the reason. I’m not saying it’s a good reason or no one could figure things out before. They added them for that reason, people liked it, and it stuck around. Yet, there’s always gonna be someone dragging out their 30 year old washer going “but mine is fine!”. Never said it wasn’t. Or someone pointing out that not all washers have a window even today. Cool. Nifty. But if yours does have one, that was the reason they got added.
That’s what I still use and it does not. I have zero reason to know what’s going on inside however because it literally operates on the equivalent of a kitchen egg timer. It’s done when the dial says it’s done. All controls are entirely mechanical. Washing machine is older than I am. I bet the damn thing is 50 years old.
Edit: Same as this one which seems to be a model from the 70s.
Because people liked the feature. Look, I’m just saying WHY they added windows. That was the reason. I’m not saying it’s a good reason or no one could figure things out before. They added them for that reason, people liked it, and it stuck around. Yet, there’s always gonna be someone dragging out their 30 year old washer going “but mine is fine!”. Never said it wasn’t. Or someone pointing out that not all washers have a window even today. Cool. Nifty. But if yours does have one, that was the reason they got added.
Congrats on having an ancient machine with no variable timing that finishes early and being able to look in tells you what step it’s on easily at a glance instead of staring at your worn away knob. Good for you. Was it relevant at all to the discussion about why they added windows to machines that do?
Yes, it was relevant to the comment I replied to. It was an off topic segue that’s common in the nature of what we call threaded discussions. That you feel you should copy and paste your response as if it’s a personal attack to you or your argument is quite perplexing, but everybody’s got their own way of seeing the world yeah?
Also, the thing is actually controlled by the knob’s timer. There’s no such thing as finishing early, the knob is what tells it to do a rinse cycle or whatever. You can set it at different points in order to make it do different things and it ticks away along it’s cycle because of that. You hit switches to change the amount of water you use and select different start times based on the soiling and load size. It’s pretty rad for a dinosaur, though you do have to make decisions that you might not have to make with an electronic high efficiency washer.
What are you doing with your clothes? Mine are rarely covered with fat, grease or food.
Then you ain’t livin, pal.
It might also have to do with the fact that a window is more expensive, but required for ovens and microwaves as food night burn otherwise, but usually there’s no issue running a dishwasher longer than exactly required
It’s definitely not required for ovens. You can just open the oven. Source: previous oven (1950s vintage) didn’t have one.
Pretty useful though, and pretty important on microwaves too since you can’t safely open the [microwave] oven while it’s running.
How’s it not safe to open the oven while running? Just don’t touch anything without mitts and keep your face back.
They meant the microwave
Yes. Microwave is short for “microwave oven”. I thought it was clear from context but I guess not.
You can open it but you every time you do, you lose heat, which has to be compensated for by the oven. A window makes the process much easier. There wouldn’t really be measurable gains for a dishwasher
That person has never cooked a souffle.
Saw this post, instantly thought “Technology Connections”, am not disappointed by the comments here.
It’s because the water is t o o w e t
They don’t want you to see the tongues licking the dishes
there’s a little gnome that lives in mine to lick them clean. charges exorbitant prices though.
It’s useful to see the others, not sure how useful it would be to see inside a dishwasher. Could be fun though. Also probably is cheaper not to have it and could be better insulation.
Same reason fridges probably don’t have windows even though that’d actually be handy. I once saw someone post about how their really expensive fridge actually has a window, but their mom put a curtain in front of it because seeing inside the fridge looked “messy”. What a travesty
Washing mashines have a window though.
That’s a clothes washer, not a dish washer
Yes, but connecting to your statement, is it useful to see inside?
Btw, why do they have one?
Edit: Kusimulkku answered that nicely.
Not all clothes washers have a window,. though it is more common than on dish washers. No it’s not that useful.
Only side loading ones. You don’t need a window for top loading ones and none have it.
modern top loading washers have windows. I’ve seen dozens of them
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If you open a front-load washer in the middle of its wash cycle, it would dump 5–10 gallons (editors note: however much that is) of dirty, soapy water all over the floor. That’s bad - so the manufacturer designs a window so that you can see that the machine is empty of water before opening the door.
I guess it’s for that reason. Dishwashers could have similar problems but they might have a lot less water in them at one time and with the type of doors they have you might not dump as much on the floor or something.
Dishwashers don’t fill up - they just have a well at the bottom (below the height of the door) and they spray water over the dishes to rinse of the dirt.
Washing machines need to fill up and soak the clothes so that they get everywhere, not just the outer layer.
I was thinking that was the case. So makes sense why one would have a window and one doesn’t, from “spilling water on the floor” sense.
No they don’t, that’s why front loaders use so much less water
- a top loader fills up the tub so the clothes are under water
- my front loader
— slaps the clothes into the puddle of water to clean
— to soak, lightly sprays on top while tumbling back and forth so they all get wet without ever being under water
Front loading washing machine doors are automatically locked during the wash cycle.
They often have an emergency release mechanism (pull string behind a cover or similar)
Some are. Modern ones definitely, older ones most likely. Not all though. Guess how I know…
Also I wonder what the situation was at the time they introduced those glass windows.
You can safely open a dishwasher at any time.
Not true if I do it in the middle of a program my wife will beat my ass
My dishwasher can be opened at any time. The sprays stop instantly and the small amount of water can just sit there
My front loading washer also has a small amount of water that seems like it would just sit there if I could open the door. However the door is locked whenever it is spinning
Obviously, the dishwasher manufacturers don’t want us to know about the gnomes.
Gnomes with cleaning equipment.And when your dishes don’t get very clean, that’s because the gnomes partied a bit too hard the night before and just aren’t up to their normal standards.
Hmm. That’s also a great name for a punk band. Dishwasher Gnomes.
Going to trademark that right now.Dishwater Gnomes
Cover songs of 90s alternative at x2.5 speed and an octave higher.
No not punk. It would combine 80s one hit wonder songs with 2010s hipster southern folk.
It’s not the fact that the gnomes exist! It’s how they’re treated, down with big dishwasher!
I bet you it would be the most interesting to see out of all of these.
This video by Technology Connections has a few scenes where you can see one at work.
So amazing to me that this has got to be one of his most popular videos.
Like…this vid went viral as hell. People are passionate about dishwashers. And I get it. There’s a lot of misinformation out there.
I got a new dishwasher that has a “glass front door”. I paid extra for the glass door for this reason - I want to see it. But guess what - hahaha - the glass door is simply placed over metal and you can’t see shit.
wtf. like it’s a window to a wall, or like glass back phones?
THEY DON’T WANT US TO SEE!!!
