At least in the EU it has come to the point where you have to figure out how to 'boost' the appliances into a 'normal' cycle, as the default is just the 'eco' setting designed to pass the test's 'A+++' rating criterium under ideal circumstances.<p>I am 100% in favour of not wasting energy and water, just not by deception and false savings where people use more water 'pre-rincing' their dishes in the sink than a regular dishwasher used to clean them, or having to manually add 2 extra soak and spin cycles to get rid of detergent residue in a washing machine because the default cycle was 'optimized' for specific artificial test loads not resembling any real world family clothes mix.<p>Many machines still have a button or hidden option to set them to 'normal' operation. For others you will have to resort to trickery or plain reinterpreting of what the different programs and settings actually mean to get the right result.
While modern dishwashers take longer, they’re a heck of a lot quieter (especially if you get a Bosch).<p>Interesting reading about the hacks in the article, I suggest everyone here reads it.<p>Dunno where the longer to boil pasta part comes from in the article.<p>What I learned is that the turbo/quick cycles use a lot more energy and water. I guess that’s what’s needed to get the same end-state of cleanliness.
I'm willing to bet that a lot of the times, the issues are 1) overestimating how much laundry detergent they need 2) not putting some extra detergent in the dishwasher
Meanwhile commercial dishwashers take all of three minutes per cycle. I would recommend buying commercial versions of any appliance if you're able. Parts are replaceable, made to be serviced, not choked full of eco marketing, or incompetent regulations which add to more waste in the long run.
> <i>...Donna King experimented with the various settings of her washing machine, trying to get her clothes to stop coming out covered in detergent residue....King thinks the machine just doesn’t use enough water...</i><p>A decade ago in Korea, I had a Samsung top-loader that worked great. Had to replace it and could only get a front-loader. Not only is it slow, I have to run the rinse cycle at least twice to get the detergent out. I now often resort to hand-washing and use the machine just for the spin cycle.
Government <i>is</i> making your life worse with its insane "environmental" policies. Just fucking turn on a few nuke plants!<p>God I need to buy a top-loader. I wonder if they even exist in europe anymore. Only comically small ones by the look of it. Front-loaders struggle to even wash a bath towel.<p>> a commercial dishwasher [...] takes about 90 seconds to clean a load of dishes instead of hours<p>Imagine a world in which all machines were this good.