Today, I washed my hands at the kitchen sink while making lunch, and was unexpectedly chastised by my partner because she had just started the dishwasher. Apparently, she has recently come across something that has convinced her that running the hot water in your sink means the water that enters your dishwasher will be hotter (checks out), and thus the dishes will be cleaner. I tried searching startpage to see if this is real, but I couldn’t make it through even one llm-slop-ticle about it before my eyes rolled back into my head, so here I am asking y’all: chat, is this real? Doesn’t my dishwasher have a heating element? Is there any meaningful difference between heating the water with a hot water heater vs a dishwasher, other than I can’t use my sink while the dishwasher is filling and I have to pour a bunch of cool water down the drain?
I believe one of the technology connections videos talks about making sure the sink water is hot so the dishwasher can have hot water and not clean with cold water
It might be this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP942Livy0
One thing I just want to point out that’s stated in the video is the hot water is for the pre treat cycle. It always heats up the water for the main wash cycle.
came to post this. note: this works if your dw is on same line feed as sink. if for some reason it’s not, you can’t purge the cool water away.