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Just curious. I am trying to reduce how much gas I use in the house. I have a gas dryer, and have swithed to hanging the clothes outside. Our electric rates are quite low. My hot water heater is gas, so I am cutting back on that a bit too. Does the dishwasher use hot water from that, or does it use the electricity to heat it's own?
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Just curious. I am trying to reduce how much gas I use in the house. I have a gas dryer, and have swithed to hanging the clothes outside. Our electric rates are quite low. My hot water heater is gas, so I am cutting back on that a bit too. Does the dishwasher use hot water from that, or does it use the electricity to heat it's own?
Dishwashers are generally tapped into the hot water line but will also have coils for heating the water further. I don't know that I would recommend running a dishwasher off of a cold water line, however. I'm not sure about your state but the extra electricity to heat the cold water would probably be a wash with any gas savings.
Thanks for the answers! I was no planing on just using cold water, though. Just wondered if most of the hot water supplied by dishwasher vs. hot water heater.
Your dish washer has only water line going to it, hot water. I believe they are designed to operate best at 130 deg or higher. Maybe you should wash by hand.
studedude: If you new how lazy I am, you wouldn't ask me to do them by hand!
You can't be any lazier than me. I bite the bullet and pay the gas bill. Pay the electric bill to have my scooba clean the floors, have one of my boys cut the grass. I do sometimes get up and make lunch.
140*....commercial applications are 145* or higher I believe.
Keep turning the water temp down till the dishes don't seem to get clean as well. Then turn slightly back up a few degrees. The dishwasher is my limiter in electric homes for how low you can go on hot water temps. The coil in the DW heat the water after leaving the HW heater.
By the way different makes and models may run slightly different.
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