I have a shitty kitchen I plan to remodel in a few years, but for now I want a damn dishwasher. These "portable" ones are stupid expensive and can't even find a 2nd hand one for cheap.Whats to stop me from taking a regular ass dishwasher, building a box for it and making my own? It can't be that easy... right? Like, it just needs power, water, and a drain?
>it just needs power, water, and a drain?Correct. Although it does need to be secured, because if you open it and slide out a loaded drawer it's going to tip forward. In an installed application it gets anchored to the adjacent cabinets and/or countertop to prevent it from happening.
>>2995295I have a semi automatic idea to the diswasher problem. Dishwasher is only okay for busy man that can spent 0 second washing. Can't wash oversized, weird geometry, had to decide when is the best time to start and judge the cleanliness after 1hr.What if we can use any tub and sink, and externalize the heating element, pump and sprinkler to the size of a vacuum, that would be very portable, controllable and configurable than the huge appliance box. With strong enough jet of hot enough soapy water, this should get anything clean, followed by regular rinse. You can do that rack after rack even for huge gathering and restaurants.
>>2996136Great idea fester!
>>2996136A commercial dishwasher, the kind you'd find in a restaurant, takes maybe 90 seconds for a cycle. Interior volume is something like 2ft^3.
>>2996541Is there a reason why it isn't the norme other than reasons like it uses 9000 psi superheated steam straight from the boiler.
>>2996673because commercial dishwashers primarily exist to sterilize the plate, first you need to wash off all the food you can, then you put it into the machine, you end up with a really hot plate covered in disinfectant that is only partially washed off which you then need to manually remove stubborn stuff from like melted cheese and then dry the plate yourself. they require a lot more space and usually have removable tubs rather than built in racks. they just don't work well in a residential kitchen. they are designed to clean hundreds of plates an hour, even if you get ambitious you probably won't need to clean more than 20 plates an hour for a four person dinner.so tl;dr:commercial dishwasher>takes up space>disinfects and cleans fast>requires pre-wash by hand>requires drying and removal of stubborn food by hand>can clean hundreds of plates an hourvs a consumer dishwasher which>requires pre-wash by hand>takes up minimal space>is quiet>leaves you with clean dry plates after about an hourso the real calculus here is, if you are doing dishes for a normal sized family you will spend less time and effort doing the dishes with a consumer dishwasher than you would with a commercial dishwasher.
>>2996804Ah i see.
>>2995295I went through two of these over the years, then settled on hand washing dishes. Only with complete kitchen remodel do I now have a real non-portable dishwasher. If you have space for this thing not to be in the way ( and it attaches to your sink remember ) then you have a place to plumb in a real dishwasher and have your sink free. What kept me in these things so long was that my cupboards were real shitty and counter too and there was no space next to the sink where it was for anything. (there was a door on once side and the corner of the counter on the other) When I remodeled I moved the sink to a different wall. The portable dishwasher was in the middle of the kitchen attached to the sink by a hose. If you can possibly avoid these do so.
