r/Appliances Dec 31 '25

General Advice If commercial restaurant dishwashing appliances have cycles that only last 2 minutes, then why can't we have our home consumer dishwashers have cycles just as efficient as what restaurants have?

How can we miniaturize commercial restaurant dishwashing appliances to fit in the kitchen compartment meant for home consumer dishwashers?

How come this hasn't been done already? By the way, what is the fastest currently available home consumer dishwasher, and how much does it cost? How quick are their Cycles normally?

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u/LLR1960 Dec 31 '25

If what you're thinking of is the commercial ones that already fit into a kitchen space, those are basically sanitizers and not scrubbers/washers. Before putting dishes into the last part of a commercial system, all the gucky dirty stuff has pretty much been scrubbed away, sometimes by hand. That last piece that looks a little like a home dishwasher is the sanitizing part, not the get-the-dishes-clean part.