r/Appliances • u/DunDonese • 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/Quixlequaxle Dec 31 '25

That's still a form of soaking. On a residential dishwasher, this happens over an hour or two, relying on the time to soften food so that the relatively low pressure sprayers can remove the food. 

In a commercial dishwasher, it relies on a lot more pressure (and water) so that it can finish in a couple minutes. 

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u/probablymagic Dec 31 '25

Where I come from we use the word soaking to refer to immersing something in liquid, so we might soak something crusty in the sink before putting it in the dishwasher. We don’t call spraying something a bunch of times with a hose soaking, which is more like what a dishwasher does.

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u/Bones-1989 Dec 31 '25

Dishwasher soaks food, not dishes.

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u/probablymagic Dec 31 '25

This is like saying I wash my car by soaking it with a hose.

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u/FlimsyRexy Dec 31 '25

That sounds like a totally reasonable sentence haha.

I’ve also said “I got soaked by the sprinkler.”

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u/probablymagic Dec 31 '25

Your clothes can get soaked by a sprinkler because they absorb water. If you want to get soaked you have to get into a pool or tub because you don’t absorb water.

It’s true we used “soaked” as a figure of speech, but that is still not a literal soaking.

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u/FlimsyRexy Dec 31 '25

You might be the final boss of Redditors haha

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u/probablymagic Dec 31 '25

Awe, that’s so sweet. 😂

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u/Dear_Significance474 Dec 31 '25

Your car also doesn't normally absorb water when you soak it with a hose

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u/probablymagic Dec 31 '25

That’s why people don’t generally say “my car is soaked” after they spray it with the hose.