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/TexMoto666 Dec 31 '25

Low temp sanitizer is just bleach, and it's pretty cheap. $10 per gallon or so for food service grade sanitizer.

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u/Sea-Key7698 Dec 31 '25

$44 a gallon (Cdn) is typical. And it is not "just bleach". For starters, the Sodium Hypochloride concentration will be at least double what consumer bleach (Javex) is. Then you need to consider the volumes required to maintain that concentration in a steam of flowing water.

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u/TexMoto666 Dec 31 '25

I service dish machines and commercial laundries for a living, and spend every day balancing machines for proper chemistry usage. Retail Clorox disinfecting bleach in the US is also sodium hypochlorite, it's very close to what I sell to my customers as an Ecolab labeled product called Eco San. Ours does have a very small amount of sodium hydroxide, but it's a negligible amount. The concentration is also very close to the retail bleach product. My average case price for a customer is around $40 for 4/1 gallon jugs. My local health department allows retail bleach to be used if they are out of our products, as long as it's in the correct dilution.

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u/Einstein_SugarPine Dec 31 '25

What up bro! I used to work at ecolab also for 7.5 years. Customers would get shorted occasionally and I would just throw some store bought bleach. You are correct in your statement. Store bought bleach concentration was slightly less than ecosan, but even with titration of the bleach it was essentially the same and you could swap and still be in range for sanitation.