Dishwasher turned on at night or in morning?

[Peppermint81]

I have always thought it best to turn the dishwasher on late evening so can unload in the morning to start day fresh.
My husband disagrees and prefers to put it on in the morning so it's not sitting in the damp all night.

Out of interest do you turn your dishwasher on in the evening or morning and why?!

Mid morning to take advantage of the electricity generated by our solar panels. Unless I'm doing laundry in the morning, in which case straight after lunch.

Whenever it's full - usually 2-3 days - I rinse off before loading. Only 2 of us and generally handwash pots, simultaneously cleaning off the recycling and rinsing the dishwasher stuff, wiping down.

Overnight, every night

It is dry when the sun doth rise

It goes on when it's full as long as we're around when it finishes to open the door and give the racks a shake to help drying. If it isn' a convenient finish time, we use the delay function .

When it’s full !
so usually before we go to bed , on an economy wash , it takes over 3 hours
I tend to empty it in the morning while waiting for the kettle to boil , and then start filling it up again

Surely all dishwashers have a drying cycle. What does sitting in damp mean?

Over night for the cheap leccy, same as washing machine and the electric car charging. We have smoke alarms in very close proximity and all the appliances are less than three years old.

Whenever it’s full. The door opens automatically at the end of the cycle. My previous dishwasher didn’t do this, so we’d usually run that one during the day.

Cooking appliances, portable heating and smoking are more common that electrical fires.

My preference is after dinner. I empty first thing, load throughout the day. It’s done by the time I go to bed, though. In practice it’s often not full, and I will keep loading until lunchtime and run it in the afternoon. It’s DD’s job is to empty it, so it generally gets emptied after school anyway.

Washing machine usually first thing, so I can hang out the laundry in the sun in my east facing garden. I’m at home all day though, so it suits me to do a load each day.

We used to have a neighbour who was an ex firefighter, they put the fear of God in to me about putting on the dishwasher / tumble dryer / washing machine overnight or when we weren't here so the answer is any time we are in!

Off topic, but could anyone send me details of these cheap night time tariffs? I could only find ones which were the same price all the time.

Such a weird, but common mentality.

Overnight so we can use economy 7 tariff.

In the day time we use the shorter cycle.

My best friends mum had a house fire a couple of months ago in the middle of the night which was caused by the dishwasher. Her entire (and beautiful) home was completely burned down within half an hour. Devasting but lesson learnt

Usually at some point during the day, whenever the middlespawn has finished organising it to his liking.

Just when its full but never when there's no-one in or were in bed as we've had one catch fire luckily when I was standing next to it.
We had previously put them on at night but never again it went up so fast luckily no harm done.

We used to leave it on overnight to empty in the morning.

One night it caught fire - in the electrics bit inside the door.

By the time we noticed (midnight, DH was still up - the rest of us were asleep) there were flames coming out from under the countertop all along one side of the kitchen.

We called 999 before the smoke alarms caught on.

By the time we'd woken everyone up and we'd got the kids outside (screaming, terrified) the whole kitchen was ablaze.

The fire fighters took 4 minutes to arrive apparently. Longest four minutes of my life. You always hear that the most frightening thing about a fire is how fast it takes hold. That's one of those things I didn't really understand until I saw it.

We put the kids into the car. Still hysterical. A neighbour came and got them at some point and took them into their house. Gave them blankets and warm milk.

Then I had to answer questions, like "how long is the driveway?" and "how may steps in which direction to reach the back bedrooms?" and "is your gas turned off?" and I didn't know the answer to anything because my house was on fire.

And the fire fighters put it out and showed me hours later how it could all just reignite. They were amazing. I cannot put into words how grateful I am to have these able, calm, competent people on the end of an emergency phone number.

And then they left and every single thing that we owned was either gone or covered in soot and stank of putrid acidic plastic smoke.

We do not put the dishwasher on at night any more.

Another who sets it off when it is full.
I wouldn't set it off after our evening meal if there were still space for the breakfast things, but I will put it on at any time of day if it is full.

I don't really understand his argument about 'sitting in damp'. My dishwasher dries as it goes through the cycle. Every dishwasher I have ever owned does this.

Ours runs on the cheap electricity we have at night using the timer. Always has but important now!

We have solar so whenever the sun is high enough but usually around midday. Never at night or when out as 2 friends have had appliance fires and the fire brigade advised us not to on a home visit!

I won't allow ours on at night because of the fire risk, so definitely morning when we are awake.

I’ve personally known of three dishwasher fires - my parent’s, an ex-boyfriend’s parents (I was there for that one, fire brigade had to come out) and a colleague’s, whose whole house interior was destroyed.

So I don’t put mine on whilst I am out or asleep.

Ours is done before we go to bed.

But surely you don't eat you meal then go to sleep ?

If we set ours off after the evening meal, it is finished before we go up to bed.