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?!

They are generally EV tariffs of which are mainly from Octopus and are still quite a reasonable price, the new British Gas EV tariff is not that cheap though, about 30p at night and 60p in the day. You always pay more for day rate on EV and E7 tariffs.

WE have economy 7 which we have had for years, it was an economy 7 meter when we bought the house, we don't have storage heaters. I think it is very difficult to get economy 7 now and our meter is a SMETS1 smart now dumb meter, you can't seem to get SMETS 2 Economy 7 but you can get EV tariff which I find odd as they are essentially the same though Economy 7 is probably better as it is more hours so you can use it when you get up before work or school if you wanted. I am an early riser so Economy 7 suits us fine, washing machine, dryer if needed and dishwasher all on early morning.

It is a bit concerning that people are going to be encouraged to run white goods in the middle of the night as more people get electric cars and those tariffs seem to be very much in the middle of night ones rather than finishing around 7-8:30.

Our regular cycle is five hours so even if it goes on at 8pm it's running while we're asleep.

at bed time
d/w on,
go to bed

although i have had a w/m go bang and start smoking, which was frightening

As soon as everything from that day has been loaded in it gets switched on. Usually about 7pm. The cycle has usually finished by the time we go to bed and the door automatically pops open when it’s finished so it’s all dry by the time we get up in the morning.

Putting it on in the morning makes no sense. You have no clean crockery or cutlery to use for breakfast and surely you’re at work by the time the cycle finishes?

5 hours?!! Surely there’s a shorter cycle than that? That’s a shocking waste of energy.

We run ours overnight, but I run it on delayed start so that it finishes when we wake up. That way if it leaks the water isn't standing around for too long!

5 hours?!! Surely there’s a shorter cycle than that? That’s a shocking waste of energy.
Not really - the eco modes take longer but use less. If I run it during the day I use the short auto mode (2hrs) but I prefer to leave kt running overnight and use the eco mode (4.5 hrs)

When it's full. Usually after dinner (about 6pm) or after breakfast (8am). Not overnight. Also I don't understand the comment about it "sitting damp" overnight - does you dishwasher not dry stuff? And damp wouldn't damage glass and ceramic anyway not like clothing.

Omg! That's terrifying. Thanks for sharing. I'll never put mine on at night again.

Thank good your DH was still awake.....

I don't leave it on overnight, like a PP I know of two fires caused by dishwashers and one tumble dryer fire. If I put it on straight after I eat, it's finished by the time I go to bed. I live alone, so it only goes on twice a week.

Amazed by these long programmes. I rinse things as I put them in if there's food residue and then I use a cycle that's finished in 20 minutes. Cheap new model purchased earlier this year. Does a great job.

I generally use the one hour cycle on my dishwasher and 1-2 hours on my washing machine as the cycles have variable times you can choose, tumble dryer is a basic vented one which I put stuff in for 10-15 mins so it comes out just a bit damp then put over airer to finish off drying that's fine for most things, towels sometimes need a little longer in dryer

typically, lunchtime and after dinner. It will usually have finished by the time I go to bed (11ish) but I empty it in the morning. Nothing is damp inside. In the final hour it is slightly open but locked so that steam escapes.

the eco mode on ours is 4.5 hours but we don’t use that very much as it doesn’t get things quite as clean. Quick wash uses the most energy and water. The ‘standard’ mode is about 3 hours long. Ours displays energy and water consumption on a display screen on the front.

Ours goes on whenever it's full. Sometimes in the day, sometimes at night. We've just got a new one with a 4hr eco mode cycle. I've always found when run overnight pretty much everything is dry by morning.

This thread is making me think about how sensible it is running these things overnight though. People have said the same about the washer and dryer only when in the house. Now I work from home more I can usually do it when we're around but pre-covid when DH and I both worked in an office all day there weren't enough hours where we were in the house and awake to always run the washer/dryer/dishwasher when someone was awake.

Unless you have very easy means of escape and fire doors etc then in the morning. People are statistically three times more likely to die in house fires at night because of the disorientation and being trapped upstairs due to fumes if an appliance catches fire.

At night. It doesn't 'sit damp', it is drained dry by morning. Is he mistaking it for the washing machine? I don't put that on at night because clothes can get rank lying scrunched up and damp all night. But dishes don't.

Whenever it is full, which is quite often. I wouldn't run it overnight though or if I am out. On the odd occasion I've left the house with 15 minutes left on the programme but don't like doing that.

Overnight

Same here. There’s not time to run the dishwasher in the morning before we leave the house, evening straight after dinner is really the only time there’s consistently someone around for long enough.

Not sure how dishes sit damp all night

they would dry

evening is easier as then breakie use things from it and unpack the rest

a friend does daytime so has dirty dishes sitting in sink all day till she has run dw and then emptied and filled but doesn’t set off till daytime again

nothing to do with tariffs. Just the way she says Too manic to unpack am before school run etx

Maybe the wet overnight with the dishwasher is because some older models didn't dry that well especially if the door wasn't left on the latch, our old one didn't dry very well at all compared to our newer one

@User148563 thank you!

Yes, definitely not at night when you are asleep upstairs.
I knew someone whose house burned down after the DW caught fire, luckily she was still up and able to get everyone out. She said she was shocked at how quickly it spread, no time to grab anything or take preventative steps.
My washing machine caught fire, I was actually standing next to it when it happened, and another friend lost most of her possessions in a fire caused by a washing machine. I'm telling you this because I don't think it's a freak , one in a million event, it is a real risk.

Another one with solar panels so daytime. We just put the breakfast things in and shove it on on the way out the door. Not sure what we'll do in the winter. Leccy cheaper at night but the fire risk does concern me.

Morning for the solar energy.