Can I put water from kettle into bloody broken dishwasher?

[DishwasherMoran]

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The heating element in dishwasher is bust. Can't get it repaired for a week. Happy to wash by hand, obviously, BUT is it possible to add hot water during cycle (dishwasher otherwise working fine) to get a few things washed?

We're a big family, and everyone's cooking/eating the whole time - it would be handy if this is possible!

I'm imagining starting the cycle like normal, but chucking in the odd kettle of hot water mid-cycle?

Nuts or BRILLIANT?

Don’t think it would work, pity you can’t connect them to hot taps😆

It'll just pour right down and out the drain.
Dishwasher spray hot water out as they spin so it sprays over all the dishes, churning away with the dish detergent.
All that will still be happening with cold water, and then you'll chuck in some boiling water which will go straight down and sit on the bottom. The rest will still be cold.

It wont work. You're just wasting water running a cold dishwasher. Dishes wont be clean.

That's what I wasn't sure about - whether it cycles the water round a bit rather than just spurting out and draining away. If it cycles around, then it might work, but not obviously if it just drains away.

It must cycle around at least a bit surely, otherwise the detergent tab wouldn't ever get to the dishes?!

Well, on every dishwasher I have had, there is a spinner on the top and a spinner on the bottom. Both spinners spray out water as they spin, making a churning effects. Because each stream is very fine so it'll churn around.

You're pouring in one very heavy stream of water from the kettle whilst the dishwasher is open (so spinning stops). That is just going to pour down the bottom, below the height of the bottom spinner and pour away.

Even if some of the hot water splashes up to the dishes, it wont make a blind bit of difference when a full cycle of cold water is being sprayed about.

It's just a really silly idea and isnt going to work but you do you.

'You do you'

This won't work you are just going to introduce your family to the fairy liquid

Wont work. Just wash by hand..

It depends on if your dishwasher is old or fairly new. Modern dishwashers don’t work on temperature they work by sensing the current being drawn. No current no work.

I don't think it'll work particularly well either, but the dishwasher must pump the water that's in the bottom up through the spinners, as otherwise it'd just be spraying pure water onto the plates all the time and the detergent tablet would just go straight down the drain!

Oh no you have my sympathies , when I have moved house and had to wait to have it plumbed in I would just use disposable dishes . (lazy 😮).

I’m fairly sure sure my dishwasher just pumps the same manky water around from the bottom through the spinners, the holes in the spinners are always getting blocked with brown rice which I have to pull
out with tweezers (maybe one day I’ll learn my lesson and rinse the plates properly 😬). So if your dishwasher is like mine they you might be able to warm the water up a bit like that but it will be so diluted by the cold water already in there that it won’t make much difference. My sympathies are with you at this difficult time op💐

It should work as the water is recycled, it reuses the water which sits in the bottom as it is heated up. Thats why there are filters.
It doesnt just spray the dishes with clean water from the inlet

The only thing is, the final rinse wont be hot, which is what dries the dishes.
Also try dishwashing powder rather than tablets, which will dissolve easier than tablets .

Thank you for your kind wishes. Your support at this difficult time is appreciated

YES! It IS working. The water is diluted, so not super hot, but it's definitely circulating enough warm water to give stuff a bit of a clean.

The powder idea is great, thank you.

😆😎

Some dishwashers can be connected to the hot water feed if you have one ?