Break all the unreliable rumors! What can a dishwasher bring to our lives?

Nowadays, if you want to live a high-quality life, a dishwasher can be said to be indispensable.

We eat every day and wash dishes every day.

However, washing dishes, an essential part of daily life, has become the fuse of many family conflicts. After working hard all day, going home to cook and eat, and then washing dishes after dinner, how uncomfortable it is.

However, there is no need to worry about such a bad experience now. With the continuous development and progress of technology, the work of washing dishes can now be done by dishwashers.

Therefore, dishwashers can be said to be a core product that "escorts" high-quality life. The emergence of dishwashers has greatly liberated people's burden in the kitchen, and at the same time, it has also alleviated the conflicts of household chores to a certain extent.

According to the 2020 Fun Happiness Survey, dishwashers have become one of the categories of household appliances with the "strongest sense of happiness". It can be said that it is a type of household appliance that is deeply loved by the Chinese people.

With the rise of the lazy economy and the growing demand for sterilization and health brought about by the global COVID-19 pandemic, dishwashers have officially entered the 5.0 stage of consumer popularization.

However, some consumers still have many concerns and worries about questions such as "Can dishwashers really wash dishes cleanly?", "Does it waste more water and electricity?", "Will it increase the burden after buying it?", etc. The Internet is also full of various different voices.

So, are these concerns real?

In fact, as a kitchen appliance product that entered the Chinese market in the 1990s, dishwashers have been undergoing constant changes.

From being able to wash in the past to washing better, healthier, more water-saving and electricity-saving today, and even improvements made to better integrate into the various segmented needs of consumers in terms of home decoration environment style.

Many consumers' views on dishwashers are actually influenced by the so-called "habitual cognition", which is far from the actual situation of dishwashers today.

Myth 1: Wash your hands thoroughly

This question actually covers two aspects. One is that dishwashers are not as thorough as hand washing, and the other is that dishwashers are not as clean as hand washing.

In fact, as a machine dedicated to washing dishes, there is no need to worry about these two basic skills on most dishwashers today.

When the dishwasher is working, the internal spray arm will continue to rotate, and can send water to various positions inside the dishwasher. As long as the dishes to be washed are neatly placed in the bowl basket and the dishes are not close together, the water column sprayed by the dishwasher can radiate to all blind spots of the dishes. Compared with holding the dishes and rotating them under the faucet, the dishwasher can obviously clean more thoroughly.

Moreover, for large-capacity multi-set dishwashers that can wash pots, the cavity can accommodate the entire frying pan and clean it. Not only can the inside of the pot be cleaned, but also the bottom of the pot, the handle and even the joints between the handle and the pot body, which are often covered with grease and dust, can be cleaned. It is almost impossible to achieve the same effect by hand in the sink under the faucet, and it is impossible to thoroughly clean the corners and joints of pots and other utensils.

As for "not as clean as hand washing", don't worry about that. After all, the purpose of the dishwasher is to clean the dishes after meals.

Compared to mechanical hand-rubbing with "detergent + fixed-direction water flow", mainstream spray-type dishwashers use high-temperature and high-pressure water jets from high-speed rotating spray arms, supplemented by special detergents, to double-clean dishes from both physical and chemical levels, making them more thorough, with good cleaning effects for both visible post-meal stains and deeper oil stains. Moreover, every action of the dishwasher is controlled by a program, and compared to hand-washing based on experience and feeling, the dishwasher has a higher cleaning efficiency, and there is no need to worry about not "evenly distributing" or detergent residue on the dishes, as when washing by hand.

In addition to spray-type dishwashers, there is another type of dishwasher that uses ultrasonic technology. It uses high-frequency ultrasonic waves to compress the liquid medium to vibrate, causing the liquid molecules to produce positive and negative alternating shock waves. When the sound intensity reaches a certain value, tiny cavitation bubbles grow rapidly in the liquid and close instantly and strongly, producing strong micro-bubble explosions and impacts that destroy the stains on the surface of the tableware being cleaned and peel off from the surface of the tableware being cleaned. However, the current development is still in the exploratory stage. Although it has advantages such as no need for special detergents and more water and electricity saving, the cleaning effect on stubborn stains is not ideal at this stage, and only a few products use it. But even so, it still has considerable advantages over traditional hand washing.

With the continuous development and innovation of dishwasher technology, today's dishwashers are still exploring ways to improve their cleaning capabilities. For example, dishwashers equipped with the four-layer Trident Whale spray technology can easily clean heavy oil pots and bowls.

There is also the technology for cleaning attachments on the bottom of warships that originated from the military industry and has been transformed into a dishwasher. The high-energy bubble washing technology fills a strong water flow with tiny bubbles, which burst instantly when the bubbles come into contact with the tableware, producing a local strong impact effect. This also allows the dishwasher to have a deeper cleaning effect and further improves the cleaning efficiency.

Myth 2: You must take out the dishes immediately after washing them, otherwise a large number of bacteria will grow.

After washing dishes in a dishwasher, many users are used to using the dishwasher as a cupboard and do not take out the dishes directly. This can cause bacteria to grow on the dishes inside the cavity of old-fashioned dishwashers.

Nowadays, most dishwashers have introduced a storage function for this purpose. After the user finishes washing the dishes, the program usually automatically enters the storage state and sterilizes and dries the washed dishes.

In addition to the common hot air drying function, now with the support of new technologies and new materials, dishwashers can also serve as a "storage cabinet" for some tableware after washing.

For example, the door-open quick-drying technology automatically opens the dishwasher door after cleaning to allow the dishes and the inside of the cavity to dry quickly, which can avoid the growth of bacteria caused by residual water stains to a certain extent.

Crystal bud drying technology, by utilizing the moisture absorption and heat generation characteristics of crystal bud, a natural mineral, can quickly achieve the best drying effect without consuming electricity, and has outstanding antibacterial drying effect.

Myth 3: It costs more water and electricity

Some consumers are concerned that using a dishwasher will increase water and electricity consumption, is not energy-efficient and environmentally friendly, and will also increase expenses.

I believe that friends who have read the previous rumor-busting point will suddenly understand here:

Usually, in the traditional hand-washing process, the dishes need to be washed, brushed and rinsed more than three times, and the faucet is often left open until all the dishes are washed. According to experiments, an average family of three uses about 6-8 sets of dishes a day, and the water consumption of hand-washing is about 30L.

Dishwashers, on the other hand, work precisely according to program settings, and thanks to the combined effects of high temperature, high pressure and special detergents, they are actually more efficient in cleaning and save more water and energy than hand washing.

According to the actual test of China Home Appliance Network, even in the strong mode, most dishwashers actually use about 13L of water, which is about the amount of 7 large bottles of Coke. In our daily life, we basically use the standard wash or quick wash program, and the actual amount of water used is much less, about 9L.

In terms of power consumption, according to Beijing's electricity price standard of 0.48 yuan per kilowatt-hour, after actual testing, it was found that the average single cleaning cost of a dishwasher is only about 0.5 yuan. The claim that it consumes more electricity is also untenable.

Moreover, with the continuous improvement of dishwasher design and the continuous improvement of technology, the efficiency of dishwashers continues to improve, with lower energy consumption, shorter cleaning time and better cleaning effect. The addition of functions such as AI automatic recognition of the degree of dirtiness of dishes and customized cleaning has further accelerated the working efficiency of dishwashers.

Myth 4: Using a dishwasher requires a high learning curve and is inconvenient

Some friends are worried that it will be troublesome to use a dishwasher after buying it, and that it requires various operations and precautions, such as "Did I put too much detergent?", "Should I remember to take out the dishes immediately after washing to avoid bacterial growth?", "Isn't it a waste to have fewer dishes?" and so on.

In fact, most of these problems exist in old-style dishwashers. Today's mainstream dishwashers can be said to be "getting smarter". The addition of intelligence and more thoughtful functional designs make today's dishwashers easier to operate, and even elderly people and children can use them easily at home.

Nowadays, many dishwashers support ecological interconnection, and all functions of the dishwasher can be controlled with a mobile phone. Even if the elderly use it at home for a long time, they only need to put the dishes into the dishwasher, and the rest of the operations can be completed by their children through their mobile phones. If there are children at home and parents are worried that their children may accidentally touch or open the door, they can also buy a dishwasher with a child lock and turn on the child lock function to protect their children.

As for the concerns about detergent residue, in fact, most dishwasher detergents today are individually packaged, and you only need to follow the instructions to put it in each time, and there will basically be no overdose. Moreover, under the high temperature and high pressure of the dishwasher, the detergent can be removed very well, so there is no need to worry. Some dishwashers also have ADS intelligent dispensing technology, which can dispense according to the actual stains on the dishes and can also reduce consumables to a certain extent.

In addition to being easy to operate, you can also use a dishwasher "very casually". Nowadays, some dishwashers have the function of washing dishes in layers. Even if the number of dishes used in a meal is small, you can wash them after use without worrying about collecting a lot of dirty dishes together, which can also reduce the consumption of consumables. If there are children at home, the children's dishes can also be washed separately from the adult dishes.

In summary, it is not difficult to find that many of the impressions of dishwashers are actually subjective or simply rumors, and are not reliable. The current mainstream dishwashers can not only clean the dishes after meals, but are also more efficient, more convenient and easy to use, which really saves a lot of time in our lives. A netizen once calculated: Assuming that 10 pieces of dishes need to be washed for three meals a day, and a lifetime of washing dishes is calculated as 40 years, then washing dishes will take a total of 7,300 hours, accounting for 3% of 80 years of life.

With a dishwasher, we can save this time and do whatever we want to do to enrich our lives. It can be seen that dishwashers have become a powerful helper for current family life and an escort for quality life.

At the beginning of this year, a domestic big data platform released the 2020 China Dishwasher Retail Report. The report showed that due to the impact of the epidemic, there was a certain scale of consumption downgrade in the country, but the dishwasher category grew by 31%, reaching sales of 1.919 million units.

In the first quarter of 2021, the retail sales of dishwashers soared to 1.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32.6%. According to this trend, dishwashers are expected to achieve sales of millions within the year.

The emerging new generation of consumers generally pay more attention to the quality of life and are more willing to try new lifestyles, which also means that dishwasher products will continue to have huge market potential in the future.