I’m dreading the day our 17-year-old Bosch dishwasher packs up. It has a handy 35-degree Celsius 30-minute wash that works very well. We often use it when time is short. The latest Bosch dishwashers however don’t have such a program. At their quickest they make you hang around for an hour (and boost the temperature to 40 degrees).
I raised this with a Bosch European product manager at IFA recently. He said the newer programs use less water and are more environmentally responsible and that I should get used to thinking that quick equals an hour rather than thirty minutes. It’s not just dishwashers. New heat pump tumble dryers take longer to dry than traditional, vented or condenser ones, and we recently tested an Indesit washing machine on the telly programme I work for and the normal cotton cycle lasted 4 hours. That’s ridiculous!
