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Take the Steam out: save Effort, Water and Power

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Back in 2013, on the way back from a wintery morning walk in a unilateral way I booked and got a steam-powered dishwasher delivered and installed at home the same day, from the new arrivals. My wife thought I went crazy as usual in my retail therapy. That was a historic episode in our family dish-cleaning soap and a runaway success. I was literally waiting for dishes to get soiled and adding them to the wash cycle every night sans pre-wash. My wife used to shop for various flavored rinse aides each month to enrich the olfactory experience with the fragrance of cleaned shining dishes. We got enough eyeballs and steamy quips from our desi expatriat friend circle setting a precedent to the extent that one witty gentleman and a family friend asked me if I was asked to do the dishes and alleged hence I found an easy way out as my wife joined the teaching staff of a school.  My rebuttal to that was I only wished I had so much latitude. However, a physics lesson from our high school days ...