Take the Steam out: save Effort, Water and Power

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 was the reason behind the tech adoption success, "few puffs of steam wipes sticky greases away what toons of water can't do."  The principal was applied to opening glued envelopes to open and censor the snail mail back the Emergency years of India in the early '70s   to spying on snail mail in post offices, I was told. With this knowledge in the subconscious and the ''immersive' amount of oil used in Indian recipes and how the gravy loves to form a sticky resident settlement inside the utensils. I also recalled how most US NRI couples I visited complained about their builder had given waterjet dishwashers by default required effort-intensive pre and post-washes and as such not suitable for the great Indian cuisine that serves long-duration cooked meals, a wide variety at that. 

Equipped with that knowledge I placed a wise bet on the steam variant with that physics principle of viscosity in mind and it worked miraculously without getting backlash at home. 

Eureka and Bingo! Science worked and Tech delivered. best of both dimensions.  

I was seen as a home science expert among friends circles, a connoisseur of sorts, and a savior of quality time and effort for the couples and the associated after-effects in the domestic chores, saving their time and energies for more reasonable acitivities. 

We started inviting more guests to demonstrate how it all works at my own peril of losing precious weekend outings. Our domestic help was deployed for other tasks like yard cleaning.

Today dish washing in our home is a child's play, my infant and kids back then in 2013 now grown up can help us in handling the dishes effortlessly.

Thanks to TrueSteam tech adopted by LG,  their dishwasher is an indispensable kitchen aid with negligible prewash especially for doing Indian dishes and reducing dependency on visiting help, especially during pandemics when limited footfalls are mandated housing societies. 

Above all low water and energy footprints compared to its waterjet equivalents.