Take the Steam out: save Effort, Water and Power

Back in 2013, on my way drive  back from a wintery morning walk i stoped at my favorite pass time electric electronics gadget store,  in a unilateral decision as a surprise to family I booked and got a steam-powered dishwasher delivered, and installed at home the same day, from the new arrivals section of Electro in Riyad. My wife thought I went crazy as usual in my retail therapy.

That was a historic episode in our family dish-cleaning soap but 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 Indian expatriate friend circle for setting a precedent to the extent that one witty gentleman and a family friend asked me if I was asked to do the dishes as my wife joined the teaching staff of a school and alleged hence I found an easy way out. 

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 this low-tech adoption success, "few puffs of steam wipe sticky greasy sticky glues away what tonnes of water can't do."  

That principle was applied for opening glued envelopes, in-land letters to read and censor the snail mail back the Emergency years of India in the mid early '70s   spying on snail mail in post offices, I was told. With this knowledge in the subconscious and bring aware of the ''immersive' amount of oil used in Indian recipes and how the gravy loves to form a sticky resual 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 a backlash at home. 

Eureka and Bingo! Science worked and LG 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 nearly silent 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 the water and energy footprints compared to its water-jet equivalents made the true steam model a winner.  to prevent scale formation salt tablets are added once in a while.