Today, I washed my hands at the kitchen sink while making lunch, and was unexpectedly chastised by my partner because she had just started the dishwasher. Apparently, she has recently come across something that has convinced her that running the hot water in your sink means the water that enters your dishwasher will be hotter (checks out), and thus the dishes will be cleaner. I tried searching startpage to see if this is real, but I couldn’t make it through even one llm-slop-ticle about it before my eyes rolled back into my head, so here I am asking y’all: chat, is this real? Doesn’t my dishwasher have a heating element? Is there any meaningful difference between heating the water with a hot water heater vs a dishwasher, other than I can’t use my sink while the dishwasher is filling and I have to pour a bunch of cool water down the drain?
If you’re trying to be savvy about saving water, use the un-hotted hot water supply line water to fill a pitcher. In case the water is too hot, let it cool. Use it to water your plants, fill your pets’ water bowl or dispenser, run it through a passive filler jug if you have concerns about water from your water heater, or add a little detergent while it’s still warm and go scrub your bathroom floors. Go, do it now, TheFartographer. You’ve been meaning to do it for days. Get off the Internet and go scrub your filthy bathroom floors right now. Why am I this way?