Designer Hwang Jin Wook’s modern dishwasher concept developed for Electrolux, uses air to clean the dishes by blowing away food particles.
High-pressure air is used to clean the dishes. Steam is used to degrease the dishes and ultraviolet rays are then used to sterilize the dishes. Very little water is used to create steam but the water is recycled so essential water is never wasted. It sounds great right? Right!
Unfortunately the dishwasher only has enough room to wash two dishes at a time, just one slight drawback.
Although obviously intended to be for individual use only if it only takes a couple of plates, there also doesn’t appear to be any room for utensils, glasses, bowls, pots or pans either. So how do you wash the rest of the dishes?
It’s a fair enough idea but it needs space to accommodate a family’s worth of dishes to be truly useful and, even then, it has to be affordable and that, as is the norm with these projects, is the one thing that isn’t mentioned at all, the price.
Having said that, it is not inconceivable that some of the technologies employed would eventually find their way into production.