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I prefer washing dishes by hand but I want to dry them using the dishwasher. I use the Blomberg DW51600 SS dishwasher. This has an Express dry function. But when I select this function it still proceeds to perform the wash cycles before drying. I have checked its manual but no help.

Can someone please point me in the right direction as to how to use it to only dry the dishes.

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    No there is no option you can select to only run a drying cycle.
    – Kris
    Commented Jun 20, 2020 at 15:39
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    It is a rare feature sometimes called "plate warmer".
    – Mattman944
    Commented Jun 20, 2020 at 17:13
  • Check into the sanitize option. Does that just heat the dishes or is it an added cycle after washing?
    – Tmartin
    Commented Jun 22, 2020 at 19:00
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    Sanitize just raises the water temperature (to 162 deg. F according to my Bosch manual)
    – Chris O
    Commented Apr 12, 2022 at 21:48
  • I'm no Marsha Stewart, but I believe the box in the kitchen that gets hot without water is called the "oven"...
    – gnicko
    Commented Aug 17 at 22:58

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Absolutely!

  1. Open the dishwasher.
  2. Hand wash dishes.
  3. Place wet, freshly washed items in the dishwasher racks.
  4. Allow items to dry.

On a more serious note... Dishwashers are designed to wash dishes - it's right there in the name. There are some dishwashers that don't even have a "dry cycle", they're designed to wash, then allow the items to drip dry.

You might, with enough time, find a dishwasher that has a "dry only" cycle, but they're probably few and far between.

That said, you may want to contact the manufacturer to see if there is a magical incantation of buttons you can push to get a "dry only" run, but I'd doubt it.

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  • I don't understand why this is such a crazy idea. I would love this feature. Often times my dishwasher doesn't do a great job drying the dishes and a few extra minutes of drying time would be great. Washing machines have extra rinse cycles, extra spin cycles, etc. Why can't dishwashers?
    – d512
    Commented Jul 18 at 13:01
  • On older mechanical-timer dishwashers, like mechanical-cycle clothes washers, it was possible to manually skip some cycles. With electronic controls, unless it is designed in, that isn't possible... and this isn't something usually designed in. Check your owner:'s manual, and if you don't find it there you can try contacting the manufacturer or getting hold of the repair manual!; there may be a semi-documented repair test you could use. But I expect not.
    – keshlam
    Commented Aug 17 at 19:11

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