What is a half load dishwasher?

Washing dishes is a regular household activity and takes a lot of time. Dishwasher saves time and makes life easier for households, in most cases women. To keep the kitchen clean, timely cleaning is necessary. An important element is the absence of dirty dishes, while it is not always required to accumulate, as many manufacturers offer the option of half-load dishwasher. What is it and how practical?

Feature of incomplete loading of the dishwasher and its advantages

The versatility of the washing unit provides many advantages: each user can choose the best option for washing dishes, based on its quantity, type and degree of contamination.What is especially important for each hostess is the ability to clean the dishes of a different set of elements. During cooking, dirty dishes form a lot, and it is different in size and degree of pollution. In this case, use the mode full load. If dishes are left only after a meal, it can be a minimal set with low pollution, for which the ideal washing option is to use the half load function.

In all the machines there are 3 main cycles:

• pre-rinse;
• economy mode;
• intensive washing

The ability of the washing machine to work at incomplete loading allows the use of all cycles, but with half the amount of dishes. This function is required, to a greater extent, in families with a small number of people or biased to the ideal purity of consumers. At any stage of dishwashing, you can stop the machine and make reloading In this case, you can continue the cycle from the moment of stopping, and you can start the process again.

Loading dishes

When loading the dishes, one half can be placed in different compartments, this will not affect the quality of the washing.

With a small amount of dishes of different degrees of pollution, the use of half load in the dishwasher has several advantages:

• the ability to clean dishes immediately after use, rather than accumulating at full load;
• water saving;
• reduced power consumption;
• reduction of time washing dishes.

How to arrange the dishes when not fully loaded

Each model of the dishwasher, depending on the brand, has its own technology and special design. There are cars in which a half load means the layout of the elements of dishes only in the upper or lower basket, or the use of 2 baskets at the same time. Due to the small number of devices, between the elements can be done maximum space.

Proper placement of dishes

Such an arrangement will allow for thorough washing and ensure perfect cleanliness of the dishes.

To make washing effective, it is important to properly load the dishes. There are several guidelines for the placement of elements.

1. Ladles, paddles and other large appliances should be placed horizontally crosswise in front of the basket. This method will allow to qualitatively wash off the remnants of products from bends.Regular spoons and forks should be upright.
2. Wine glasses, wine glasses, glasses and other fragile dishes should not be in contact with each other. This will allow the vibration to avoid its beats.
3. When loading dishes by ½, it is important to arrange all the elements evenly throughout the space. For these purposes, you can use special clamps for dishes.

An alternative to incomplete booting can be program "Auto", wherein the machine itself determines the amount of dishes and the degree of contamination. In this case, it also saves water, detergent and electricity, but such units are more expensive.