Dishwashers that dry properly?

 I moved into a brand new house and the dishwasher dry cycle is very weak
compared to the dishwasher in the older home I used to live in.  I called
the manufacturer and they said try using rinse aid.  That helped a little,
but dishes still remain damp for hours after the cycle is over.

The dishwasher does not have a way to run the dry cycle independently.
Apparently the weak drying is an energy-efficiency "feature."  It also has a
feature to turn the dry cycle off completely to save even more energy, but
I'm sure the dry cycle is running, but just not very effective.

Are there new dishwashers that have powerful dry cycles?  I looked at
Consumer Reports ratings of some dishwashers, but they failed to include
drying capability in their criteria for rating dishwashers.

  wrote:


I'd suggest leaving the door open for a couple of hours or using
<perish the thought> a towel.

 
I bought a GE built-in a year ago. It was about $400. The drying cycle
is very hot. The dishes get so hot that you can't touch them until
they've cooled down. Open up the dishwasher while it's in the dry
cycle and you are met with a blast furnace rush of steaming hot air.

 

Assuming you are pushing all the right buttons, you have a bad dishwasher.
If the house is brand new including appliances, have it fixed under
warranty.

 
I don't think that's necessarily true.  Every dishwasher I've
ever used has left some pools of water in recessed services,
e.g., on the tops of mugs, bowls and plates with lips on
bottom.  For the dry cycle to run long and hot enough to
evaporate these pools would be a huge waste of energy, not to
mention causing excessive wear on the dishes.

Perhaps there are some dishwashers which do, indeed, turn up
the heat that long and hot during the dry cycle.  But I'm
sure that many do not, so it is not reasonable to conclude
that the OP has a bad dishwasher just because it's leaving
some pools.

Now, if we're not talking about these pools, but rather about
all the dishes being wet all over after the dry cycle, then I
agree that there's a problem.