Staticfree Blog 31 03 2002

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I have been at home for 2 hours, 14 minutes, and 37 seconds. Before that, I was asleep.

Sun, 31 Mar 2002

I've come to the conclusion dish racks and the process of washing dishes by hand, are incredibly flawed. (dishwashers also have this problem). You have generally two buffers and one processor: the first buffer holds dirty dishes, the second holds clean ones that are drying. The processor is the act of washing the dishes.

Now, normally, when you do buffer->processor->buffer, you would use buffers that will handle everything flowing through them. Dish racks do not do this. A dish rack does not scale. Usually, they're under-powered for the given load of perhaps two meal's worth of dishes. Problem 2 is that they're not FIFO. You put a dish into the dish rack, it takes a specific amount of time to dry while in the dish rack, then you remove it. But, as you're washing, if the rack can't hold enough dishes, your're forced to either remove the dishes from the rackand dry them by hand or stack others on top of the dishes already in the rack. If you dry them by hand, the entire functionality of having a dish rack is lost. If you stack them, the same problem occurs as the wet ones drip onto the dry ones and make it so you can't take the dry ones out before the wet ones.

I truely hope there's someone out there, designing a dish rack that doesn't suck.

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