Washing dishes by hand isn’t just tedious, it’s also wasteful. In fact, some experts estimate that using a dishwasher uses ten times less water. Over the course of a year that can add…
Washing dishes by hand isn’t just tedious, it’s also wasteful. In fact, some experts estimate that using a dishwasher uses ten times less water.
Over the course of a year that can add up to 1500 gallons in an average American household. Not everyone has room in the kitchen for a traditional dishwasher, however. And not everyone needs a machine that can wash an entire Christmas dinner’s worth of dishes.
Why not invest in a compact, countertop model? Maybe even that good-looking little number up there. That’s the Tetra, a radically different dishwasher from the clever folks at Heatworks.
What’s so special about Tetra? Well, for starters, take a closer look at the image. At first glance you may not have noticed that there’s no hose running to the kitchen faucet. That’s not just because it’s a marketing photo.
The Tetra actually doesn’t need to be connected to your home’s water supply. You supply it manually when you’re ready to run a wash cycle. Fill up most of an empty two-liter pop bottle and pour it in, then fire up Tetra and let it do its thing.
Tetra holds a lot more dishes than you might think. Despite only being the size of a small microwave, you can fit two full place settings in Tetra — or up to ten dinner plates or all the pint glasses you and your eleven closest friends just finished pounding.
There’s another thing that makes Tetra stand out. Unlike a traditional dishwasher, Tetra doesn’t have an internal heating element to bring the water up to temperature. As Heatworks puts it, the water is the heating element. Minerals that are present in the water, anyway… which are excited by Tetra’s graphite electrodes.
Heatworks refers to the system as Ohmic Array Technology, and they’ve used it to replace elements in another home appliance. A tankless water heater, logically enough.
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