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Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. You’d think that cleaning would be the most difficult—and important—task for a dishwasher. It turns out, maybe not. “Drying is harder than cleaning because dishes and glasses have areas that trap water, and that water doesn’t evaporate,” says Larry Ciufo, who oversees Consumer Reports’ dishwasher tests. “Also, as the dishwasher cools, water droplets from all that humid air form on the dishwasher’s interior and on the dishes.” To test how well a dishwasher dries, we place plastic sippy cups on the top rack and run a normal cycle. Plastic is...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Considering how often babies and young kids eat and drink (like, all the time), a family could very well run their dishwasher more than once a day. These appliances need not only to do an exceptional job cleaning and drying dishes but also to stand up to the kind of abuses toddlers can inflict on appliances. Safety features that help keep kids from hurting themselves by, say, picking up sharp knives, are also important. “The dishwasher is like a toy box for kids,” says Arvey Levinsohn, a certified childproofer...