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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by atombender on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:14PM (#16148445)
The drying cabinet is actually a Finnish invention [1] (although apparently preceded by a US patent that never took off). It was popular in Scandinavia for a while, and you still come across homes from the 50-60s that have them, but they're no longer popular now that most people have automatic dishwashers. My family has a mountain cabin in Norway, built in the 1950s with no dishwasher, that have these, and they're very handy.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dish_drying_cabinet

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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by infinite8s on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:08PM (#16162609)
I never have enough dirty dishes to do a full dishwasher run, and I find I need new dishes before I've run a load, so now I just handwash and use the dishwasher as a drying rack.
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Re:CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work by Illotus on Monday January 15, 2018 @08:00AM (#16150194)
Very nearly every home in Finland has one these still.
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