No looky for you!

Knowing how "fun" it is to make a truly watertight window, even with low pressure, matching both cold and hot and detergent and whatever's flying in there, I'm glad there isn't a glass pane to view into the dishwasher.
Also, I'm usually doing things that are not reliant on seeing what's happening in a dishwasher when it is running, so the cost effectiveness would not be great there.
- How is it different from a window in a washing machines, because those are quite common.

Duh. If they let you see how it's done, then you'll know how to do it yourself. And once you know how to do it yourself, you won't need to buy one of their expensive machines every time you want to wash dishes.

I have a countertop dishwasher that has a giant window in the front. Wanna know what's in there?
Bubble bath shower for the dishes. It looks fun.

Obligatory Technology Connections
- he left out cleaning the hose that leads to the sink.

You don't want to see it.
For the purposes of saving water, your dishes are repeatedly washed in dirty greasy brown water before rinsing. This does not look good, but in fact it is alright.
- Not true. They are hiding the fact that there's a group of tiny gnomes forced to work the dishes. No one wants to see tiny slaves in their kitchen. They are pathetic and do not fit the rest of the kitchen ambiance.
  
  They're just in there licking all the food off the dishes after getting drunk on the "rinsing agent".
  If you forget to fill their booze, they just piss all over your dishes, that's where the spots come from.
  
  Even worse! They're all nude!

Why tho'? Apart from curiosity, what do you need to see? How will you utilize the information?
I'm an oven you can check on the food, and to a certain extent in the MW.

I'm actually more pissed off that here in 2025 we haven't developed a dishwasher that has a blow dry cycle. Like, just have a small water tight door that flips open to reveal a fan that circulates warm air to dry the dishes.
But no, instead we have the dubious development of dishwashers that no longer have a cup for the prewash soap (which is still 100% necessary) because those stupid pods exist and on some models all the indicator lights have been relocated to the inside of the door where you can't see if the cycle is done unless you open the door which, if the dishwasher is still in the middle of washing, will disrupt the cycle.
- They actually do have that, warm air circulation. The real problem is though that the moisture has to go somewhere for the dishes to actually get dry. It's why a clothes dryer won't dry your clothes if the vent is clogged. Some of them have basically something akin to a still inside the door - a path for the warm and moist air to travel through that has a lot of right angle turns giving lots of opportunity for moisture to condense out of the air and then it can drain liquid water out the bottom. Some other models have automatic door openers, so once everything inside gets nice and hot and humid, the door pops open and it all just gets spit out into your kitchen.
- Brother I'm not sure what kind of dishwasher you're working with but my LG dishwasher will peel paint.
  Everything comes out crystal clear clean no matter how dirty it goes in, they specifically say do not pre wash anything and we don't, everything ends up 98% dry too. There might be the odd bit of pooled water in some crevace of a container or lid to something. I use the steam cycle with normal wash and extra dry and overnight dry. All buttons are on top and just remember their settings so you don't really need to do anything but slap the pod and shut the door.
  Dishwashers like everything run the price and features gambit. For performance like this we spent around $800. Worth every penny.
  
  Yeah, the bargain bin whirlpool my apartment grudgingly provides does not perform the same. Convincing them to shell out $800 or even to let me do so would be like convincing DOGE to fund universal healthcare—impossible.
- The warm air thingie is pointless, it wouldn't dry anything quicker. Instead, they simply open the door and it airs it out.
  
  I hang my dishes outside on the laundry rack
- I have a light that is underneath projecting onto the floor that tells me the status of the washing.

There are good reasons to hide what's going on inside. Some are simply not prepared: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIKJ6n-vSKt/

I remember a while back discovering GE made a clear door that could be used for diagnostic purposes on some dishwashers they had built. Never got to try one out, just thought it was cool they made em.

Table top dishwashers usually have a window. My kid considered it a major disadvantage when we got a real dishwasher that the window was missing.
- Your kid spoke the truth

It's to keep people from seeing the reality of recycled dishwater being sprayed at the plates you eat off of.
- It's because they are usually insulated and there is no point putting a clear surface over insulation.
  
  My oven is super insulated, yet it still has a window

This is oddly rhythmical/musical.

this Capitalization is Giving me a Fucking stroke
- Your comment made me reread the post and it seems intentional to stress those words
  
  Per internet rules, capitalization can only be used for emphasis LIKE THIS. Doing it any other way is just bad grammar and, as a result, confusing.
  
  But why the bizarre spacing on the commas...
- It's the fact that it doesn't spell out a word which gave me one
  
  What do you mean, it clearly spells out "wadnnrs." If you know, you know

The technology connections guy has a video where he puts a window in one to show how it works
- And it looks like sudsy vomit recirculating over your dishes. Ain't nobody wanna see that.
  
  Except Alec apparently
  
  There's also just no point. What exactly would one hope to accomplish in having a window in their dishwasher? With a microwave, you can monitor food and make sure it's not boiling over, smoking, exploding, etc. With an oven, you can monitor goods to see if they're done or not. But a dishwasher? Unlike a cooking device, there's no harm in leaving dishes in the dishwasher too long. You don't need to pull them out at just the exact moment they're fully clean.
  Unless you're one of those weirdos that cooks things in their dishwasher, I can't see any reason why you would need a window in one.
  
  I can see myself meeting that guy in a bar and both of us complaining about shit for hours and hours
  
  Don't kink shame.
  
  Hold my beer.
- And my Amazon order for pre-wash detergent tells me it was already 4 years ago, OMG. It took 4 years to go through that bottle, we're a family of 4.
- Minutefoods does a video with the camera inside the dishwasher, also pretty cool

The Sears appliance departments usually had at least one with a clear front for demonstration purposes.. But you know what happened to them
- Thanks, Obama

They don’t want you to know about the dish gnomes forced to work in tight spaces under terrible conditions.
- You don't replace your dish gnome cartridge every 3 years? I was told it was a feature. They get tired.
  
  First, you have to remove the dead gnomes. Straight to the compost heap, not in the regular garbage! Cause nature and stuff ...
  
  Oh you absolutely need to replace the gnome cartridge, my dad would always freak out if we didn't. That's like day 1 of dishwasher school.
- This is praxis

Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?
- when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?

My washer and dryer have tinted windows. I have no idea why. I'm guessing their chief designer drives a heavily modded Scion though.

Technology connections put a window in one, it’s just nasty water swirling around and a lot of people would be grossed out by that so they hide it lol
- I also don't want to be looking at the dirty dishes throughout the week as I'm waiting for the machine to be full enough to run.

Reading though the comments I think something I said earlier today is going to be true. Technology Connections is going to be the XKCD of video explainers.

I saw a see through dishwasher at a department store when i was a kid. a demo thingy. it was magical
- Like those cows with the portal in their side that they bring around to elementary schools to show kids how chambered stomachs work! (Just now realizing this might not be a universal experience and may have had to do with my elementary school's proximity to UC Davis (Agriculturally focused college).
  
  I remember seeing one of those! Wasn’t brought to our school, though (I went to school in the middle of the city), we went to a farm.

why do They capitalize seemingly random Words in each Sentence?
- Brainrot
- And the , commas with , spaces on , both sides
  
  This one kinda makes some sense. Screens and text are often small enough that properly punctuated sentences can almost feel cramped. Adding visual space helps emphasize pauses and full stops. I use hyphens often in Discord when chatting, instead of periods or commas, since comments and convos can shift pretty quickly.
- I think it Was on purPose To trigger Some Grammar nazis.
  
  A grammar Nazi takes time out of their day to give someone crap about a comma splice or argue about whether or not it's appropriate to capitalize the first word after a colon. OPs like this are not "Grammar Nazi" fodder. It's just language anarchy normalized by terminally online brainrot.
  
  I think they were just emphasizing what they found important, like cummings. To each their own.
- Maybe they're not a native speaker? German for instance capitalizes all nouns. You'll often find weird capitalizations in my (mobile) writing when my phone didn't correctly guess what I wanted to type. At least some words in the OPs text are German nouns (e.g. See, All), while others aren't.
- I guess it's a stylistic choice to express emphasis instead of using italics or bold text.
- Functional illiteracy

The reason you dont is because it would probably disturb people to see their dishes slamming into each other.
- Maybe they would then stop putting the fucking knives into the fucking dish washer.
  
  Omg, when you have to saw through a tomato slowly? Or when a knife can't use a generic sharpener because a chip in it catches? Absolutely wretched.

The dishes want some privacy in their bath.

VERBOTEN

I have a window in mine. It's great, I can see when something's not cleaning right and I fix it. Saves on redos.
- Same. I had a tiny countertop one with a little window on it.
  On the one hand I get that people with large dishwashers don't want to learn how many times the same goopy water is recycled to splash over the things they put in their mouths, but it's kinda mesmerizing, if I'm being honest.
  
  It's more salubrious than having that nasty dishwater all over your skin, eh? And yeah, it's fun to watch.
- Jack Donaghy approves.

It’s because watching a bunch of food water swirl around for half an hour is gross.

My old dishwasher was malfunctioning and I bypassed the door switch to see what was going on inside. That was a big mistake, water in my face and on the ceiling lol.
- Specifically in your face because one of the nozzles on the middle spray arm is aimed outwards to hit the latch on the detergent dispenser door.

W A D N N R S ?

Hell yeah ... just like washing machines ... I'd love to be able to see what's going on side a dish washer ... even put LED lights on inside it and do a light show ... or control the lighting so that you can turn it on and off if you want

I was once helping a previous landlord install a new dishwasher and during the first test cycle I opened it and he yelled “NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING”. Turns out he thought they filled up with water like a clothes washer. A window really would have helped him.
- A surprising amount of people labor under the assumption that they lock shut somehow and the door can't be opened while the machine is running which is bad in case "something goes wrong."
  A) No they don't, and you can easily open the door as you have observed, and
  B) If the thing were having some manner of hypothetical catastrophic meltdown, why would you want to open the door as your first impulse anyway?
  People also near universally have a serious misconception about how much water a modern dishwasher uses, or rather how much it doesn't. Everyone unanimously insists to me that they can hand-wash the same amount of dishes using less water than a dishwasher. No, you can't. They think it's running water constantly while it's in operation and don't understand that it fills with 1.5-2 gallons of water and recirculates that through each phase of the wash, usually resulting in only two or three fills.
- This doesn’t make any sense because to be a landlord he must be rich, and to be rich he must be smart…right?
  /s
  
  To be fair he was the best landlord I ever had. Took care of like everything as soon as we said the slightest word there might have been an issue.

Okay but what if I mention Technology Connections

Here you go.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_W3aR15B44&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
(Skip ahead to about 8:30 once he gets it built)

just splash dirty water all over your dishes for an hour, you'll get the idea

Since noise reduction is an important part of a dishwasher, it wouldn't make sense to overengineer a viewing window.
- I would accept a 4-5db performance hit in exchange for a window.

My new washing machine has a window on the top and it's pretty cool watching how fast things whip around during the spin cycle. Definitely have a greater appreciation for the amount of force those things put out.
- Back before they changed the latch design, for safety, we would use a penny to trigger the lid sensor(just a simple pressure sensor) and watch it spin.