I just ate an entire Terry’s Chocolate Orange. Excuse me while my pancreas explodes…

Apparently a full wash cycle on the dishwasher uses 1.17 kWh of power. (It idles at 3 W, and while I was watching it went up as high as 170 W. However, apparently there’s a heating step which I didn’t see, so I’m presuming that’s where all the power gets used. But for that it would be lower power than the clothes washer. But the dishwasher fills using only cold water, while the clothes washer has a connection to the hot water system…)

PS. I make my therapist laugh. Like a little schoolgirl. Should I be concerned?