Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
Most commercial dishwashers sterilize using very hot water. There is no way a human is faster. The cycle is barely over a minute long, and that's for the entire rack of dishes.

I'm not sure most of them even use any kind of detergent.
Hmm... Does some physical phenomenon allow hot water to remove fat without detergent?

But like you said, they are fast indeed, from what I've seen. I merely assumed they must use some nasty detergent as well.

However, I admit I have no basis whatsoever to assume smaller food establishments would use proper methods and/or machines. Since you guys seem to have personal experience indicating the contrary, I'll yield.