Upright glass washers are lesser known than their industrial cousins, which is strange considering that they offer many advantages over the large stainless steel behemoths.
They tend to be a lot quicker to clean when you are dealing with only a few glasses, and they clean in seconds without requiring a cooling off period.
Upright washers are also adept at cleaning unusual shaped items of glassware, with coffee pots and large vases posing no problems as long as you have the correct type of brush.
These types of washer have a standard electrical plug which plugs into a regular power socket.
There are several types of washer available, and all of them are designed to have slightly different functions.
The best and most expensive type of washers are fully waterproof and are designed to sit in the kitchen sink, so that the sink can be full of warm water while the washer runs.
The washer enclosure is fully waterproof, and it contains an electric motor to power the rotating brushes.
These tend to have the best cleaning ability because the motor is so close to the brushes, allowing more to power to be driven to them.
Glass washers also exist that have the electric motor sitting above the water level.
On these models, the motor enclosure is not waterproof, but since it is too high to come into contact with water this does not really matter.
They have slightly less cleaning power compared to fully waterproof models, but they still clean really well.
The vast majority of glass washers can be grouped into this category.
A related type of washer that doesn't sit in a kitchen sink is called a tabletop washer.
No water is involved in their cleaning process, instead they are designed to get rid of any stubborn marks like, for example, juice pulp before the glass is fully cleaned in the sink as it normally would.