[Flick Lives]

And there was the dishwasher with the heated dry switch in the door that would short-out and burn down your house.

... on the plus side, the dishes *were* dry.

[Lurkinanloomin]

That was a few select models and I never saw one start a fire, despite having down reworks on literally thousands of them.
And yes, they actually did dry the dishes.
We used to have a larger element in the bottom that would literally bake the dishes dry, but because of federal energy regulations that had to be reduced.
Dishwashers today do not dry dishes.