Drying method for a household appliance and household appliance for carrying the drying method

A drying method for drying items to be treated in a household appliance treatment chamber filled with a fluid in a gas phase, the drying method comprising:

• guiding the gas phase fluid in the household appliance treatment chamber into contact with a heat-absorbing part of a Peltier element for removal of thermal energy from the gas phase fluid by the heat-absorbing part of the Peltier element, thereby resulting in corresponding condensation of moisture in the gas phase fluid;
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• supplying thermal energy to the gas phase fluid in the household appliance treatment chamber via a heat-emitting part of the Peltier element in order to increase the moisture-absorbing capacity of the gas phase fluid in the household appliance treatment chamber,
• the gas phase fluid contacting one of the heat-absorbing part in the household appliance treatment chamber, and a contact plate that is in the treatment chamber and is in thermal contact with the heat-absorbing part.