HOLY FUCKING SHIT 1) if there's one person who primarily unloads the dishwasher, there will be one person who thinks the other person loads it wrong. Why? The unloader has a better sense of what works and what works is dependent on your dishes and your dishwasher. 2) If there's one person who primarily unloads the dishwasher, there will be one person who has an idea about how much the dishes need to be rinsed. Why? The unloader has a better idea of the hunks of potato floating around in the bottom. 3) We didn't switch to "enzymatic cleaners" (WTF) we lost phosphates in 2010. This is also when dishwasher pods were pushed really hard, principally because the markup is higher, ostensibly because they contain the rinse aid, coincidentally because they use an additional detergent that nukes the shit out of your aluminum. If your dishwasher is so old it doesn't have a spot for jet dry, use pods. If it's got a spot for jet dry, don't fucking use pods. 4) The Germans have basically eliminated silverware baskets (it's FINE!) which really cuts down on the creativity. The Germans have also leaned into racks that make things pretty fucking obvious - a bowl can go there, a plate cannot, which means a bowl will get clean, a plate will not. If a bowl will go there, the bowl will get clean. Stop overthinking it. 5) The Chinese have basically eliminated quality control (it's NOT FINE!) which really cuts down on the efficiency. The Chinese have also leaned into racks that are gimmicky pieces of shit where nothing really works ever. If a bowl will go there, go ham. It's going to break in 18 months anyway. How do people get through life
Your Miele probably does a great job mostly regardless of how you load it. My kitchen aid randomly shits the bed 1:10 loads. It does not fully consume the powdered detergents, it grows pink slime on cascade liquid detergent and it seems to do ok on finish complete pods. That’s all to say that I should have waited another couple weeks and bought another Miele instead of getting the shitty kitchen aid. But hey at least parts are readily available because it eats a $100-200 in parts a year.
Fuckin'... I put in a $1200 drain to keep my GE from eating pumps. We assumed the line was too thin 'cuz it blew up three pumps. Then I put in a $1200 drain and it blew up a fourth pump. That was after the Bosch after the Bosch just straight up ate a power board a month after the warranty ended. Nearly all dishwashers are junk.
Lol, I have a twenty year old dishwasher that gets the dishes clean 99.9% of the time. It's dead simple and easy to work on. We are probably going to replace it because the plastic face of the control panel is crumbling apart and the old plastics are getting to be a strange shade of pale dirty death. I'm convinced that msotbthe money spent on high end dishwasher is 95% cosmetic. I will say that Technology Connections video on dishwashers improved my dishwashing game. We have soft water and pods left a sickening residue smell that only I noticed but I also drink more plain water from glasses than the rest of the household. Using powder and a rinse aid got rid of that smell.
I learned from his videos that it’s uncommon for US dishwashers to have automatic salt and rinse aid dispensers. I don’t know it it’s the be all & end all, but those two dispensers + never using pods + useful baskets and guides mean I have never had an issue with my Siemens that wasn’t because I loaded it wrong.
Never had one burn up but I did have only try to flood the house because some how the fill valve locked in the open position. These stupid things aren’t designed to be cleaned either. The plumbing in the dish area traps all sorts of nasty shit and the spinny arm traps food and has no way to disassemble and remove it. Just