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uhsguy  ·  58 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to load a dishwasher

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.





kleinbl00  ·  58 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.

cgod  ·  57 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.

veen  ·  57 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.

uhsguy  ·  57 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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