Ge Dishwasher

Tom is right - they sold A LOT of these dishwashers.

My Grandmother had one in NJ that she didn't particularly like. I think the complaint was food stuffs on the tops of glasses. I believe hers was exactly like this, "burl wood" and all, though she may have had a cycle button on hers or two. Same color though.

Our builder in Denver put one of these in possibly every house he built from 1973 to 1978 --- except ours (surely a few others but I never saw any, so that's over 900), as we were coming from a KDS-17A in Michigan. We opted for a Potscrubber II as the builder's appliance seller didn't deal in KA. The earlier models in the Denver houses had a black plastic ring on the timer dial, then they went all metal. May have been vice-versa too. Those did have a couple cycle options, one for sure to turn the drying heat off, maybe a heavy wash option, I don't recall. I remember the machines having green racks, mint green tub and door (didn't know at the time that they were plastisol) but they were a FAR CRY from the much better Potscrubber II we had.

Don't want to shame myself too much but I think we liked the II better than the KDS-17A.

Gordon


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Post# 624384 9/12/2012 at 09:01 (4,237 days old) by CleanteamofNY ((Monroe, New York)
Checkrate/Likes Can not make out the color but I never seen this model. CLICK HERE TO GO TO CleanteamofNY's LINK on Hudsonvalley Craigslist

Post# 624386 , Reply# 1 9/12/2012 at 09:16 (4,237 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)
Checkrate/Likes It's just a harvest BOL builder's model. The burlesque, I mean burled walnut trim does nothing to elevate the performance. GE probably sold a million of these and if you count the models with different trim over the years, like wood grain instead of the burled look or plain black plastic trim, millions.

Post# 624408 , Reply# 2 9/12/2012 at 10:20 (4,237 days old) by Kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC)
Checkrate/Likes Tom is right - they sold A LOT of these dishwashers. My Grandmother had one in NJ that she didn't particularly like. I think the complaint was food stuffs on the tops of glasses. I believe hers was exactly like this, "burl wood" and all, though she may have had a cycle button on hers or two. Same color though. Our builder in Denver put one of these in possibly every house he built from 1973 to 1978 --- except ours (surely a few others but I never saw any, so that's over 900), as we were coming from a KDS-17A in Michigan. We opted for a Potscrubber II as the builder's appliance seller didn't deal in KA. The earlier models in the Denver houses had a black plastic ring on the timer dial, then they went all metal. May have been vice-versa too. Those did have a couple cycle options, one for sure to turn the drying heat off, maybe a heavy wash option, I don't recall. I remember the machines having green racks, mint green tub and door (didn't know at the time that they were plastisol) but they were a FAR CRY from the much better Potscrubber II we had. Don't want to shame myself too much but I think we liked the II better than the KDS-17A. Gordon

Post# 624458 , Reply# 3 9/12/2012 at 13:22 (4,237 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)
Checkrate/Likes 1 These were crappy dishwashers. Better than doing dishes by hand, but much noisier and very much a cookie-cutter machine. Someone at GE during these years thought that D&M had the right idea. Shame.

Post# 624483 , Reply# 4 9/12/2012 at 14:53 (4,237 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)
Checkrate/Likes My mother's cousin had this dishwasher in her kitchen for many years, used it daily. She thought it was silly to rinse anything or add detergent to the pre-wash cup but she never complained about the results. Softened water evidently made all the difference. After the final rinse, she would open the door and "shake" the top rack to slosh away the standing water and yibblets of food. Her husband pulled the machine out shortly after moving into the house and insulated the machine and the opening in the cabinet, that helped quiet the machine considerably.

Post# 624524 , Reply# 5 9/12/2012 at 18:55 (4,236 days old) by appnut (TX)
Checkrate/Likes I moved into a brand new apartment with this exact machine (color and all) in August 1975. Had an apartment mate who had bought some grocery-store issued silver rimmed havelan china and some footed red water gobblets whose concave base collected water and yibblits. Had yibblits deposited on glasses when loaded pretty well, but I insisted on not rinsing and my roommate got pissed a few times. I'd soak tghe glasses in Dawn and all gibblits would go awayt.