What model and era is this? What's its best and worst points?

Thank you in advance

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$15, the guy's wife wanted  a new stainless kitchen, it worked perfectly until un-installed 3 days ago. Now it's in my garage. KUDS23OBWHO(space space space) F

Serial FE4647225

Sure Temp water heating

Whisper Quiet

KitchenAid SUPERBA

All Porcelain, the upper rack has both 2 adjustable rows on each side, and then the whole rack moves up or down each side for tilting/tall glasses, etc.

Tons of buttons and options, the underside is CLEAN and sparkles.

I downloaded an exact KUDS23OBWHO manual from KitchenAid.com, the last page says clearly Kitchenaid of Benton Harbor MI, quite Whirlpool of them, eh? One page of the manual list 9-94 print date, another page lists 1995, I guess this should be in the Deluxe Forum, Sorry. It may not a be a real and true KA, it's still new to me and lots of buttons and options, wtf. $15 can't be beat.

That's the "Architect" line of the 23 series.  The 23's also had the more common control panels that resemble the 21 and 22 series.  Insides are the same across the board.

so we've been taught! that it does.

3 loads so far and yes, this is an excellent dishwasher. I was very used to my 82 Hotpoint Potwasher, it still works well and had no problems but I couldn't resist a $15 white KitchenAid. It seems like I went from a darn good machine to perfect one. Even my favorite chicken roasting pans came out clean

The KA23 has a few beginnings of rust on the bottom rack, what is the paint/epoxy/stuff I've heard mentioned for rack repair? I'd rather do it now while the machine is new to me, or suddenly 5 years will pass and it'll be worse. I don't care if the color matches, I just want to inhibit additional rust and wear.

I lifted up the bottom spray arm and there was almost no "lint" on the screen. Is there anything else I should check before finalizing the installation, screwing it into my countertop? The entire underside was spotless, no spider webs or dust, no sign of leaks, sparkling clean.

The rest of my kitchen is white appliances with chrome features, I sort of wish this was a "regular" KA23 instead of the Architect Series, but it looks damn fine and washes fantastically.

I don't remember the exact name of the plastisol repair stuff (Re-rack or something like that maybe?), but I've seen it at both ACE and appliance parts retailers.  Even if you were to track down some of the blue Maytag brand plastisol repair, it wouldn't match.  It's way more blue than the racks are.

Sounds like you got a good machine.  There are some here who feel the 23 series is even superior to the 18.  I'll hazard a guess that it's quieter, at least.  Is it still pretty loud when it drains?

Are you having any issues with the single final rinse?  I'll sometimes find a bit of gritty residue in random cup bottoms after running a load through my ISE/KA 22 series clone.

I thought I heard 2 quick rinses the other night, I will listen more closely. I knew my old machine perfectly, and it had a dial. This one will take some listening and thinking before I know what it's doing. The owner's manual is not very clear on this subject, and there's only one pilot light for WASH/Rinse.

So far very clean, no bits left in upper rack cup bottoms. I ordered "Re-Rack" made by Performix, on Ebay.

This is the stuff I use. It matches the original blue rack color almost perfectly.

Hey QSD-dan, thanks for the link, Goop should arrive in a few days..

This machine does seem to have a single rinse only, but it is preceeded by a "Purge" and clear glasses come out spotless, I guess they knew what they were doing. I was thoroughly used to my old Hotpoint and knew exactly where everything fit in the racks, even griddle and grill parts from my Chambers. This new machine will take some practice, but looks to be well worth it.

Yes, the draining is not so silent but overall the machine is a quiet one.

I almost never use those bottled rinse aids. With only one rinse here, would this be a wise machine to use that stuff? I don't have "Fine Crystal" at all, more like coffee mugs and mis-matched dinner plates, lol.

Water at our place is fairly hard.  I use liquid rinse aid.

I was concerned about the single rinse but I regularly conduct a simple test for rinse aid residue:  I remove the glass coffee carafe from the dishwasher and fill it at the refrigerator's water dispenser.  If no bubbles accumulate on the water surface, that's a good enough indicator for me that there's no measurable residue, and the water goes into the coffee maker's reservoir.  After two years of using my ISE Classic Supreme, test results have been consistently negative for any residue.

I was inspired to run such a test at our previous house where we installed a KDI-21 when we remodeled our kitchen in 1990.  Just before we moved from there, I started to notice a significant amount of bubbles forming when I'd fill the carafe, and it became a constant issue.  I'd have to rinse out the carafe by hand before filling it with water to brew coffee.

This 23 series Kitchen-Aid has been washing wonderfully for 4 months, but a few questions:

I boughtRinse-Jet or whatever when I first installed this, I have no idea how to tell when that thing is empty. Glasses always come out clean. I never used it in my old Hotpoint. Do folks just ignore the Rinse-aid. I have clear, clean, spotless tumblers, no real china or crystal( much more a coffee mug guy here.)

Also, though I don't pay much attention because the machine just runs wonderfully, I have noticed at least twice, during the first wash, it shuts down for additional water heating. Is this typical, and just because all that hot water gets cooled on a ton of room-temp dishes and drops enough in temp to kick the heater back on? It only happens on the first wash, regardless of whether I hit the button for Pots, Normal, or China (3,2,1 washes)

Other than that, this DW kicks ass against my old Hotpoint. I wish I had kitchen space for more, I'd love a top-load portable like my Grandma's Mobile Maid from 62, but my kitchen doesn't allow all the excess like my basement does.