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New ASKO dishwasher with up to 7 baskets
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Post# 313314   11/5/2008 at 16:08 (5,622 days old) by logixx (Germany)        

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Well, that is is you count ALL the baskets. It has a capacity of up to 17 place settings and a third basket à la Maytag. It's available in Sweden and the Netherlands (Louis!). I guess it might also be available in other countries - haven't checked it out. I have, however, attached the brochure, which is written in Dutch, BUT there are many nice pics!

ASKO 10-Spray System





Post# 313315 , Reply# 1   11/5/2008 at 16:09 (5,622 days old) by logixx (Germany)        

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Front Shoot

Post# 313316 , Reply# 2   11/5/2008 at 16:10 (5,622 days old) by logixx (Germany)        

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Upper Rack

Post# 313317 , Reply# 3   11/5/2008 at 16:11 (5,622 days old) by logixx (Germany)        

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Bottom Rack 1

Post# 313318 , Reply# 4   11/5/2008 at 16:13 (5,622 days old) by logixx (Germany)        

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Bottom Rack 2 AND BROCHURE

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Post# 313388 , Reply# 5   11/6/2008 at 04:27 (5,622 days old) by favorit ()        
very interesting .....

it is the suited DW for those who love cooking !!
To raise perfection (according to my needs) it should have a tilting upper basked, so this one could hold 25 cm diameter dishes (average italian size)

Despite the fact Asko is owned by Antonio Merloni co. it has never been sold here in Italy
And still despite of the same ownership it seems to be well built .... nothing to do with Ardo and modern Servis


Post# 313395 , Reply# 6   11/6/2008 at 05:54 (5,622 days old) by rolls_rapide (.)        
Good Grief!

Bosch/Siemens has only recently released their 13/14 capacity machines. Hoover/Candy had their 15 capacity machines, and they've both been trumped by the new ASKO.

Be cautious though. Super capacities aren't all they're meant to be: "Which?" magazine previously said that plates might be racked closer together preventing the spray pattern from cleaning efficiently.

The ASKO machine 'MIGHT' be available in the UK, but probably not branded as "ASKO", instead possibly branded as "ISE". ISE branded machines are made for UKWhitegoods. UKwhitegoods gets their top model clothes washer from ASKO. Cheaper ones come from Beko.

Nice to see a 'turbo zone' on the machine.


Post# 313457 , Reply# 7   11/6/2008 at 12:14 (5,621 days old) by liberator1509 (Ireland)        
AKSO as ISE

The ASKO might also appear as Maytag over here of course - their Vara dishwashers are very good, if rather expensive....

Post# 313591 , Reply# 8   11/7/2008 at 04:46 (5,621 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)        

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Cool dishwasher! Quite an innovation. The bottom rack can hold plates up to 39cm! No problems anymore with modern big pizza and pasta plates.

Post# 313602 , Reply# 9   11/7/2008 at 07:38 (5,621 days old) by favorit ()        
real capacity

I do agree with Rolls.
In daily use one seldom loads 12/15/17 place settings. What really counts is flexibility to load even the oddiest shaped item.

I.e. those TOL Zanussi (with that damned prewash powder dispenser in the centre of the upper basket and those NON foldable cup racks on the sides ) are really awful. Even if the middle spray arm is no more fed by the venturi cone, they still insist with this design that wastes a lot of useful place. The odd thing : old and modern BOL zannies haven't this "mushroom", so they're more flexible

In Italy we use a lot of pots and usually have 2 course meals (2/3 plates per person). So we need to put plates in the upper rack too.
In the 70ies german-made DW hadn't adjustable upper rack, so they were tricky to load for us. At those times Indesit (still before merloni's age) and Candy made some (very)tall tubs with 3 racks. As Panthera wrote in the linked thread, those machine washed very badly: they didn't wash while heating in order to keep electric load under 3000 W. This also caused thermic shock to glassware.

Strong noise, need of previous handwash, broken glasses, infamous consumptions : for these reasons many italian consumers who owned those junks didn't trust DW till the 90ies



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Post# 313700 , Reply# 10   11/7/2008 at 20:44 (5,620 days old) by rolls_rapide (.)        
Zanussi's SID dispenser

This seemed like a good idea, but was truely dreadful. The intensive wash at 70 deg C, had a heated prewash that required additional powder to be added to a second dispenser in the upper basket. This dispenser received the water jet from the ceiling of the interior as usual, but had a revolving 'saucer' if you will.

The water was supposed to flush the powder into solution. However, the SID dispenser had a bayonet type 'twist & lock' upper portion, and detergent residue became trapped in the area where the two main parts mated together. I ended up modifying the bottom of the top section, by cutting several small notches to allow some water to flush the trapped detergent out. It was a very poor design and was very bulky in size. The second version was a lot smaller, but suffered the trapped residue problem (white streaky leaks at the end of the cycle).


Post# 313701 , Reply# 11   11/7/2008 at 20:45 (5,620 days old) by rolls_rapide (.)        
SID

Stood for 'Super Intensity Dispenser'

Post# 317178 , Reply# 12   11/27/2008 at 18:19 (5,600 days old) by logixx (Germany)        
Available in the US, too!

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Just discovered it:

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Post# 317181 , Reply# 13   11/27/2008 at 19:25 (5,600 days old) by mrx ()        

That's an interesting - it appears to have the same detergent dispenser as a Hotpoint-Ariston machine!

Post# 317211 , Reply# 14   11/28/2008 at 04:55 (5,600 days old) by toggleswitch2 ()        

The dispensers appear to be here on this side of the pond as well. Probably all out-sourced from one manny.

Post# 317236 , Reply# 15   11/28/2008 at 10:55 (5,599 days old) by favorit ()        
Dispensers, aquastops & other components

Many of these are made by Eltek

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