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The Greatest Cleaning Dishwasher of All Time |
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Post# 355303   6/7/2009 at 16:37 (5,408 days old) by mrcleanjeans (milwaukee wi)   |   | |
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In your opinion, what is the greatest cleaning dishwasher of ALL time? |
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Post# 355356 , Reply# 1   6/7/2009 at 18:10 (5,408 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 355358 , Reply# 2   6/7/2009 at 18:12 (5,408 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 355386 , Reply# 4   6/7/2009 at 20:04 (5,408 days old) by maytagbear (N.E. Ohio)   |   | |
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WC400 from 1973. It wasn't quiet. It drank more than a practising alcoholic. But, oh could it clean! Lawrence/Maytagbear |
Post# 355390 , Reply# 5   6/7/2009 at 20:16 (5,408 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 355395 , Reply# 6   6/7/2009 at 20:29 (5,408 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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Doesn't matter which model right on up to the -23's. |
Post# 355413 , Reply# 7   6/7/2009 at 21:02 (5,408 days old) by kqkenmore (memphis tn)   |   | |
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I had a Kitchen-aid and it was very good but I have had 2 Whirlpool made Kenmores and they have been the best.The first Kenmore that I had for nine years was the best and I thought that it was going out and I found another tall tub one on clearence at Sears reg 800.00 for 300.00 and I bought it and gave the other one to a friend it still works great.Why todays dishwashers are not that good is because they are taking the disposers out of them so they are quieter but they do not clean as well.
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Post# 355415 , Reply# 8   6/7/2009 at 21:03 (5,408 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA )   |   | |
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Post# 355418 , Reply# 9   6/7/2009 at 21:06 (5,408 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 355420 , Reply# 10   6/7/2009 at 21:08 (5,408 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 355434 , Reply# 11   6/7/2009 at 21:32 (5,408 days old) by tlee618 ()   |   | |
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For me it has to be the KDS 18 with the longer upper wash arm as well. What that machine can do in right at 33 min. is amazing!!! |
Post# 355440 , Reply# 12   6/7/2009 at 21:38 (5,408 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 355469 , Reply# 13   6/7/2009 at 22:10 (5,408 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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I have the Short Wash Arm, and have used the Longer version (Wash Arm that us), and Nothing cleans better. I might be on the Hot Trail of a Vintage Fridgedaire Portable. Stay Tuned !!! But in the mean time, KDS 18 All The Way. The Over Head "Constant Rinse" gets rid of the yibbles on the top of stuff in the Upper Rack. Why they never worked on that was the biggest disappoinment when they dropped that on the rest of the machines built. You gotta have something overhead to rinse the Crap off the spray from the bottom from either racks. The AM 14 at the restaurant and for a matter of fact, All Commercial Machines have a Upper and Lower Wash Arm. Makes Sense, doesn't it ? All my Vintage KA's clean well, as long as you have plates in the Lower Rack and put concave objects in the Upper Rack. I feel this limits the capacity.And I still sometimes find Yibbles on the stuff in the upper Rack Just My Opinion. Eddie |
Post# 355496 , Reply# 16   6/8/2009 at 00:22 (5,408 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 355511 , Reply# 17   6/8/2009 at 01:54 (5,408 days old) by mrcleanjeans (milwaukee wi)   |   | |
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I'd say the Whirlpool power clean module machines,the GE GSD1200 and certain Waste Kings from the mid 70s all cleaned even better than Kitchen Aids,however no DW was ever built better than those Hobart Kitchen Aids. |
Post# 355615 , Reply# 18   6/8/2009 at 15:35 (5,407 days old) by washmeup (scottsdale)   |   | |
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Post# 355618 , Reply# 19   6/8/2009 at 15:47 (5,407 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 355634 , Reply# 20   6/8/2009 at 16:45 (5,407 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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OK, go ahead and throw things, but my TOL 2008 LG (Model 9810) cleans better than any dishwasher I've ever had, which includes two TOL KitchenAids (one Hobart and one Whirlpool-made), a Maytag (this one came in 2nd), a Frigidaire (good with dishes but not pots/pans), a Whirlpool (circa '86 or so) and a GE. The LG cleans pots/pans like no other! And it has no rival for racking space. Hands down, the winner! |
Post# 355729 , Reply# 23   6/9/2009 at 07:05 (5,406 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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My Mom and our 1962 GE WU-402 pull-out. Mostly because she hand washed every damn thing before it went in to the machine(Before we ever owned a dishwasher she once saw a friend's KitchenAid with a week's full of dirty smelly dishes and roaches and swore that her's would never be like that). Dishes came out of there spotless and too hot to handle.
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Post# 355785 , Reply# 24   6/9/2009 at 11:23 (5,406 days old) by washmeup (scottsdale)   |   | |
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Post# 355873 , Reply# 26   6/9/2009 at 21:11 (5,406 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan)   |   | |
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In terms of what? Initial cleaning ability? I doubt any new LG owner is going to be happy in 5 years. I hope you got the extended warranty. Does best mean longevity? KA's win hands down on longetivity. NOTHING can compare with KA's on this. That is why I have a shop full of KA's. Because they survived. And they do a good job. Sometimes they do an amazing job. I am curious about GMFR's, certain D&M's (like the Kelvinator Pete has), and now, Maytage direct drive reverse racks. These are rare machines because they did not last 40 years. But they probably made it 20. But I didn't even get a chance to hook up the Maytag DD I had. BTW, I am not allowed to load the dishwasher. My wife has a certain way of doing it and I only mess up her system. She has used a variety of dishwashers. She thinks the top-loading design is superior. matt |
Post# 355890 , Reply# 28   6/9/2009 at 21:49 (5,406 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts)   |   | |
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Ok, so im torn. I have had 3 great dishwashers. Growing up we had an old BD maytag. It was noisey, but it cleaned. In my adult years i have had maytag DWU9962, ge potscrubber 2800, and 3 different bosch models. My current bosch cleans very well. Sometimes i dont know how it does, but it does. The maytag did a great job too. That whole fuzzy logig thing was still kinda new at that time. As for the ge, well lets just say it would have made a better lawn sprinkler!
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Post# 355920 , Reply# 30   6/9/2009 at 23:14 (5,406 days old) by qsd-dan (West)   |   | |
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Post# 355928 , Reply# 32   6/10/2009 at 00:18 (5,406 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas)   |   | |
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The Maytag we purchased last November cleans as good as the early 90's Maytag Jet Clean we had. The build quality is not as heavy duty as the 90's model, but it cleans just as well, which means anything that you put into it will come out totally clean; including food that has been baked onto SS pans with no precleaning. |
Post# 356982 , Reply# 33   6/14/2009 at 13:44 (5,401 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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I don't know, every G.E. I ever had proved that there was one behind every pile of dried-on crumbs in my glasses ;-) Greg and I guffawed at a 30" Dacor in Nebraska Furniture Mart. Like the Empress, yet another 30" machine designed with 24" wash systems. If you're going to do that, you have to change the racking--or add twin wash-arms--or something! If I couldn't lay hands on a KitchenAid, my parents' 1978 Whirlpool (with SuperScour!) was a rockstar. 360º filtration, plastic tub and that damned silverware basket in the door, but always a flawless performer. The only bummer about those machines was dodging the wash tower and the very low-hanging upper wash arm. Otherwise, the only thing that came out was clean dishes--including, amazingly, the silverware. (We were meticulous about avoiding overloading or nesting flatware in the basket.) |
Post# 357163 , Reply# 35   6/15/2009 at 08:33 (5,400 days old) by customline (pennsylvania)   |   | |
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That would be my 1957 Westinghouse. |