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Looks like a KDS-16 ? in Rhode Island |
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Post# 496836   2/16/2011 at 12:16 (4,809 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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Just having Lunch and checking out CL and found this.
I have 2 One Arm Wonders. Might be worth someone checking this out. CLICK HERE TO GO TO toploader55's LINK on Providence Craigslist |
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Post# 496922 , Reply# 1   2/16/2011 at 19:17 (4,809 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 496925 , Reply# 2   2/16/2011 at 19:30 (4,809 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Sorry but I really don't consider the constant rinse to be all that helpful in certain situations. 1-arm wonder, because there's only 1 wash arm and that's under the bottom rack. Nothing for the upper rack that's separate. Put a whole bunch of big mixing bowls, a dutch oven or two and a couple of other things in the b0ottom rack and you ain't gonna get much cleaning in the top rack cuz the water's blocked pretty well. Not my cup of tea when I'm power baking and cooking. |
Post# 497054 , Reply# 3   2/17/2011 at 07:52 (4,808 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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You know, I'm so used to running multiple loads, back to back at work that doing the same thing at home just isn't that big a deal to me so not every load has to be a Bob Load@ (ducks and walks away quickly). The most important thing for me is that a dishwasher has a quick cycle and a cancel/drain button so I can expedite the loads.
The racking in the pre-second wash arm KitchenAid dishwashers, to me, was perfection. By that I don't mean that it was either the best out there, nor the most capacious, but for old-fart users that washed DISHES, like with Maytag, everything was based on "the circle in the square". Large plates down the center where the upper rack was shallowest, small cups in that shallow part of the upper rack, etc,. etc. By the way, I will also tell you that when we bought our first KitchenAid KDC-17a back in 1974, I noticed right away that it couldn't hold as much as the GE SU-70. If you knew what you were doing, that machine held a sh*t-load because there were so many tricks to loading it correctly and effectively. |
Post# 497059 , Reply# 4   2/17/2011 at 08:03 (4,808 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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I use my Single Arm machines when I'm in between a "Big Cook. When I'm in the Heat and Serve mode, I use the Single Arm machines. I keep them for Nostalgic Reasons. Other than that, I really think they're terrible. If the loading is not precise, the results can be frustrating. Before KA went with the second arm under the top rack, these machines are exactly what they're called, DISHWASHERS. Only plates,salad plates, saucers in the lower rack. You can fling a pot or pan in the upper rack, but I find that I am running the machine 2/3 full just so spray action can reach the top rack.
I'll take my KDS 18 or KenWhirl over the One Arm Wonder anyday. |