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Thread Number: 36389
new Bosch dishwasher - my opinion |
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Post# 542071 , Reply# 1 9/6/2011 at 19:10 (4,786 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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AzaAza, your kitchenaid baked the dishes dry with very high temperature heat from the heating element. A big nono these days. Bosches are notorious for not having very good frying results. But it shouldn't be blamed on the lack of a heating element in the bottom of the tub. Many other european design macihnes dry quite well. Are you using rinse agent? Does your model have an option for extra hot rinse or extra dry or something like that? Many Bosch's in this price range have an option whereby you can increase the temperature of the final rinse water even higher than "normal", wihch is 150 to 155 degrees, and that should help with the drying results. also, what cycle are you using?
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Post# 542075 , Reply# 2 9/6/2011 at 19:29 (4,786 days old) by nmassman44 (Brooksville Florida) |
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My 3 cents.... With these dishwashers one needs to use rinse aid like Jet Dry Turbo. The Bosch dishwasher does have a heating element, you can't see it since in the pump housing. This machine should be able to heat the final rinse to 150 degrees. One thing you can do is when the dishwasher is done after the last rinse, is open the door to flash dry your load. I have a Miele dishwasher that uses a closed system and it uses the Clean Dry system that works really well. But it works well since I use rinse aid.
So don't write this machine off just yet. Give it what it needs to perform for you. | ||
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Post# 542184 , Reply# 5 9/7/2011 at 09:03 (4,785 days old) by RE563 (Fort Worth, Texas) |
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I have a bosch in Florida. I know on the new ones this is different, but on mine every full cycle the machine will always heat the final rinse water to 155 degrees, and rinsed them long enough to be "sanitized". I think the new ones still do this, but it doesn't rinse long enough so that dishes are "sanitized". They dry time is very short, Mine was like 10 mins. I do know that you can set the controls to signal you when the cycle is complete at which time you can open the door and dishes will be totally dry in like 5 mins and you will be able to handle them in like 15 mins. Most Bosch dishwashers are pretty straight forward with only cycle selection.
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| Post# 542436 , Reply# 8 9/8/2011 at 15:55 (4,784 days old) by ZsaZsa () | ||
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Thanks for your suggestions. I've done some loads with rinse agent, some without. I'll experiment again. I know this machine does have a high heat option. Appnut, I liked frying my dishes! ;) | ||
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Post# 542467 , Reply# 9 9/8/2011 at 19:24 (4,784 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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BOSCH DW MY OPINON Return it and get a Kenmore standard tub ultra-wash DW it is less than half the money you paid for the BDW and it is by far the closest thing to a classic KA DW in every way. The Boschs small capacity and smelly dampness will never get any better but you may eventually get used to a lower standard of DW performance just as millions of other people around the world have done. | ||
| Post# 542861 , Reply# 10 9/10/2011 at 22:09 (4,782 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
 A friend gave me a late-nineties BOL Bosch SMU 2000 dishwasher that needed a few repairs (I replaced a wire that was cut at the door opening, the rollers for the upper rack and the pilot light for the on/off switch (with a pilot light from an old Flair range that I parted out). After that, I still didn't feel it had enough GM Frigidaire content to be worth keeping it 
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Post# 542924 , Reply# 12 9/11/2011 at 07:59 (4,781 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK) |
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Its a Euro thing | ||
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Post# 542931 , Reply# 13 9/11/2011 at 08:26 (4,781 days old) by rapunzel (Sydney) |
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"American appliances is energy and resource hogs" By how much? | ||
| Post# 543206 , Reply# 17 9/12/2011 at 09:08 (4,780 days old) by PassatDoc (Orange County, California) | ||
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I descale my DW quarterly with about 1/3 cup powdered citric acid run on Regular or PowerScrub cycle. It looks sparkling clean afterward, but what I'm really after is to keep scale off the pump and hydraulic system. I do it at each change of season, meaning it's due to be done at the end of this month. I do likewise with my FL washer. | ||
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so I gave it to my parents to replace their old WP-built Kenmore dishwasher (which worked fine but it had rusted racks). The Bosch is very silent and it has an exposed heating element which dries the dishes nicely but it seems to take forever to wash them. Since I'm not used to new (or should I say less than 30 years old!) appliances, are all newer dishwashers that slow or is this an Euro thing?