Same dishwasher? Isin't It?

They're identical. Aside from a few cosmetic differences, under the hood and inside they're exactly the same. Cycle wise, the Kenmore has Sani-Rinse as an option, but I doubt that would be used in testing.

For some reason no one, primarily Consumer Reports and other review sites, wants to accept that Kenmore has NEVER manufactured a single appliance. They are ALWAYS contracted and built by another company. Whirlpool has held the majority of their laundry machines and dishwashers, though a few have been manufactured by Frigidaire, GE, and LG. Yet still, Kenmore accepts numerous awards for "best appliance manufacturer" all the time, and gets praises from CR constantly.

This bias towards Kenmore has been going on for decades, though I haven't the first clue what the fascination is. My grandfather has a few CR issues from the 80's, and of course the Lady Kenmore belt-drive washer outscored the Whirlpool Imperial belt-drive, and they're the exact same machine. I adored my grandmother's Lady K, especially the solid state electronics, but learning that it is nothing more than a relabeled Whirlpool only made me respect WP more, not Sears KM.

Don't get me wrong, Kenmore is a great brand. Because they contract the best performing appliances from each respective company, you are literally getting some of the best that manufacturer has to offer, as long as you're not getting BOL machines. I have a couple of Kenmore machines, and I love them, but I know who the company is underneath that shiny Kenmore badge, and that was the only reason I willingly purchased them.


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Post# 786926 10/2/2014 at 20:53 (3,486 days old) by washerdude (Canada )
Checkrate/Likes On reviewed site, i found my kenmore dishwasher rated at 6.0 - but the same whirlpool made unit was rated at 4.0....why?? Whirlpool model: dishwashers.reviewed.com/content/... Kenmore model: dishwashers.reviewed.com/content/...

Post# 787034 , Reply# 1 10/3/2014 at 09:38 (3,486 days old) by murando531 (Augusta, Georgia - US)
Checkrate/Likes They're identical. Aside from a few cosmetic differences, under the hood and inside they're exactly the same. Cycle wise, the Kenmore has Sani-Rinse as an option, but I doubt that would be used in testing. For some reason no one, primarily Consumer Reports and other review sites, wants to accept that Kenmore has NEVER manufactured a single appliance. They are ALWAYS contracted and built by another company. Whirlpool has held the majority of their laundry machines and dishwashers, though a few have been manufactured by Frigidaire, GE, and LG. Yet still, Kenmore accepts numerous awards for "best appliance manufacturer" all the time, and gets praises from CR constantly. This bias towards Kenmore has been going on for decades, though I haven't the first clue what the fascination is. My grandfather has a few CR issues from the 80's, and of course the Lady Kenmore belt-drive washer outscored the Whirlpool Imperial belt-drive, and they're the exact same machine. I adored my grandmother's Lady K, especially the solid state electronics, but learning that it is nothing more than a relabeled Whirlpool only made me respect WP more, not Sears KM. Don't get me wrong, Kenmore is a great brand. Because they contract the best performing appliances from each respective company, you are literally getting some of the best that manufacturer has to offer, as long as you're not getting BOL machines. I have a couple of Kenmore machines, and I love them, but I know who the company is underneath that shiny Kenmore badge, and that was the only reason I willingly purchased them.

Post# 787066 , Reply# 2 10/3/2014 at 14:09 (3,486 days old) by logixx (Germany)
Checkrate/Likes Reviewed.com is a fun read but not much more. I can't take these "experts" seriously, when they claim Kenmore, Whirlpool and KitchenAid dishwashers to have different capacities despite having the same racks - when they load each machine differently. D'uh! And how about their cleaning performance tests, in which they say that the heavily soiled lasagna dish didn't come clean - when the pictures show it being loaded tilting backwards. And that's just dishwashers - their other reviews are just as flawed. Even their Editor in Chief has no clue what he's talking about, praising HE top loaders because you could just dump the entire basket in there a once, while clothes had to be carefully arranged around a center agitator - never mind that every HE TL manual says differently.