Which dishwasher you have been using?

I have a ~3 year old KitchenAid and love it! It’s so quiet!

I’m a bit anal about dishes. My dishwasher is a sink of painfully hot water where I use a sponge to scrub the shit out of everything.

I do use a “dishwasher” to rinse the dishes. But I do not trust one to actually clean anything.

I rinse the dishes before I put them in. I figure it’s better for the the dishes and the dishwasher. .

Hands.

I had a Bosch which died after about five years. Now I bought a Kitchen Aid. It takes quite a long time for the cycle to finish but as Lucky said, it is very quiet. It bothers me that drying on is the default so I have to turn it off every time but otherwise works well.

Frigidaire. Don’t remember the model number

Both of my dishwashers have been working flawlessly, if sporadically, since I moved into the house I now occupy, over 15 years ago. My left thumb is starting to experience a sort of tingling sensation, though, when I extend it.

“My thumb hurts when I do ‘this’.”
“Don’t do that!”

Reminds me of a joke.
There is a show on TV where they give away prizes to callers, including a dish-washing machine.
A woman calls in. “Congratulations! You have won. Which of the prizes do you want?”
She responds “Dish-washing machine…”, then looks to the kitchen where her husband washes the dishes by hand. “Already got one.”

We have an old KitchenAid that I’d like to get rid of. It’s black and I want NO black in a kitchen.

Two hands, each with five fingers.

Bosch for 7 years, almost silent when running.

Hands, someone else’s hands. I miss washing dishes, especially on cold winter mornings when I would immerse my arms up to the elbows, heavenly.

For most of my adult life I have had some low end Kenmore DW that did the job but was noisy and needed to be replaced fairly frequently.

The one we have in our new home (not “new” but new to us) is some kind of high end Maytag, Stainless Steel inside and out (I could do without the outside being stainless, I detest it, hard to keep clean) but anyway it is a modern marvel. Efficient, super quiet and I can run it at any time and does a great job of cleaning. I probably don’t have to pre-wash (and honestly don’t when the wife is not around) it has enough water power to clean even the dirtiest pan without problem. I don’t know what it cost but whatever it was I am thinking it is worth it, particularly when compared to the cheap ass ones I have been used to all these years.

20 year old Maytag. The bottom dish rack is beginning to rust out, and of course there are no replacements available. So I’m in the early stages of research which means I look at things like this thread until I throw my hands up in frustation the next time one of the rubber coated tines from the rack breaks off; at which point I’ll grab the wife and in a fit roar into Best Buy. She will rationally assess the machines while I glower and bitch about the prices compared to 20 years ago. Life really is all about maintenance. Sometimes it’s depressing.

^20 yrs..i think it served you well..)

You’re right of course. We’ve worked the thing like a rented mule and had not one problem with it in all these 20 years. It just irritates me that anything so faithfully reliable should become obsolescent due something which should be trivial to remedy.

We have a nice looking KitchenAid. It works well. I wish it had a 1–2 hour delay feature. It has a 4 hour delay, which is too long for our use.

I have a Bosch and I’ve been using it for more than 8 years. I should say, I haven’t regretted my choice. I don’t use it very day, but I’m really happy I have it when I have guests.

@RocketGuy My KitichenAid has the smooth front woith all the button on the top surface hidden when the door is closed but easy to see when the door is opened a little. Very clever design—- except for the alarm . It is a high pitched (Est. 4 – 6 kHz) beep that can’t be heard by people with some high frequency hearing loss. I figure many people over the age of 65 will have trouble hearing it. A less expensive buzzer would have been cheaper and easier to hear.

I’m such a nerd… I just measured the beep with my spectrum analyzer. (Exactly 4kHz.)

^lol..What else do you measure @LuckyGuy ?

@imrainmaker I’ve go the tools to measure anything. ~Although some say the 6” measuring tool is out of spec.
Mass, light, acceleration, radiation (alpha, Beta, and Gamma), distance, magnetic field, acoustics from Infra to ultrasonic, EMI, .... a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g.. Physicist heaven.

It wasn’t exactly 4kHz. If it were I might have a use for it. Close, but not exact. I did another run on a more sensitive scale: 4001.72 Hz.
Really!

@LuckyGuy we might have the same one, then. My wife says I have “bat ears” – I can hear the 4kHz tone despite being 50+ years old.

@RocketGuy I can here the tone too but it is not loud. I can easily miss it. A buzzer would have been easier.
Maybe they are going for the <40 year old market.