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If I didn’t have a dishwasher, as much as an annoyance hand washing dishes is it will still take less time to spend ten minutes at the sink doing the washing up, then spending an hour or more out of my evening to go to a launderette equivalent. Not to mention the expense to pay for the...

We used to have Somat here sold under the Glist brand. They were really good, and I was sad to see them discontinued. I figure they just couldn’t break the market dominance that Finish had at the time, even back then Fairy had quite a small market share compared to Finish. It was only really in...

Thanks Louis, we are very pleased with it so far after the two year headache we had with our previous dishwasher. Yes that’s what I came to the conclusion of with the stoneware, especially with the set we have that struggle to fit in the dishwasher. Fortunately they were an inexpensive set from...

CycleSync is purely marketing. It all dissolves at once, there is no pod that magically knows where abouts in the cycle the dishwasher is to release at different times. Of course, the general public believe it and think they need the most expensive tablet on the market which equals sales which...

We have the latest generation of G7000 (ours is a European freestanding G7130SC) and it leaves everything spotless, with no bits over anything . It reminded me to clean the filter last week and there was barely a trace on there, nothing a 10 second rinse under the hot tap didn’t sort. Our model...

Persil Colour powder I noticed while shopping today that Morrisons still stock Persil colour powder in a 21 wash box for £4.25. Although it is the only colour detergent they sell in powder form. I’ve been using Aldi’s Almat and Lidl Formil colour and bio powders for years now, and always found...

“ I see a lot of Bosch 24 inch machines with broken hinges. They break right off the front of the machine. You guys need to get out in the real world and see what people do to washing machines” This is just simply not a problem in the European “real world” where these 60cm machines are native...

Dishwasher detergent doesn’t need a fragrance. I find that Finish and Fairy (Dawn) are too overly and unnecessarily scented not to mention overpriced. I usually use own brand detergent from Lidl or Aldi which perform extremely well for a fraction of the price, and leave no fragrance behind. Jon

Chet, In answer to your questions; 1) Very easily, this is a basic requisite of any dishwasher. 2) That dish was in a fully stacked “Bobload”, loaded alongside saucepans, plates, glassware, teapot, Pyrex jug etc. and a fully loaded cutlery tray. No redeposits on anything. Rinse water is...

Even 16 litres is more than enough, 16 gallons is just crazy and wasteful. You’ve actually seen photographic evidence of what my own, very efficient dishwasher cleans on a daily basis yet still claim it’s impossible or that I’m altering my routine to achieve the results? Where’s the sense in...

Sorry Chet, but you are wrong in your hypothesis - on a correctly operating and used dishwasher, no food bits remain on the filter at the end of the cycle and as mentioned before any remaining food scraps and residue that isn’t dissolved by the detergent is flushed down the drain. I have just...

Chet, All European dishwasher use the micro filter system, water is filtered during recirculation and any coarser food residues are drained away if the detergents and enzymes haven’t already done their work in breaking them down. It’s a system that works very well here, cleaning the filters is...

Wow The local launderette where I grew up has 4 of these machines alongside 70s vintage Primus and Schulthess machines. I’ve been looking for years to find any reference to these machines. They only tumbled one way like the old Bendix machines, and if I remember rightly they had 2 offset...

13 gallons = 50 litres That is an awful lot of water, and you won’t see that implemented on any machine nowadays. Whilst fine for us few collectors who admire and run the old machines, for the average person with a modern machine that is just far too much, and such a waste if the whole...

“ Whats interesting is it seems that sensors and cycle selection tend to vary the number of post main wash rinses more than they vary the number of pre-washes. I'm guessing they rely on these rinses for soil carry away once everything has been washed off the dishes.” To be clear - the majority...