what would be your choice of vintage dishwasher to install in a modern kitchen if you do not went something modern or with manual filter to clean

if in 2025 2026 you renovated your home kitchen and wanted to put in a vintage dishwasher all brands are good in my case it would be this kenmore dishwasher with a havest gold panel or white panel my godmother when i was a kid had this model (my mom sister) i also love how simple it is chose cycle push button normal or sani wash if you went dishes sanitize hot or cool dry (true drying ) press start of course i would went it portable with adapter since the wood surface could be use as a mobile island to put dish out of the oven or prepare food

Porcelain tub Whirlpool power clean dishwasher.Had a portable DP8700XT for 30 years . I've only had two other dishwashers since.That Whirlpool dishwasher was the best one I owned.

Late 90s early 2000s Whirlpool Power Clean Filter Module or Kenmore Ultra Wash. Peak dishwasher, peak cleaning, peak energy savings.

Reverse rack Maytag

like this model @rinso

I’d install my 1985 KitchenAid KDS-21. It has a self cleaning filter, complete with a chopper, very similar to a Whirlpool Power Clean pump. However, the filter in it has much smaller holes, so it won’t let as many large bits through as a power clean pump would. But, as long as you scrape large chunks off before washing, it isn’t a problem.
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I really did liked the Frigidaire my grandfather had at his cabin until the place flooded but it had already broke anyways. If it were me, I would've had it fixed than using the new LG.

I also did liked the Maytag Jetclean I used to have but with that company now out of business, parts would be really hard to track down which is one of the reasons why I'd rather not stick to vintage.

So if I could own any vintage dishwasher, it'd be a stainless steel Kenmore Ultra Wash which is basically a Whirlpool Power Clean. It appears those are arguably the greatest dishwashers ever made.

The Lady Kenmore with the sliding door over the buttons or a late 80s Whirlpool with the flip out controls.

Define vintage. 2005 is considered vintage to some.

KitchenAid KD21 and 22 dishwasher pumps vs whirlpool, power, clean pump assemblies.

There’s not much similarity between the KitchenAid pump design and the whirlpool power, clean pumps, on the power clean pumps. All water is forced through the grinder as it’s recirculated, and all the water goes through the separation chamber, where particles are centricallyseparated out.

On the KitchenAid system, you still have a filter and a small trap to keep food chunks out of the whole system that has to be cleaned manually.

The KitchenAid system did have a fine mesh filter, which the second generation of power clean pumps also had, this was added to the second generation power clean pumps so they could reduce the number of water changes.

The KD 21 and 22 dishwashers did not clean nearly as well as the whirlpool power clean machines once whirlpool bought KitchenAid. We were actually pulling brand new KitchenAid dishwashers out of peoples homes and replacing them with whirlpool power clean machines because they were so disappointed with the cleaning performance of the KitchenAids. The KitchenAid design was just too stingy with water and one final rinse just doesn’t cut it in a dishwasher even today that doesn’t work, KitchenAid also did not give positive water heating where the entire load of dishes would reach 140° or more while washing and then wild Doing the final rinse so drying performance was worse on the KitchenAids.

The KitchenAid’s were very well built dishwashers and could have a long lifespan. They just never have the great performance of other dishwashers of the time.

GE’s top-of-the-line machines and Maytag reverse rack, dishwashers whirlpool and Kenmore power, clean machine machines and a few of the foreign machines like ask go all left KitchenAid in the dust for performance.