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$600 for that POS?! Geeze, that will buy like 15 Hobart KitchenAid dishwashers that will last several lifetimes over.
 
Oh, Ok. I have not seen it in person. In that case, it must be made in China! No offense to things being made in china, but be careful, you might get lead poisoning using that thing. (I'm not trying to be funny)
 
Interesting how many of the user reviews complained that the interior was very small and didn't hold as many dishes as their previous machine. I'm used to the LG's cavernous capacity (ditto my previous TT Maytag) ---this would be a deal-breaker for me.
 
My office has one of these China made machines.
I posted before about it. In it's defense it does a good job with what we want from it; Coffee cups, snack plates silverware.

It is on the small side, only holds four cofee cups by four coffee cups. I can get six by five in my TT Maytag. This machine is extremely quiet, usually the only way you can tell it's running is the lights on the front and steam coming from the vent.

It just bugs me to read "General Electric Appliance Park"
"Made in China"
 
Thread 19612 in the Archives

Made in China. Is my thread on this subject.

I am so, so , so disappointed with GE.
At one time they had the top rated appliances, now they are Made in China.
 
Chinese-made dishwasher

I agree with supremewhirlpol on the made-in-China issue. I'd be leery of anything made there that came in contact with my dishes or food. Also keep in mind that the last major recall of several models of Whirlpool and Kenmore dishwashers had Chinese-made motors with wiring defects that caused numerous kitchen fires. The Chinese don't care about Underwriters Laboratory standards or any kind of safety standards, for that matter. All they care about is our money. And the government and big business turn a blind eye to it time and time again!
 
Caring about Money

It is GE, Whirlpool and many others who are to blame. It was a way to capture cheap labor and raw resources without unions, OSHA, environmental restrictions and expensive bonus packages. I have traveled extensively in China and my partner's family owned 5 factories in China. They moved them to Viet Nam once China began imposing Western standards to the job sights and payroll deductions. The cost of doing business was becoming prohibitive and the People's Party was doing tax audits and making sure the government was getting their fair share since medical, unemployment and old pensions are growing more costly. As in any culture and country there are exceptions, but China is no where near as backward as we are told. Through out China you can find many products lines that are good quality. It isn't China who writes the specs for the products manufactured for American brand names. In fact the Chinese would be only too happy to manufacture items of higher quality to improve the reputation in the world and make more money for themselves. We must be willing to pay more for products of higher quality and shun purchasing brands that are rife with schlock.
 
Foreign production

Mixfinder, you certainly bring up a good point because we as consumers are partly to blame in our seemingly endless desire for more purchasing power. Many high-quality products of 30 to 40 years ago have been turned into cheap commodities (i.e. AT & T telephones, Chicago Cutlery knifes, and Hamilton Beach kitchen appliances) because it no longer mattered where or how they were made, just as long as they would become more affordable. It's no wonder Ebay is teaming with bidders trying to find the products of yesteryear. More and more people, including me, are fed up with the junk and worrying about whether we or our pets are going to be injured or poisoned by the very things we use and eat from everyday.
 
ADA Compliant

This is an ADA compliant model, and built in China. It is slightly shorter than GE's other dishwashers (hence the cramped interior). It uses a different pump and washing mechanism.

To the best of my knowledge, all other GE dishwasher models are produced in Louisville,KY (Appliance Park).

Barry
 
rll70sman AMEN! i totally agree with you!!!! by the way, what we all should be worried about is... and i discovered this on my dishes and many dishes my family members have is MADE IN CHINA, very soon i am buying american made dishes and throwing my chinese made from target laced with lead plates in the GARBAGE where they belong! another thing i am VERY DISSAPOINTED about is IKEA, i was there the other day and noticed everything i picked up was made in china!!! ughhhhhhh, guess i wont be shopping there anymore. i thought all of their stuff was made in sweden, no wonder its so cheap. seriously, we and our government need to wake up and stop purchasing things from china, very soon NOTHING WILL BE MADE HERE they r taking all of our jobs, and people wonder why our economy is bad and there is onlly 12 percent manufacturing jobs compared to last years 30 percent!
 
I"m not sure what the ideal behind this DW, We have it on the floor at HD, and it is very short, and not as deep.

Manual clean filter in this machine. I never did look at the tag to see where it is made in.
 
My partner's just completed office building in San Francisco required by SF building codes that the office kitchen must be ADA compliant meaning the height of the cabinets are two inches lower than standard cabinet height. Therefore standard height dishwashers could not fit in the space.
I had researched during construction and found several European manufacturers including Ariston, Miele, and Asko who made ADA compliant dishwashers but were over $1,000. The only American brand at that time was the GE model made in China. Pricing was $600. Whirlpool recently introduced a dishwasher that was ADA compliant but was essentially the GE model in a Whirlpool faceplate. The disability community is very strong and vocal in SF politics and the SF building codes reflect this strong constituency. It's a small market perhaps that why the dishwasher is made in China for a particular segment of the market so that retooling in Louisville would not be required.
 
supremewhirlpool

How can anyone get lead-poisoning by using a dishwasher ?
I knew about plates, cups and mugs releasing lead
Also knew about cars/appliances made with contaminated steel releasing radiations, probably coming from dismanted medical eq. . I do hope there arent' such criminal minds that resell steel coming from dismantled nuke power stations.

With no offence, the Chinese have a different culture and somethimes it is scaring to see the way they deal with foods.

Anyway even Americans and Europeans are focused in different ways.

Indeed I'm thinking about chicken meat. Here in EU chicken meat coming from the US is banned (not imported indeed) because is sanitized with LCB. We prefer to cook longer to sanitize rather than having to eat chlorine.
Maybe you'd never buy european chicken meat cause it hasn't been "bleached"

Again : european commercial dishwashers use Chlorine based products only in the WASH bath and "pure" water (rinse aid added) in the nearly boiling rinse. I was shocked some time ago when i read here then Hobarts models for US market add some LCB in the last rinse.
Maybe you'll get shocked by hearing that our commercial DW don't use LCB even in the rinse
 
ADA

interesting, I did not notice that.
and upon further looking, I did not find these "smaller" dishwashers on GE's site. They might be hidden in a special section. It does seem all their mainstream dishwashers are still KY made.....albeit with chinese electronics (but you can't get around that...).
Since the ADA market is so small, they may have just contracted out to the lowest bidder to just "fill the mandate." I'd understand that then.
But what I DON'T understand is why my local Best Buy (in Aurora, IL, the state's 2nd largest city) would have only 4 GE dishwashers, 2 being ADA......makes no sense.
 

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