In the early 70's I talked my parents into getting a new Maytag dishwasher BOL because they would not get anything more expensive. It replaced a builder model GE. It did a better job than the GE, but not a perfect job. When they sold the house in the mid 80's it went with the house and still worked well. I had one in the house I had too. Mine was TOL and I liked it very much. Much later, in the 90's I bought a Maytag made Jennaire TOL that was the best dishwasher I ever had. This was surprising since it still had the shower tower and the racks were no longer reversed. But that dishwasher held more dishes and pots and pans of odd shapes than any other dishwasher I have ever owned! I could pack it so completely full that you could not even fit another spoon into it and everything always came out clean! I replaced it with a Bosch that I could not fit anything into and sold the house with that dishwasher. In between my builder model GE that came with the house and my Maytag TOL I bought in the early 80's I bought a new TOL Kitchenaide in about 1980. I HATED that dishwasher and only kept it for about a year! It had no spray at the very top of the machine and the glasses would always have food particles on them and the heat boost would shut the machine down until the water reheated and started only to shut it down again over and over. It took about 3 or 4 hours to complete a cycle. Funny, since most take at least two hours now to complete that kind of cycle. I think that Kitchenaide did start putting the top spray again after that model, but it soured me on Kitchenaide dishwashers from then on. Funny thing is, that now I have a Whirlpool built one that is virtually the same thing as a Kitchenaide and like it quite well. So you can never tell! I lived in that house from 1979 till 2009 and had a total of 5 dishwashers in 30 years. Probably excessive, but I changed around a lot. Had a whole lot more washers and dryers in that house, I was always changing them out. As I have stated many times before, my favorite was my Kelvinator washer and a Hamilton dryer that both had the big glass window for viewing. Second favorite was my Frigidiare WCIL and DCIL set. That was a beautiful set and the dryer kept up with the washer load for load because of the rapidry 1000.
