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Here It Is: The LG 9810 Dishwasher (Photos of 1st Load)
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The business end of the machine. No exposed heating element. You can see the dual steam nozzles on the lower left wall.
As a tough first test, I made Memphis barbecue sauce, pork ribs and rice. Here's the bbq sauce pan. After pouring the sauce out, I set the pan over a high flame and really cooked the remains onto the pan.
I also browned 3 pounds of ground beef in a tall-sided frying pan. As with the saucepan above, I set the dirty pan over a high flame and cooked the remains onto the pan.
Here's the rice saucepan. Those kernels of rice are stuck to the pan as if superglued. Note the heavy, dried-on starch deposits on the sides of the pan.
I should have taken this one from above. The big open area on the right side of the top rack eventually held the ribs pan, which was still in the oven at 11:45 p.m. when I took these photos.
Hardly a tough test of the cutlery rack, but it's all I had for this load. I'm going to try to load all silverware in this rack on a future load. It would be great to open up space in the lower rack by not using the flatware basket.
The left tray is in the upper position, the right tray in the lower position. You change positions by rotating the trays back-to-front. You can also remove them if you want more headroom in the upper rack. Or, you can easily pull the cutlery rack out entirely.
Frankly, I saw the cutlery rack as a gimmick, and figured the first thing I'd do is pull it out and put it in storage. Having used it, it sure is convenient to have a dedicated area to put cooking tools.
The left tray is in the upper position, the right tray in the lower position. You change positions by rotating the trays back-to-front. You can also remove them if you want more headroom in the upper rack. Or, you can easily pull the cutlery rack out entirely.
Frankly, I saw the cutlery rack as a gimmick, and figured the first thing I'd do is pull it out and put it in storage. Having used it, it sure is convenient to have a dedicated area to put cooking tools.
I love the sleek, glass touch controls. Very cool. I'm using the Soak Cycle for this tough test load.
Here are the options: Steam, Rinse (can add a rinse and/or a sanitizing 160-degree final rinse) and Spray (which allows you to select the spray intensity for each rack). The Half Load, Delay Start, and Power pads are easier to see.
And here's the LCD screen.
I've chosen the Soak Cycle, an extra rinse, a sanitizing rinse and the steam function. Grand total, 3 hours, 31 minutes.
I've chosen the Soak Cycle, an extra rinse, a sanitizing rinse and the steam function. Grand total, 3 hours, 31 minutes.
Oh, and the little spiral icon shows the machine has defaulted to the strongest spray intensity for the chosen cycle. It has also defaulted to wash both the upper and lower racks (as I didn't touch the Half Load pad).
Yay! The results were excellent---as they damn well should be after 3-1/2 hours! I'm impressed at how well the starch deposits were removed from the rice pan.
The high-sided frying pan is also spotless.
The ribs pan, which was really a mess, with a lot of baked on deposits came out less than spotless in the upper rack, but I don't think even the Maytag could have done any better.
The utensils in the cutlery rack came out spotlessly clean, but the upper rack wasn't exactly overfilled, and the cutlery rack was mostly empty, so it perhaps wasn't the toughest test.
Overall, my first impression of the LG is excellent. I was wary of the alternating spray mechanism---which sounds like a mist spray, as compared to the wall-of-water Maytag---but the results speak for themselves.
The LG won't take as many huge items in one load as the Maytag did---the Maytag's terraced upper rack can't be beaten in that department---but the LG's bottom rack holds all the tall pans I have, even with the upper rack in its lower position.
And DAMN, it's super quiet.
The machine has a high-end feel to it. The upper and cutlery racks glide silently and effortlessly. The control panel is gorgeous and the door closes with the finesse of a Lexus. If the machine is reliable (always a question with LG), then it was $1500 well spent!
The LG won't take as many huge items in one load as the Maytag did---the Maytag's terraced upper rack can't be beaten in that department---but the LG's bottom rack holds all the tall pans I have, even with the upper rack in its lower position.
And DAMN, it's super quiet.
The machine has a high-end feel to it. The upper and cutlery racks glide silently and effortlessly. The control panel is gorgeous and the door closes with the finesse of a Lexus. If the machine is reliable (always a question with LG), then it was $1500 well spent!
One final shot: The inside, bathed in the cool blue light of the interior LEDs.
Eugene
Thanks for the pix and best of luck with your new 'toy'~!
Thanks for the pix and best of luck with your new 'toy'~!
