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We own a Siemens, which is also a Bosch I hear, we run it every day, weekends more, when entertaining sometimes 5x a day.

So this is the first time I have heard a Bosch's that wash performance is not as good on the third consecutive cycle.

And the Siemens have not skipped a wash. It really is starting to show its true colours, in terms of reliability and performance. When it is not really full we will run is as well due to the fact that its water and electricity consumption is really low so no worries there.

My two cents.

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When I`m not in the mood for pre rinsing I run it every other day, no matter if it`s full or not. Same goes for taking the trash out!
Pre rinsed I`m fine if it takes 3-4 days until it`s really full.
 
I "run" my dog, I don't "run" my dishwas

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I live alone (for now) and have almost never "operated" my dishwasher unless it's been completely full.   I do not "wash" my dishes before putting them in the "dishwasher" like so many other people do, but I will scrape off all chunks and lightly rinse if there's a lot of sauce, etc.

 

I don't think I've ever truly done a Bob Load in it, however.   I guess I don't trust the dishwasher enough to get everything clean when Bob Loaded.   Currently I operate it about once a week, but if course when I cook regularly or have guests over, it's gets turned on more often.

 

Kevin
 
I use the dishpan daily

The dishwasher is used about once every 3 months. I bought new dishes, took the sticky tags off and loaded them in the dishwasher back in February...they're still in there, unwashed. When I bought this house the kitchen had 2 dishwashers...talk about overkill.
 
Mines run daily and on a Sunday it can be two or three times with the amount of dishes. I do food for parties as well so some weeks it can be on 10 or 12 times. My mate has my old 11 year old hotpoint I had it 9 years and never missed a beat she's got five kids and it's on twice a day and still not missed a beat
 
"When I bought this house the kitchen had 2 dishwashers...talk about overkill."

OMG NO..... NO... Two would be so awesome... Load one up run it, load the second run it.. I had 2 dishwashers in my lat house, a portable and an under the counter... The portable was for dishes the underthe counter was pots.. Used the portable weekly and the under the counter daily

im glad im not the only heavy user
 
>"When I bought this house the kitchen had 2 dishwashers...talk about overkill."

>OMG NO..... NO... Two would be so awesome...

Two dishwashers could be a great thing for those who have lots of parties, or do massive cooking sprees.
 
Same here

If you often do pots and pans by hand, I found most familys should be abled to wait until you run out of plates or cups. In our case, it usually is waiting for the cups to run out, which usually happens in the morning, and usually happens every 2 or 3 days.
 
Wow

I admit to running a partial, (full top rack, partial bottom) not packed, but not half empty machine once in my life and get 15 (exaggeration) post condemning such practice.  I don't do this as a practice, and shant again. 

 

Anyway I used the light soil, no options, and ended up not losing power all day as thought.  The tree guys were able to work without having to have the lines dropped.  But I had a clean coffee pot at 6 am.  No Guilt here. 

 

I have never pre-rinsed.  Now my Aunt will wash everything by hand with detergent.  They are clean enough by that point to rinse and put directly in the cabinet.   She will then put the dishes in the dishwasher with cheap detergent on the shortest cycle possible, and complain the dishwasher doesn't get things clean. 

 

 
 
Two of us here

We run ours 3-4 times a week usually, depending on how much we have been cooking or brown-bagging lunch (or not). We're on septic so we almost never run a non-full load.

Growing up, the first house we lived in did not have a dishwasher. Through my childhood and young adult years, several times we/I moved back and forth from places that had a dishwasher to a place that did not, or vice versa. At one point I lived in an apartment in Florida that had no dishwasher and only a single-bowl sink. I had a big plastic bowl that I used as a rinse tub.
 
I run mine everyday too. I'm too lazy to hand wash the items I use everyday lol. Plus I love the sound of my KDM-21. Most days I just run it on Light Wash...cleans without issue.
 
Pots and Pans definitely

Go in one of two places to get clean:

The self cleaning oven or the dishwasher.

Except, of course, for the cast iron. Funny story.

In 1986, a dear friend moved in with me for a while in Munich. Like most Bavarian men of that era, his mother had done everything for him, so his adventures in the laundry room and the kitchen and the pantry were, well, he survived in the end, so least said, soonest mended.

He put my cast iron skillet in the dishwasher. The one which had been seasoning since the 1880s. Then, he scrubbed it 'clean' with a wire brush and steel wool.

Like I said, he survived.
 
I am new to Cast Iron....

 

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I grew up in the North and in my family cast iron was something we never used.  My Mom was/is a Stainless fan and that's all she uses.  I don't recall many of our neighbors using it either.  When I moved to the South I began to learn about cooking with Cast Iron but I'm still not all that comfortable with it even after 10 years.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">A friend of mine is ALL ABOUT his cast iron.  When he picks up a new piece at an Estate or Garage sale he throws it in a fire to clean it and then he seasons them to make them like new.  I mean he literally starts a fire in his yard (he lives where they can burn stuff) and then tosses in the piece of cast iron and lets it sit there until all the stuff is gone.  Then he seasons the pan in some process with oil and a very low oven.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I bought one a while back and he told me to throw it in the self cleaning oven while it was running.  That was a really bad idea.  Once my house filled with smoke and the alarm started whaling I had to turn it off and wait for it too cool down to get it out.  I guess I'll stick with what I know.  Once a northerner always a northerner.  I'm a New York boy all the way!!</span>
 

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