I think I'm going to like this dishwasher

[bajaespuma]

Splitting the basket

Yeah, I may end up doing that.

I already find myself irked by the lack of space on the lower rack for really big items. Plus that basket that hangs from the top rack hangs a little too low to clear a lot of stuff beneath. What I liked about the Maytag was that even without an adjustable upper rack, it was designed asymmetrically so really big and tall stuff would fit on the left side of the bottom rack. This doesn't have that capability. I may decide to used the old Maytag silverware basket (of the two Waste King half-baskets) for this machine because you are right; that silverware basket is huge and takes up a hell of a lot of useful space.

 

[gansky1]

Ken, how much does that upper rack move when you adjust it ? My guess is not much, but a little would help. My Mandarin teacher uses a red Solo cup with holes cut in the bottom, wedged in one of the cutlery basket spaces for chopsticks in her KM dishwasher. Looks a bit odd, but seems to work pretty well.

 

[tomturbomatic]

When we had the sterling carefully arranged in the 15's silver basket's little compartments, we used to use the coffee basket from the GE or Farberware perk (since it was deep) and arrange the stainless steel flatware in that. It was placed in the lower rack and the bowls of spoons and tines of forks arranged to stick out beyond the basket for excellent washing.

When I was using the Maytag DW with racking for plates on the lower rack and that GE-like saucer rack because of the pop-up tower, I used one of the GE splitable silverware baskets, split and placed in the corners at the rear of the lower rack so that there was more uninterrupted space for pans & bowls at the front of the rack where Maytag had placed the silverware basket front & center. DUMB.

 

[bajaespuma]

I respectfully disagree, Tom. I think the placement of the silverware basket made it very effective in the Tags and the GE's. In that position, as compared with KitchenAid's and Whirlmores, the cutlery was hit with spray from many directions. I rarely had dirty silverware out of that machine. It was especially true with the reverse-rack Maytags (which I love, for the record) where they were hit with spray from many directions and from top and bottom.

I still think the Maytag WP-600 top loader is one of the best dishwashers ever made and I challenge anyone here to name a DW with a bigger and more versatile and useable capacity. It may be worth it for me to pay 200.00 for a new timer for that one since I've had very little luck in finding another one for parts donation or use.

BTW, I just finished a load in the Kenmore and I'm happy to report that, as Consumer Reports would have said, those dishes are Mother F**king CLEAN. As reported, not a speck of errant food anywhere. And hot!

 

[bajaespuma]

Now I KNOW I already love this dishwasher:

The tag lint filter collection was getting a little dusty so I decided to give the Mobile Maid a trial run to test the new unicouple I scalped off of a Jet-Clean. 17 freakin' minutes and wham-bam, that's all Ma'am! And she even popped the lid open for me at the end:

 

[bajaespuma]

and gloriosky if this isn't the first portable dishwasher connector that I've ever used that didn't leak one drop! I can connect this machine to my bathroom sink so I can use both machines simultaneously.

 

[bajaespuma]

I'm going to give this machine a Bob-Load trial for all the Mobile Maid fans out there just to prove how capacious this machine is and to see if this machine can handle dirty dishes without pre-rinsing. I did notice that after every drain period the machine injected some fresh water presumably to rinse out the tub before the next fill period. And isn't that Power Shower nifty. I have to report that this machine is noisy. Not "Potscrubber" noisy, but because the tub is the cabinet, there is absolutely no insulation or space to muffle the din of the motor and the powerful spray. Our built-in pull out was very quiet compared to this, but it sat in an installation shell with lots of air space plus panels of insulation around it.

 

[bajaespuma]

I forgot...

Greg,

You are right; the rack only adjusts about 1-inch on a side; kind of lame given how much space those mechanisms take up. It's amazing how many dishwashers, like the last Maytag, I've retrofitted with BOL upper racks. A lot of upper rack chazerei on so many brands does little more than eliminate utility. I always thought the BOL upper rack on the KitchenAid 16 & 17 series was larger/superior to the Imperial/Superba versions. I remember how pissed off I was when we bought our KDC-17a and realized when they added the energy-saver dry feature they had replaced that great squared-off BOL rack with just a dumbed-down version of the Superba rack.

How many years have you been studying Chinese? It's very difficult and on my bucket list. Impressive. And smart given that we'll all be needing to speak it given the way US-China debt is growing. And you'll be able to keep us posted when Chinese start manufacturing state-of-the-art whitegoods. I'd wager THOSE machines will have chopstick holders. Panasonic models I saw in Japan 10 years ago had amazing rack additions for all sorts of Asian tableware.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Ken, I was not talking washability, but rather how it divided up the lower rack to hinder placement of large items, although I never had anything less than excellent results on flatware with the baskets at the rear of the tub.

What's the think with inch worms on the bottom of it in the load with the filters?

 

[bajaespuma]

That's a piece of hand-made pottery. It's the ceramic version of Greg's Chinese teacher's chopstick holder. It needed a bath.You're right; they do look like Disney inch worms.

I made Latkes tonight. They probably weren't as good as yours, but yum!