That glass of wine tonight was just enough to make me spit out laughing at how ignorant "bus station ambiance" sounded in the year of our lord 2020 when LEDs have been well established and perfected to be, as henene put perfectly, Indistinguishable from incandescent bulbs. There's only one reason anyone thinks of LEDs as having a "doctor's office florescent color" and that's because Boomers pick up a box of bulbs with the word DAYLIGHT on them and think "ooo the sun! I want that in my house!" without paying any attention to the fact that 5000K color temperature, the light color of DAYLIGHT bulbs, is BLUE.
Every. Single. Light. Bulb. in our house is LED. Every one. Since we moved here in July I've single handedly replaced every mix-matched incandescent and CFL and daylight LED bulb in this house (seriously, the previous owners had to be mental to look around and think "yeah this looks nice") with proper soft white or bright white LED bulbs, depending on what room needs what.
So, I snapped some quick candid photos of the kitchen and laundry room hall, plus a couple from earlier today. The only light fixture with a kelvin rating of higher than 2700K-3000K (normal living space lighting), is the laundry room light, which is a bright white bulb at 3200K. Kindly explain to me how any of this gives off fluorescent "bus stop" lighting?
I used to actually have daylight bulbs only in the laundry room because of how easy it makes seeing stains on white clothing show up, but I got sick of how tiring it is to the eyes and replaced it with something warmer yet still white enough to show the stains.
Seriously though, stop buying the d*mn daylight bulbs and then complaining about "bad" LED lighting. Once again, the general mood of this thread is people griping and moaning like old men screaming in their yards because "new is bad" and yet none of you have actually owned any of what you're complaining about.
Let Whirlpool replace their dishwasher and laundry lineups with machines that use more water and energy than their current models and they'll lose a life long customer. Plus many many more when people notice the extra $ on their utility bills. We're quoting out a kitchen remodel right now in fact, and it's a specific goal that each appliance and fixture to be installed is as efficient as possible. Love the PowerClean, but it's going to be installed as a sort of "museum" piece in the butler's pantry strictly for sentimental reasons, but most assuredly not as a daily or even weekly driver. What will go in the kitchen will be either KitchenAid or Miele, or a mix of both. Should Miele beat the current lineup of WP/KitchenAids in energy and water usage by a considerable margin, a Miele dishwasher will absolutely sit alongside a mix-match KitchenAid kitchen.
To those with modern dishwashers who aren't getting good results, have you tried reading the manuals and using the machines properly with good quality detergent and rinse aid? That's always a good place to start.
Every time I come back to this site I remember why I forget about it for such long periods and why compared to years ago it's practically a ghost town because so many have abandoned it. If yall are so inseparable from your 20 gallon power meter spinning dishwashers, why are you here on a Modern Appliance thread and not over on Imperial dancing around an old Potscrubber?
