KitchenAid KD-11 Owner's Manual

[bajaespuma]

Thank you for scanning and posting! I love the layouts of these vintage brochures and manuals, everyone just seems so damn happy!

 

[douglasdc6]

Wow !!!! What a great company !!!!!!!

Also noticed the classic styling of the stand mixer hasn`t changed a bit & shouldn`t

 

[turquoisedude]

So neat!

I love vintage appliance manuals! Thanks for sharing this one, Ben!! Really makes me want to get a KA or three... LOL

 

[rollermatic]

i found that odd also about

the "permanent overflow" being for gravity machines only. one of my kd-12's is gravity drained, the other has the pump drain. both have the permanent overflow tube in the tub. both work.

the drain pump runs at all time the motor does, anytime water gets to the drain pump, whether thru the overflow tube or the drain valve opening it will be pumped out.

maybe this overflow tube was only installed in the tub of gravity models on the kd-11's. but by the time the 12's came along it was there on both.

 

[tomturbomatic]

If you have a 14C, with the door that looks like the 11 and 12, it will do the warm-up purge feature. If your 14 is an Imperial or Superba, the pre-wash or rinse takes the place of the purge as it also does in the later models. The sad thing about the models that do not have the purge is that the initial fill loses so much heat to the cast iron pump, wash arm, dishes and the tank that the wash is not really a hot wash. Hobart's experience in the industrial and commercial kitchens worked against their home machines. In commercial and industrial kitchens, their larger machines had booster heaters, either electric, steam or gas, to maintain the water temperature while the small one rack undercounter machines were run frequently enough during meals that the machine stayed hot and usually had a 180F water supply at least for the rinse for sanitation purposes. The home machine had neither a water heating element nor repeated use to take advantage of the heated machine parts after the first load, in most cases.

I think Robert said that the 180F wash water in his YT cooled to something like 135F by the end of the wash which is not horrible, but the KA is not starting with 180F water. I think the book said you should have water at 150F. Granted this is 2.3 gallons instead of the smaller amount used to fill the YT, but the temperature still drops a lot.

 

[austinado16]

Fantastic Manual!

We found our KD-12 still being used in a home in OH. That was probably back in '99? It's been our only dishwasher and it gets used daily. It has the mesh basket as a soap dispenser.

 

[jetcone]

Cool manual Ben

I did install my KDS-14 at counter height and LOVE it there!

I still haven't worked out how to adjust the upper rack yet!

Thanks for posting.

Jon