L'Aide de la Cuisine

[bajaespuma]

Mon dieu! Well, I went to Paris in 1978 to study French and that I did. Met a woman who introduced me to the wonders of Miele (she pronounced it "Mee-yell", like French Honey). Anyway, turns out Paris had (and has) some humdingers of appliance stores (boutiques d'Electromenagers). One of them sold a familiar American brand. This is one of the coolest brochures in my collection. The "door" of this machine actually folds down:

 

[bajaespuma]

...to reveal l'interieur:

 

[bajaespuma]

...et puis:

 

[bajaespuma]

one can learn a lot of a foreign language from an appliance brochure is one is familiar with appliance terms:

 

[bajaespuma]

Did you notice that the European model sports its own built-in water softener? My sister says that when she lived there, every wash load and every dishwasher load required at least one scoop of their version of Calgon (more to protect the machines, apparently).

 

[bobbyderegis]

Filter and motor are different. Interesting.
Bobby in Boston

 

[jasonl]

C'est Magnifique

Merci boucoup!

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Celle là c'est ma deuxieme langue!

ou troixieme?
Bien dit monsieur! Une merveilleuse machine lave-vaisselle!
Tres amusent...

A bien tot!
Diomede

 

[toggleswitch]

J'aime la chose la!
C'est tre belle!
Mais la couleur! Mon Dieu!

 

[toggleswitch]

built in water softener too!

 

[gansky1]

and a pressure switch!

 

[jasonl]

I want the dishwasher with the boobie painted on it.

 

[toggleswitch]

oh is that a worthwhile feature? --wink--

 

[jasonl]

To me it is :-D

 

[deeptub]

It's odd that the cycles aren't grouped with "Daily Use" and "Party" titles since the rest of the control panel's plastic insert is identical to US models.

The filter almost looks like its from a Hobart commercial undercounter machine. I wonder if the heating element in the sump gets hotter than at North American voltage and so the plastic coarse strainer needed to be up out of the sump. And of course that's a DC motor.

I'm pretty sure though, that all US 15-17A series (and possibly earlier) used a pressure switch to guard against overflow (this changed to a float starting on the 18).

How cool, thanks for scanning!

T.

 

[toggleswitch]

AC/DC

DC motor?
Why?

I believe you can use a DC motor up to 25hz AC, so why this on 50hz?

 

[bajaespuma]

Deeptub, I think you hit the nail on the head. I used to use a Hobart undercounter machine of the same generation and although it didn't heat its water, the filter looked like that--no plastic.

And why DC, I don't know but French current is at 50 hertz.

 

[gansky1]

I'll bet you're right about the heating and the coarse strainer being up out of the sump - you might have been able to use a cold water only line to the machine?

I've had my head under the KDS-18 for so long, I forgot about the pressure switch! I'd better rush out and get an older KA now...

 

[tomturbomatic]

Some of my MepalWare utensils are in the silver basket. I won't use metal utensils in any of my pans. I don't like scratches. Interesting that in 1978 they were showing the 17 series when we already had the 18 series here.

Thanks for sharing. I understand French appliance terms better than German, but I have forgotten the pronunciation. One snippet I remember and understand: Miele...immer besser.