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peteski50

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Tonight in my GE TT I loaded lome very dirty dishes in and putting Finish to the test. Some dishes were stained with dried avacado and I made a mess of the stove so most pieces went in.

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my 2 cents ...

why don't you try to load your DW properly instead of using a double amount of detergent ??

# The "all in one" will not have time enough to dissolve in the prewash, so the machine will run the main wash with too much detergent (etching hazard ...)

# The upper rack is loaded in a wrong way. What about that small casserole in the centre, that bowl facing the wall and that strainer ?? Items must face spray arms, cause water jets aren't able to bend ... I understand loading shallow bowls upright that way as you did in the lower rack, but the inside of that casserole will no matter be cleaned (unless you prewashed it by hand)

# The lower rack is underloaded (some place is wasted) . If the 2 larger plates were closer to the cutting board and the dessert plates were loaded in that free place in the center you had extra place to load that big casserole in the lower rack, allowing you to load strainer, small casserole and bowls in a decent way
 
My Thermador THD 3600 is much easier to BobLoad on the upper rack than the lower. This was also true of the Maytag that preceded it. For me, the upper rack is where the cramming happens and as long as an item isn't completely blocked from spray action, if it fits and the rack slides back in, it's OK. The Thermador is such a thrashing machine that really nothing can escape its strong jets of water.

One of these days I'm going to have the magic combination of items for BobLoading the bottom rack and I will defeat WKU's efforts to have every load look like the owner's manual pictures. I'll waste no time in posting here.

I'm very interested in seeing how the GE did with the dried-on avocado, one of the tougher jobs to give a dishwasher.
 
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explain why I did what I did

# The "all in one" will not have time enough to dissolve in the prewash, so the machine will run the main wash with too much detergent (etching hazard ...)

When I select the prewash button it gives extra pre rinses to get rid of debries and desolve soap
And their wont be to much detergent in main wash

# The upper rack is loaded in a wrong way. What about that small casserole in the centre, that bowl facing the wall and that strainer ?? Items must face spray arms, cause water jets aren't able to bend ... I understand loading shallow bowls upright that way as you did in the lower rack, but the inside of that casserole will no matter be cleaned (unless you prewashed it by hand)

I understand about the bowls being faces down, but first this bowl was not that soiled and I have the upper spray that works good for this type of load. The strainer is always loaded that way and always comes clean again from the top sprayer.

# The lower rack is underloaded (some place is wasted) . If the 2 larger plates were closer to the cutting board and the dessert plates were loaded in that free place in the center you had extra place to load that big casserole in the lower rack, allowing you to load strainer, small casserole and bowls in a decent way

I realize I could have loaded more in the bottom rack and this is 2 days of dishes. If I started with the big plates I would have loaded them more to the left by the cutting board. It doesn't matter as long as the water source is hitting the plates. I would have waited another day to run the dishwasher but I decided to add my stove pieces and do a test on the detergent.
 
Load 'em up Buckwheat

Sometimes I run the dishwasher because I feel it's ability to scrub something like burner pans supercedes doing it by hand. Sometimes I run it because items I need are in the dishwasher and it's not jammed packed. When I need to I can stuff it with the best of them. Living alone its hard to fill a dishwasher before it smells or something you need is in the back of the machine. It appears the spot on the plate is a bit if debris from the burner bib. We're getting allitle testy here for just having fun doing a comparative test.

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Questions for Peter

-Did you use detergent with phosphates or without?

-Is your GE dishwasher the kind that has a filter to collect food bits, and you're supposed to clean the filter? Is that what the perforated screen is in the photo titled "The sump of dishwasher"?

-Thanks for sharing your test results!
 
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