Since the WP purchase of Maytag, the Standard Tub Maytag design dishwasher has been replaced by the Power Clean Module machine. I have the Kenmore version still with the porcelain tub and the wash, wash, rinse, rinse 8 gallon Water Miser cycle is sufficient to clean almost anything I put in it. If something has some heavy soil, the water heat option adds enough time and heat to get that clean also. The one thing that none of my dishwashers will remove is the white film from starchy foods left on stainless steel pans. The WP machines before the Power Clean Module were excellent cleaners as well. When the Power Clean Module was introduced, WP would demonstrate it with a Big Mac or Whopper, left in the paper and placed in the bottom rack. The machine was started using the Super Scout Pot Smasher cycle and no trace of the burger could be found at the cycle's end.
The Maytag with the pop-up spray tower and the bobble knob sprayer could be set for the same 8 gallon double wash, double rinse cycle and gives excellent cleaning, but the capacity is limited by not having a wash arm under the top rack. My Maytag portable has the pop-up spray tower. I am going to try changing the machine to the bobble knob because that lower rack does not have the cutout that divides it in half. I don't know if the bobble thing gives a better water pattern to the top rack with pans and bowls in the lower rack, but I want to check it out.
I was worried about drying with both machines because I have always had KitchenAids with no exposed drying element. I was less worried about the Maytag's drying damaging plastics because it has a fan, but neither machine damaged plastics in the lower rack including the 1 qt. Rubbermaid Sports Bottles that are too tall for the top rack and the heat coming from the bottom seems to dry them better on the inside than the KA machines.
