Somat in Australia - Henkel grows the product lines

[mielerod69]

Rusting baskets

Hi Nathan,
With the Miele dishwashers I've had, I have never had this experience. I have seen it in machines in certain states such as WA as their water quality is rather bad. Do you use the water softener in your machine?
Somat is the leading dishwasher detergent in Germany and I used to import the stuff pre covid.
I know Miele doesn't make their baskets, they use an OEM partner to do them. I have noticed though in the G7919SCI the baskets appear to be better. I had a G6827SCi and the baskets discoloured badly and looked awful as well as its performance. The G5935SCi was still one of my favourite machines.
My parents had a G590i for 26 years and no rust on the baskets.

 

[logixx]

About Miele detergent

I bought a bottle of Miele powder a year ago. I took only a few washes for all my glassware to be discolored to the point only Barkeepers Friend was able to restore it. Never experienced that before.

 

[brisnat81]

Hey Rod, we do use the water softener and we're on Brisbane town water. What's bizarre is that the rusting is all on the bottom of the racks, or the corners where there generally aren't contact points with dishes. Its all on the undersides. The top side is still relatively perfect.

The Miele powder is an average performer, I only use it in the pre-wash chamber if its a heavily soiled load, otherwise I use the tablets. They're almost as good as Finish Quantum, but dont do as well with loads that stain, like tomato, turmeric etc. You just have to keep watching for the Miele store to have a sale, or to get a coupon and try and get them down from 44c a tab.