I always thought the GE Potscrubber (a 1978 model) that my folks had did a great job. We really did use that Power Scrub cycle to death and it got the heaviest crud off the pots and pans.
The Greatest Cleaning Dishwasher of All Time
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OK, go ahead and throw things, but my TOL 2008 LG (Model 9810) cleans better than any dishwasher I've ever had, which includes two TOL KitchenAids (one Hobart and one Whirlpool-made), a Maytag (this one came in 2nd), a Frigidaire (good with dishes but not pots/pans), a Whirlpool (circa '86 or so) and a GE.
The LG cleans pots/pans like no other! And it has no rival for racking space. Hands down, the winner!
The LG cleans pots/pans like no other! And it has no rival for racking space. Hands down, the winner!
Out of the three Older Dishwashers that I've lived with, they were all about the same.
Dishlex Mark 8
Simpson Cascade
GE Potscrubber with Dual Spray arms.
They were all late 70's machines, did a good alround job on most loads. Couldnt shift burnt on stuff, but would clean most saucepans etc without a problem. Proper scraping was important, as there was no soft food disposal, everything got caught in the filter and needed cleaning. They all suffered from a lack of loading room, due to the space the upper spray arm took up, but were quick (When connected to Hot)
Out of that mix of oldies, the best I've used is the older 500 series Miele and my current 2000 series. Its a tall tub with huge amounts of interior room, flexible loading and the ability to blast off any burnt on food, even with the pin hole spray jets. The Miele wins hands down compared to the oldies.
The old ones seemed to be high volume at a lower pressure, where the Miele is low volue, high pressure and those needles seem to just blast the dirt off. The diffence is double the cycle time, but it can deal with soft food disposal.
Mum still has a Mark 8 Dishlex that does a good job, it just requires finess to shoe horn baking pans and the such in there.
Dishlex Mark 8
Simpson Cascade
GE Potscrubber with Dual Spray arms.
They were all late 70's machines, did a good alround job on most loads. Couldnt shift burnt on stuff, but would clean most saucepans etc without a problem. Proper scraping was important, as there was no soft food disposal, everything got caught in the filter and needed cleaning. They all suffered from a lack of loading room, due to the space the upper spray arm took up, but were quick (When connected to Hot)
Out of that mix of oldies, the best I've used is the older 500 series Miele and my current 2000 series. Its a tall tub with huge amounts of interior room, flexible loading and the ability to blast off any burnt on food, even with the pin hole spray jets. The Miele wins hands down compared to the oldies.
The old ones seemed to be high volume at a lower pressure, where the Miele is low volue, high pressure and those needles seem to just blast the dirt off. The diffence is double the cycle time, but it can deal with soft food disposal.
Mum still has a Mark 8 Dishlex that does a good job, it just requires finess to shoe horn baking pans and the such in there.
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KDS-14 P "Superba" Kitchen Aid
It's not the quietest machine ever made, but when loaded properly and run with good detergent I can't beat it. Once every fourth or fifth load I MIGHT have a dish not come clean. And, I don't pre-wash, or even rinse the dishes. I just scrape 'em and load 'em. Love that Superba!!
It's not the quietest machine ever made, but when loaded properly and run with good detergent I can't beat it. Once every fourth or fifth load I MIGHT have a dish not come clean. And, I don't pre-wash, or even rinse the dishes. I just scrape 'em and load 'em. Love that Superba!!
Taking a cue from Jerry...
My Mom and our 1962 GE WU-402 pull-out. Mostly because she hand washed every damn thing before it went in to the machine(Before we ever owned a dishwasher she once saw a friend's KitchenAid with a week's full of dirty smelly dishes and roaches and swore that her's would never be like that). Dishes came out of there spotless and too hot to handle.
My Mom and our 1962 GE WU-402 pull-out. Mostly because she hand washed every damn thing before it went in to the machine(Before we ever owned a dishwasher she once saw a friend's KitchenAid with a week's full of dirty smelly dishes and roaches and swore that her's would never be like that). Dishes came out of there spotless and too hot to handle.
washmeup
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Remeber When?
Growing up I remember unloading my mothers Kitchen Aid after it had shut off and the dishes were so hot you could barely touch them. Now when you unload the newer dishwashers the dishes are never that hot. I liked it the way it used to be!
Growing up I remember unloading my mothers Kitchen Aid after it had shut off and the dishes were so hot you could barely touch them. Now when you unload the newer dishwashers the dishes are never that hot. I liked it the way it used to be!
my dog duke!
left to his own devices he would lick every spoon, plate and cup sparkling clean although probably not sanitized! unfortunately for him with 6 dishwashers in the kitchen he doesn't get a chance!
next to duke i would vote for kitchenaid by hobart, any model!
i'm partial to the 17 series myself but realize the later models prob clean the upper rack a bit better and make loading more convenient! but kitchanaid all the way!
left to his own devices he would lick every spoon, plate and cup sparkling clean although probably not sanitized! unfortunately for him with 6 dishwashers in the kitchen he doesn't get a chance!
next to duke i would vote for kitchenaid by hobart, any model!
i'm partial to the 17 series myself but realize the later models prob clean the upper rack a bit better and make loading more convenient! but kitchanaid all the way!
everythingold
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The best dishwasher????
In terms of what? Initial cleaning ability? I doubt any new LG owner is going to be happy in 5 years. I hope you got the extended warranty. Does best mean longevity? KA's win hands down on longetivity. NOTHING can compare with KA's on this.
That is why I have a shop full of KA's. Because they survived. And they do a good job. Sometimes they do an amazing job. I am curious about GMFR's, certain D&M's (like the Kelvinator Pete has), and now, Maytage direct drive reverse racks. These are rare machines because they did not last 40 years. But they probably made it 20. But I didn't even get a chance to hook up the Maytag DD I had. BTW, I am not allowed to load the dishwasher. My wife has a certain way of doing it and I only mess up her system. She has used a variety of dishwashers. She thinks the top-loading design is superior. matt
In terms of what? Initial cleaning ability? I doubt any new LG owner is going to be happy in 5 years. I hope you got the extended warranty. Does best mean longevity? KA's win hands down on longetivity. NOTHING can compare with KA's on this.
That is why I have a shop full of KA's. Because they survived. And they do a good job. Sometimes they do an amazing job. I am curious about GMFR's, certain D&M's (like the Kelvinator Pete has), and now, Maytage direct drive reverse racks. These are rare machines because they did not last 40 years. But they probably made it 20. But I didn't even get a chance to hook up the Maytag DD I had. BTW, I am not allowed to load the dishwasher. My wife has a certain way of doing it and I only mess up her system. She has used a variety of dishwashers. She thinks the top-loading design is superior. matt
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"Remeber When?
Growing up I remember unloading my mothers Kitchen Aid after it had shut off and the dishes were so hot you could barely touch them. Now when you unload the newer dishwashers the dishes are never that hot. I liked it the way it used to be!"
I actually have a BOT Whirlpool that does that; the dishes are almost too hot to touch when it's done. The cycle usually completes in roughly 45 minutes. It has no sensor, just a mechanical timer with temperature boost and heat dry controls. Less to break, of course! A KitchenAid it is not, but it still does a decent job. I have always had good luck with Whirlpools, but no so much with Maytags or Frigidaires. I can't say about the GEs, because I've never tried one.
NorfolkSouthern
Growing up I remember unloading my mothers Kitchen Aid after it had shut off and the dishes were so hot you could barely touch them. Now when you unload the newer dishwashers the dishes are never that hot. I liked it the way it used to be!"
I actually have a BOT Whirlpool that does that; the dishes are almost too hot to touch when it's done. The cycle usually completes in roughly 45 minutes. It has no sensor, just a mechanical timer with temperature boost and heat dry controls. Less to break, of course! A KitchenAid it is not, but it still does a decent job. I have always had good luck with Whirlpools, but no so much with Maytags or Frigidaires. I can't say about the GEs, because I've never tried one.
NorfolkSouthern
Ok, so im torn. I have had 3 great dishwashers. Growing up we had an old BD maytag. It was noisey, but it cleaned. In my adult years i have had maytag DWU9962, ge potscrubber 2800, and 3 different bosch models. My current bosch cleans very well. Sometimes i dont know how it does, but it does. The maytag did a great job too. That whole fuzzy logig thing was still kinda new at that time. As for the ge, well lets just say it would have made a better lawn sprinkler!
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Best Cleaning djshwasher
My Maytag WC300 was a portable then built-in then built-in to our new kitchen. When I built it in the first time ran thru the heating domestic coil of out furnace then when I shut the furnace off the washability wasn't as good because I was using cold water! but it was still better than any GE. Oh it still is in use every day since Dec, 1978
My Maytag WC300 was a portable then built-in then built-in to our new kitchen. When I built it in the first time ran thru the heating domestic coil of out furnace then when I shut the furnace off the washability wasn't as good because I was using cold water! but it was still better than any GE. Oh it still is in use every day since Dec, 1978
Washibilty, I'd say a 18-21 series Hobart Kitchenaids. As far as reliability, well, the 1989 WU-204 has currently outlasted the KDS-19 by 8 years....and without a single repair. Can't go wrong with either machine though!!
mrcleanjeans
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Years ago.our 1959 RCA Whirlpool FP-50 portable top loader with the Filter Stream
wash system got the dishes cleaner than ANY dishwasher I had ever used. When I used Calgonite (the 12% phosphate formula ) and not the later 8.7% Formula 211 Calgonite with the bonus solid rinse aid,the dishes gleamed like they were buffed with an electric polisher-I kid you not. Consumer Reports was right about that dishwasher,they check rated it and its built -in counterpart as cleaning all but a relatively few test dishes to a "gleaming radiant sparkle." Its cycle design was rinse,wash.rinse,wash,rinse,rinse,dry. The main wash alone was 15 minutes long,triple the time of most machines then with their puny 5 min.wash,then two 1 min.rinses. Yet the cycle was only 45 minutes long,since it did not pause to fill or drain,but kept the motor running all along til the dry cycle which was only 13.5 minutes.How I forgot to bring this DW up a few days ago is beyond me-business I guess,BTW,the built in version had the telephone dial.
wash system got the dishes cleaner than ANY dishwasher I had ever used. When I used Calgonite (the 12% phosphate formula ) and not the later 8.7% Formula 211 Calgonite with the bonus solid rinse aid,the dishes gleamed like they were buffed with an electric polisher-I kid you not. Consumer Reports was right about that dishwasher,they check rated it and its built -in counterpart as cleaning all but a relatively few test dishes to a "gleaming radiant sparkle." Its cycle design was rinse,wash.rinse,wash,rinse,rinse,dry. The main wash alone was 15 minutes long,triple the time of most machines then with their puny 5 min.wash,then two 1 min.rinses. Yet the cycle was only 45 minutes long,since it did not pause to fill or drain,but kept the motor running all along til the dry cycle which was only 13.5 minutes.How I forgot to bring this DW up a few days ago is beyond me-business I guess,BTW,the built in version had the telephone dial.
whirlcool
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The Maytag we purchased last November cleans as good as the early 90's Maytag Jet Clean we had. The build quality is not as heavy duty as the 90's model, but it cleans just as well, which means anything that you put into it will come out totally clean; including food that has been baked onto SS pans with no precleaning.
Behind every sparkle is a G.E....
I don't know, every G.E. I ever had proved that there was one behind every pile of dried-on crumbs in my glasses ;-)
Greg and I guffawed at a 30" Dacor in Nebraska Furniture Mart. Like the Empress, yet another 30" machine designed with 24" wash systems. If you're going to do that, you have to change the racking--or add twin wash-arms--or something!
If I couldn't lay hands on a KitchenAid, my parents' 1978 Whirlpool (with SuperScour!) was a rockstar. 360º filtration, plastic tub and that damned silverware basket in the door, but always a flawless performer. The only bummer about those machines was dodging the wash tower and the very low-hanging upper wash arm. Otherwise, the only thing that came out was clean dishes--including, amazingly, the silverware. (We were meticulous about avoiding overloading or nesting flatware in the basket.)
I don't know, every G.E. I ever had proved that there was one behind every pile of dried-on crumbs in my glasses ;-)
Greg and I guffawed at a 30" Dacor in Nebraska Furniture Mart. Like the Empress, yet another 30" machine designed with 24" wash systems. If you're going to do that, you have to change the racking--or add twin wash-arms--or something!
If I couldn't lay hands on a KitchenAid, my parents' 1978 Whirlpool (with SuperScour!) was a rockstar. 360º filtration, plastic tub and that damned silverware basket in the door, but always a flawless performer. The only bummer about those machines was dodging the wash tower and the very low-hanging upper wash arm. Otherwise, the only thing that came out was clean dishes--including, amazingly, the silverware. (We were meticulous about avoiding overloading or nesting flatware in the basket.)
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~she once saw a friend's KitchenAid with a week's full of dirty smelly dishes and roaches and swore that her's would never be like that.
One sentence solution
Find
Rinse Only
Rinse & Hold
on the control panel.
Only caveat, one must prop the door open afterwards or the resulting residual moisture will stink too.
One sentence solution
Find
Rinse Only
Rinse & Hold
on the control panel.
Only caveat, one must prop the door open afterwards or the resulting residual moisture will stink too.
customline
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Well......
That would be my 1957 Westinghouse.
That would be my 1957 Westinghouse.
