Two ways to Frigidaire your way to a BobLoad™

[roto204]

The choice is yours--you can twirl away your dishwashing cares with the turquoise Custom Imperial, or swirl away the grime in the 1960 top-loader. Stunning but troublesome new-fangled square plates? With Frigidaire, it's never a problem! Either model accommodates them with only a modicum of hair-pulling. True random-loading flexibility--it's built-in to every Frigidaire dishwasher, built and backed by General Motors.

(And yes, everything got clean, and no, I did not pre-wash or pre-rinse anything ;-). The 13x9 had cake crud in it, and the Dishmobile made it sparkle.)

 

[roto204]

Dishmobile

Top rack...and fry-pans--even with crusted-on stuff--do very well here. (They also do well along the sides of the bottom rack.)

 

[roto204]

Dishmobile

Bottom rack...creativity is key, but everything came clean. Long knives and utensils do well in the bottom rack.

 

[roto204]

Top-loader

Bottom rack--actually, square plates do GREAT in this dishwasher and deflect a lot of good wash action upwards.

The downside is that ONLY plates can go down here--anything else messes with the water pattern too much.

Well, plates and cutting boards, in this case.

 

[roto204]

Top-loader

Top rack--I was surprised that this all got clean; the coverage pattern for the top rack is generally pretty chaotic. Again, oodles of plates really helped, I think.

 

[frigilux]

Great photos! I'm not familiar with impeller machines and their special loading-pattern requirements. We had a mid-1950s pull-out Westinghouse when I was a tyke, but unlike the washing machine (1960 Kenmore Model 80), I don't recall much about the DW.

The center sprayer on the Custom Imperial would be so cool to see working live-in-action. Care to get your kitchen very, very wet, LOL?!

 

[alr2903]

Roto204, i really like those colors especially the green. alr2903

 

[tlee618]

Hey Nate, Bob would be "proud"!!!!

 

[gansky1]

"everything came clean"

Nope. No Frigidaire could ever pull off loads like that and everyone knows it. She's a witch!

Hee hee. ;-)

 

[rinso]

The portable, impeller, Frigidaire was our first dishwasher. Dishes and glasses came out sparkling clean, and the glasses never etched. The only drawback was that many impeller machines didn't do well with a lot of food particles. No filtering system.

A built-in spin tube model was my aunt's first dishwasher. If one followed the loading instructions exactly, and didn't turn any items upside-down on the bottom rack, they performed quite well.

 

[roto204]

Witch, witch, she's a witch!

Nope. No Frigidaire could ever pull off loads like that and everyone knows it. She's a witch!

*looks up, guiltily, and tries to hide SOS pad behind her back*

I actually had friends once who were so proud of their dishwasher, which performed admirably. I then watched as they scrubbed and rinsed each plate before it went in.

Dishes and glasses came out sparkling clean, and the glasses never etched. The only drawback was that many impeller machines didn't do well with a lot of food particles. No filtering system.

I do find that the impeller performs best when the load is already clean ;-), but it's generally okay. The cycles are quick and if you don't put anything ridiculous in there, it's usually fine.

Only the spin-tube can remove baked-on stuff; the cycle on the impeller is too short to soften food soils adequately. Of course, if the load is fresh and not two-days-old, it's usually okay, too. But yes, put lots of food soil in there, and you'll find it evenly distributed all over the inside. (I've had that happen; usually I just spin on my heels and put more detergent back in there, and then start it for a second cycle.

Ever the pragmatist, you know, and even two cycles is less than half the time the new Maytag needs...