BEST 1980S DISHWASHER
Yes Pete you left out the best ones, the WP & KM Power Clean and Ultra Wash with the porcelain tanks. The KAs & ISEs would be my next favorites but the yucky filter and the poor air drying performance and the only one rinse after the KD-20s leaves them off the top of the list for me. The 3rd best would be the GEs but they suffer from a lower rack that is too cut up and poor cleaning in the four corners of the upper rack when the lower rack is heavily loaded. The MTs would be in fourth place for me, while they all cleaned very well the loading was just too weird and limiting. The MTs also had poor air-drying performance and left too many bits of food around and partly under the round separator plate in the bottom of the machine which was very hard to clean. Most also made a very loud noise that would wake the dead when the motor reversed and would start to drain , there were also too many reliability issues with MT DWs mainly with leaks around and in the door. To me the D&Ms and others are not even worth addressing because of poor build quality and reliability. Even though I can repair any major appliance the last thing I want to come home to is a broken one, In the over 23 years I have had my current kitchen I have had very few appliance problems.
It is amazing how long it took MT & GE to put a full wash arm under the top rack where it belongs and by the time they did this they had both mostly gone to the inferior tall tub machines None of which perform as well as pervious machines.
Yes Pete you left out the best ones, the WP & KM Power Clean and Ultra Wash with the porcelain tanks. The KAs & ISEs would be my next favorites but the yucky filter and the poor air drying performance and the only one rinse after the KD-20s leaves them off the top of the list for me. The 3rd best would be the GEs but they suffer from a lower rack that is too cut up and poor cleaning in the four corners of the upper rack when the lower rack is heavily loaded. The MTs would be in fourth place for me, while they all cleaned very well the loading was just too weird and limiting. The MTs also had poor air-drying performance and left too many bits of food around and partly under the round separator plate in the bottom of the machine which was very hard to clean. Most also made a very loud noise that would wake the dead when the motor reversed and would start to drain , there were also too many reliability issues with MT DWs mainly with leaks around and in the door. To me the D&Ms and others are not even worth addressing because of poor build quality and reliability. Even though I can repair any major appliance the last thing I want to come home to is a broken one, In the over 23 years I have had my current kitchen I have had very few appliance problems.
It is amazing how long it took MT & GE to put a full wash arm under the top rack where it belongs and by the time they did this they had both mostly gone to the inferior tall tub machines None of which perform as well as pervious machines.
