How's the little one?
Did you buy this already? I used one of these 40 years ago in the demonstration kitchen in a fabulous kitchen store in Washington, DC called Kitchen Bazaar a.k.a. Bizarre Kitchens. Loading was not as flexible as in my KDS18 because of the divided lower rack and washing improved when I unplugged the clogged holes in the wash arms, but it was the type of kitchen where employees would put food in the microwave with no cover and the inside surfaces looked like target practice for propulsive vomiting had taken place. I used to begin the quiet time at the start of my shift cleaning it and loading the dishwasher. There was lots of Calphalon with grease baked to a brown varnish on it, but in spite of instructions, I pretreated the exteriors with Easy Off oven cleaner and ran them through the machine. Soon, they looked great. One day when I came to work, one of the managers told me that the health inspector had paid a visit and they got a better rating than ever before. Conditions had been so bad in previous visits that they had been threatened with a shutdown. This would have been very embarrassing because cookbook authors used to do demonstrations for crowds. One Saturday friends brought Danny Kaye to see the store. There were a lot of culinary types who worked there, just not a lot who cared to clean up a kitchen so I had a lot of fun earning money for my kitchen remodel. So it did wash, but it had to be loaded carefully because water distribution could be blocked.
As I remember, this machine did not have a filter and there were big holes at the ends of the wash arms with a ball that would seal them at high pressure, but then drop back and allow soil in the wash arm to escape. It sounded better than it worked so you will need to watch that if you want this.
I think these machines still had the humidity free drying so don't be frightened when the motor comes on during dry to pump out the water that condenses on the walls of the tank during drying.
