What dishwasher brand should I go with?

[jerrod6]

I think Mieles can hold several dishes

<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As I said earlier this doesn’t qualify for a Bob Load but it will show what I got into my load of two day dishes with dried on food.  This load was done Friday morning so these dishes are from Wednesday and Thursday.  Sometimes I will stack items across on top of most of the middle rack, but for this load only a few things are on top of each other.  It </span><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">doesn't</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> seem like you need a direct hit from the water for stacked items to get clean.  As long as you can see some space to the bottom of the rack, stacked items seem to clean just fine.</span></span>

 

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Roboto;">Picture 1 is the lower rack containing plates, saucers, bowls, 3 cutting boards, and cocktail glasses.</span>

 

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Roboto;">Picture 2 is the middle rack containing more bowls, tall, medium, and small glasses, Champaign glasses, food storage containers and their lids, small strainers, mugs, and a drink shaker.</span>

 

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Roboto;">Picture 3 is a close up of the middle rack, showing that I have stacked items over each other.  I also stack small plastic containers over top of glasses to keep them from flying all over the place.</span>

 

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Roboto;">Picture 4 is the cutlery rack.  It is not completely full and can hold more.  It has items placed as I will put them into the drawer when unloading the DW.  If things go in sideways or backwards it doesn’t matter everything seems to get clean.</span>

 

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Roboto;">I used a Finish Powerball tab and a cycle that uses the soil and load size sensors. I was curious about this load so I monitored the cycle times.  I was using the sink while the Dw was running so the incoming water was around 120F. </span>

 

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Roboto;">The cycle consisted of:</span>

 

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Roboto;">Prewash     13 minutes</span>

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Roboto;">Main wash 34 minutes</span>

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Roboto;">First rinse    7 minutes</span>

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Roboto;">Final rinse 23 minutes</span>

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Roboto;">Dry              21 minutes</span>

 

 

<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Roboto;">No problem with cleaning, everything was fine.  So I think you can get more into these racks than it would appear at first glance.</span>

 

[countryguy]

I got a Miele, pretty much the base model, about 3 months ago. It does have 3 racks - the 3rd being the cutlery tray which I find very handy. It is very quiet and cleans well. There are no fancy options on it - just the basic selections - normal, economy, pots & pans, sani wash, rinse & hold. It also has a time delay up to 24 hours, heats the water (It can be connected to a cold water line instead of hot). So far I am pleased with it.

Gary