Hello everybody. I was wondering when Whirlpool started using the soak and scour feature. From what I understand, it lets you soak dishes in the dishwasher. I have used it on the pots and pans cycle. Rarely the normal cycle. I believe it was either 2000 or 2001 when they came out with the soak and scour feature. Please explain. Thanks.
whirlpool dishwasher soak and scour
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Soak and Scour came about in the early 2000's or late 1990's with the "Quiet Partner" and other dishwashers. It has since been replaced by "Power Scour".
Problem with S&S is the time it added to cycles IIRC. Something like five or more hours to complete. Think this cycle made since in the days before enzyme laden dishwasher detergents, but not so much today I shouldn't wonder.
Personally would just rather soak a badly soiled pot, pan or dish for a half hour or so then bung it into the dw. This rather than subject an entire load to a very long cycle that most do not require.
Soak and Scour came about in the early 2000's or late 1990's with the "Quiet Partner" and other dishwashers. It has since been replaced by "Power Scour".
Problem with S&S is the time it added to cycles IIRC. Something like five or more hours to complete. Think this cycle made since in the days before enzyme laden dishwasher detergents, but not so much today I shouldn't wonder.
Personally would just rather soak a badly soiled pot, pan or dish for a half hour or so then bung it into the dw. This rather than subject an entire load to a very long cycle that most do not require.
Soak & Clean is the current name of this cycle. It lasts for 7:31 hrs.
It lasts for 7:31 hrs......
Bloody hell! *LOL*
When you consider the average night's sleep is about eight hours if the thing is started before going to bed it will finish little before one rises the next morning.
Again just as sooner soak the pots/pans or whatever and run them through on normal cycle. That or just get out a Brillo or other scrub pad and finish the job in sink.
Bloody hell! *LOL*
When you consider the average night's sleep is about eight hours if the thing is started before going to bed it will finish little before one rises the next morning.
Again just as sooner soak the pots/pans or whatever and run them through on normal cycle. That or just get out a Brillo or other scrub pad and finish the job in sink.
The common cycle time chart for my tall tub KitchenAid list a similar cycle which was called the Anti-Bacteria/ Baked on Cookware or just Pots&Pans. If you used that cycle with the soak&scour option, you got a 4 hour presoak which consisted of a fill, an 8 minute wash, then 13 wash pulses 90 seconds long spaced 16 minutes apart. Then it proceeds into the regular cycle. It is 5 hours plus the thermal holds. Fortunately, mine doesn't have that nonsense and just has a heavy wash cycle with a normal high temp wash function. That cycle and option combination gives a 135 degree prewash, a 145 degree main wash and forces three rinses. This brings the wash time down to a much more reasonable 97 minutes plus thermal holds.
jerrod6
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Well UM - Don't know about Whirlpool - but Kitchen Aid.
My mothers 1971 Kitchen Aid Superba had a soak cycle on it. Back then you purchased a separate enzyme additive named Pan Dandy from the folks that made Electrasol, to use in this part of the cycle - detergent cup one. It was basically the normal cycle with a soak period preceding it. I think it was 1.2 minute purge of water line to get hot water, 16.8 minute soak where The DW would spray the water, pause for several minutes, spray again....repeat this and then finally drain the water and start what would be the Normal cycle: 3.6 minute prewash, 3.6 minute pre rinse, 8.4 minute main wash, 3.6 minute first after rinse, 3.6 minute second after rinse, 4.8 minute final rinse, 22.8 minute dry, 1.2 minute timer advance - for a total like 69.6 minutes. Water used was 19.2 gallons.
If I remember correctly - this did a pretty good job. But 19 gallons....um...yeah
My mothers 1971 Kitchen Aid Superba had a soak cycle on it. Back then you purchased a separate enzyme additive named Pan Dandy from the folks that made Electrasol, to use in this part of the cycle - detergent cup one. It was basically the normal cycle with a soak period preceding it. I think it was 1.2 minute purge of water line to get hot water, 16.8 minute soak where The DW would spray the water, pause for several minutes, spray again....repeat this and then finally drain the water and start what would be the Normal cycle: 3.6 minute prewash, 3.6 minute pre rinse, 8.4 minute main wash, 3.6 minute first after rinse, 3.6 minute second after rinse, 4.8 minute final rinse, 22.8 minute dry, 1.2 minute timer advance - for a total like 69.6 minutes. Water used was 19.2 gallons.
If I remember correctly - this did a pretty good job. But 19 gallons....um...yeah
iheartmaytag
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I'm with our Dear Laundress
If something was so bad it needed a soaking, I would just sit it in the sink with some hot water and Dawn detergent.
I remember in 1979 when we got our GE Potscrubber. The Potscrubber cycle took 90 minutes. My mother refused to use it because "it took too long". But boy did it get things clean.
Now a normal cycle for some machines are 90+ minutes.
If something was so bad it needed a soaking, I would just sit it in the sink with some hot water and Dawn detergent.
I remember in 1979 when we got our GE Potscrubber. The Potscrubber cycle took 90 minutes. My mother refused to use it because "it took too long". But boy did it get things clean.
Now a normal cycle for some machines are 90+ minutes.
