Yummy yummy yummy, stir fry in the tummy

[sudsmaster]

OK, You Asked For It

Stirfry Bobload Mark II

(Had to cook up the other steak tonight)

Any open rack tines you see are through clear glass, lol...

 

[sudsmaster]

This model Bosch is quiet, but it's not the quietest Bosch one can get. It's a mid-line SHU43C, as I recall. I can hear it draining from my bedroom at night, sometimes. But it's a real workhorse. Sears delivery must have drop kicked it off the truck, because it was going for $350 at the local Sears store (hadn't gotten to the outlet yet). It was unused, but after installation I discovered that the upper right corner of the cabinet had been bent inward, interfering with the upper rack movement. A few well placed blows of the fist fixed that, and it's worked perfectly ever since. Which is far more than I could ever say for the Frigijunk it replaced.

 

[rp2813]

Those are a couple of nice loads you produced there, Rich ;-)

I'm going to have to learn how to load the old (early 90's) Maytag at Mom's place after we move in there. It sure seems like a bad layout from my experience but it will be interesting to see how much I can cram in there. One thing is for sure, I will miss my KA 22 that will stay behind when (or these days maybe I should say "if") our house gets sold.

 

[jeffg]

If those Coke bottles are being kept as collectables, I'd handwash them instead.

 

[sudsmaster]

Nah, I use them as flower vases when I bring cut flowers from the garden on visits.

They are not vintage anyway, just modern Mexican equivalents of the traditional coke bottle. As such they come with a federally mandated paper sticker glued onto the neck. Most of it peels off, the DW does a fair job of removing the rest.

I admit the DW doesn't do a 100% job of cleaning the interior. That is understandable without some sort of enema tube sticking up the throat of the bottle. If I wanted the insides to be really clean, I'd hand wash them.

 

[dj-gabriele]

The second one sure is a Bobload!!! Yummy yummy for your meal

 

[appnut]

Oh yeah, it gets my Extra seal of approval!!

 

[sudsmaster]

Thanks, Bob and DJ.

And everything came out squeaky clean. The only issue was some coffee ground caught in the bottoms of the green "celadon" coffee cups on the ledge on the upper rack. They fit there so nicely that I didn't want to move them, but they were so close to the ceiling of the interior that there wasn't enough water spray to rinse out the ground (which got in there because I routinely send the Grind 'n Brew parts through the dishwasher).

BTW, those green cups I got in the 70's, back before China went capitalist. They are very well made, haven't seen any as nice since then in the markets. And they weren't very expensive back then. I have a feeling they are a bit pricey now. Have a matching coffee server, as well as a rice wine carafe and little wine cups, plus a sugar server and a creamer. I use an extra creamer to warm up maple syrup in the microwave when I'm in pancake/waffle mode.

 

[earthling177]

My Bosch dishwasher is a bit older than Rich's, but here's a typical load -- unfortunately, it didn't occur to me to shoot pictures when it was dirty. Everything came out clean. Please excuse the low resolution, the pictures were taken with a cell phone.

 

[earthling177]

From the left side

 

[earthling177]

Right side

 

[earthling177]

Front

 

[earthling177]

Lower rack

 

[earthling177]

Fit when both racks are inside.

 

[chachp]

As long as we comparing Bosch Bob Loads

Here are a couple of mine. I have been a Kitchen Aid lover for years and bought my first Bosch in 02 when I moved to Arkansas. When I sold that house and bought this one the first thing I did was replace the dishwasher with a Boschmore. It's the Kenmore Elite dishwasher made by Bosch and I couldn't be happier with it. It's quiet, holds a ton of dishes and cleans the hell out of everything.

 

[chachp]

..and the bottom.

This thing really handles my large bowls and pans. It love that part )! That's a 12 quart sauce pan and the pasta insert.

 

[sudsmaster]

One thing I forgot in the recipe - add to the cornstarch marinade for the meat, a tsp or three of dry white Chinese rice cooking wine - or pale dry sherry.

Paulo, looks like quite a Bosch Bob Load.

 

[panthera]

B/S/H and Miele

Offer different racks for different needs. When I bought my Miele it took exactly one wash for me to decide that I hated the cutlery drawer passionately. Sure, it cleaned - but I can do without the pain in the neck. Gave it and my bottom rack to a friend, took their standard bottom rack with silverware basket. They like using that rack, I prefer the basket.
But Miele had offered me both when I bought it - I just made a bad choice. Together with B/S/H (but not interchangeable) they also offer different top and bottom racks for special purposes - racks for washing stemware up and down, racks for extra wide plates and spaghetti pots, etc.
You'd think by now Whirlpool would have noticed that there are consumers who actually do want quality and can tell the difference...Bosch and Miele are not exactly losing money in the US...

 

[earthling177]

Rich says:

Paulo, looks like quite a Bosch Bob Load.

Thanks, Rich. We usually run the dishwasher every few days, when it gets full, or when we ran out of something, like glasses or silverware, for example. Sometimes the machine is nearly empty and we run the top-rack only cycle, sometimes it has even more items than the pix I posted (fewer things like bowls, pots and pans and more plates etc). The most fun is days like Thanksgiving, when we usually run the machine several times because of the number of people we usually have for dinner -- we generally have at the very least two loads then, one with all the table dishes and one with the pots and pans, sometimes we have to run an extra load or two if Dave gets every available dish dirty when he's not organized. Still, it's fun to have the family and friends around.

 

[sudsmaster]

My Bosch doesn't have a top rack only cycle. It would be nice if it did.

For a while I was running the dw every night, even with half loads, in order to get the Grind'nbrew parts clean for the next batch. Lately I've been avoiding that by making a larger pot in the morning, and then saving the coffee in a sealed glass jar in the fridge for subsequent mornings. Flavor is mostly pretty good, still, and it results in me drinking less coffee during the day, and getting better rest as a result. Oh, and the dw loads are fuller as well.

Panthera,

I don't know. I've heard so many complaints about the Miele cutlery rack. But I think I'd really like it. So orderly, and each utensil can be firmly clamped into optimum position for cleaning. Probably takes longer to load but the results may be worth it - if all the utensils can be made to fit properly.