Dishwashers, Ina and Me! - Page 2

mspatmac · ‎06-10-2015

@Sooner Guess you can call me a rebel. It's just me but I don't like paper plates/bowels so I'm always reaching for a dish of some kind. I run it three or four times a week and everything goes in. I do follow the experts new "rule" of not rinsing, only scrape because 1) it wastes water and 2) small particles cause some friction which helps detergent work better. (please google if this doesn't make sense before disagreeing ) I didn't realize how much water we actually save using a dishwasher.

skatting44 · ‎07-26-2019

By the way any suggestions on a dishwasher brand that is reliable in cleaning dishes ? I hand rinse all my dishes and utensils before putting them in the dishwasher ,

I need to buy a new dishwasher , however am not sure of a good brand. So any suggestions ?

dimin · ‎03-11-2010

No dishwasher recommendations but I like Cascade Complete detergent.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@skatting44 wrote:
By the way any suggestions on a dishwasher brand that is reliable in cleaning dishes ? I hand rinse all my dishes and utensils before putting them in the dishwasher ,
I need to buy a new dishwasher , however am not sure of a good brand. So any suggestions ?

@skatting44 One word! Ours has the crystal dry feature and really does dry the dishes! But maybe they offer more features now.

suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

We run ours once a day. I don't like having dishes sitting in there, even though we rinse them well. But we would not normally run it more than that.

My husband is into high-quality knives, so no, they get washed by hand. And I would never put any wooden item in the dishwasher. Almost everything else that will fit goes in.

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

CamilleP · ‎03-09-2010

@skatting44 We recently had to buy a new dishwasher as the almost 20 year old version we had started to have electrical failures, and that was a seriously fire-dangerous situation! We looked at many brands, read reviews, and went to our locally owned independent appliance store to purchase. My DH was in love with a Bosch model that has an in-machine water softener in it, because we have super-hard water, so although it does not have the individual water spigots I wanted for washing tall items, I agreed to it.

My "review" is that the water softener is a pain to fill, but I no longer have any water spotting on my dishes, they are squeaky-clean and shiny. The motor is VERY strong, I usually run the "delicate" cycle so that my plastic storage containers don't get thrown around and left right side up to collect dirty water for the rest of the cycle! Even on the "delicate" setting the dishes get perfectly clean. Oh, and the machine is too smart for it's own good, it is always monitoring itself and telling me to "add salt" (water softener) or "add rinse aide", which I fill with de-mineralized water because I hate having a chemical residue on my dishes, I want them clean, sanitized and soap-free, not coated with something slimy. The water softener keeps the spots away by itself, it doesn't need a rinse aide. Another benefit is that it really is a very quiet dishwasher, which is nice in an "open concept/great room" floor plan. I still miss those dedicated water spigots, but otherwise the Bosch is a heckuva good dishwasher.

If you have stoneware dishes and don't wash much plastic ware, you'd be fine with the regular cleansing cycle, I suspect you could put in dishes that food had dried on or coated with egg yolk and they'd still get clean! This machine's motor and pump are almost industrial-strength.

jannabelle1 · ‎09-12-2010

So sorry to all....I replied to this post and also shared an article about the amount of water used with a dishwasher (4 gallons or less). I didn't pay attention that the article included a link, so it was all deleted. Oh well....I'm sorry if anyone was ofended.

rockygems123 · ‎06-04-2012

@skatting44 I LOVE my Bosch! It is whisper quiet, in fact it has a tiny red light at the bottom corner to reflect on the floor to let you know it is running as you can't hear it. The racks are designed really well, makes it very easy to load. Now I know why many of my friends throughout the years have loved theirs. One note, at least as of 2 years ago when we purchased ours, Bosch doesn't offer a drying element, the items air dry within the unit. Using Cascade everything comes out spotless and dry except for some plastic pieces like Locknlock. I either hand wash or take those out after running the dishwaser and dry on a mat. We live in very dry Colorado, anything here takes about a minute to dry lol.

Annabellethecat66 · ‎03-12-2010

I pretty much wash my dishes before I put them in the dishwasher.

There's a reason why. Because I don't make very many dirty dishes. I don't like the thought of them sitting in the dishwasher with food on them.

The smell is gross when I open it. I usually only have to wash the dishes once every 5 or 6 days.

depglass · ‎03-10-2010

I have put Chicago Cutlery wooden handle knives into dishwasher for 40 years. They are just fine. My old dishwasher had a quick rinse cycle, my new one doesn't. So I wait until its full to run. I lay the big bread knives and chef's knives flat on the top shelf. I see them immediately and don't get cut this way.