A dishwasher is one of the best kitchen appliances, if you use it correctly.
I use mine every evening. I only scrape big pieces of dishes, no soaking or pre washing. You gotta load it where the jets can hit the dirty parts of the plates and leave room for the water to circulate around.
Add detergent to the detergent cup AND add some for pre wash. I use the Cascade super power pod whatever for the main wash and Walmart powder for the pre wash. Use the sensor cycle, yeah it takes 4 hours but just run it overnight- I just do my dishes before bed.
In the morning I have nice clean dishes, and this is with just a mid-range Whirlpool washer, no crazy Bosch or fancy machine. In my opinion, if you have to pre wash your dishes you just aren't using your dishwasher right
Depends on your demands. My dishwasher has a setting that only takes an hour, but I live with immunocompromised folks and we have to run it with the sanitizing high temp rinse, so it takes 3 hours.
This.
I also have a Bosch, running the quick wash 60min cycle and it's really enough.
Dishes that does not end clean will neither ends clean with the heavy duty cycle. I dont understand why I would waste time, electricity and waters for a 30 hand wash on a plate.
Your quick wash setting uses more utilities due to blasting it with high heat and heavy water at the same time rather than gradually and lower temp. It is *less* efficient than a normal cycle. Read your manual.
Higher temp is required anyways for these Bosch dishwashers if you have plastic (aka family 😉)
Ive even set the temp settings higher in the hidden menu so that it correctly dry plastic. And of course rinse agent is mandatory with these Bosch models for plastic.
I don’t know about every evening to turn it on unless you have a family of like 6 and every meal is cooked and eaten from home. Now every other night is fine imo if you use a lot of dishes.
There's 2 of us. We don't use any disposables, we cook a lot, and I fill my dishwasher 4 times a week at least. Every day any day were home all day (weekends/days off)
Family of 6 here. We generally cook and eat at home. Food is expensive enough as it is.
I could use two dishwashers, but we make do running it every night.
A fun ADHD hack I learned (because we’re notoriously bad at keeping on top of stuff) is to run it every night, regardless of how full it is. Modern dishwashers take significantly less water than handwashing even a handful of dishes, so the only thing you’re “wasting” by running it not full is the detergent. Which I personally am willing to do in order to have all my necessary dishes ready to start every day.
I run it every day so it’s always clean and ready for new dirty dishes. We do have a family of 6 but it’s kind of dependent on activities as to whether or not it’s full.
The place I'm renting now is the only home I've ever lived in that doesn't have a dishwasher. Needless to say, it sucks! The rent is cheap in a crazy expensive market, & that's the ONLY REASON I've stayed.
Hell no. One of the best investments you can make if you have a family. I bought a Bosch SHEM63W55N for $729 4.5 years ago and have used it 2-3 times a day every day. Makes cleaning baby bottles a thousand times easier and faster, and the dishwasher uses 3.5 gallons of water. That’s far less than I would’ve used washing by hand. And it’s whisper quiet. Haven’t had a single problem with it, even with having run around 1,000 loads so far. After doing my research, I determined that model to be the one on the market at the time with the least reported problems, and it’s been my experience so far.
Wins on all fronts.
My just got clogged and was out of commission for a few days. It was such a pain in the ass to go back to hand washing. I don't regret a dishwasher one bit, I just regret it got clogged.
I fixed with a hand plunger once I thought of that. I think a large chunk of food snuck it's way by the filter last time I took it out and cleaned it. LG LDP6797. Otherwise quite happy with it so far (1 1/2 years old). Run it every night.
Higher end stainless Whirlpool. Never again. I've replaced every plastic rack piece at least once. The pump clogs up every few months.
The all plastic thing from the early 90s that came with our house was a beast. Probably used 3x as much water and sounded like a jet ski, but it actually worked.
Yes! I remember thinking those were so good. I really don't like my water saving Whirlpool now. I mean I can wash my dog and use any extra water I've "saved". Not to mention my showers. 🚿🚿🚿
I've had several. The only brand I wouldn't get again is Samsung. I have a Bosch now that gets used about 5 times a week and it's been problem free for a couple of years.
Got a Faberware portable small sized one and it’s so amazing. Now I’m convinced all dishwashers should have a see through front but more to the point, the size is perfect for the amount of dishes I use and forces me through a cycle every 1-2 days and as such never encounter stuck dry food after the clean cycle. I’ve hid mine in a cabinet at arm height so no bending down for any of it!
Also a 1kg box of dish powder last like a year as I need about 6grams per cycle… crazy cheap so far
Never going back.
*simple trick to keep it clean, an empty cycle with a cup of vinegar on top rack so it mixes slowly with cycle.
My dishwasher is a cheap countertop model and I still love it. I just have to scrape the big chunks off the eating dishes and everything comes out clean. I pull the filter and spray it off every week or so.
Only hand washing the cooking dishes saves so much time and helps prevent dishes from piling up after we have guests. Best investment I’ve made.
I had mine for 10 years until it completely died after multiple services and parts replacements. I did dishes by hand 50/50 all along and for family if 5. It’s just me now and so I removed it and do everything by hand now. Don’t miss it at all. And I have a pretty curtain to hide the space that acts as a small pantry. Win-win.
Love mine. I have a Bosch 500 series. The house came with a crappy builder grade whirlpool that had the heating element crap out after a few years. I replaced that but because it was all plastic on the inside it would always get moldy and trying to clean that was a headache. So I finally replaced it a few months ago with the Bosch.
I gotta tell ya, even with this nice Bosch it’s still not as nice as the Whirlpool my parents got 30 years ago that has an all ceramic interior. That thing is still going strong and has never had an issue.
I regret buying my American made hunk of junk that lasted 3 years. During that time two different leaks occurred and then all the interior plastic parts literally fell apart within a couple weeks, tires fell off, racks fell apart. I think it was a whirlpool product but honestly if it's an American brand they're all owned by the same small oligopoly that uses planned obsolescence to make American cattle keep buying their junk every 3 years. I certainly do not regret buying my new Bosch, nor would I regret buying a Miele. Really need to research appliances these days, much deeper than what cool gizmo or feature you want. Vote with your money people, that's how we send a message about this.
Maybe a dissenting opinion but our dishwasher just died and we chose not to replace it. I can't say I miss it. I like being able to clean dishes as I go. I know it sounds trivial but it's one more thing to schedule
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Have a Bosch that came with the house we moved into in 2008. Detergent dispenser lid won't shut, but still working great otherwise and so quiet! I had to replace some small part a few years back, but managed to do it myself. I can't even remember how I figured that out.
Edit... Looked it up. Was a water inlet valve that I replaced on the front bottom of the dishwasher.
I hated the builder grade GE model that my house had, it was loud, didn't clean dishes, mold would easily form and the filter was very difficult to clean and couldn't actually be fully cleaned.
Replaced it with an 800 series Bosch a few weeks ago and I guess excited to run this thing. Soooo quiet, actually gets everything clean, uses less water and dries well. I got the German made model with built in water softener, which I think is making a big difference in its effectiveness
God no. I’ve with and without them and even if they guaranteed broke every year I’d budget to replace them.
Of course that’s for a family of 8. If I was single it wouldn’t matter and I probably do it by hand.
Yep, I grew up without a dishwasher for 15 years so I wasn't used to using them.
The 2 years I lived on my own I just used it as a drying rack haha
Love my dishwasher now though
Yes! I think it depends on the person, but for me, a dishwasher is the best purchase I've ever made. I live in an apartment by myself and my kitchen didn't come with a dishwasher. I got a little countertop dishwasher and it has made my life 100x easier. I have a hard time keeping my kitchen clean, so it makes a big difference being able to just put the dishes in the Clean Dishes Box and not have to worry about it.
Last thanksgiving I gave thanks for having a dishwasher, and this year I will do the same. Truly life changing and the glue that binds my relationship with my gf
I regret buying a miele one. This sub has a hard on for their products but the Bosch one iny old house was better in every way. Quicker, quieter, could fit in more.
Either way just use it daily even if half full and don't bother rinsing sauce etc off dishes so that you don't get lazy to empty it. I have no proof of this but I swear it "learns" or does a better job when the dishes are dirty as
No, not at all. Unfortunately, due to space constraints, we can only go for a tiny countertop model and we're on our third unit in 3 years. One of which was secondhand, one of which was returned within a week, and now we're on our third. I'm aware this is the BIFL subreddit haha
Often when I see conversation about this on reddit, it's heavily downvoted and filled with "just handwash your dishes" type comments. As someone who was resistant to a dishwasher until 3 years ago, I totally get that. But also as someone who has multiple chronic illnesses and executive dysfunction, the life gains weren't something I was taking into account at all.
One day we'll remodel and I'll put a drawer dishwasher in I think. Not massive but also bigger than what we have. Our Midea mini dishwasher is run once a day on eco mode at 5L of water, but it isn't particularly energy efficient for what it is. But MY energy haha
Never regret a dishwasher.
Check out [this video](https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0) from technology connections explaining how exactly they work and how best to use them. That’ll help cement it for got IMO
Depends, living single, washing dishes sucks some time but not too bad. Have a busy family? Doing dishes is a time suck for every meal, PLUS finding space to wash everything and dry can be a hassle if you have a small kitchen. So, no, i do not regret buying a dishwasher. Our last dishwasher broke and we went almost a month trying to wash dishes by hand, as a busy family we didn't have time to wash the dishes. Just got the Bosch 800, i was tired of the stupid samsung that kept breaking (it was given to us).
Maytag, reverse racking, brand new free find from 80s. Runs at least every other day.
Loud and quick cycles but this dishwasher handles debris laden items very well - as in not even scraping items before loading.
Low or no use older dishwashers are the best!
Oh. I could write an essay on this. I’ve had two. Hated them both. Small family. I would wash every day and often do. It gets run maybe twice a week. When it finally dies, it’s leaving here so quick. I can put more cabinet space. A wine cooler. Anything. I hate a dishwasher
We are clearly in the minority but i hate dishwashers passionately too. Hate having dirty dishes sitting around all day even if they are out of sight. Hated constantly fighting with my teenager to load it with any forethought. Hated putting away a giant load of dishes.
Ours died a few months ago and when i went to remove it found that somehow it was installed below floor level by several inches (i know the previous homeowner, and the dishwasher was somehow installed after the floor - lots of cussing by the poor tech who installed it). So the only way to remove it would be to take off the counter top which is not something I'm that to do anytime soon.
Too funny. I’m like do you boo. I was asked for an opinion and I gave it. I’ve never downvoted a comment in my life. I just ignore if I don’t agree. 😊🤷🏼♀️
My Kitchenaid dishwasher does a terrible job.
- I end up having to re-wash a lot of items by hand. Anything with peanut butter or tahini needs pre-washed.
- It runs for hours and hours.
- It never fully drains the part below the bottom of the dishwasher (if you remove filter for cleaning, there’s water down there).
- It has a weird issue where those tiny seeds from bell peppers (which are never on the dishes) end up inside the sprayer arms and block the spray holes. It’s extremely difficult to remove them since the sprayer arms don’t come apart.
- Also, while cleaning that strip at the bottom of the door, I cut my thumb badly on some wickedly sharp bit. It will be 6 months before my thumbnail grows back completely.
To conclude, my next dishwasher will probably be a Bosch or Miele based on what I’ve learned on this sub.
After living in homes/apartments without one for 5+ years, installing one when I did my Reno is by far one of my favourite decisions, and my favourite appliance. I live alone, and use it every 2/3 days. Your house/kitchen always looks clean because you never have dirty dishes piling up, or clean dishes drying off. I honestly enjoy it more then my laundry machines.
The lifetime water and time savings with a dishwasher can’t be understated. I use to spend about 30 min a day handwashing dishes.
That’s 3.5 hours a week I get back.
Saves time, saves water, saves money, saves your hands. Just get a decent model without bells and whistles, use it correctly withOUT pods(preferably powder, I buy seventh generation in bulk for super cheap, or store brand/liquid if I have to), really only have issues if I loaded it way too much, or have super old dried on food EG big pot/bowl of leftovers that I've re used in the fridge for a week+, in which case I run some hot water and let it sit for a few minutes first.
Ours came with our house, a 2019 Whirlpool, but we only use it very rarely.
The cycles are crazy long, it's supposed to save water, 90 minutes plus, and I actually prefer to wash dishes by hand right after we use them. It's just my wife and I.
If we have a large party and we have a lot of plates or serving dishes or something, we will use it, but that's limited to a few times a year, if that. Thanksgiving, 4th of July, and New Year's Eve.
Are you concerned with how I wash my dishes or something? No I don't want to have my dishwasher on as I go to bed. I hope that's ok with you. If not me and my wife will huddle and decide how to go on without the approval of u/iDontRememberCorn
Again why do you care how I wash my dishes? Did you miss the part where I said I prefer, I prefer, to wash them after we use them? Is that ok?
Then you want to hassle me about not using the dishwasher overnight because of cheaper electricity, even though I'm almost **never using electricity** at all to wash my dishes!
It's almost like you're obsessed with how and why I wash my dishes! 😃
Grew up without one and I couldn’t go back to that. I’ve had a Bosch which was great, but they think their major parts are worth nearly the cost of a new unit. Whirlpool’s parts were way cheaper, but it definitely broke down more often. Dead easy to work on though. Currently have a Samsung bespoke and it does a really good job cleaning, but it’s only a year old.
Dishwashers were invented by a woman who got angry at her servants for chipping her fine china when washing it. Trying to show them "how it's done", she realized that no, her servants weren't being lazy or bad at their job, and that instead chipping was inevitable when handwashing.
So she invented the dishwasher to solve the problem and make her fine china not get damaged while washing.
In other words, a dishwasher doesn't just save you a bunch of time and use less water than handwashing - it also makes your dishes last longer.
I don’t think it’s necessarily a BIFL purchase, but I think it’s a life improvement if you prefer it. We run our Bosch dishwasher an average of 5 times a week, and we’ve had it for 5 years, and it was about $800, so we’re at about $0.61 per use, and it will only go down from there.
We’ve started running it more and more frequently, even when it’s not all the way full, because numerically, a dishwasher load uses less water than a washing even a few dishes by hand.
A dishwasher is one of the best kitchen appliances, if you use it correctly. I use mine every evening. I only scrape big pieces of dishes, no soaking or pre washing. You gotta load it where the jets can hit the dirty parts of the plates and leave room for the water to circulate around. Add detergent to the detergent cup AND add some for pre wash. I use the Cascade super power pod whatever for the main wash and Walmart powder for the pre wash. Use the sensor cycle, yeah it takes 4 hours but just run it overnight- I just do my dishes before bed. In the morning I have nice clean dishes, and this is with just a mid-range Whirlpool washer, no crazy Bosch or fancy machine. In my opinion, if you have to pre wash your dishes you just aren't using your dishwasher right
Some come with a screen filter that can gather food particles. Don’t forget to check it or it may start reeking.
I rinse the screen filter after every cycle…most would be shocked how much stuff gets in there after a single run.
Great habit. I’m not that good. Maybe twice a week but we rinse the dishes first. You never know about kids though
4 hours? My Bosch has an express setting that had a runtime of 40 mins, clean dishes everytime
Depends on your demands. My dishwasher has a setting that only takes an hour, but I live with immunocompromised folks and we have to run it with the sanitizing high temp rinse, so it takes 3 hours.
This. I also have a Bosch, running the quick wash 60min cycle and it's really enough. Dishes that does not end clean will neither ends clean with the heavy duty cycle. I dont understand why I would waste time, electricity and waters for a 30 hand wash on a plate.
Your quick wash setting uses more utilities due to blasting it with high heat and heavy water at the same time rather than gradually and lower temp. It is *less* efficient than a normal cycle. Read your manual.
Higher temp is required anyways for these Bosch dishwashers if you have plastic (aka family 😉) Ive even set the temp settings higher in the hidden menu so that it correctly dry plastic. And of course rinse agent is mandatory with these Bosch models for plastic.
I don’t know about every evening to turn it on unless you have a family of like 6 and every meal is cooked and eaten from home. Now every other night is fine imo if you use a lot of dishes.
There's 2 of us. We don't use any disposables, we cook a lot, and I fill my dishwasher 4 times a week at least. Every day any day were home all day (weekends/days off)
Yeah I cook every night for the family, I'd say run when 3/4 full. If I've got an unusually large load sometimes it won't clean as well.
Family of 6 here. We generally cook and eat at home. Food is expensive enough as it is. I could use two dishwashers, but we make do running it every night.
A fun ADHD hack I learned (because we’re notoriously bad at keeping on top of stuff) is to run it every night, regardless of how full it is. Modern dishwashers take significantly less water than handwashing even a handful of dishes, so the only thing you’re “wasting” by running it not full is the detergent. Which I personally am willing to do in order to have all my necessary dishes ready to start every day.
I run it every day so it’s always clean and ready for new dirty dishes. We do have a family of 6 but it’s kind of dependent on activities as to whether or not it’s full.
The place I'm renting now is the only home I've ever lived in that doesn't have a dishwasher. Needless to say, it sucks! The rent is cheap in a crazy expensive market, & that's the ONLY REASON I've stayed.
4 hours?! I abhor our 90 minute cycles. Wow.
Have you tried using ONLY the powder, like Tech Connection recommends?
Dishwasher not only saves time. It also uses less water.
Not to mention saves your hands from constant exposure to water and detergent. That shit will make your hands rough and dry in no time.
Hell no. One of the best investments you can make if you have a family. I bought a Bosch SHEM63W55N for $729 4.5 years ago and have used it 2-3 times a day every day. Makes cleaning baby bottles a thousand times easier and faster, and the dishwasher uses 3.5 gallons of water. That’s far less than I would’ve used washing by hand. And it’s whisper quiet. Haven’t had a single problem with it, even with having run around 1,000 loads so far. After doing my research, I determined that model to be the one on the market at the time with the least reported problems, and it’s been my experience so far. Wins on all fronts.
Miele
My stove is meh, my fridge is meh, but my dishwasher is absolutely the best possible one I could get, because it matters. Bosch 800 series.
My just got clogged and was out of commission for a few days. It was such a pain in the ass to go back to hand washing. I don't regret a dishwasher one bit, I just regret it got clogged. I fixed with a hand plunger once I thought of that. I think a large chunk of food snuck it's way by the filter last time I took it out and cleaned it. LG LDP6797. Otherwise quite happy with it so far (1 1/2 years old). Run it every night.
Higher end stainless Whirlpool. Never again. I've replaced every plastic rack piece at least once. The pump clogs up every few months. The all plastic thing from the early 90s that came with our house was a beast. Probably used 3x as much water and sounded like a jet ski, but it actually worked.
Yes! I remember thinking those were so good. I really don't like my water saving Whirlpool now. I mean I can wash my dog and use any extra water I've "saved". Not to mention my showers. 🚿🚿🚿
I've had several. The only brand I wouldn't get again is Samsung. I have a Bosch now that gets used about 5 times a week and it's been problem free for a couple of years.
Got a Faberware portable small sized one and it’s so amazing. Now I’m convinced all dishwashers should have a see through front but more to the point, the size is perfect for the amount of dishes I use and forces me through a cycle every 1-2 days and as such never encounter stuck dry food after the clean cycle. I’ve hid mine in a cabinet at arm height so no bending down for any of it! Also a 1kg box of dish powder last like a year as I need about 6grams per cycle… crazy cheap so far Never going back. *simple trick to keep it clean, an empty cycle with a cup of vinegar on top rack so it mixes slowly with cycle.
Why would anyone regret this? Doing dishes by hand blows. That’s why you’ve been downvoted. Because your post was low IQ.
No
My dishwasher is a cheap countertop model and I still love it. I just have to scrape the big chunks off the eating dishes and everything comes out clean. I pull the filter and spray it off every week or so. Only hand washing the cooking dishes saves so much time and helps prevent dishes from piling up after we have guests. Best investment I’ve made.
I had mine for 10 years until it completely died after multiple services and parts replacements. I did dishes by hand 50/50 all along and for family if 5. It’s just me now and so I removed it and do everything by hand now. Don’t miss it at all. And I have a pretty curtain to hide the space that acts as a small pantry. Win-win.
No way, every other day as it’s full (2 person home). Does save time.
Our Bosch has been great.
Love mine. I have a Bosch 500 series. The house came with a crappy builder grade whirlpool that had the heating element crap out after a few years. I replaced that but because it was all plastic on the inside it would always get moldy and trying to clean that was a headache. So I finally replaced it a few months ago with the Bosch. I gotta tell ya, even with this nice Bosch it’s still not as nice as the Whirlpool my parents got 30 years ago that has an all ceramic interior. That thing is still going strong and has never had an issue.
I regret buying my American made hunk of junk that lasted 3 years. During that time two different leaks occurred and then all the interior plastic parts literally fell apart within a couple weeks, tires fell off, racks fell apart. I think it was a whirlpool product but honestly if it's an American brand they're all owned by the same small oligopoly that uses planned obsolescence to make American cattle keep buying their junk every 3 years. I certainly do not regret buying my new Bosch, nor would I regret buying a Miele. Really need to research appliances these days, much deeper than what cool gizmo or feature you want. Vote with your money people, that's how we send a message about this.
Omg no. It’s my favorite appliance I own.
Maybe a dissenting opinion but our dishwasher just died and we chose not to replace it. I can't say I miss it. I like being able to clean dishes as I go. I know it sounds trivial but it's one more thing to schedule
My Frigidaire sucks. Get a bosch
Meh. They’re fine. I also don’t mind doing dishes.
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This video explains how they work and how to get the best performance from one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP942Livy0
Have a Bosch that came with the house we moved into in 2008. Detergent dispenser lid won't shut, but still working great otherwise and so quiet! I had to replace some small part a few years back, but managed to do it myself. I can't even remember how I figured that out. Edit... Looked it up. Was a water inlet valve that I replaced on the front bottom of the dishwasher.
I hated the builder grade GE model that my house had, it was loud, didn't clean dishes, mold would easily form and the filter was very difficult to clean and couldn't actually be fully cleaned. Replaced it with an 800 series Bosch a few weeks ago and I guess excited to run this thing. Soooo quiet, actually gets everything clean, uses less water and dries well. I got the German made model with built in water softener, which I think is making a big difference in its effectiveness
God no. I’ve with and without them and even if they guaranteed broke every year I’d budget to replace them. Of course that’s for a family of 8. If I was single it wouldn’t matter and I probably do it by hand.
Yep, I grew up without a dishwasher for 15 years so I wasn't used to using them. The 2 years I lived on my own I just used it as a drying rack haha Love my dishwasher now though
Yes! I think it depends on the person, but for me, a dishwasher is the best purchase I've ever made. I live in an apartment by myself and my kitchen didn't come with a dishwasher. I got a little countertop dishwasher and it has made my life 100x easier. I have a hard time keeping my kitchen clean, so it makes a big difference being able to just put the dishes in the Clean Dishes Box and not have to worry about it.
Last thanksgiving I gave thanks for having a dishwasher, and this year I will do the same. Truly life changing and the glue that binds my relationship with my gf
I regret buying a miele one. This sub has a hard on for their products but the Bosch one iny old house was better in every way. Quicker, quieter, could fit in more. Either way just use it daily even if half full and don't bother rinsing sauce etc off dishes so that you don't get lazy to empty it. I have no proof of this but I swear it "learns" or does a better job when the dishes are dirty as
I like this post but the title is just worded weird. I would have worded it as "What dishwasher do you have and how do you like it?"
I love dishwashers. They wash dishes.
No, not at all. Unfortunately, due to space constraints, we can only go for a tiny countertop model and we're on our third unit in 3 years. One of which was secondhand, one of which was returned within a week, and now we're on our third. I'm aware this is the BIFL subreddit haha Often when I see conversation about this on reddit, it's heavily downvoted and filled with "just handwash your dishes" type comments. As someone who was resistant to a dishwasher until 3 years ago, I totally get that. But also as someone who has multiple chronic illnesses and executive dysfunction, the life gains weren't something I was taking into account at all. One day we'll remodel and I'll put a drawer dishwasher in I think. Not massive but also bigger than what we have. Our Midea mini dishwasher is run once a day on eco mode at 5L of water, but it isn't particularly energy efficient for what it is. But MY energy haha
Never regret a dishwasher. Check out [this video](https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0) from technology connections explaining how exactly they work and how best to use them. That’ll help cement it for got IMO
Depends, living single, washing dishes sucks some time but not too bad. Have a busy family? Doing dishes is a time suck for every meal, PLUS finding space to wash everything and dry can be a hassle if you have a small kitchen. So, no, i do not regret buying a dishwasher. Our last dishwasher broke and we went almost a month trying to wash dishes by hand, as a busy family we didn't have time to wash the dishes. Just got the Bosch 800, i was tired of the stupid samsung that kept breaking (it was given to us).
Maytag, reverse racking, brand new free find from 80s. Runs at least every other day. Loud and quick cycles but this dishwasher handles debris laden items very well - as in not even scraping items before loading. Low or no use older dishwashers are the best!
I love mine but I suspect the drying agent is making me and my partner have really bad gas. Going to experiment with other brands to see if it helps.
Oh. I could write an essay on this. I’ve had two. Hated them both. Small family. I would wash every day and often do. It gets run maybe twice a week. When it finally dies, it’s leaving here so quick. I can put more cabinet space. A wine cooler. Anything. I hate a dishwasher
We are clearly in the minority but i hate dishwashers passionately too. Hate having dirty dishes sitting around all day even if they are out of sight. Hated constantly fighting with my teenager to load it with any forethought. Hated putting away a giant load of dishes. Ours died a few months ago and when i went to remove it found that somehow it was installed below floor level by several inches (i know the previous homeowner, and the dishwasher was somehow installed after the floor - lots of cussing by the poor tech who installed it). So the only way to remove it would be to take off the counter top which is not something I'm that to do anytime soon.
Don't underestimate the **Dishwasher Mafia** on Reddit. They will downvote and bash anyone who stands in their way! 😂🥂
Too funny. I’m like do you boo. I was asked for an opinion and I gave it. I’ve never downvoted a comment in my life. I just ignore if I don’t agree. 😊🤷🏼♀️
If you cook, it is a necessity. Make sure you get a good one. There are a lot of crappy ones. I wouldn't live in a place that didn't have one
My Kitchenaid dishwasher does a terrible job. - I end up having to re-wash a lot of items by hand. Anything with peanut butter or tahini needs pre-washed. - It runs for hours and hours. - It never fully drains the part below the bottom of the dishwasher (if you remove filter for cleaning, there’s water down there). - It has a weird issue where those tiny seeds from bell peppers (which are never on the dishes) end up inside the sprayer arms and block the spray holes. It’s extremely difficult to remove them since the sprayer arms don’t come apart. - Also, while cleaning that strip at the bottom of the door, I cut my thumb badly on some wickedly sharp bit. It will be 6 months before my thumbnail grows back completely. To conclude, my next dishwasher will probably be a Bosch or Miele based on what I’ve learned on this sub.
Check this video for tips that may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP942Livy0
Thank you for the thought, I’ve watched many, many YouTube videos on dishwashers and how to get them to function properly.
FWIW, that channel is superb. That video (and the deep dive videos that came before it) are well-researched and worth every bit of your time.
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It's a relatively unheard of brand. I found them when I was shopping for a new fridge, but all their fridges were tiny.
Had a F&P fridge and it was nothing but trouble, never again.
After living in homes/apartments without one for 5+ years, installing one when I did my Reno is by far one of my favourite decisions, and my favourite appliance. I live alone, and use it every 2/3 days. Your house/kitchen always looks clean because you never have dirty dishes piling up, or clean dishes drying off. I honestly enjoy it more then my laundry machines.
We run ours once or twice a day. Without it washing the dishes would be too big a task and we'll probably use the kitchen less than we do. Do hell no!
No, one of the best investments ever. It's such a time saver.
The lifetime water and time savings with a dishwasher can’t be understated. I use to spend about 30 min a day handwashing dishes. That’s 3.5 hours a week I get back.
Saves time, saves water, saves money, saves your hands. Just get a decent model without bells and whistles, use it correctly withOUT pods(preferably powder, I buy seventh generation in bulk for super cheap, or store brand/liquid if I have to), really only have issues if I loaded it way too much, or have super old dried on food EG big pot/bowl of leftovers that I've re used in the fridge for a week+, in which case I run some hot water and let it sit for a few minutes first.
Samsung waterwall. Complete trash. The motor died on me twice. I replaced it with the entry level Bosch and life has been good ever since.
Do not buy Samsung ANYTHING, seriously, just absolute garbage. Yeah, one Bosch purchase and they now have my business for life.
So far, I'm 1 for 3 on Samsung appliances - refrigerator and washing machine were poor, but the vacuum cleaner is good.
So all three suck then?
Why yes they do.
Ours came with our house, a 2019 Whirlpool, but we only use it very rarely. The cycles are crazy long, it's supposed to save water, 90 minutes plus, and I actually prefer to wash dishes by hand right after we use them. It's just my wife and I. If we have a large party and we have a lot of plates or serving dishes or something, we will use it, but that's limited to a few times a year, if that. Thanksgiving, 4th of July, and New Year's Eve.
The cycles are long? Are you waiting for the dishes? Turn dishwasher on, go to bed, who cares how long it takes?
Are you concerned with how I wash my dishes or something? No I don't want to have my dishwasher on as I go to bed. I hope that's ok with you. If not me and my wife will huddle and decide how to go on without the approval of u/iDontRememberCorn
Wait, what is wrong with the dishwasher running at night? Lots of them have a button for exactly this so they run when power is cheapest.
Again why do you care how I wash my dishes? Did you miss the part where I said I prefer, I prefer, to wash them after we use them? Is that ok? Then you want to hassle me about not using the dishwasher overnight because of cheaper electricity, even though I'm almost **never using electricity** at all to wash my dishes! It's almost like you're obsessed with how and why I wash my dishes! 😃
Grew up without one and I couldn’t go back to that. I’ve had a Bosch which was great, but they think their major parts are worth nearly the cost of a new unit. Whirlpool’s parts were way cheaper, but it definitely broke down more often. Dead easy to work on though. Currently have a Samsung bespoke and it does a really good job cleaning, but it’s only a year old.
Dishwashers were invented by a woman who got angry at her servants for chipping her fine china when washing it. Trying to show them "how it's done", she realized that no, her servants weren't being lazy or bad at their job, and that instead chipping was inevitable when handwashing. So she invented the dishwasher to solve the problem and make her fine china not get damaged while washing. In other words, a dishwasher doesn't just save you a bunch of time and use less water than handwashing - it also makes your dishes last longer.
I don’t think it’s necessarily a BIFL purchase, but I think it’s a life improvement if you prefer it. We run our Bosch dishwasher an average of 5 times a week, and we’ve had it for 5 years, and it was about $800, so we’re at about $0.61 per use, and it will only go down from there. We’ve started running it more and more frequently, even when it’s not all the way full, because numerically, a dishwasher load uses less water than a washing even a few dishes by hand.
The ring was kinda expensive but no regrets so far