Appliances - Foley,MN

I had a Kenmore I loved but with Kenmore you are not to sure which maker you get, so not sure what to do about that one. I had a Kitchenaide and it worked forever, good luck!

I always had Kenmore products and they were always great. One thing I would mention about the film on your dishes.. I have found that the gel packs leaves a film on my dishes (we have hard water) so switching to the liquid gel cascade has stopped that problem.

We have had 3 dishwashers over the years and the one that we have now is by far the best. We have a Kitchen Aid Whisper Quiet +. (The others were a GE and a Maytag.) This dishwasher is amazingly quiet and cleans everything perfectly every time without having to pre-wash the dishes. It is a midline price, but definitely worth the extra money.

L.,

I got the GE Quiet Power 3 last year and have been really happy with it. As far as price goes, it was medium range. I won't go really cheap on a dishwasher because I want it to work well for a long time.

When buying a dishwasher, I read a lot of online reviews. I don't care about bells, whistles and cycles, but I do want something that cleans really well and I won't have to replace for several years. I also look for the way the racks are designed and I like the silverware holder on the side, not the front or in the middle. It seems to give more room for other dishes that way.

Good luck,
S.

We bought a Kenmore dishwasher earlier this year. It replaced an old Bosch that was in the house when we bought it. The Bosch's last forever, but they aren't cheap. They also do not do a traditional "heated dry" so if you like dry dishes, a Bosch isn't for you. The Kenmore we got was rated #1 by Consumer Reports. The top rack is adjustable, so you can give more space to the bottom if needed, or more space to the top if you want to fit plates on it. It has a Turbozone that cleans cassarole dishes, and it works quite well! That was the tiebreaker for me. The silverware basket can come apart into 3 pieces, so if you don't need all the baskets you can use the space for something else. There is a knife holder that attaches to the bottom rack, but it doesn't always stay put as well as I would like. I like having the knives separate because my daughter likes to help me load and unload the dishes. One of the racks on the bottom adjusts to angle cassarole dishes towards the Turbozone sprayer, and two of the racks on top adjust to make it more versatile. It also has the "mug" racks on the top, which I don't have a use for. It has a Smartwash feature that senses how much "dirt" is coming off the dishes so it only runs the dishwasher as long as it is needed to get it clean. The turbozone is also a separate feature that you can turn off or on. There is a sanitizing wash (I used that in our old dishwasher all the time when my daughter was a baby). The only negative thing I can say about it is that it is a very new model, so when we got it ours had a computer glich, so it stopped working a few days after we bought it and had to have the Sears repairman come fix it. That was a pain, but we haven't had any problems since and even after that, I'm so glad we picked this one! If you want the model number I'll look it up for you. When we were at Sears it was advertized as #1 in consumer reports, so I think it would be easy to find. Good luck! I hate doing dishes, but I love my dishwasher!

Hi, we got a Bosch a couple of years ago and have been really happy with it. Some of my favorite features:
* quiet
* delay timer (so we can load it up after breakfast but not have it start until after our showers are done)
* it can do half loads
* it has two smaller silverware compartments that you can put anywhere you like
* And, best of all, because the heating element isn't in the main compartment, we can put things that are usually just "top rack" only on the bottom rack, too!

Happy shopping ~

S.