{"id":617,"date":"2008-05-15T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T18:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=617"},"modified":"2008-05-15T17:23:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T22:23:53","slug":"how-to-get-best-performance-from-your-dishwasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2008\/05\/how-to-get-best-performance-from-your-dishwasher\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get best performance from your dishwasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Phillips, Sears technician, came over to address the problems we were having with our new Kenmore deep tub dishwasher. We got it to replace a 10+ year old machine that was loud as all get-out.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.sears.com\/answers\/2328\/product\/02213742000P\/questions.htm\">Kenmore 13842<\/a> came <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumersearch.com\/www\/kitchen\/dishwasher-reviews\/\">very-highly rated<\/a>, but we were getting lousy results: dingy glasses, streaks on everything.  Greg says that the machine is fine, but need to do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure the hot water coming in is at least 120\u00ba from the faucet, and 130\u00ba is better (since the stainless steel tub will cool the water.  Older models used more water, and the new ones use water that is just in the supply line, so it never gets hot. Run the water in the sink until it gets nice and hot, then start the dishwasher.<\/li>\n<li>Use powder soap, instead of the liquid based detergents, which are wax-based. Tablets are best, but you can&#8217;t measure more or less.<\/li>\n<li>Do not open the door during the wash cycle, because it interrupts the heating of the water, and will cause it to go into a default (clean light will flash seven times). To secure that, push normal-dry-normal-dry-normal-dry.<\/li>\n<li>Rinse dishes off: it doesn&#8217;t dispose of food as it says it does. Otherwise, you get to buy a new motor.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure to use Jet-Dry; it really helps with drying (it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetdry.com\/whatis.shtml\">reduces the surface tension<\/a> of the water, helping it to sheet off the dishes; also, in new dishwashers the heating elements are lower wattage than older units).<\/li>\n<li>See Low-flow toilet for comparison of &#8220;energy savings&#8221;. \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Phillips, Sears technician, came over to address the problems we were having with our new Kenmore deep tub dishwasher. We got it to replace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-9X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}