Art Mulder
Member
- Messages
- 3,383
- Location
- London, Ontario
Just a bit of a minor rant, and passing on my advice for anyone shopping around...
About 9-10 or so years ago my wife and I needed a new DW after moving into our house. We settled on a Bosch unit (SHU-300) mostly because it boasted high energy efficiency. It was a low water use unit, and other good stuff that we thought was worth the price premium.
The big pain, we learned, was that this unit does NOT have a food grinder in it. I believe that is because of the water recycling aspect of the unit.
After living with this thing for ten years... There is no way that I would buy another Dishwasher UNLESS it came with a food grinder. Every 3-6 months I have to remove the screen/filter at the bottom and dig around in the pump intake with a thin piece of metal. Usually one of the kids has dumped a bowl in the DW with an unpopped popcorn kernel (or 3 or 5!) or maybe a peanut, or perhaps a bit of orange or apple stem is down there blocking things up.
Tonight was the worst yet. After lots of digging around inside with no success I finally had to disconnect the drain line where it connects to the plumbing and there I found a 1-2" long "plug" of greasy chunky gunk. Fortunately it was at the end of the hose and not somewhere else!
Never again. When this thing finally dies, the next unit WILL have a food grinder in it. We'll figure out some other way to save water!
So there's my bit of dishwasher advice to everyone else out there.
About 9-10 or so years ago my wife and I needed a new DW after moving into our house. We settled on a Bosch unit (SHU-300) mostly because it boasted high energy efficiency. It was a low water use unit, and other good stuff that we thought was worth the price premium.
The big pain, we learned, was that this unit does NOT have a food grinder in it. I believe that is because of the water recycling aspect of the unit.
After living with this thing for ten years... There is no way that I would buy another Dishwasher UNLESS it came with a food grinder. Every 3-6 months I have to remove the screen/filter at the bottom and dig around in the pump intake with a thin piece of metal. Usually one of the kids has dumped a bowl in the DW with an unpopped popcorn kernel (or 3 or 5!) or maybe a peanut, or perhaps a bit of orange or apple stem is down there blocking things up.
Tonight was the worst yet. After lots of digging around inside with no success I finally had to disconnect the drain line where it connects to the plumbing and there I found a 1-2" long "plug" of greasy chunky gunk. Fortunately it was at the end of the hose and not somewhere else!
Never again. When this thing finally dies, the next unit WILL have a food grinder in it. We'll figure out some other way to save water!
So there's my bit of dishwasher advice to everyone else out there.