Incredibly quiet, mostly cleans well
Submitted by Techie -
6/29/2022
In spite of the comments below, I do recomment this model. The built-in control software/firmware is disappointing, but the unit is super quiet and easy to install. Particularly annoying is the fact that if you run a rinse cycle, the display reads "Clean" on completion... which is wrong. It should either say nothing or "Rinsed" so that another family member doesn't unload the still dirty dishes.
The 3rd/top rack really doesn't clean well at all - and how could it? If your top rack is full of dishes, the middle water jets will not even reach the bottom of items on the 3rd rack... and the 3rd rack only receives water from a shower head on the top of the tub.
The rinse cycle doesn't always rinse off all of the detergent. I only use 2 tablespoons due to soft water, but at least twice, the water remaining on the dishes and door were slippery at the end of the cycle and I had to run another rinse.
Biggest pet peeve for me is that it ends up using more electricity than it should because it doesn't draw and dump water until it is drawing hot water into the machine. My water heater is at 125 F, but the tap has to run about 16 ounces of water before that hot water gets to the machine. Perhaps the machine would lose an Energy Star point for water usage, but I would actually save energy if it had a setting to allow it to draw and pump out water for X seconds so that it didn't fill the tub with cool water which then had to be heated by the dishwasher's electric heater. (I'm on a well with no water shortage, so saving 16 ounces of water isn't an issue for me.) So, I run the tap before starting the machine and every so often while it is running so that the other cycles after the pre-rinse will have hot water in order to spend less energy heating.
Originally posted on Bosch.com
Yes, I recommend this product
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