Why dishwasher top rack only

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Kate Gregory Kate Gregory That's definitely true of older dishwashers, however newer ones have a heating element that is designed to make sure that all the water is of an even temperature.

With newer washers it's generally ok to put plastics on the top or bottom, as long as they aren't soft plastics.

I don't think the problem was ever with the temperature of the water, but rather the hot dry option. My apartment has an old dish washer; if I enable the hot dry option the electric heating element in the bottom glows red hot like the one in an oven.

Yes, I definitely know from experience that it will melt plastic dishes during drying. Differences include: higher heat water's had a chance to air cool before it gets higher up higher pressure The pressure isn't as big of a deal typically it could scrub off some finishes, but generally those items aren't marked as being 'dishwasher safe' at all. Joe Joe I think this could be considered as purely advertising. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The key is that it pops open after the cycle so the dishes are completely dry when you go to unload. I wish I had put a Miele in the wet bar and secretly hope the Bosch in the wet bar will die so we can replace it with a Miele.

It's actually super annoying to have the Bosch "wet after drying" syndrome with water in the little scoops of the glasses, etc. So, my advice - YES on the full dishwasher in the wet bar unless you need storage and only use one dw drawer. NO on a dw that doesn't completely dry the dishes you put in the wet bar dishwasher! Here are photos of the two dishwashers - good luck!

Alexa P. They put squiggly silicone all over the grid of the glass on the inside not just nice seams in the corners - looked like a kindergarten projects.

It never ends! No one here has mentioned Whirlpool. I am so sold on their appliances, it's all I will buy. Kenmore is made by Whirlpool. When we moved into our house 2 and a half years ago, there was a brand new Whirlpool dishwasher waiting to be hooked up.

I was thrilled after living in an apartment where we had NO counter space and hand washed everything for over 5 years with sulfury smelling water. Once I began using the new dishwasher, I realized it was a bottom-of-the-line cheap replacement to the old one that was on the porch when we moved in. I could never understand the design of that dishwasher and how the dishes were supposed to fit.

Couldn't wait to replace it. So we bought a new one and just had it installed 2 weeks ago along with a new sink and faucet I am loving this redesigned kitchen space! Now I don't like the new one because I can't fit the dishes in the way I used to! Guess there is no pleasing me, LOL. Don't like the stainless steel interior because it's so dark inside I can't see what I'm doing old one was white. Don't like the larger spaces on the top rack because the dishes don't fit the same way and the tines move funny and seem flimsy.

LOVE the silverware basket that fits into the door, which the old one didn't have and the dishwashers we had in other places did. LOVE the fact that it's so quiet I have to check twice to see if it's running.

LOVE the fact that it's bigger inside and that it seems better insulated than the old one. Especially LOVE the fact that it doesn't rock back and forth when you pull the racks out because it's been installed correctly!!!

That was driving me crazy with the old one. Hubby tried to anchor it but then I fell over it when it was open and it couldn't be re-anchored. They sell this at Lowe's and it's marvelous. Then I chose a very tall restaurant-style faucet with a sprayer extended on a spring over everything that swings across the entire sink area.

It should be mentioned that the dishwasher and the sink area go together as a package deal, and how you like one of the components may be affected by the other. It should also be mentioned that not liking either of them can cause frustration and depression and affect your overall diet. Processing fresh veggies is a breeze with my new system and I was thrilled at how easy it was to do Thanksgiving with a huge sink that fit the whole roaster pan.

I have never been able to do that before, having only had small divided sinks! I really do need to sit down and read the dishwasher manual -- haven't done that yet or explored all the features!

Thanks for the advice everyone!!! We replaced a GE dishwasher with a Bosch about 20 months ago and I have hated it from the very start. My big complaint about most DWs I've used is poor tray layout, but the Bosch is the worst I've ever seen hands down.

We go through so much cutlery in our home that we hand wash it, otherwise we run out in the drawers before the DW gets run for the plates. We completely removed the bottom tray cutlery basket, but the gaps in the basket wire underneath it are so huge that only the very largest items don't fall through to the impeller. If you fill up the left-most tines with medium plates all you have room for in the right ones are tea saucers. If you try to put medium plates in both front rows of tines they collide so badly in the middle they won't sit straight and block the water flow from the impeller.

I have read elsewhere that some Bosch models have the cutlery basket on the top tray and on these models the bottom tray layout is much better, but I haven't seen one like that to know it that's true. Luckily, our Bosch has been failing to properly drain after a load for months, and after three attempts at a warranty repair the store agreed today to refund our money.

Help I need a good dishwasher, miele, kitchen aide, bosch Q. Do you really mean 16 full place settings? Because that is beyond huge! Our regular low-dB Bosch works great and fits basically all of our dishes place settings before being full. Nearly silent. Cycle is still about 2 hours, but that's way shorter than the one it replaced!

Almost everybody recommends Bosch for dish washers, and I see no reason not to believe them. Visit some models in person to see if they'll hold the dishes the way you want. I find my third top rack really useful for cooking utensils and tiny pyrex bowls, but we don't use quite enough saucers and dessert plates to make best use of one of the rows on the bottom rack.

Okay, maybe there's no one right way to load the dishwasher. But there sure are plenty of ways to do it wrong. Mike Nerdig, marketing manager for dishwashers at GE Appliances, offers his top tips for getting sparkly-clean results. Those arms spin as they spray to shoot streams of water and detergent onto the dishes for a thorough cleaning.

Anything that slips through a dishwasher rack—say, a spatula handle—can get in the way and prevent an arm from turning. The end result is a lousy dishwashing job. Spatulas, large knives and other long items should be placed flat on the rack.

Obviously, the door where you place your detergent needs to open while the machine is running to let the soap out. If you place a cookie sheet or another large item along the front of the bottom rack, it can block the door. Leave space between wine glasses and other items that can break easily, because shooting jet streams of water can cause the glasses to bang together and crack.

Even if those wine glasses don't crack, if they're touching then they'll end up with ugly water spots after the drying cycle. A common mistake people make is overlapping plates, bowls, and other dinnerware. You need the full water action to get them clean. It may not have reached the intensity level of the toilet paper roll debate, but there is an ongoing conversation about how to best load silverware—handle up or handle down.

Nerdig is a hangle up man.