I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it
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Re: I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it
#2follow up on the recent dishwasher discussion (1): random review of a Miele dishwasher.
Re: I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it
#3The irony, you really need two. One for clean dishes ready to be used, one for dirty, and do away with cabinets!
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#4I replaced a Hoover dishwasher with a Bosch Serie 8 and there's a huge difference, the Bosch is so much better!
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#5> My Miele dishwasher cleaned a pot coated with burned caramel. Need I say more?
The thought of hardened caramel being melted by my dishwasher, rinsed down the drain and then re-hardening on my pipes and dishwasher internals is enough to give me nightmares.
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#6I replaced a Hoover dishwasher with a Bosch Serie 8 and there's a huge difference, the Bosch is so much better!
They're not even expensive. I replaced a horrible KitchenAid with a Bosch 800 that was much less expensive, better in every way, and at this point has enjoyed a much longer lifetime than the KitchenAid.
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#7Dishwashers are absolutely an appliance to splurge on.
The difference between bottom-tier, adequate-tier and high-end is basically a few hundred bucks.
Bottom-tier are loud, don't actually clean dishes well, are ugly, and fail early. Top-tier are near-silent, clean dishes without a pre-rinse, have all sorts of intelligent drawers & racks to fit all your needs, and look great.
Some of them even have fancy features like popping the door open when done so the steam vents, etc.
Miele or Bosch seem to be the way to go, by far.
I am firmly a non-believer in luxury appliances and laugh at what people spend on fridges & ranges for vanity, but dishwashers are an absolute utilitarian efficient splurge.
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#8One thing to note about Miele's (but not unique about them): It's not trivial to repair them yourself. You need a specialized inductive cable to read error codes and if you don't want to lose warranty, only a certified repair technician is allowed to fix it.
Also, the brand itself is getting more 'blurry'. Miele refrigerators are actually made by Liebherr.
Re: I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it
#9> My Miele dishwasher cleaned a pot coated with burned caramel. Need I say more? The thought of hardened caramel being melted by my dishwasher, rinsed down the drain and then re-hardening on my pipes and dishwasher internals is enough to give me nightmares.
Rest assured. By the time it hits your pipes it's going to be diluted and unlikely to have the characteristics of caramel any more.
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#10Ours is more like the upper-end of non-fancy (it's some Bosch, but not one of the higher-end ones, more mid-range) but damned if the shallow plastic-mesh tray it has at the top isn't something I can't live without now. So perfect for long utensils that're awkward to put anywhere else in the dishwasher (or risk becoming dislodged and blocking one of the spinning water thingies, if you put them elsewhere). It also just barely fits measuring cups, and it's easier to secure them in there than it is to put them on the main trays.
It's also one of the many, many nice things on kitchen appliances that could totally be standard on every model if the ones without were just like $10 more expensive, but there's not even an option like that—you have to go move up way more than that in price to find them. Market segmentation in kitchen appliances is such a pain. Like if you just want some of the QOL-improving (but cheap to add) things without bumping up into another whole price bracket for a bunch of shit (or, often, just also-cheap styling options that they're charging a huge premium for) you don't want—you're shit out of luck, no such option, there's no slightly-more-expensive-than-the-cheapest-but-also-pleasantly-equipped model.