Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Kitchen design Dishwashers

[Trudy Reeves (trudyreeves]

I have a Bosch in my apartment that is the best dishwasher I've ever owned  - 
I've previously owned KitchenAide and GE.  The Bosch is quiet and energy 
efficient.  Yes, I have to scrape off dishes, but I seldom have to rinse them.  
I only run it two or three times a week and have never had a problem with it 
getting hardened food off.  But like the Meile, it is probably too expensive 
for most common houses.
 
Trudy 




----- Original Message ----
From: Casey Morrigan <cjmorr [at] pacbell.net>
To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Friday, December 8, 2006 10:16:21 AM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Kitchen design Dishwashers


I know this has been covered before in Coho-L, so a check of the archives is
in order.

For the commercial style in which you load and reload constantly for a short
cycle, you need enough room to deal with the racks and the dripping. And
people with good backs to heft the racks in and out. However, you can be
done with the dishes in a short time. Residential dishwashers keep things
lots simpler.

We have a commercial Bosch washer in our Common House. Big mistake (I voted
- rather, consensed - to buy it too.  D'oh!!) . It doesn't have a food
grinder, which most residential brands have, and it regularly gets backed up
as a result. It is also finicky and we have to wash all food particles off
before the dishes go in or else they get distributed around and baked on to
the dishes. It does sterilize the dishes.  But...having lived with it for
several years, I wish we had a plain old residential washer.  Our CH galley
kitchen is too small to handle the racks and loads from a quick-cycle
commercial washer.