GE Potscrubber-Hey GE? Stick to Light Bulbs...
Written: Nov 01 '00
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| chrisceb's Full Review: GE Built-In Dishwashers |
We built a house a little over a year ago, and since we have brand new appliances in our kitchen, I thought I would delve into the Home & Garden section of Epinions to write about some of them.
Growing up, we always had GE appliances in our kitchen, and since my dad used to work for GE, I thought I was getting a very quality product. I guess GE’s defense department at NASA and GE’s appliance division don't have anything in common.
The Product:
GE Potscrubber dishwasher has a number of control settings. It has two cycles: Potscrubber and Normal Wash. It also has four energy options: Hi Temp Wash, On and Off and Heated Dry, On and Off. The dial has a few options also such as Off, Start, Short Wash, Rinse and Hold and Plate Warmer.
Potscrubber/Heavy Wash (takes 62 minutes) is for heavily soiled dishes or cookware and baked on or dried on food particles. It clearly states in the manual that this setting WILL NOT removed burned-on food
Normal Wash (takes 62 minutes) is for loads of everyday dishes, glasses and cookware with medium food residue.
Short Wash (takes 52 minutes) is for a quick washing of everyday dishes with medium food residue that is not dried on. I am assuming they mean residue as in dinner dishes.
Rinse and Hold (takes 12 minutes) setting is for rinsing (no detergent) a partial load that will be washed later. Yeah right, what family with children would actually use this setting?
Plate Warmer option is for warming clean dishes and serving plates and it takes approximately 31 minutes to warm the plates. If you ever come to my house, I promise you, your dishes will clean, but I can't promise they won't be warm. If you want warm dishes at my house, your going to have to sit on them first. What a waste of an option.
Energy Options:
Hi Temp Wash provides more heat and is used with very heavily soiled dishes
Heated Dry On (takes an extra 31 minutes on each cycle) turns the drying heater on and speeds up the drying process. Be very careful if you empty the dishwasher immediately after your wash and dry cycle is over. Your dishwasher is VERY hot! You could burn yourself if not from the steam, which is released when you open the door, then from the hot dishes from the heated dry option.
Heated Dry Off option shuts off the heat drying options and the dishes dry slower, but the option does save energy.
To start the machine you have to latch the door and turn the dial to the start position. Choose your cycles and energy options before you turn the dial.
The recommended water temperature for effective cleaning and to prevent dish damage is 120 degrees. Using a rinse agent such as Jet-Dry is also recommended. The rinse dispenser is located on the door of the dishwasher and a full dispenser should last about a month.
The GE Potscrubber has two dispensers for detergent. Both are on the door of the dishwasher, one has a "closeable" lid (used with all washing cycles) and the other is open. The amount of detergent used depends on if your water is hard of soft. Hard water requires extra detergent and soft water you need less.
Our experience:
Honestly?
I hate this dishwasher, and I wish it would break so I can get another brand.
Why?
Because it doesn’t wash the dishes like it says it does. I wouldn’t dare even think of putting a dish in the washer that actually had dried on food. It would come out looking much like it did going in. Only instead of the food being dried on, it would be moist from the cycle, and then it would dry back on the dish. We never put our cookware in the GE Potscrubber Dishwasher, because they never ever ever get clean. We have given up on putting them in the dishwasher, and do them by hand from now on. We always have to use the potscrubber option of cleaning cycle, as the normal cycle does nothing to get our dishes clean.
You have to be extremely careful the way you load the GE Potscrubber. If you don’t load it just right, with the plates in a certain spot, not too many glasses in the top rack, bowls and saucer placed exactly right in the bottom rack, you have to wash many of the dishes over again. It's like building a puzzle every time you load the dishwasher, and my husbands gift if not puzzle building.
We have at least two loads a week that we have to wash over again, as the glasses on the top rack have attracted all the left on food particles and stick to the glassware.
Also, when you load the rinse agent dispenser with Jet-Dry, it leaks on the floor (how? I have no idea) from under the dishwasher, for the first two washes.
I am so very disappointed in the GE Potscrubber Dishwasher. I was looking forward to having brand new appliances with my new house, and we've had problems with this dishwasher from the get go. Unfortunately, we are stuck with it for the next 15 years I am sure, as my husband is the “if-it-ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it” kinda guy. So unless I have water spewing all over my kitchen (now there's a thought), or the dishwasher stops working, I am sure I won’t be getting another one any time soon. But when, and if, I ever go dishwasher shopping I will not buy another General Electric product again. The GE Potscrubber soured my opinion about General Electric and it will be the last large appliance I have in my home…and I might even boycott their light bulbs too!
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): Came with the cost of the house, but retails for around $300
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