Gah! It's a film and crud leavin' energy-hog!
Written: Dec 09 '00 (Updated Dec 09 '00)
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Pros: Better than the using the sink, and I got it for free so I'll live with it
Cons: Energy-intense, just doesn't clean things very well
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| LilScamp's Full Review: Whirlpool DU920QWD 24 in. Built-in Dishwasher |
Maybe we got a lemon of a dishwasher; nearly everyone else who has left behind a review in this category seems to have had an excellent experience with their Whirlpool dishwasher. I'm sorry to say that I have been quite disappointed with mine so far.
I am a college student, and I'm currently living in a house that is owned by my university. A couple of months ago, our dishwasher (which was a primitive little leaky thing that looked like something out of a 1960s sitcom) decided that in order to spite my housemates and I it would pour its dirty water all over the kitchen floor every time that we used it. After we had spent a couple of days whining to the maintenance men about it, they decided to install a new dishwasher for us. Hurrah!
Imagine my joy when I came home from class to find a stylish Whirlpool Quiet Wash Plus beneath the kitchen counter. Admittedly, the thing looks neat - it has a nice, sleek black front that is easy to wipe clean, and is covered with about six buttons for different settings, only about half of which I have ever had a use for, and labelled indicator lights that let you know what your dishwasher is up to. It is nearly twice the size of our old dishwasher, and has two racks to hold the dishes and a particularly clever-looking contraption attached to the lower rack that holds silverware and the like, and a whole bunch of fun dispensers and indentations in the inside of the door for holding detergent and the like. I was so excited, in that "Woot! New appliance!" sort of way.
About five minutes later, the honeymoon period was already beginning to end. I had picked up the documentation that the maintenance man had left behind, and read that tag that comes on appliances that tell the purchaser how much energy they consume. You guessed it; my new dishwasher was nearly positioned off of the power-guzzling scale. I gulped, and imagined my already high utilities bills skyrocketing even further. I decided that I would just need to make absolutely certain that the dishwasher was completely filled before running it in order to get the most for my money and save my environmentally-conscious self from bouts of extreme guilt.
Amazingly, despite the amounts of raw power that this dishwasher uses, it just doesn't clean things very well. Glasses often have film left on them, even though we are using the exact same detergent that we used in our old dishwasher and that caused us no problems there. Oh, and that nifty contraption for holding silverware doesn't get it any cleaner - in fact, unless the forks have virtually been completely washed before putting them in the dishwasher, they remain just horribly disgusting half of the time, with particles of food clinging to them. Ick! Yuck! Blech!
On the plus side, the dishwasher is very high capacity. It is easy to wipe down, is very attractive, and is extremely quiet when it is running.
Do these pros outweigh the cons? Not so much. I've used much better, more efficient dishwashers.
In fact, I think I miss my leaky old dishwasher. The floor may have been a mess, but at least my utensils were clean!
Recommended:
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