Note of the Living Deb

We've really liked our dishwasher. It's 12 years old now, it was purchased very inexpensively online, and works pretty well. No major problems yet! It's got the dirt sensor thing which actually requires that your dishes have some food on them (or it won't run long enough to even sanitize). I love that the manual actually specifies not to rinse your dishes, but rather to just scrape off the biggest bits. It's quiet, plastic-lined (though I still haven't noticed any cracks or significant staining), vinyl-coated tines (again, still have noticed significant degradation, maybe a few tips could use a touch-up), one set of flip down tines on the lower rack and one flip down shelf in the top rack,two lidded compartments in the silverware basket, with holes in the top, intended to hold your small knives handle up so that you don't cut yourself digging knives out of the mess of silverware. I do actually put my silverware in one piece at a time, because I get much better cleaned pieces that way, I also alternate whether they are handle up or handle down, to minimize 'nesting', so a compartment will have no more than 6 pieces--a fork, butter knife, and spoon pointed up, and the same pointed down. I don't usually need both lidded compartments for knives, but I use the other one for cake icing tips and small appliance accessory blades, etc. Our cycles are pretty long, but that's never bothered us as it's quiet enough. I'll try to remember to check what brand it is add it here later. --Texpenguin