Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site grkermi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!grkermi!andrew From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: dishwashers: recommendations? Message-ID: <689@grkermi.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 12:33:58 EST Article-I.D.: grkermi.689 Posted: Sat Oct 26 12:33:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Oct-85 07:30:51 EST References: <2846@wateng.UUCP> <4600001@hplsla.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 30 Summary: In article <4600001@hplsla.UUCP> danz@hplsla.UUCP (danz) writes: >This came up a bit ago . . . but, oh well, here we go again . . . You said it! >We now have a General Electric (came with the house we bought) which is >just adequate. Better than HotPoint, but I wouldn't write home to mom >about it . . . We have a GE dishwasher - the next-to-bottom of the line - and it works just fine... never had to resort to the "Pot Scrubber" cycle even when plates had sat for a while. >...My in-laws (yup, still on speaking terms) have a KitchenAid that's so >old the racks are rusting away (about 10 years old) and it'll beat >General Electric like a Corvette will beat a bicycle. Then why did Consumer Reports rate the GE higher? (Oh, I know... they take bribes from the manufacturers... :-) ) In my opinion, KA has been on a steady slide downhill ever since whoever-it-was bought out Hobart, and have been coasting on their reputation ever since! Bet your in-laws' 10-year-old KA will beat a brand new KA! AWR PS: If KA products are so great, then why do their garbage disposals live up to the first part of the name? We bought one on the recommendation of the local appliance dealer - paid $220 for it, and it didn't work as well as the 15-year-old Sears Kenmore we were replacing!