Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles hp 1.3 exp 09/24/84; site hplsla.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!hplsla!danz From: danz@hplsla.UUCP (danz) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: dishwashers: recommendations? Message-ID: <4600001@hplsla.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 18:37:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hplsla.4600001 Posted: Thu Oct 24 18:37:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 05:31:25 EDT References: <2846@wateng.UUCP> Lines: 45 Nf-ID: #R:wateng:-284600:hplsla:4600001:000:1681 Nf-From: hplsla!danz Oct 24 15:37:00 1985 This came up a bit ago . . . but, oh well, here we go again . . . I have had "encounters" with HOTPOINT (Hotpoint? hotpoint?) dishwashers twice -- my folks owned a machine (purchased about 12 years ago) that I used to do dishes on, and I have rented an apartment for 6 months with a machine purchased 3 years ago. Let me assure you that the 12 year old HotPoint -- -- made noise -- made steam -- melted Tupperware However, the one thing it did not do was -- clean the dishes (and all this after my mother STUDIED the manual for countless hours searching for that MAGIC way to stack the dishes so that they'd get clean. She wouldn't even let us kids do it when we were 18.) In summary, the 12 year old HotPoint did not work, and, furthermore, let me assure you that they have made no improvement in the intervening decade. 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 . . . Speaking of which, Mom now has as Maytag and is very satisfied. She has even let my younger brother pack the dishwasher. The Maytag is 5 years old and has never skipped a beat. 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. Of course, this is my highly biased opinion, but get a Maytag or KitchenAid or something, but don't get a GE or HotPoint. Dan "Don't shoot! I'm just the hacker" "These opinions are not those of my employer, a large corporation which claims to have no opinions whatsoever."