Ehh…Not Bad.
Plus a great cleaning tip.
After starting to wash dishes after midnight 3 nights in a row and repeatedly throughout the day on the 4th, we bought a new dishwasher. Earlier I had made a trip over to another appliance store to check prices and learned two things. First, both stores offered the two models we were considering at the exact same price, not surprising, and that the prices I quoted earlier were the before tax price. This put the less expensive model at over ¥90,000 and the expensive one at over ¥110,000. The other import thing was that this store offered another model, one the catalog states is not available in all stores. Basically the same as the other two but lacking a window and AI. Do we really need a window on a dishwasher? AI? Cost with tax ¥73,000, far less than what we were expecting. We decided to get it and I ran over Monday morning before classes to get and set it up Tuesday afternoon after classes.
Turned out to be a much bigger task than I recalled it would be. Our kitchen has a dearth of power outlets, so the old washer was plugged in behind the sideboard in the dinning room, as the new one would also need to be. This meant moving a lot of stuff to get to the outlet. The last time this was moved might have been when we bought our first dishwasher 13 or 14 years ago. Having it pulled out, I used the opportunity to clean the decade or so of dust that had accumulated behind it. The floor was still coated with compacted dust after I vacuumed and after scrubbing with a microfiber dust rag. I knew my wife had some kind of floor wipes in the closet and I gave that a try. What I found was a packet of “flooring” wipes from Seria, one of the ¥100 stores in the Tokyo area. Folks, if ever you need to clean accumulated dirt and grime of your wood flooring, use these. Magic. Worked better than what we see advertised on TV shopping networks. Truly unbelievable.
So, how does the dishwasher work? As the title suggests, not perfect but not the pits either. Functionaly, it works great. It is surprisingly quiet and cleans very well. However, the racks allow for a full load only if you have very specific types and sizes of dishes. It holds only 5 large plates. There simply is no where to place plates except where the plate racks are. Some smaller plates will fit in the large plate racks but the reverse does not work. If we use 15 bowls a day, however no problem, as long as we use 5 of 3 different sizes and of the sizes that fit. Very odd. I have had to run two loads of dishes when all would fit if the racks were more versatile.
As my wife says, it is pointless to compare the new one with the old because the old no longer functions. Glad we have it, but it would be nice if the racks allowed for more loading options.
We just went through our own dishwasher drama we went from a Bosch to entry-level Mile. I think we should’ve stuck with the Bosch and gone for a higher end one but personally, I hate all dishwashers. I think the soap they use leaves chemicals on your plates, which you can just smell I guess you can do an extra rinse but to me as long as I have rubber gloves and hot water I wash my own dishes always ..everybody else can use the dishwasher and let the dishes rot until there’s enough of them to turn the thing on, I find washing dishes, quite therapeutic myself
The dishwasher you bought is equivalent to crippleware. It isn't just lacking AI & a window, it has less useful racks. Why? To 'encourage' customers to buy the 'upgraded' unit. The scheme works best when a trained salesman points out the racks in the mire expensive unit are so much more functional than the cheap unit . The customer agrees and decides to purchase the higher profit margin unit. It might cost the manufacturer nothing or few bucks more to install the same good racks in all the units. And if the AI unit connects to the Internet & uploads data, there's even more incentive to cripple the cheaper unit. That data is valuable. Bonus: In the future, governments will be able to shut off the appliances of citizens with low credit score, political dissidents, etc. All homes in Smart Cities will have internet connected everything.