{"id":25518,"date":"2020-01-09T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=25518"},"modified":"2020-01-15T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:48:17","slug":"our-new-1300-three-hour-bosch-dishwasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/our-new-1300-three-hour-bosch-dishwasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Our new $1,300 three-hour Bosch dishwasher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We replaced a noisy 2010-vintage dishwasher with a brand-new <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/363Wg7y\">$1,300 Bosch<\/a> that got top ratings in Consumer Reports. The first installer showed up, pulled the old one out, and declared that the Bosch would never fit due to having a &#8220;closed frame&#8221; rather than the standard &#8220;open frame.&#8221; He drove back to the Best Buy warehouse and was never heard from again. I made a few measurements and checked the Bosch installation guide, but I couldn&#8217;t figure out exactly why there was an incompatibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I assumed that eventually Best Buy would refund our money, but that hadn&#8217;t happened after more than a month. I decided to call them up. &#8220;We were waiting for you to schedule a redelivery,&#8221; the agent said, apparently unaware that the Bosch would never fit under our counter. We agreed on a date. The second installer showed up and, without commenting on any particular challenge, hooked up the new dishwasher. Adventures in American consumerism!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The machine works reasonably well and is nearly silent, but it holds fewer dishes than the old machine and defaults to a three-hour (!) cycle time. A Whirlpool from 1996 was much faster and also better at cleaning. The new machine sometimes leaves things stuck onto spoons, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/lets-talk-about-ghastly-dishwashers\/\">&#8220;Let\u2019s Talk about Ghastly Dishwashers&#8221;<\/a> says dishwashers meeting a 2013 standard use only three(!) gallons of water. (The article also says &#8220;Trump is a smart politician&#8221; so maybe we should verify the rest of the claims?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We end up doing about three loads per day, so I&#8217;m not sure that we&#8217;re saving water or electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separately, I think it is interesting that, in a society that is otherwise uninterested in quantitative noise measurements, dishwashers are prominently advertised with dBA ratings (40 dBA for the Bosch). 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