{"id":4736,"date":"2013-04-28T22:02:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T02:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2013-04-28T22:02:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T02:02:34","slug":"what-is-the-best-dishwasher-available-other-than-bosch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/28\/what-is-the-best-dishwasher-available-other-than-bosch\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the best dishwasher available (other than Bosch)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks: (warning: boring domestic question!)<\/p>\n<p>I want to buy a dishwasher. I want it to be quiet and to wash dishes as well as the (sort-of-noisy) Whirlpool that I bought in 1996 (the Whirlpool, with triple-level sprayers, could blast melted cheese off baking dishes). I bought the top-of-the-line Bosch about five years ago and it proved to be a service nightmare (see <a href=\"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/who-else-has-a-bosch-dishwasher-how-does-it-work\/\">March 2008 posting<\/a>; even after lots of service it still doesn&#8217;t wash very well), so I don&#8217;t want to go down that road again.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer Reports top-rates a Kenmore Elite 12783 dishwasher but it isn&#8217;t clear who makes it. Could it be a dreaded Bosch (<a href=\"http:\/\/voices.yahoo.com\/best-dishwasher-dollars-381824.html\">this posting<\/a> says it might be)? They also like a KitchenAid model KDFE454CSS and say that it is very quiet, but other KitchenAids, which are just as quiet or quieter according to the KitchenAid Web site, are rated as vastly noisier. This is going into a pretty small apartment and the dishwasher needs to run during parties and not interfere with conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer Reports steered me very badly wrong with the Bosch so I&#8217;m not sure if I should give them too much credit, though I would expect them to be able to read a sound pressure level meter in the same room as a dishwasher. CR was the source for the beloved Whirlpool years ago and they correctly point out that Viking dishwashers are crap.<\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realworlddivorce.com\/\">realworlddivorce.com<\/a>\u00a0is a state-by-state guide to who gets the broken dishwasher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks: (warning: boring domestic question!) I want to buy a dishwasher. 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