Bosch vs. GE Dishwashers *snarl*

[slantsixdan]

I am a dual citizen, U.S. Federal laws force me to choose between my American home and my Canadian spouse, so until that changes I am stuck having two residences. The primary main one in Canada is equipped with a cheap, basic dishwasher, a licenced Canadian build (by Camco) of a GE design. Model CRD2204X00WW, serial ST605421A. It has a rotary timer and four buttons: Regular or Pots 'n' Pans wash; drying heat on/off.

The house in the USA has a Bosch SHX3AM05UC/01. I have written several times about it (e.g., here and here). It's got electronic controls, two wash arms, and I hate the damn thing. Its racks are evidently from another planet where the plates are perfectly flat with no dish or rim and they don't use such exotica as bowls. And even when I manage to load regular Earth-type eatware into it, the stars have to line up just right and the dishwasher deities have to take a notion to smile on that particular load of dishes at that particular time or they won't get clean. Or they'll get clean but not rinsed. Or they'll get clean and rinsed but not dry. The cycle seems to take forever. The filter must be manually cleaned. Coaxing this sorry excuse for a dishwasher to do its damn job is almost more work than washing the dishes by hand. This was a really poor choice on my part, based on positive experience with older Bosch dishwashers.

The Camco/GE unit in the Canadian apartment, on the other hand...just...works. It's a good bit noisier than the Bosch (and makes exactly all the same sounds I've heard from GE dishwashers since the early 1970s), and it has only one wash arm, and its racks accommodate a decent load of eatware and cookware from this planet, and it just freakin' works without complaint or hassle. The dishes get clean, rinsed, and dry—each and every time.

There's a lesson in here somewhere…anyone want to help me dig it up, dust it off, and study it?

(More to the point: anyone want to suggest a current-production dishwasher with which for me to replace the POS Bosch?)

[kdog]

Check the units that Canadian Tire sells, nice simple machine that will wash your dishes, can get one around $300 - it's the basic talltub W/P design badged as "Inglis" -

[slantsixdan]

Interesting idea, thanks, but the shitty Bosch is in the States, and hauling a dishwasher from Canada to the States is not a practicable plan, so I need a pointer to a US model.

[RegUS_PatOff]

maybe (Whirlpool) Maytag MDB4630AWW Tall (plastic) Tub

Home Depot $ 299 free shipping

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