Un ecomod my dish washer pls
Newer dishwashers are junk.
I have a newer Kenmore elite dishwasher.
Man this thing is useless on the normal and eco settings.
Eco is trash, some how make clean dishes dirty.
After lots of observation this is how the settings break down.
There's 2 water levels full and water saver.
There's a pre wash, wash where the soap door opens and a rinse.
I found that washing down the inside and pumping it out helped, at the very least it got hot water to the dishwasher and got rid of anything weird growing in the bottom of the sump.
The filter screen gets nasty have to pull out the racks and clean it just about daily or it will trun funky and clogs up with minerals from our hard water. So I pulled that. That caused the spay bars to clog if I didn't get all the old food off. Started to let the dogs lick dishes clean. Dogs use almost zero water and get the dishes 97% clean, they get all the big chunks.
I could get better results if I stopped it and manually rinsed down the inside during the prewash pump out and added water to the water saver steps.
And catch the rinse and throw in some citric acid.
Brief descriptions of various settings:
Eco setting is the most useless. Might as well pick out the few acceptably clean ones and run it again, because they might come out dirty next time.
Here is it's cycle breakdown.
Prewash is a water saver. The water saver cycle is so short adding soap is a waste of soap.
Wash is a full water.
Rinse is a water saver.
Each step is like 15 minutes. Doing manual rinse downs and adding water to the water saver steps helped a lot.
Normal, normally only cleans half the dishes. Migh as well run it twice. At least it won't make clean dishes dirty.
It's a water saver prewash, prewash is so short adding soap is a waste.
Wash is full water, use max soap.
2 water saver rinses.
Steps are a little bit longer, wash is longer and 2 rinses definitely make it take a lot longer.
Manual rinse down between steps adding water to water saver steps made it almost reliable at producing cleaned dishes.
Pots and pans the only useable setting. Between one and zero items need rewash, only items that consistently need rewash are peanut butter knives and spoons that weren't treated with k9.
Prerinse is full water, longer than normal and eco, adding some soap down in the sump on start up definitely helps.
Wash is full water and really long. Maximum soap.
2 full water rinses at the end, throw in citric acid for no spots rinse.
Only actual pots and pans need a manual rinse down after the prewash.
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Last edited by oil pan 4; 08-31-2023 at 05:40 PM..
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