You’ll find two detergent dispensers on the inside
door of your dishwasher. Two, because some cycles
use two washes.
the
help
the
HANDLE,
ROTATE AND
CLOSE TIGHTLY
Detergent Usage Guide
(powder or liquid)
SOFT WATER
grains hardness)
CYCLES
Main Cup
Open Cup
POTS & PANS
Completely
Completely
NORMAL WASH
Full
Full
I
WATER SAVER
Half Full
None
Half
None
Completely
Full
RINSE & HOLD
Use no detergent
Use
detergent
Use no detergent
Up
water.
A
is
il.
build up in the
The
cause
Main
tablespoons;
Filled
Cup
How to Prepare the Dishes for Washing
this is your first dishwasher, or you’re replacing
a much older
you may wonder how much
preparation your dishes need. Actually very little.
normal food soils is not necessary.
With common sense
little practice you’ll soon
know
foods to remove. Here
some guidelines:
1. Scrape
bones, seeds, skins, toothpicks and other
hard solids. It is also best to remove hard-shelled
vegetables, meat trimmings, leafy vegetables
crusts. Remove excessive quantities
oil or grease.
2. Remove large quantities
any food. Your
dishwasher has a built-in soft food disposer that
pulverizes
bits and flushes them away.
It can handle
amounts
foods,
large amounts will be
to handle.
3. Try to remove food scraps
place dishes in
dishwasher before soil has chance to dry and
become herd. Dishes with dried-on soil
more
difficult to wash
not come clean in the
POTS & PANS
Remember to use your
RINSE HOLD
small “holding” loads.
NOTE:
mentioned
examples only.
Other
not mentioned may also need to be
removed
your dishes. You may also want to
consider removing foods such as mustard, mayonnaise,
vinegar, lemon juice and other foods that can cause
discoloration of stainless steel if allowed remain
on dishes for a
of time.
When using the POTS & PANS cycle, less preparation
is required before loading. The POTS & PANS cycle can
wash
heavily soiled
dishes and remove dried-on and
baked-on soils from pots, pans and casseroles. Items with
burned-on soils may not come clean, and the dishwasher
cannot
burn marks restore fading caused by
overheating during cooking.
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