You’ll find two detergent dispensers on the inside
door of your dishwasher. Two, because some cycles
use two washes.
See “Detergent Usage Guide”
below. (Be sure the CYCLE
OPEN
INDICATOR DIAL is at
OFF position before adding
detergent, Otherwise, the
detergent cup will not close
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and latch properly).
Close the main cup.
NOTE: To open the detergent
cup after it has been closed,
unlatch the door and rotate
the Cycle Indicator Dial a
full turn to the
When the closed cup contains
soap it is best that the door be
in a partially open position
before rotating the Cycle
HANDLE,
ROTATE AND
Indicator Dial. This will
CLOSE TIGHTLY
help reduce the amount
detergent and rinse aid
spillage into the tub.
Detergent Usage Guide
(powder or liquid)
SOFT WATER
MEDIUM WATER
HARD WATER
(O-3 grains hardness)
(3-7 grains)
(7-12 grains*)
CYCLES
Main Cup Open Cup Main Cup Open Cup Main
Open
POTSCRUBBER
Half Full
Half Full
Completely
Half Full
Completely
Completely
NORMAL WASH
Full
Full
Full
LIGHT WASH
Half Full
None
None
Completely
None
RINSE & HOLD
Use no detergent
Use no detergent
Use no detergent
grains and up is extremely hard water. A water softener is recommended. Without it,
Main Cup holds tablespoons;
lime can build up in the water valve. The water valve may stick while open and cause flooding,
Filled Open Cup holds 2 tablespoons.
How to Prepare the Dishes for Washing
If this is your
dishwasher, or if you’re replacing
a much older model, you may wonder how much
preparation your dishes need. Actually very little.
of normal food soils is not necessary. With
common sense and a little practice
soon know
what foods to remove. Here are some guidelines:
1. Scrape off bones, seeds, skins, toothpicks and other
hard solids. It is also best to remove hard-shelled
vegetables, meat trimmings, leafy vegetables and
crusts. Remove excessive quantities of oil or grease.
2. Remove large quantities of any food. Your dishwasher
has a built-in soft food disposer that pulverizes soft
food bits and flushes them away. It can handle small
amounts of soft foods, but large amounts will be
to handle.
3. Place dishes in dishwasher before soil has a chance to
dry and become hard. Dishes with dried-on soil are
more difficult to wash and may not come clean in the
POTSCRUBBER cycle. Remember to use your
RINSE & HOLD cycle for small “holding” loads.
NOTE: The foods mentioned are examples only.
Other foods not mentioned may also need to be
removed from 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 to remain
on dishes for a long period of time.
When using the POTSCRUBBER cycle, less
preparation is required before loading. The
POTSCRUBBER 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 remove
burn marks or restore fading caused by overheating
during cooking.
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