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 INDICATOR
DIAL is at OFF position before
adding detergent. Otherwise,
the detergent cup will not
close and latch properly).
L\
Close the main cup.
Indicator Dial. This will help
ROTATE AND
reduce the amount of detergent
CLOSE TIGHTLY
and rinse aid agent spillage into the tub.
Detergent Usage Guide
(powder or liquid)
CYCLES
POTSCRUBBER
NORMAL WASH
LIGHT WASH
SOFT WATER
MEDIUM WATER
HARD WATER
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grains hardness)
(3-7 grains)
(7-12 grains*)
Main Cup
Open Cup
Half
Half Full
Half Full
None
Main Cup
Open Cup
Completely
Half Full
Main
Open
Completely
Completely
RINSE & HOLD
Use no detergent
Use no detergent
Use no detergent
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grains and up is extremely hard water. A water softener is recommended. Without it,
Main Cup holds 3 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 first 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 you’ll 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 difficult to handle.
3. Try to remove food scraps and 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 bum marks or
restore fading caused by overheating during cooking.
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