

We penalize the dishwasher every time a dish comes out wet. Any dishwasher that shows little to no evidence of redeposit is a winner in our book.Ĭycle Time -Dishwasher cycles can run the gamut from 30 minutes to four hours.ĭrying -Whether it's accomplished with rinse aid, a built-in heater, or a built-in fan, customers expect their dishes to be dry as well as clean. Redeposit - Redeposit is the term for when, during the course of a dishwasher cycle, water jets remove bits of food from one dish, only to accidentally get it stuck on a second dish.

Ideally, each dish is 100 percent clean, but that level of cleaning perfection can be harder to achieve in real life. At the end of each cycle, we determine how much stain has been removed from each dish. Stain Removal -We put the three major cycles on a dishwasher (Quick, Heavy, and Normal) to the test by baking food and beverage stains-milk, spinach, egg, oatmeal, meat, and more-onto 15 to 20 dishes that are then loaded into the dishwasher per the manufacturer's loading directions. We assess each product on the three major parts of the dishwasher experience-performance, features, and usability.

Testing dishwashers is a dirty job, and we're happy to do it. Between the us, we've spent many years testing major appliances in a lab environment, but we've also used them at home, like normal people would in the course of their daily lives. Hi there! We're Reviewed's appliance testing team. We test a dishwasher's Quick, Heavy, and Normal cycles by challenging them to clean dishes with baked-on food stains-milk, spinach, egg, oatmeal, meat, and more.
