My new place has a Whirlpool dishwasher (model number unknown) with no rotating spray arm for the top rack. I’m used to putting glasses and bowls in the top rack, but predictably, they don’t get clean in this machine.
Is there anything I can do to make that top rack useful for cleaning? If not, why do they bother including the rack at all? Am I supposed to carefully arrange stuff on the bottom rack so that the spray will go past it, hit the dishes on the top rack, and maybe clean something on the bottom rack on its way down?
As far as I can tell, without a device to spray water directly onto the top rack, I might as well use it to store my tax records and car title, since there’s little chance anything up there will even get wet!
Are you sure there’s no way for stuff to get wet up there?
My dishwasher doesn’t have a separate rotary arm for the top, but the center spindle-thingy (stop me if I get too technical) telescopes up during the wash cycle (and presumably spins, I haven’t been willing to yank the door open in the middle of a cycle to find out).
Oh. :smack: Thanks. That must be the “Tower Wash System” Whirlpool’s web site kept talking about. Someone around here has been covering up the thing in the center with pans… guess I’ll have to put a stop to that.
The upper arm just can spray down, I can’t see how that can do anything to clean the inside of glasses anyway, water has to come from the bottom and spray up to do that. I had a dishwasher with a spray arm under the top rack, the tower would telescope and mate with the upper arm. Worked great when it worked but took up a lot of room and would often get stuck on lower level stuff.
