Can you get a Bosch right now? Home Depot in VA say they are unable to order parts or appliances. (Of course that is one way to sales pitch another brand) Mine was great until it broke in 5 years. Had a conman contractor come in and tear it apart then disappear.
I liked how well it cleaned but did not like the bright led light on front. Long cycle to finish but quiet.
My main complaint about my Bosch dishwasher is the controls on the top of the door. They are smooth and not capacitive but not really proper buttons either. They need a press but there is no tactile feeling to them being pressed. It’s not a big deal but I am not a fan either.
Also, the display on the top is off (and mostly hidden) when the washer is running so there is no indication of where it is in the wash cycle and how much longer until it is finished. More than a few times I have had a dish in the washer I needed to cook and only had a vague notion of when I cold get at it to start cooking (yeah…I could pop it open any time but I hate doing that if I don’t have to).
If you wonder why I got that dishwasher it is because it came free as a package deal when I bought my fridge, range and microwave. They didn’t give me a choice. I still like it a lot though. The above are more nitpicks.
Both my local Home Depot and a local appliance dealer had the top-of-the-line Bosch “available soon” (and actually available in about 2 weeks, as it turned out.) The one i would have preferred was on order, but they didn’t have an ETA for when it might arrive.
The appliance store had two other dishwashers that were actually available, and home Depot had 4 others (with maybe one overlapping). So pickings were slim.
I’m glad it is changing re supply line struggles. There is something magical about Bosch not having the heat coil in bottom of the wash chamber. It gets magically hot and steams off all the crud.
Our Bosch isn’t top of the line and has nice buttons, for power and cycle. Nothing hidden in the top of the door.
I liked our Bosch dishwasher at the previous house. Quiet, and worked well.
I like the Kitchen Aid at our current house even better, though. My one complaint is that the cats can trigger the controls on it.
I’ve had Bosch dishwashers in a couple of AirBnB houses. They worked great, but they both had a broken soap door. It slides to close, but neither one would stay locked closed. I’m not sure if that’s a coincidence or indicative of an issue with the soap door.
Ooo, that was the one complaint about the Bosch, now that I think of it. Not that the soap door wouldn’t stay closed, but it was very finicky about closing.
I’ll be the turd in the punchbowl and say that I intensely disliked our Bosch dishwasher. There was a recall on our model which required replacement of the control panel, and there was some other thing that went wrong with it that required a service call - don’t remember the details on that now. I do remember it took a month to resolve - two weeks for repairman to show up and two more weeks for the part to arrive and be installed.
It never cleaned particularly well, we couldn’t use liquid/gel detergent in it because it would gunk up the soap door and keep it from opening properly, and it didn’t come with a heat drying feature, so any plastic stuff we put it in it would still be wet the next day. I had to shake off the excess water and dry those things before putting them away.
We have a GE Profile now. The Bosch was quieter but the GE is better by every other measure.
We love our Bosch dishwasher (and also our Miele clothes washer), it’s 10 years old and doing great.
The one thing you want to check is local service options. We happen to have a local appliance place just a few miles away that can service it, but I don’t know how big their authorized network is.
@puzzlegal started a thread like this a couple of months ago, and Bosch was the most popular answer there, too. (Perhaps why she later bought one?)
A lot of the last part of the thread was devoted to trying to help her fix the old one.
You guys were really helpful, and ultimately i diagnosed the problem was too serious to fix ourselves.
And yes, the thread helped convince me to buy the Bosch. The Wirecutter review also pointed that way. My only real regret was that i wasn’t able to buy the cheaper model with exterior controls. But this does clean a lot of dishes at once, and they come out nicely clean.
I love that my Bosch has a sliding drawer for cutlery at the top, so you get more room for dishes in the main body of the machine, I don’t like the flat buttons on the top, but that’s a minor quibble. It’s super quiet.
Our dishwasher is from Siemens (and very good), so I can’t respond to that. But our washer/dryer are Bosch, and we are very happy with them. Quality appliances for sure.
I prefer washing dishes by hand. We do have a dishwasher though, and it’s a Bosch. It’s very quiet and gets the dishes clean, although I admit to washing them prior to loading the dishwasher.
Ditto for ours. We recently had our kitchen done and specced a Bosch model for that reason. Part of the benefit of using apartments when we go on holiday is that we get to try out lots of kitchen white goods and you get to know what works and what doesn’t. You also get to see what the smart apartment owners buy, in my experience? Bosch and Miele.
Our old dishwasher (Whirlpool, piece of utter shit) broke down several times in the space of a few years, when it broke down again (about a year before the kitchen was getting revamped) we chucked it and bought a 20 year old Bosch off gumtree for a tenner to see us through to the new kitchen. It behaved impeccably.
We’ve had a few brands over the years and find that Bosch is the absolute best in every respect. Runs quiet and the dishes come out clean. We will never buy another brand as long as they keep up with the quality.
My in-laws Bosch seems decent. It doesn’t have the best drying performance though, and it takes a LONG time. It’s hard to tell just how good it really is, considering that they practically hand-wash all their dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. (seems kind of pointless to me; why not just handwash completely and save a step?)
I haven’t run across anything about it in 5-10 years of helping with dishes at their house that has made me want to swap out our KitchenAid for a Bosch. Which is better I suppose than their Samsung refrigerator which makes me thankful for our Frigidaire.
Darn it, I wanted to make that joke.
Snooze, lose.
Or put them straight in the dishwasher and save water, time, and effort?
See the video in this post from the previous thread on dishwashers.