Miele Diamante Series : G2143SCSS 24 Full Console Dishwasher - Stainless Steel

by Miele

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• ASIN: B001QWYEDK
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #991,632 in Appliances (See Top 100 in Appliances)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pricy but worth it. Works Great, January 24, 2011

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T. Truong "techno junkie" (San Jose CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miele Diamante Series : G2143SCSS 24 Full Console Dishwasher - Stainless Steel

I purchased this 8 months ago to replaced an el cheapo unit from costco which came with the house we bought. Having a well and very hard water, there wasn't so many dishwasher which has built in water softener, Many of the German units do(including Bosch) I can't recall why i picked this over the Bosch but I've been very happy with it. The racks are very flexible and are painted over stainless steel, which means when the paint does chip off the trays, you won't see rust. how cool is that? So far, it's consumed 1 box of salt in about 7 months. I've experimented with a few detergents, so far the electrosol brand with the ball in the middle works best, but I'll try another brand later. There are a few grips i have to say. There is a 1 digit numeric LED on the front and a bunch of led lights for status, The only time the LED numbers show up is when you use the dishwasher with the delay feature which is to me pointless because this thing is so freaking quiet. programming the amount of salt & rinse aid is abit of a joke, going back to the numeric led. instead of giving you the actual number, you have to count on the number of "blinks" on the led status light! wow. silly very silly.
As for advertising the reprogrammability of the unit - I'm not sure why they'd even need this, it's not exactly HDMI where the standards keep revolving. it's a freaking dishwasher. ;) @ 1500 dollars it's a hard purchase for us, but it's been pretty good so far. If you have hard water, rather then buy an all home water softener, you can buy this dishwasher or some of the Bosche/Thermodor(same company). I couldn't find a US made dishwasher which has that built in, otherwise i would have gotten a GE or Maytag. Overall great unit, very quiet. it runs while we watch tv, no issue at all. My last unit before we moved was a maytag, it was pretty noisy, i always timed it to run at 5 or 6 am in the morning so I wouldn't have to hear it clunking away.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Overpriced junk, September 13, 2010

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D. Barrett (Massachusetts, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miele Diamante Series : G2143SCSS 24 Full Console Dishwasher - Stainless Steel

I'd never owned a Miele dishwasher before this one, but I'd heard the hype: cleans great, super-quiet, saves water, etc. So I bought one and found that most of the hype is false.

First, it's not that quiet. I wouldn't call it loud, but it's no quieter than my old Kenmore that was half the price.

It also doesn't fit dishes particularly well. I don't understand how Miele took a standard-sized dishwasher and made it hold only 2/3 the dishes of my old Kenmore, but somehow they did it. The rack layout just stinks.

But worst of all, this dishwasher is lousy for cleaning. In a typical load of dirty dishes (no rinsing by hand), 6-10 items don't get clean. Primary offenders are the frontmost and rearmost plates on the bottom rack, any silverware in the top (third) rack, and cups facing downward. They are left with bits of food. Mind you, I am not a novice at loading a dishwasher and I followed the recommended patterns in the manual. Simply put, the cleaning capability is the worst I've seen in a modern dishwasher. Since this is also the most expensive dishwasher I've ever owned, that's bad.

I had the machine checked out by an authorized Miele service technician, who found nothing wrong. So I took advantage of Miele's "love it or return it" policy, got my money back, and purchased a KitchenAid KUDE70CVSS for a few hundred dollars less. You can read my review of the KUDE70CVSS on Amazon too. (Hint: the title is "This dishwasher rocks!!!")