Squeaky clean

Excuse the delay! We left you a month ago with some indecision over whether to get a new dishwasher. Perhaps you thought our silence meant that we weren't sure what to do. Well that is definitely not the case. In fact, we'd practically hit the order button by the time I posted the blog update, and we were schedule for delivery 4 days later (and on a federal holiday, even better!).

So this guy was on the way out:

In all its grungy glory (since the water wasn't heating, the walls and seals of the dishwasher were starting to look pretty disgusting):

So a few days later thanks to a Best Buy sale that included free shipping AND installation (and removal of the old machine), we were on our way to getting a Bosch 500 series in our kitchen. We'd read some negative reviews but they were all related to some features of a "European-style" dishwasher, mostly because they don't heat dry the dishes. But since our previous model was a Bosch that heated the same (less effective but less energy-sucking) way and we liked it, we figured the new one would be fine.

Out with the old:

In with the new:

It obviously is no bigger than the last one, but somehow, it just gobbles up all our dishes and silverware and still doesn't get full. The third rack is nice, but that doesn't even seem to be the reason - we think the interior space is larger. Maybe the walls have gotten thinner? No idea, but we love it.

 Buttons and a countdown for different cycles:

And a floor light to tell us when it's on since it's so quiet (actually, it really isn't much more quiet than our previous one, but it certainly isn't noisy).

Most important, our dishes are clean and residue-free and the dishwasher seems to be heating everything nicely. For once, a fast decision on a home purchase seems to have been the right way to go.