This might be obvious if you have a dishwasher but not everyone does and yours might operate slightly differently.
- Scrape excess food, especially fats, into the food waste bin. Rinse the crockery and glasses quickly to prevent the filters clogging.
- Loading – plates and bowls on the bottom, cutlery in the basket, handle down. Cups, pans etc. in the upper tray. Utensils and long knives – lengthways flat in the top tray. Large chopping boards to the far left and right of the bottom tray. The oval dinner plates must be loaded sideways on to prevent them obstructing spinning water arm. There are also large round dinner plates that are too large for the spinning water arm and must be washed by hand in the sink.
- Please do not load wine glasses, cast iron cookware, or large dinner plates that might obstruct the spinning water nozzles. Spin the water spray arms to ensure they rotate freely.
- Dishwasher tablet – place one tablet in the tablet drawer in the door. Don’t remove the wrapping unless there are instructions to the contrary on the tablet. Close the drawer.
- Close the dishwasher door and make sure it is latched.
- Press the power on button far left.
- Press the P button to cycle through the available programmes.
- Choose the programme – we use Rapid (running stick man) which takes 30 minutes but does not dry, or Eco, which takes 4 hours, finishes with a dry, and is the greenest programme. “90” is a 90 minute programme that will also dry but is not eco-friendly.
- Press the Start Button on the far right of the panel. Away it goes. The rapid one should be done in about 30 minutes. It will turn itself off when done. Open the door and leave for 15 minutes for steam to escape. Unload the bottom basket first.
- Although in theory the machine is supposed to dry everything (except when using rapid), if you’ve put something large in it, it seems to interfere with the drying cycle and you may find a few drops of water on items when you remove them. A quick wipe with a tea towel fixes that.