RIP, you POJ

POJ = Piece of Junk

The dishwasher died. I celebrate its death. It's been a sub-adequate appliance from the day we got it. This was the third dishwasher to leave us since we bought this house a little less than 2 years ago. The dishwasher that came with the house smelled like a swamp. We never ran it. It just smelled too "funky". We replaced it was a bargain purchase off of KSL.com. That dishwasher lasted about a month before it refused to drain, so we got rid of it. We decided to purchase a new dishwasher, however, since we were making double house payments at the time, our funds were limited so we bought what we could afford. That dishwasher was one of those dishwashers that required the user to basically pre-wash the dishes if the dishes were to emerge from the wash cycle "clean". It couldn't clean melted chocolate chips off a plate even if the hi-temp cycle was selected. It sounded like a Boeing 757 when it was running. It smelled like electrical fire when the "heat dry" was selected. It was a lame "dishwasher". Its death has been anticipated (and even looked forward to for a few months). Finally, it kept stopping mid-wash cycle. It would not advance to the "dry" cycle. The dishes inside were burning hot so I can only assume that the dishwasher temperature gauge was malfunctioning.

I went out one Saturday and visited several stores and wrote down the model numbers of dishwashers that I thought had potential. I came home and check the reviews on the various models. Only two were acceptable. One was a GE and one was a Bosch. The Bosch was at the RC Willey Scratch and Dent Center. We went there. We'd decided that we were going to buy the machine, but hadn't been approached by a sales-vulture yet. Eventually one came up and and we evidently looked very non-committed. It was Mr. Salesman's (his name was Fonz, for real) last day of work. He asked us if we would be able to haul the dishwasher out of there immediately; we said that we had a truck in the parking lot. He took an additional $100 off the price. We left happy.

We replaced this pathetic POJ with this Bad Boy! I can't believe how quiet it is! I love the way it gets the dishes clean. I'm a happy dishwasher owner again!