Cycles

KitchenAid FRONT-LOADING AUTOMATIC WASHER manual Cycles

Cycles can be selected by turning the Cycle control knob to the desired cycle. Each cycle is designed for different types of fabric and soil levels.

■Each cycle has a preset Soil Level (cycle time), Water Temperature and Spin Speed, and may have preset options. The preset settings provide the recommended fabric care for the selected cycle.

■The preset settings can be changed anytime before HOLD TO START is pressed. Not all options and modifiers are available with all cycles. (To change settings after the cycle has started, press PAUSE/OFF, then select the desired settings. Press HOLD TO START to continue the cycle.)

Sanitary

Use this cycle to clean heavily soiled, colorfast fabrics. This cycle combines a super hot water temperature and fast-speed tumbling to help ensure the removal of heavy soils and stains. It is recommended that you set your hot water heater to 120ºF (49ºC) to ensure proper performance during this cycle. The Sanitary cycle also helps eliminate 99.999% of 3 common infectious bacteria, even when no bleach is used. Extra high speed spin helps shorten drying time.

Whitest Whites

This cycle is especially designed for cleaning loads of soiled white fabrics with the addition of bleach. Hot washing temperatures assure optimal bleach activity. An additional rinse provides optimal rinse performance to avoid chlorine residues on your laundry. This cycle combines fast speed tumbling, longer wash time, and extra high speed spin to shorten drying time.

Heavy Duty

Use this cycle to wash loads of sturdy, colorfast fabrics and heavily to normally soiled garments. This cycle combines fast- speed tumbling, longer wash time, and extra high speed spin to shorten drying times. If the water temperature is lower than needed for this cycle, the heater will warm the water to the optimum temperature.

NOTE: Use the Heavy Duty cycle for optimal removal of organic soils such as blood.

Normal/Casual

Use this cycle to wash normally soiled cottons and linens. This cycle combines medium-speed tumbling and high-speed spin.

Rapid Wash

Use this cycle to wash small loads of lightly soiled garments that are needed in a hurry. This cycle combines fast-speed tumbling, a shortened wash time, and extra high speed spin to shorten drying time.

Delicate

Use this cycle to wash no-iron fabrics and garments labeled “Permanent Press” or “Wrinkle Free” or that indicate using a “Gentle” cycle on the care label. This cycle combines low-speed tumbling and low-speed spin to reduce wrinkling.

Silk

Use this cycle to clean washable silk garments. (Check label instructions to make sure that garment is washable.) This cycle gently tumbles and drains without spinning to gently clean garments and minimize wrinkling. Because there is no spinning action, garments will contain a higher amount of water at the end of this cycle.

Wool

Use this cycle to clean machine washable woolen garments. (Check the care instructions to make sure that garment is washable.) This cycle features gentle tumbling and low-speed spin to provide optimum garment care.

Handwash

Use this cycle to clean hand washable and special-care garments. Similar to the way garments are hand washed in a sink, the wash action of this cycle combines periods of low-speed tumbling and soaking. Low-speed spin reduces wrinkling.

Soak

Use the Soak cycle to remove small spots of set-in stains on fabrics. This cycle provides a soak time with warm or cold water followed by drain. Extra water, a short tumbling phase for equal distribution of the laundry, and a soaking time without drum movement improve the removal of set-in stains. Drain without spin assures gentle treatment, even for delicate articles.

Rinse/Spin

Use this cycle to get a rinse and spin only. This cycle combines fast-speed tumbling and extra high speed spin. If desired, you can reduce the spin speed by selecting the speed you want from the SPIN SPEED modifier.

A Rinse/Spin cycle is useful for

■Loads that need rinsing only.

■Adding fabric softener to a load.

Drain/Spin

Use this cycle to drain your washer or to drain and spin your wash load. The spin speed is preset to extra high. If desired, you can reduce the spin speed by selecting the speed you want from the SPIN SPEED modifier.

NOTE: Loads of synthetics, delicate fabrics, handwashables, and woolens should be drained with no spin or low spin speed to avoid fabric stress.

Preset cycle settings

Each cycle has a preset Soil Level (cycle time), Water Temperature, and Spin Speed. The preset settings provide the recommended fabric care for the selected cycle. See chart.

Cycle	Soil Level	Water Temp	Spin Speed
	(cycle time)

Sanitary	Normal	Super Hot/Cold	Extra High
	(1:55)

Whitest	Normal	Hot/Cold	Extra High
Whites	(1:00)

Heavy	Normal	Hot/Cold	Extra High
Duty	(1:15)

Normal/	Normal	Warm/Cold	High
Casual	(0:40)

Rapid	Less soil	Warm/Cold	Extra High
Wash	(0:40)