Hotpoint HDA2600K How to prepare Dishes for washing, Dete~ent Usage Guide powder or liquid

Keep your detergent fresh and dry. Under the sink isn’t a good place to store detergent. Too much moisture. Don’t put powder detergent into the dispenser until you’re ready to wash dishes, either. (It won’t be fresh OR dry.)

If your powder detergent gets old or lumpy, throw it away. It won’t

wash well. Old detergent ofien won’t dissolve.

If you use a liquid dishwasher detergent, these precautions are not necessary because liquid detergents don’t “lump” as they age or come in contact with water.

You’ll find two detergent dispensers on the inside door of your dishwasher. Two, because some cycles use two washes.

See “Detergent Usage Guide” below.

Always close the main cup tightly. men it isjrmly latched you will hear a clicking sound. It is not necessary to overtighten.

NWE: Detergent cup maybe opened manually with no harm. Turn handle counterclockwise until it reieases. A snapping sound is normal when it opens.

How to prepare

the dishes for washing

If this is your first dishwasher, or if you’re replacing a much older model, you may wonder how much pre-preparation your dishes need. Actually very little. Pre-rinsing of normal food soils is not necessary. With common sense and a little practice you’ll soon know what foods to remove. Here are some guidelines:

1.Scrape off bones, seeds, skins, toothpicks and other hard solids. It is also best to remove hard shelled vegetables, meat trimmings, leafy vegetables and crusts. Remove excessive quantities of oil or grease.

2.Remove large quantities of any food. Your dishwasher has a built-in soft food disposer that pulverizes soft food bits and flushes them away. It can handle smll amounts of soft foods, but large amounts will be difficult to handle.

3.Try to remove food scraps and place dishes in dishwasher before soil has a chance to dry and become hard. Dishes with dried-on soil are more difficult to wash and may not come clean in the NORMAL WASH cycle. Remember to use

your RINSE & HOLD cycle for	.
small “holding” loads.
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Note: The foods mentioned above
are for examples only. Other foods	?,
not mentioned may also need to be
removed from your dishes. You
may also want to consider removing
foods such as mustard, mayonnaise,
vinegar, lemon juice and other
foods that can cause discoloration
of stainless steel if allowed to
remain on dishes for a long period
of time.
When using the Pm& PANS
cycle, less preparation is required
before loading. The P~S & PANS
cycle can wash heavily-soiled
dishes and remove dried-on and
baked-on soils from pots, pans and
casseroles. Items with burned-on
soils may not come clean. And the
dishwasher cannot remove burn
marks or restore fading caused
by overheating during cooking.

Dete~ent Usage Guide (powder or liquid)

	SOFT WATER		MEDIUM WATER			HARD WATER
	(O-3grains hardness)		(3-7 grains)			(7-12 grains*)
CYCLES	Main Cup	I Open Cup	Main Cup	J Open Cup		Main Cup~	I Open Cup*
POTS & PANS and	1 Tablespoon ~ 1 Tablespoon		Half Full	~ Half Full		Completely	+ Completely
NORMAL WASH cycles	minimum	minimum				Full		Full
CHINA-CRYSTAL and	1 Tablespoon	None	Half Full		None	Completely		None
SHORT WASH cycles	minimum					Full
RINSE & HOLD cycle	Use no detergent		Use no detergent			Use no detergent

*12 grains and up is extremely hard water. A water softener is recommended. Without it,

lime can build up in the water valve. The water valve may stick while open and cause flooding.

~Filled Main Cup holds 3 tablespoons; Filled Open Cup holds 2 tablespoons.

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