GE GSD2600D manual What you can leave on dishes What you shouldn’t, Detergent Usage Guide

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If your detergent gets old or

lumpy, throw it away. Itwon’t wash well. Old detergent loses its power. Lumpy detergent often won’t dissolve.

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

See “Detergent Usage Guide”

What you can leave on dishes.

And what you shouldn’t.

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 pulver-
izes soft food bits and flushes
them away. It can handle sma//
amounts of soft foods, but cannot
handle large amounts of food as

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.

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 POTSCRUBBER

cycle less preparation is required before loading. The Potscrubber cycle can wash heavily-soiled

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soft as mashed potatoes or

applesauce.

dishes and remove dried-on and baked-on soils from pots, pans and casseroles. Items with burned-on soils will not come clean. And the dishwasher cannot remove burn marks or restore fading caused by

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overheating during cooking.

Always close the main cup tightly.

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Detergent Usage Guide

		SOFT WATER		I	MEDIUM WATER			HARD WATER
		(O-3grains hardness)			(4-9 grains)			(10-15grains*)
	CYCLES	Main Cup	I	Open Cup	Main Cup	I	Open Cup	Main Cup~	I	Open Cup*
	POTSCRUBBERand	1 Tablespoon	~	1 Tablespoon	Half Full	+	Half Full	Completely	+	Co~pletely
	NORMALWASHcycles	minimum		minimum				Full
	CHINA-CRYSTAL	1 Tablespoon			Half Full		None	Completely		None
..	LIGHTWASHand			None
		minimum						Full
“ ENERGYSAVERcycles
‘-~	RINSE& HOLDcycle	Use no detergent			Use no detergent			Use no detergent

*15 grains and up is extremely hard watez 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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