GE Monogram ZBD3000 manual OPE~TING Instructions, Detergent Usage Guide powder of liquid

OPE~TING INSTRUCTIONS

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How to choose and use the right detergent. (continued)

Too much detergent with soft water not only wastes money, it can be harmful. It can cause a permanent cloudiness of glassware, called “etching.” An outside layer of glass is etched away! Of course, this takes some time. But why take a chance when it’s easy to find out the hardness of your water?

Keep your detergent fresh and dry. Under the ~ink isn’t a go~d 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. Old detergent often 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 U.rage Guide” below.

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

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Detergent Usage Guide (powder of liquid)

	SOFT WATER		MEDIUM WATER			HARD WATER
	(O-3 grains hardness)		(3-7 grains)			(7-12 grains*)
CYCLES	Main Cup	Open Cup	Main Cup		Open Cup	Main Cup$		Open Cup+
POTSCRUBBER	Half Full	+ Half Full	Completely	~	Half Full	Completely	J Completely
NORMAL WASH			Full			Full		Full
SHORT WASH	Half Full	None	Half Full		None	Completely		None
CHINA CRYSTAL						Full
RINSE & HOLD	Use no detergent		Use no detergent			Use no detergent
*12 grains and up is extremely hard water. A water softener is recommended. Without it,						+ Filled Main Cup holds 3 tablespoons;
lime can build up in the water valve. The water valve may stick while open and cause flooding.						Filled Open Cup holds 2 tablespoons.

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 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 small 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 cvcle for small “holding” loads.

NOTE: The foods mentioned are 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.

When using the POTSCRUBBER cycle, less preparation is required before loading. The POTSCRUBBER 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.

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