Hotpoint HDA6009 Detergent Usage Guide powder or liquid, How to Prepare the Dishes for Washing

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

CUP ‘

Close the main cup

reduce the amount of detergent	CLOSE TIGHTLY
and rin.~e aid agent .~pillage into the tub.

Detergent Usage Guide (powder or liquid)

SOFT WATER

MEDIUM WATER

HARD WATER

(0-3 grains hardness)

(3-7

grains)

(7- 12

grains*)

CYCLES

Main Cup

Open Cup

Main Cup

Open Cup

Main Cup$

Open Cup$

POTS & PANS

Half Full

+ Half Full

Completely

+

Half Full

Completely +

Completely

NORMAL WASH

Full

I

Full

I

Full

WATER SAVER

Half Full

I

Half Full

None

Completely

None

None

Full

RINSE & HOLD

I

Use no detergent

I

Use no detergent

I

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 vtilve. The water valve may stick while open and cause tlooding.

Filled Open CLIp 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. Prerinsing 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 tlushes 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 POTS & PANS cycle. Remember to use your RINSE & HOLD cycle 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 of time.

When using the POTS & PANS cycle, less preparation is required before loading. The POTS & 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.

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