We are still in the middle of our “kitchen re-do” … with nothing much going on except for adding a window where the French Doors used to be, and getting ready to put in sliding doors on the other end of the kitchen, our to-be-new-access-to-out-back.
I’ve wanted a dishwasher for awhile, not having one since we ripped the old one out, it leaked from day one and I dis-liked it more than I can say. It was a Kenmore cheapy, installed by the builder. Anyhow, things were hard, hand washing dishes, with our kitchen reduced in functionality in other ways, not just the dishwasher.
We moved things around more in 2006 a couple of times and it’s a bad arrangement at best, but better than being the wrongly laid out one that was installed when the house was built in 1997. I’m pregnant, 19 weeks, and it was a mute point in the first tri-mester, but since about 12 weeks and further, it’s been harder on me to have this kitchen and all that is in it and all that isn’t in it.
Not long after we took the dishwasher out, seems so long ago, I mentioned to DH that I’d like to get a decent portable dishwasher. It was a discounted idea due to cost, so I let that idea go for a bit. Recently I started talking about it again, and DH was willing to consider it and we were able to do something about it.
We spent this week thinking about it and looking at a couple of stores, then getting online and researching it more thoroughly. I wanted a black dishwasher, but we couldn’t find a good model available anywhere. And not just that, the white on white version didn’t seem to be available anywhere either.
A Best Buy store had one as display, and said they didn’t have any we could “pick up” anywhere, new. But he was willing to sell us the demo unit. He said over the phone it was the white version of the model we were looking for, and was in good condition, had everything and was new, really. DH went to the store and they gave him the run-around … it had a big dent in the side and was missing documentation and the coupling thing that screws onto the faucet, needed to couple the hose unit to the faucet. They came down to $375 for it, so he walked out.
After getting home again we looked online some more and then he called a different Best Buy and lo and behold, THEY were able to work with us, and had no problem telling us to come in, pay for it, and go to the wharehouse and pick up a new one. :rolleyes:
So now we have a nice dishwasher in our not very nice kitchen. It is big, standard size, freestanding, and will be something we can bring away with us when we move. 🙂 Also, I’ll have two dishwashers to work with, when we get the kitchen finished there will be one installed. THAT is the functionality I’ve always wished for.
Our model is GSC3400, White on White. It’s working wonderfully thus far. It’s not noisy, the noise it makes is quite soft, it’s just much louder when it empties the dirty water, since it’s being dumped into the sink, seeing as it’s a portable hook-up situation. Compared to my past, the old dishwasher was very, very noisy, and any dishwasher in an apartment I’ve been in was very, very noisy too.
Since we have a dishwasher now, my hubby had to get Cascade for it, and went to Costco this afternoon after an appointment. While there he called me to make sure he got the right thing, and I had him look at the French White Corning Ware set which I’ve had my eye on for a while.
He found it and agreed to purchase it for me, my thinking being we needed it and now it makes sense to get it since the dishwasher will make it a dream to use the cookware.
We had the same stuff since getting married, having received some as presents and also filling in with our own purchasing of it that first year. It didn’t survive the years, most of it breaking in the last 5 years, with only one small casserole and one quiche pan left, a numerous glass lids left, with nothing to fit them
This new set is full of good sizes and shapes, and some little things that I never had, and the design is updated from what we had from 1992. For one, there are plastic lids for some of the casseroles, and that’s useful. Another is rammikins, I have always had two with lovely painting of fruit inside, not Corning Ware, and I cherish them and hated to use them as I have all these years. Now I have others and will be able to add to the group so I can have enough for desserts, and to use with my cooking –to have things pre-done and ready to put things together, in a very nice way.