Our dish washer finally died. I saw it coming. Do they even make Magic Chef appliances any more?!? I think that ours was the original dishwasher from the time our building was constructed in 1978. So really a pretty good run but it had sure lost its magic long ago.
our elderly Magic Chef with Temp Boost
the upper rack was useless for cleaning anything though made a wonderful safety hazard
There were always a bunch of problems, but it was sort of working okay so we kept postponing getting a new one. Dishwashers aren’t that cheap, you know, and I have expensive tastes. We’ve been living with the ancient machine for about six years. Over that time it gradually entered senility. The MG slowly forgot how to clean dishes on the upper rack. Thus for the past few months I’d only use the lower one, which is obviously not a green practice. Even worse, sometimes the detergent dispenser would not open, so none of the dishes would get washed. But the most annoying thing was that the Magic Chef was loud…very loud. While the machine was running, you’d have to talk with extra volume even if sitting across the table from one another. If we were trying to watch TV, listen to music or have an after dinner conversation in the living room, it was almost impossible to make out what was said over the noisy swooshing jets of water and moving mechanical parts of the pathetic thing. When it drained it sounded like there was a flood in the house. Thank god that it never actually flooded (but don’t get me started on our ancient water heater disaster last summer!)
our Magic Chef soap dispenser was less than active in its old age
Despite all the inconvenience, the Magic Chef was a very helpful machine for a long time. We all get old and less effective at things that once seemed so easy when we’re young and fresh, don’t we? I am glad we had it. Magic Chef, thanks for being with us for this past six years. I hope that you’re at peace in kitchen appliance heaven now, perhaps sitting under a shade tree somewhere boasting to your mechanical friends about all of those filthy pots and pans that you cleaned lickety-split after your humans threw a massive dinner party in the Eighties.
look at our sleek new LG dishwasher! Are you jealous?
Dishwashers, like everything else it seems, have changed. Our new LG is just incredible! Though it fills the same space the Magic Chef did, the interior is much roomier. It washes really well without having to do any extra scrubbing. You can even use both racks! And the top one is adjustable for tall things like stemware. It has a special device to hold stemware and reduce breaking. Gosh! The thing that I like the most is that it’s ultra silent. At only 47 decibels, the sound is almost imperceptible. In fact, I wasn’t even sure that it was actually working the first few times I ran it because I didn’t hear anything from the dining room after I turned it on in the kitchen. What an improvement!
the very first load of dishes in our LG