I've never heard anyone refer to any appliance brand as a "luxury" brand except for you ss: always glad to oblige: Off-GW: Luxury kitchen appliances from google. Note that some of these are perfectly legitimate uses of luxury. Others want to sell you or point you explicitly to "luxury appliances" - a term you contend I have coined. Those are the ones that are germane here. On-GW: One particular link I picked up. Others can also be found. I bought the Miele La Perla because I wanted THE BEST. Sorry, I'm an engineer. You'll have to define "THE BEST". ut I do know that you pay extra for thoughtfulness of design, technology, and function. And how much do you pay for the "Cheese" cycle? :-) My La Perla is a pleasure to use, makes the kitchen look striking, and cleans like a champ. I'm really glad to hear that your machine is washing well again. Was it not you who was posting a daily update on what was left on your dishes in every wash? Perhaps I've got my dishwasher complainants mixed up. To me it was worth it, And really, that is all that is important. You want to be able to strike a balance between feeling short-changed and feeling like a purchase is overkill. I'm sure the DW was "THE BEST" for you. To me, at $2K+, it would have to polish my silverware and put the dishes away in the kitchen to be worth it. 'Coz otherwise, I gotta say, I prefer the uniform, displayless face of my flat panel DW, water parameters entering my house doesn't really change and my machine functions very well with the water feed I do have, and I've not had a problem with cleaning or drying. The bottom spray arm is plastic, True. And that is bothersome because ??? and the various plastic components inside the machine had such rough edges that I almost cut myself at the showroom. Wow. You must have skin like a dream. I just went over my DW interior looking for someway to be injured and couldn't find one. There is nylon covering metal on the racks. The arm is plastic but where you could have poked your fingers to find rough edges, I can't imagine. The soap dispenser, the wheels and the supports for the flip-down rows are plastic but I can't find any place to cut yourself on. Forget the DW, I just want to know what moisturizer you use. Anyhow, you clearly know more about dishwashers than I do if you can be impressed or unimpressed by the interior by virtue of a static scan. The primary parameters that I go by are dynamic and operational - quietude, cleaning capability, drying capability and longevity. The one question I can't answer just now is the last one. I'm not in the business of peddling any appliance brand so I couldn't care less if the OP buys a Bosch or buys any other brand. I have a Miele VC and Miele w/d so I know Miele makes good products. I'm sure others do a good job too. I'm just citing my favorable experience with my particular 500-series Bosch dishwasher for the poster - I don't know and don't think i would have liked the Bosch 300 series (rack configurations and quietness govern this) and I don't know that I would have cared for some of the gimmicry of the 800 series.

Yes, but if that "one" flooded your living room and dining room, both of which had expensive carpet installed 6 months earlier ... it would become a defining moment for you too, lascatx. The dish drawers have been flawless, but they do have a moisture alarm on the floor beneath them. The reason the flood happened? During the night a brain fart happened (in the dishwasher) and water kept filling and flooding out the dishwasher because there was no ability to electronically drain the water. So when DH went to the kitchen to make coffee the next morning, slosh! slosh! We were not happy campers, especially since that dishwasher was about a year old.

After posting the message above I went searching on the internet for an answer and it seems the control panel on the Bosch dishwasher is a common problem. This was a review posted on Amazon " Warning: Buy a Bosch at Your Own Peril, September 18, 2010 By J.D. Cahill "J.D. Cahill" (Kalispell, MT) This review is from: Bosch : SHX98M09UC Integra 800 Series 24in Undercounter Dishwasher - Stainless Steel w/Display I own a Bosch and I would say there is a 90% chance that you will regret your decision to buy Bosch within 3 years. Bosch is at the top of Consumer Reports - they have no shame. My Bosch dishwasher is very, very quiet because it hardly ever works. In the past 3 years, I have had to replace the Electronic Control Unit at about $130 a pop. Yesterday it pooped out again. I'm going to buy a new dishwasher rather than fix the bosch again. Bosch is completely unreliable. It is the most unreliable thing I own! I will NEVER buy a Bosch again. The biggest problem with the Bosch is the Control Unit. Other problems include heater malfunction and the water inlet valve malfunctions. I have NEVER been so disappointed with any purchase as I am with the Bosch. For those of you who purchased a Bosch, and those of you who plan to purchase a bosch, you will want to keep [...] in your favorites. Good Luck!" He gave Bosch owners 3 years to regret the purchase - and I'm only at 2 years and feeling that way. So much for Consumer Reports! Jason

Drying issues with Euro DW: All three do not dry plastics nearly as well as American DWs. It does not matter how much drying agent you put in the DWs. If you think about it, the water that collects in the divets of dishes actually pools there and has no chance of draining out. For that you need a well designed rack so that it is tilted as much as possible to help drain the water. This is where well designed racks make a huge difference with drying issue! In this, Bosch is the worst. In my household, Bosch also fits the least amount of our dishes. The glad plastic el-cheapo containers have a large divet where it collects water when you turn it upside down. I have used all three Euro DWs. For me, Miele is the hands down best, then my old Asko, then Bosch for rack design. Ineteresting enough, Miele has not changed their rack layout in many years. Whereas, Bosch and Asko tend to change them every few years. To me, the newer middle cutlery tray Asko looks rather odd and looks as if you can't really fit large dishes in there. I have NOT used it, however. My old Asko actually had a heating element at the bottom and it dried plastics fine with the element BUT I had to make sure plastic was NOT at the bottom rack. We decided not to use the heating element to dry, which was an option on the Asko. So when you compare the drying of all three without using the heating element on the Asko, they are all about the same, IMHO... I am not sure if the newer Askos have heating elements at the bottom like my old one did. Any how, if you want all your plastics to dry in the DW, I would skip the Euro ones. On the other hand, your plastics will last much longer in the Euro DWs. When I left the Asko heating element on, I often found that a plastic had fallen down and melted... This was one of the reasons I decided not to use the heating element.