Pat Evans wrote:
I will be buying several kitchen appliances for a new home. In the past
I have used only the normal cycle to wash my dishes. Occassionally, I
use the rinse hold cycle. The more cycles offered, the higher the
price. Would I get a dishwasher of lesser quality if I buy one with
fewer cycles? I am looking for quality, not cycle choices I will
never use. Salespeople have given me conflicting answers. Pat

As a widower who lives alone, I have some housekeeping techniques that
I'm sure my daughters would tell me are disgusting (if they dared :).
One of the things I do is to use the same glasses and cups for 2 or 3
days in a row. Another is to fill one of my kitchen sinks with soapy
water and then rinse the dishes off and put them in the soapy water
until I get ready to load the dishwasher 3 or 4 days later.

The problem with this technique is that if you don't rinse the soap off
the dishes first, bubbles will come out of the dishwasher onto the
floor. Therefore, the RINSE/WASH LATER cycle is an absolute necessity
for me. Then, when I do wash the dishes, by the way, I wash them on the
POTS AND PANS, setting whether they need or not. Using that technique,
my dishes turn out sparking clean. I wouldn't be surprised if I
actually have the cleanest dishes in town.