Asko D3122XL 24 in. Built-in Dishwasher
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- Drying Type: Economy / Air Drying
- Food Disposer: Without Food Disposer
- Sound Insulation: With Sound Insulation
- Control Type: Electronic
- Dishwasher Type: Built-in
- Place Settings: 12
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Great performer at a price
Pros
Sparkling clean dishes, pans, glasses, etc with minimal pre-rinsing.
Cons
Lower rack not friendly to cooking or serving bowls; slightly under-sized silverware basket.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
It gets the dishes super clean, which is the bottom line for any dishwasher. Definitely worth a look if it's in your price range.
The Asko D3122 replaced an old Maytag dishwasher, as part of a kitchen remodel. We had been thinking about getting a Bosch, but our favorite local appliance dealer sells the Asko and convinced us to buy it.
The Asko's main claims to fame are internal heating and a stainless steel interior shell. The internal heating means that there is no exposed heater; the heater is part of the water recirculation plumbing. This allows the dishwasher to maintain good control of the water temperature. The downside is no forced-heat drying, but we rarely used that anyway. (The only fast-dry cycle available on this Asko depends on an elevated rinse water temperature.) The stainless steel interior is supposed to be super smooth to eliminate food and bacteria traps. (and it sure looks good!)
The controls are simple and obvious. There are heavy, normal, light, and rinse-and-hold cycles. There is a normal or economy wash temperature option, and a normal and economy dry option. (As noted above, the "normal" dry option actually runs an extra hot final rinse. There's no heated dry cycle in this Asko.)
As far as we're concerned, the function of a dishwasher is to wash dishes, and the Asko does a spectacular job. There is no doubt that dishes come out cleaner than the old Maytag ever managed, and that's with a bare minimum of pre-rinsing. At first, we were getting a little bit of streaking, but after checking the manual it turned out that we were actually adding too much detergent. Cutting back on the detergent fixed things. We usually run normal wash and economy dry. You still have to towel dry the concave bottoms of glasses in the top rack, but I've never ever met a dishwasher that completely dried concave glass bottoms -- no matter what kind of dry cycle it had.
The Asko is quiet, but not anything special. The drain cycle is quite loud, although I'm sure that's due to the way the drain was plumbed, and not anything intrinsic to the dishwasher. Fortunately the drain only takes a few seconds.
If we had any complaint, it would be that the lower rack doesn't really have any good way to load larger items such as Corning-ware (or equivalent) or serving bowls. These items end up on top, where they take up a lot of space. On the other hand, the lower rack can load at least twice as many plates and pasta or dessert bowls as the old Maytag, so it's a trade-off. The silverware basket is somewhat undersized which might be a problem for a larger family; we are down to the two of us so it's not an issue.
Overall, the Asko is a super performer with only a few minor issues. It's early yet but there have been no maintenance problems.
The Asko's main claims to fame are internal heating and a stainless steel interior shell. The internal heating means that there is no exposed heater; the heater is part of the water recirculation plumbing. This allows the dishwasher to maintain good control of the water temperature. The downside is no forced-heat drying, but we rarely used that anyway. (The only fast-dry cycle available on this Asko depends on an elevated rinse water temperature.) The stainless steel interior is supposed to be super smooth to eliminate food and bacteria traps. (and it sure looks good!)
The controls are simple and obvious. There are heavy, normal, light, and rinse-and-hold cycles. There is a normal or economy wash temperature option, and a normal and economy dry option. (As noted above, the "normal" dry option actually runs an extra hot final rinse. There's no heated dry cycle in this Asko.)
As far as we're concerned, the function of a dishwasher is to wash dishes, and the Asko does a spectacular job. There is no doubt that dishes come out cleaner than the old Maytag ever managed, and that's with a bare minimum of pre-rinsing. At first, we were getting a little bit of streaking, but after checking the manual it turned out that we were actually adding too much detergent. Cutting back on the detergent fixed things. We usually run normal wash and economy dry. You still have to towel dry the concave bottoms of glasses in the top rack, but I've never ever met a dishwasher that completely dried concave glass bottoms -- no matter what kind of dry cycle it had.
The Asko is quiet, but not anything special. The drain cycle is quite loud, although I'm sure that's due to the way the drain was plumbed, and not anything intrinsic to the dishwasher. Fortunately the drain only takes a few seconds.
If we had any complaint, it would be that the lower rack doesn't really have any good way to load larger items such as Corning-ware (or equivalent) or serving bowls. These items end up on top, where they take up a lot of space. On the other hand, the lower rack can load at least twice as many plates and pasta or dessert bowls as the old Maytag, so it's a trade-off. The silverware basket is somewhat undersized which might be a problem for a larger family; we are down to the two of us so it's not an issue.
Overall, the Asko is a super performer with only a few minor issues. It's early yet but there have been no maintenance problems.
