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Dispenser cups, Soil level, Guide – Hotpoint HDA850G User Manual

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You’ll find two detergent
dispensers on the inside door of

your dishwasher. Two, because
some cycles use two washes.

See “Detergent Usage Guide”
below. (Be sure the

Indicator

Dial is at

before

adding detergent. Otherwise, the
detergent cup will not close and

latch properly)

What you can
leave on dishes.
And what you shouldn’t.

If this is your first dishwasher, or
if you’re replacing a much older
model, you may wonder how much
pre-preparation your dishes need.
Actually very little. Pre-rinsing of
normal food soils is not necessary.
With common sense and a little
practice you’ll soon know what

foods to remove. Here are some
guidelines:

1. Scrape off bones, seeds, skins,

toothpicks and other hard solids. It
is also best to remove hard shelled
vegetables, meat trimmings, leafy
vegetables and crusts. Remove
excessive quantities of oil or
grease.

2. Remove large quantities of any

food. Your dishwasher has a built-in
soft food disposer that pulverizes
soft food bits and flushes them away.

It can handle

amounts of

soft foods, but large amounts of
food as soft as mashed potatoes or

applesauce will be difficult to handle.

3. Try to remove food scraps and
place dishes in dishwasher before

soil has a chance to dry and become

hard. Dishes with dried-on soil are
more difficult to wash and may
not come clean in the NORMAL
WASH cycle. Remember to use
your RINSE HOLD cycle for small

“holding” loads.

Note: The foods mentioned above
are for examples only. Other foods
not mentioned may also need to be
removed from your dishes. You
may also want to consider removing
foods such as mustard, mayonnaise,
vinegar, lemon juice and other foods

that can cause discoloration of
stainless steel if allowed to remain
on dishes for a long period of time.

When using the POTS & PANS
cycle,
less preparation is required
before loading. The

& PANS

cycle can wash heavily-soiled
dishes. Items with burned-on and

baked-on soils may not come
clean. And the dishwasher cannot
remove burn marks or restore
fading caused by overheating
during cooking.

Close the main cup.

NOTE: Detergent cup may be
opened manually with no harm.

Guide

(powder or

SOFT WATER

MEDIUM WATER

HARD WATER

(O-3 grains hardness)

(3-7 grains)

(7-12

Main Cup

Open Cup

Main

Open Cup

Main

Open

POTS & PANS and

1 Tablespoon 1 Tablespoon

Half Full

NORMAL WASH cycles

Half Full

Completely

minimum

Completely

minimum

Full

Full

LIGHT WASH cycle

1 Tablespoon

None

Half Full

None

Completely

None

minimum

Full

RINSE HOLD cycle

Use

no detergent

Use

no detergent

Use

no detergent

*12 grains and up is extremely hard water. A water softener is recommended. Without it,
lime can build up in the water valve. The water valve may stick while open and cause flooding.

Main Cup

3 tablespoons; Filled Open Cup holds 2 tablespoons.

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