Hotpoint HDA6009 - Manual (Page 7)

You’ll find two detergent dispensers on the inside
door of your dishwasher. Two, because some cycles
use two washes.
CUP ‘
Close the main
reduce amount of detergent
CLOSE TIGHTLY
and aid into the tub.
Detergent Guide
(powder or liquid)
SOFT WATER MEDIUM WATER HARD WATER
grains hardness) (3-7 grains) (7- grains*)
CYCLES Main Cup Open Cup Main Cup Open Cup Main Open
POTS & PANS Half Full Completely Half Full Completely Completely
NORMAL WASH Full Full Full
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WATER SAVER Half None Half Full None Completely None
Full
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RINSE & HOLD Use no detergent
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Use no detergent Use no detergent
up is extremely hard A water softener is recommended. Without it, Filled Main Cup holds tablespoons;
lime can build up in the water The water valve may stick while open and Filled Open holds tablespoons.
How to Prepare the Dishes for Washing
this is your first dishwasher, or if you’re replacing
a much older model, you may wonder how much
preparation your dishes need. Actually very little.
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
them away.
can handle amounts of soft foods, but
large amounts 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
POTS & PANS
Remember to use your
RINSE & HOLD cycle for “holding” loads.
NOTE: The foods mentioned are 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 POTS & PANS cycle can
wash heavily soiled dishes and remove dried-on and
baked-on soils from pots, pans and casseroles. Items with
burned-on soils may not come clean, and the dishwasher
cannot remove burn marks or restore fading caused by
overheating during cooking.
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