What does the "H" button do on our dishwasher?

December 15, 2009 3:49 PM

We don't have the manual available for the dishwasher in our rented apartment, and it has two mysterious buttons (in addition to other controls that make sense to me). One is labelled "H", the other is labelled 45 (degrees) C. What do they do?

I can guess that 45 (degrees) C refers to a lower temperature of some part of the process, though I don't know which. I have no compelling ideas about the "H". I tried searching for the manual online, unsuccessfully.

posted by hAndrew to Home & Garden (7 answers total)

Heated dry?
posted by maudlin at 3:51 PM on December 15, 2009

My dishwasher is a different brand but has similar controls. On mine, one of the two odd buttons raises the water temperature above normal for heavy cleaning in the 'heavy' part of the cycle. The other button drops the temp to 45C for a rapid / light-duty cycle on the economy part of the dial.
posted by jon1270 at 4:04 PM on December 15, 2009

Best answer: Here ya go.
posted by jon1270 at 4:06 PM on December 15, 2009

Best answer: Sorry, that manual takes forever to download. Page 15 says:

45 - For water temperature at 45' (delicate program)
H - For the -Heavy - Super Wash" Program (special program for pots)

Page 17 has a chart that gives details of how the buttons affect various cycles, but there's no way to concisely summarize that here.

FWIW, I almost never use either button.
posted by jon1270 at 4:21 PM on December 15, 2009

Response by poster: Thankyou!
posted by hAndrew at 4:45 PM on December 15, 2009

Off the top of my head the buttons look like they're made by EAO.
posted by Confess, Fletch at 7:54 PM on December 15, 2009

The look of that dishwasher, I'm betting that when you start taking the clean dishes out, it'll start singing "Daisy... Daisy... give me your answer do..."
posted by blueberry at 9:43 PM on December 15, 2009