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Adding detergent
Detergents remove the dirt from dishes and cutlery.
The detergent must be added before the cycle starts.
1 Only use detergent intended for domestic
dishwashers.
The detergent compartment is located on the inside
of the door.
1. If the lid is closed:
Press the release button.
The lid will spring open.
2. Place the detergent in the detergent dispenser. The
markings indicate the dosing levels for powder de-
tergents: “20/30” corresponds to approx.
20/30 ml of detergent.
Follow the manufacturer’s instructions with regard
to dosing and storage.
3. Close the lid and press until it locks into place.
3 In the case of very heavily soiled dishes, fill the
adjoining compartment (1) with additional de-
tergent. This detergent comes into use during
the pre-wash cycle.
Concentrated detergents
Today’s detergents for dishwashers are almost ex-
clusively low-alkaline concentrated detergents with
natural enzymes in tablet or powder form.
2 Using 50°C dishwashing cycles in conjunction
with these concentrated detergents reduces
pollution and is good for your dishes, as these
dishwashing cycles are specially matched to
the dirt-dissolving properties of the enzymes
in concentrated detergents. It is for this reason
that using 50 °C dishwashing cycles in con-
junction with concentrated detergents can
achieve the same cleaning results that can
otherwise only be achieved using 65 °C cy-
cles.
Detergent tablets
3 Detergent tablets from different manufactur-
ers dissolve at different rates. For this reason,
some detergent tablets do not attain their full
cleaning power during short cycles. Therefore
please use dishwashing cycles with pre-wash
when using detergent tablets.
