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The demise of our old dishwasher didn’t come as a complete shock; it had been showing signs of struggle for a while. As is often the case with aging appliances, we were greeted with increasingly odd power issues—controls failing to light up and requiring a circuit reset to function again. Eventually, it failed entirely, leaving my family of seven—five kids included—without a vital kitchen aid. Faced with the prospect of nightly dishwashing for hours on end, we had no choice but to move quickly toward acquiring a new dishwasher.