Based on all the designs I've seen, the one I like best is lengthwise along the front of the bottom rack. I'd have to even out the silverware along the length of the basket before I ran it, and other people wouldn't do that if they ran it, leading to not clean flatware. Silverware basket in Sears machine was lengthwise along right side of bottom rack and household members would tend to drop silverware in the front part of basket, not wanting to pull out the rack to place items further back in basket. The one thing I DO like about the door basket is the ability to just crack the door and drop in stray silverware that I find lying around the kitchen without having to pull out a rack and that loading is even. The best system I've seen so far for supplying the upper spray arm is the later KA machines solution. And even on my Sears machine, sometimes the arm that was bolted to the back of the tub to support the upper wash arm got in the way. The center tower thing is almost inescapeble. I wonder why Maytag did such a radical engineering change so soon after introducing their line of dishwashers. What the WP DOES have that's better is that Rinse & Hold has 2 rinses to the Sears 1 Normal Heavy pre-wash,rinse,main wash,rinse,rinse Water Miser Normal rinse,wash,rinse,rinse In comparing cycles Ifound that equivalency was: Other things I miss that the '78 Sears machine had: I find that bits of food get stuck between the basket and the door, and I have to be careful not to put bowls and other large items at the front of the lower rack in order not to block the spray to the flatware. Having had a chance to live with the flatware-in-door idea of Whirlpool, I can say now that I really prefer the traditional place somewherein the lower rack.

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