“Our old dishwasher took half an hour to clean the dishes; the new one that the wife wanted is stainless steel inside and out, cost a fortune, and takes 3+ hours to do the dishes ...”
There is a top-rated Bosch (the Ascenta model) dishwasher that has a 95-minute cycle time. However, we are hanging on to our 20-year-old Kenmore until it stops cleaning the dishes.
Wow, that is just 3 times longer than the old Kenmores. Fortunately we are selling the house with the new dishwasher. The house we are keeping has a Kenmore that we purchased 20 years ago. I have had to take it apart a couple of times, but currently the parts are cheap and it is easy to fix. As long as I can get parts and can fix it, I doubt that we will ever get rid of it. After experiencing the new dish washer... my wife agrees.