Great Drying, Cleaning OK, Let down by basket design.
2/5
Set up was made difficult by short hoses and a box at the end of the water input, which meant it couldn’t go through the existing hole in the cupboard. Look is attractive and sleek in a stainless steel finish with push buttons and electronic display. It is pleasantly quiet in operation. The manual helpfully lists the water and energy consumption and duration of each mode, so you can make an informed choice about which setting to use. The eco mode is a hefty four hours, although the last 90 minutes of the cycle is drying with the door open, so you could retrieve items during this time. The door automatically opening during the drying cycle is an excellent feature. It is great to be able to put everything away straight away without needing a tea towel in hand! My go to setting when the eco setting would take too long is 60 minutes. This doesn’t include any drying time so you need to leave it for at least 30 minutes for the cutlery and crockery to be dry enough to put away, and longer for plastic to dry. Sometimes cleaning is less than adequate so it hasn’t lived up to my initial expectations. I have had to handwash a wok that came out still with black deposits from frying. A few flakes remained in a porridge bowl. Several glasses were caked in dirt from not being rinsed properly. The big let down for me is the design of the baskets, which don’t offer flexibility or ease of use. The upper basket is very easy to height adjust by lifting up. I always have it on the higher setting, otherwise I can’t fit my dinner plates (27cm diameter) in below. As it is only attached at the back it frequently gets stuck pushing it back in. I make regular use of the fold down racks, for plastic pots. Annoyingly there is only a small lip to stop items falling off the side out of the dishwasher. The cutlery tray takes up a lot of room. Only one of the back rows for plates can be lowered. The space isn’t big enough for a large saucepan without resting the handle on the cutlery tray. The biggest downside is the number of large plates you can fit in. Although the dishwasher technically holds 13 place settings in reality I can never fit more than 9 large plates. The front space can’t be used as it’s in the way of the small plate spaces. The only place for chopping boards and baking trays to go is at the back. The plate spikes are all the same narrow spacing; wider spacing on some of them would be useful to enable shallow bowls to be inserted without falling into each other.