This dishwasher is SOOOOO annoying.
3/5
We have had Bosch dishwashers for the last 20 years. Other dishwashers which we have had to interact with in other peoples' houses of holiday lets never came up to the utility of the Bosches we were used to - so buying another Bosch felt like a no-brainer. We were wrong. This dishwasher is just soooo annoying. It doesn't have a cutlery basket - so all the cutlery has to be placed piece by piece, and the right way up, in a big flat drawer at the top of the unit. Gone is the happy anarchy of throwing handfuls of mixed silverware into the basket straight from the table. Then, once it is clean, you can no longer carry ALL the cutlery at once over to the drawer to sort at leisure. No. It takes multiple trips back and forth. If it achieved some amazing level of cleanliness in excess of all our old machines managed then there may be some defence - but it doesn't - it is just washing up after all.
There is a price to pay for this change. We use pint glasses - British "sleevers" - which fitted into our old machines without a fuss. The third level of drawers means that these no longer fit. Worse, we have some classic stemmed wine glasses. Not huge. Normal dimensions. These don't fit either.
I can't remember anything that brought us nearer to divorce than buying this bloody dishwasher. We will survive it. I'm not sure the dishwasher will.