Koldfront White Portable Countertop Dishwasher

I have owned this dishawasher for almost a year now and it is a piece of useless junk taking up space on my counter top! I have tried various brands of detergent and nothing helps to get the dishes clean when using this machine. I can honestly say that if I hosed my dirty dishes down with a garden hose, they would come out cleaner than if I had used this silly machine! Save your money and buy a real one. This was a waste of $xxx!

I have a small New York City kitchen, so this item didn't really fit on any counters close enough to the sink for the hose. I ended up buying a rolling cart from The Container Store (it was hard finding a low-priced cart with a surface large enough for the unit). For the first several uses, it leaked so much I had to put a puppy pad underneath to absorb the wet. I realized the problem was that my floors aren't exactly level. I shimmed the unit and haven't had any leaks since (well, a little water sometimes drips out of the connector hose once it's unplugged, but it's not a big deal). It does a fine job washing: I've put in plates and pots with minimal rinsing and they still come out clean. The dishwasher doesn't really *dry* the dishes though, but I've found if I crack the door once the cycle's finished, they more or less air dry by the next morning. The normal cycle seems to take forever (well over an hour) which is mostly annoying in that I could wash all the dishes inside myself in a quarter of the time. But I got the thing so I wouldn't have to ... All in all, it does pretty much what I need it to do with minimal hassle. Is it ideal? No. But it works.

We used to have an old one by Danby. After 3 years of faithful service, it started to leak (and short circuit). I'm sure other people more adept at repairing things than I could easily have fixed this problem, but as it was, we had to get rid of it. After a few months when the dishes threatened to kill us, we finally bought this. I researched this a lot and reviews were mixed, some said it was the next best thing to ice cream, others were much less impressed. I fall in between (maybe more toward the under-impressed side) PROS: It does clean. It's useful. CONS: The cycles are super long-- even the rapid wash takes 77 minutes. Everything else and you're looking at 2+ hours! Then it does this really odd thing where it just stops for a VERY long time. But don't be fooled, it has not finished, it's just taking this long to do something....then it will start again...and stop...and start again. When the thing finally beeps, that's when you know it's done. It took us several washings before we finally realized our mistake. It's also super loud. I'm positive our old Danby wasn't this loud! It's also poorly designed. The dish tray (which is very cheap feeling) is strangely raised up so it doesn't hold as much as the Danby. For example, we used to be able to put a pasta strainer above the smaller dishes in the old Danby, that is definitely possible with this little guy. Meanwhile, despite being raised up, the dish tray still allows our plates to drop down too far into the washer, preventing the spray arm from turning. So for awhile, we couldn't wash any dinner plates in this washer! Luckily, we kept our old dish tray and it fit a bit snugly in this machine. All in all, it just seems like the machine was badly designed. The spray arm protrudes upwards way too much... Despite all that, we kept it because after putting in our old tray and making some adjustments to it, it seems to be working well and a poor dishwasher is better than no dishwasher (at least for us).

I hate washing dishes, and as a single person, this is just the ticket!