Works great. Simple to use. Compact but still takes up good amount of counter space (measure before purchase to ensure fit!). Only downside is that being a compact washer, it obviously doesn't fit too many dishes. In the time it takes to wash 1 load you could probably hand wash about 8 times the amount of dishes that it fits and probably use a fraction of the water. If you hate doing dishes though it is very good option though. One tip is to make sure you get in the habit of turning off the faucet before you detach the water line. I have sprayed myself in the face so many times from forgetting to do that and it's quite startling!

After three months of multiple times a wee use I have been pleasantly surprised by this countertop dishwasher. If you keep your expectations reasonable you will be very happy with it.

Like other reviewers have stated, all of the countertop dishwashers on Amazon all come from the same factory and have the same innards, shop on price and looks. In my case, having a rental house away from home for a one year appointment, looks didn't really matter. The Danby plain white one with push button controls is perfect.

No, this won't wash your stock pot or large sauce pan (maybe the sauce pan and some utinsels by themselves). However, for the day to day 90%? It's great. It will wash all of your utensils, plates (even big oversized American dinner plates), mugs bowls and glassware.

Simply replace the nozzle on your sink faucet and clip on the hose when you want to use it.

This does take a good amount of counter top space, but fits underneath cabinets. In my 1950s era rental with original cabinets it clears them with a few centimeters to spare in height, and a few centimeters front to back. If you put a large toaster oven and a drip brew coffee maker side by side it would take up similar horizontal space.

The inside is stainless steel with plastic coated metal wire trays that seem very high quality.

Cleaning quality is on par with $4-500 price range standard dishwashers. Yes, it's probably best if you rinse your dishes thouroughly first. I haven't tried the jet dry feature. When the cycle is over I pop the door and let the water evaporate.

It isn't very noisy, but you will notice it unless your kitchen is blocked off from the rest of your dwelling. Mostly you can hear when the water is draining as it is coming out at high pressure.

If you have a small apartment or a rental house with no dishwasher, this thing pays for its self in convenience and time saved (really, 8-10 days worth of chinese takeaway meals will cover the cost). When it's time to move? Ask the property owner to take off $250 from your last month rent and leave it with them.

We love this dishwasher. It is our first portable dishwasher, and we've used it heavily for the 4 months we've owned it. It cleans like a champ. We can even stack plates pretty close together and it cleans them well. We will often end up running it one or two times a day to get through all the dishes we use. It saves us a ton of time and work at home.

It is...as you might notice...small. It's a bit like playing Tetris to see how many dishes you can fit in there (as is the case with all dishwashers). Bigger items like pots and pans we still do by hand. Also, our big dinner plates will not fit in this machine straight up and down. For the most part, we just use the smaller plates we have.

We usually just run it on the "normal" mode, which takes about 75-90min I think. It feels a bit long. There are faster modes to be used, but we haven't experimented with those, for fear that they won't clean as well. We use little detergent pods from Costco, and Jet Dry rinse agent, and it does a good job.

Overall, we have no buyers remorse for getting this. It's been a great buy.

If there was a way to give this product negative stars, I would do it. Warning to all Amazon shoppers - Do not buy this product. Not only did this little machine break down after less than 3 weeks, but Danby's customer service is the worst I have ever had the misfortune to deal with. When I first hooked it up, I loved this little dishwasher. I was so happy to finally get something that would fit my tiny kitchen and it worked really well. Then one day, it started beeping and flashing lights. I opened it and noticed the detergent cup did not open. I thought this to be no big deal and restarted the machine. It was okay for another couple of days and then the same problem. This time the problem did not go away. by this time, we had just past the point of returning it to Amazon so we contacted Danby. What followed has been nothing but a run around from them. We were told to take it to an authorized repair shop who had the product for over two weeks and not able to fix it or even diagnose it. We asked Danby to intercede and help but to no avail. When I called, I was told to email. When I emailed, I got not reply so I had to follow up with a call. At this point, I have given Danby by email everything they have asked for but I still do not have a working dishwasher or a refund. I am ready to eat the loss of the money I have spent and put it in the trash but I just don't think that is fair. All I want is a dishwasher that actually works and keeps working for more than a few weeks!

Unfortunately, from my research on countertop dishwashers, this is the best of the bunch. It appears as though all countertops are manufactured by the same manufacturer, and then just appointed with slightly different electronics and faces to suit each re-branding OEM's needs. They're all almost exactly the same size, there's only about 2 or 3 variations on the racks, and they all appear to have the same door/port placement. We had a Danby Designer before this and it recently gave up the ghost after 12 years of faithful service. I now wish we would have repaired that one, because none of the current models are anywhere near as good as that thing was.

The Pros:
* This is the only model with a heater built in. *However,* it doesn't really get that hot at 165F. Our last model had to settings for heat-- normal and hot-- and the hot setting would essentially steam everything away and scortch your hand if you touched glasses coming directly out after a cycle.
* Quiet. I was honestly surprised by how quiet this thing is, and it's been probably the best feature improvement over older models.
* Able to accommodate the tallest plates from all the other versions offered.
* Has various settings (but, really, you're only going to use one or two).

Cons:
* Still not tall enough. Our last Danby Designer could easily hold our 11" dinner plates with room to spare. Now, if we want the dinner plates to be washed, we either have to put them in at 45 degree angles, leaving everything else out, or we wash them by hand. This was a big bummer.
* The tray layout is freaking stupid. Like, really, really stupid. I read the directions. I followed the directions, but the layout itself is just dumb, and there's gigantic gaps in the grating where an errant small bowl or cup can fall through and get the washer arm stuck for the entire load. The last model had TONS of options for loading, and the tray grating had no holes for things to fall through. This layout severely limits your options, and you're best to just stick with the recommended layout and do two loads.
* While it gets hot, it doesn't get hot enough. If you start a load before going to bed, when you wake up and open the door, everything is still wet and you either have to hand-dry everything, or let it air out for a couple hours. Yes, I'm aware that Jet-Dry and similar products can help this, but I want to use as little chemicals in my foodware as possible, and, frankly, that shouldn't be needed. With our last Danby, you started the load in the night, and when you woke up in the morning and opened the door, everything was just dry. It had a great steam cycle that assured this.
* I really would like a timer. This is a feature on some other models (like the SNP), and I didn't know that I would want it. (Again, our last Danby had a mechanical timer you could follow). While this isn't a deal breaker, I can't see this being all that expensive of a part, and I'm kind of sour that Danby didn't include it.

Will we return this? No. It's still the "best" of the countertop models currently on offer and it cleans dishes. Will I complain about this for the next however many years we use this. Absolutely. It's a startling thing when you have a decent product produced by a manufacturer, and you purchase their newer model which is obviously inferior. I understand that the market for these things is limited, but that doesn't mean that progress should be cast aside.

You're going to look at the market for countertops. You're going to see a complete lack of information on all these different models. You're going to confuse one SNP model that you were looking at for another. You're going to realize that the specs you thought you were looking at for the Magic Chef were actually for the Danby. You're going to go to each manufacturer's website to look for the missing information from the product page, and you're going to realize that the manufacturer's websites don't have this information either.

Then you're going to realize that only one company manufactures these things, that the industry doesn't care about this segment, and you're going to go with the Danby because it is the only one that offers a water heater.

Then you're going to install it, and use it, and after not too long you're going to b***h about it because it's *juuuuuust* right on the tip of something good, but simply not there. And then you're going to come to the reviews section and say the same damn thing I just said.