Best Akai Freestanding Dishwashers

Recommending against! – We just rented in a place renovated only about a year ago. The dishwasher is near-new. It’s noisy, it takes *forever* (90min is the shortest… Read more

setting), and a prong on the rack has snapped off already. The internal layout was bizarre- probably the worst I’ve seen in any dishwasher. The wash quality was really bad until we started putting the dishwasher tab into the cutlery basket (we always scraped the dishes clean first because this thing’s performance seemed so precarious we kept worrying it was going to die on us). The filter was flimsy as hell but seemed to do a okay job. The whole machine has a cheap, flimsy feel to it, to be honest. The door latch then stopped working and it wouldn’t shut, meaning we had no dishwasher for the last ten days or so. I was so grateful to get back home to our Siemens dishwasher and its near-silent 30-min wash cycle! From what I could see, it cost about $400-500 before the retailer stopped selling it (I had to look, because it was such a shocker of an appliance I was curious about the cost!).