Baumatic BMD14S

Affordable & Simple – This dishwasher, made by a company called Baumatic (who I have never heard of up until now) have designed and incredibly simple and functional dishwasher. The machine comes with 5 programmes. Prewash, 2 quick programmes (one at 35 degrees and the second at 60 degrees) Eco, and Intensive respectively. There are 3 handy indicators that will tell you… Read more ·  1

what stage of the wash cycle the machine is in, wash or dry and an on/off indicator. There are two buttons used to start or cancel the programme and turn the machine on and off. Programme selection is done with a dial, simply turn it to the desired programme.

The machine is finished in a finger print resistant stainless steel, which also gives it a more premium look. The cavity inside the dishwasher is spacious enough for a family of 1-3 who do loads on a daily basis. there is also a basket on the bottom rack to hold utensils and cutlery. On the door there are two compartments, the right one is for refilling rinse aid and adjusting the level of rinse aid dispensed. The compartment on the left is for your dishwasher detergent. If you use tablets, you will be pleased to know they can go in, and fully dissolve in the wash. What is great about these very basic dishwashers is that cycle times are not as long as more premium models, but they still retain the exact same cleaning performance, however the trade off with this is you will find this machine would use more energy compared to more premium options on the market. Cleaning performance is more than adequate, a normally soiled everyday load on the eco 45 programme is completely clean and dry, very few water droplets on glasses. For heavily soiled items, the intensive cycle would come into use.

For the extremely low price of this dishwasher, I found cleaning performance to be no different than my over $2000 Bosch dishwasher that I had in a previous residence, I would say that drying performance is actually better on this dishwasher, that lack of complex energy saving features allow the machine to just do what it has to do. My only complaint with this machine is that even for the price, it is incredibly noisy. A 12 year old Kleenmaid dishwasher I owned many , many years ago was less noisy, but again for the price, sound will always be an issue. I have also had an issue with the detergent compartment door not closing but this is really just a minor inconvenience. For anybody looking for an extremely simply, budget friendly and stylish dishwasher, I'd have to really recommend it.