Beko 14 PS Freestanding Dishwasher BDFB1410

My Beko dishwasher washes and dries well. However the power board with the all the options to choose from for the length of wash is so small so not easy to read unlike my previous Beko which showed all the options in large print and included the time remaining. The manual said there will be a not pleasant smell for the first few washes. The smell didn't stop for 2 months

Started off good only thing didn't dry plastics well would leave water in plastics as well sometimes had to do another cycle didn't always wash cutlery well either.After just 4 yrs started to stop washing the dishes and trouble with the tablet dispenser working had it fixed than after 2 weeks it had a burning smell and wouldn't wash the dishes again not happy should last longer than 4 yrs will never buy this brand again

Not too bad for the price! – So this was a replacement in our rental property for the terrible Miele I have previously reviewed. We've been using it for about a month now. My verdict? It works OK. If you are careful how you stack it. It's pretty cheap @ $650 - but it does the job. Sometimes. I thought I initially couldn't get as much in this dishwasher as the Miele - but I was wrong. With no cutlery tray above (just the basket down below), it means I can stack higher - on both levels. The water spray arm has decent spaces for letting the water out, so water actually makes it all over the place. Sure, some things on the very edge, when stacked, don't get quite clean sometimes, but admittedly, with my stacking abilities, I'm probably pushing the bounds of what any dishwasher can do! Although, this dishwasher only seems to do a decent enough job when stacked no more than moderately. And when nothing is TOO dirty in there. So, it's pretty useless for a busy family.

We mostly use the P3 setting (65 degrees 'Clean&Shine' wash). It does a good enough job. The P2 'Eco' wash is useless. There's always something that doesn't get clean! I think a 45 degrees temperature there is the problem. And it takes ages, too. And it's annoying because the machine ALWAYS starts on P2, so you have to press more buttons to choose a useful wash! But the P1 (70 degrees 'Intensive' wash) doesn't do a miraculously better job than the P3, so why waste the electricity and time there?! The P5 'Mini' wash is also useless for a family of 5 - unless you're after a quick rinse?! And I've used the P4 'Quick & Shine' wash a couple of times but I do NOT recommend using that with loose powder!! Bits of it get left behind. In fact, tablets don't always quite dissolve in that one, either. Perhaps P4 is a good choice if you want to rinse your dishes a bit more, or do another quick wash because the tablet didn't dissolve properly, or the upper arm stopped spinning or something. Given there's no 'rinse' cycle available on this machine, either P4 or P5 could be substituted for that.

I do like that you can choose how much rinse aid you want to use per wash. You just have to set the system to your liking. So that part's good.

Overall, the GOOD things are: - the little plastic containers that our kids regularly use in their school lunches get nicely wedged in with the upper tray fold-down sections on the RHS, so they don't often turn upside down and fill with dirty water like what usually happens in other dishwashers. - the cycles seem to finish fairly quickly. Quicker than the time the manual says, anyway. - you can fit a lot in with this dishwasher. - dishes come out feeling fairly smooth in this dishwasher. - the cutlery basket fits anywhere down below; it can be moved to your liking.

The BAD things about this dishwasher: - it's noisy. You can always hear it when it's on. It is NOT quiet. - plasticware STILL ends up wet, even using 'steam gloss' or 'hygiene intense'. - it doesn't clean really dirty things. - there's no safe place for large, sharp knives to get clean; I have to wedge them next to the glassware up top. - occasionally, a ceramic dish or saucepan will still have caked-on food when done. - you can't fit as much in a cutlery basket as you can in a cutlery drawer/tray (and they don't always get as clean as if they were in a drawer/tray) - if you don't scrape off EVERY bit of RICE first, there is always some of it left on your dishes. Somehow this machine can't dissolve or filter rice?

Given the prices of many other dishwashers out there, this basic dishwasher for $649 from Bi-Rite Home Appliances at first seems like a pretty good buy. I honestly hadn't even heard of this brand until the plumber who came to install it told me what it was. He said people had been pretty happy with the brand. I was secretly hoping it'd have a cutlery drawer/tray, but no, it was the basic level dishwasher, and just has the basket. I find it's much easier to put cutlery away when you can see the whole cutlery item. The kids are now having to judge what's what by just the handles when emptying the dishwasher - but they're managing!

The water usage is nothing like a Bosch, for instance (this Beko uses more), but it's still way less that would be used for hand-washing.

I do have a gripe that, even cleaning out the filter down the bottom regularly, sometimes muck accumulates in the upper arm of the dishwasher, and the arm refuses to spin until you clean it! Makes for bad washes...until you figure out you have to clean EVERYTHING that moves in this dishwasher - quite regularly! So, negative marks for that.

The setup of the dishwasher is only OK. There are enough spaces for plates down below (the rack spaces are not TOO close together which means water can get up to clean them!) but you can only fold down half the rack (the back half) so if you've got loads of pans to put in, you still have to have half the racks up. And when you fold the racks down, chopping boards don't fit well anymore. And you can't fold down ANY of the plate/bowl racks up top (they're all fixed), which can make stacking it awkward at times. The only foldable parts are the RHS flaps (good for plasticware).

Overall, for what you pay, I guess this is a good enough dishwasher. But why pay the $650 at all? Just handwash. It'll be cleaner. My main gripes are that it is noisy, plasticware still doesn't dry, the setup is not ideal, it needs excessive cleaning/maintenance, you can't stack the top rack full or it won't clean properly up top. AND it doesn't do the best clean overall - unless you put on only a moderate load and nothing is too dirty. But hey, let's look on the bright side: at least it doesn't break my glassware!

Honestly, I would recommend something else. Don't be fooled by the cheap price (and poor workmanship). The quality is not there, and this dishwasher is likely to have you calling a warranty job in the first year of operation - and from our experience, Beko is not easy to deal with.