Haier HDW15F1 Series

Picking a new dishwasher should have been fun, right? Wrong. Too many options and big price tags. That’s why you’re here, right? I get it. Well lucky for you I’ve already tried out this dishwasher, so you don’t have to take a chance on a lemon (it’s not, phew). I just wanted a machine that would wash well and dry reasonably well. I had been spoiled before with another brand twin-drawer which I loved, and nothing was going to compare (in my price range), so I didn’t have high expectations. But, to my surprise (you will see I have a history of buying useless toasters)… the Haier is good. So far (over 2 months) it has performed surprisingly well and I didn’t spend my children’s (entire) inheritance to own it. I’ve tried auto and heavy washes, both with fab results using a squishy tablet. Have learned that if you stack bowls in the smaller rungs that they’re a bit too close together to get a really thorough blast, so if they’re especially gross, send them to the back like naughty children and they will be cleansed of their sins. Nice and fairly straight-forward electric control panel. I like that you can do more adjustments like adding “extra dry” to the cycle, which leaves most stuff very dry. Not perfect on plastic (well, duh, nothing is), but *almost* as good as the aforementioned twin drawer. Yes, I know, shoosh, we aren’t here to talk about that one. The cutlery basket can slide across into different positions which I’ve found convenient when loading large, awkward stuff (looking at you, air fryer). And once, I did actually bother to lower the height of the top rack. Holy moly, you can stand even the tallest drink bottle when you do that! Actually, the internal height in this thing is pretty awesome. Even on the higher setting, I can put a long stemmed wineglass on a small tilt just fine and it will sparkle. And I can put large plastic cutting mats in the bottom without them causing a spinny-arm-thingy drama. And as for noise, if you’re sitting nearby and it finishes you will jump at the loud beeping, because you didn’t hear the dishwasher going beforehand. Really, that happened to me. Maybe only me, and not every other person who owns this dishwasher, but it did happen. And of course, it looks kinda pretty with its ‘satina’ finish. So that’s a thing. Yeah, thumbs up.