Best Portable & Countertop Dishwashers
Sunpentown SD-9241SS Energy Star Portable Dishwasher in Stainless Steel; Stainless Steel Interior; 6 Wash Programs: All-in-1, Heavy, Normal, Light, Rinse and Speed; Faucet adapter included for quick and simple connection; Up to 8 standard place settings. Specifications Input voltage: 120V/60Hz Energy consumption: 295kwh/yr Water consumption (normal cycle): 3.65 gallons Power consumption: 1104W Noise level (normal): 55dB Drying system: Residual heat drying Drain tube length: 3 ft Unit dimension: 17.72"W x 25.98"D x 36.02"H Depth with door fully open: 49" Package dimension: 31" x 21" x 40" Net weight: 121.3 lbs Gross weight: 136.7 lbs. Features and Functions: Time Delay Feature: allows you to program operation at a later start time (1-24 hours); Error Alarm: displays fault codes; Rinse Aid Warning Indicator: refill reminder on rinse aid; Stainless Steel Interior; 6 Wash Programs: All-in-1, Heavy, Normal, Light , Rinse and Speed; Adjustable upper rack to accommodate larger plates/pots; Faucet adapter included for quick and simple connection; Automatic detergent and rinse agent dispenser; Up to 8 standard place settings;Energy Star; Input voltage: 120V / 60Hz; Energy consumption: 295kwh/yr. Features and Functions: Time Delay Feature: allows you to program operation at a later start time (1-24 hours); Error Alarm: displays fault codes; Rinse Aid Warning Indicator: refill reminder on rinse aid; Stainless Steel Interior; 6 Wash Programs: All-in-1, Heavy, Normal, Light , Rinse and Speed; Adjustable upper rack to accommodate larger plates/pots; Faucet adapter included for quick and simple connection; Automatic detergent and rinse agent dispenser; Up to 8 standard place settings;Energy Star; Input voltage: 120V / 60Hz; Energy consumption: 295kwh/yr. Enter your model number to make sure this fits.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"My wife and I were getting extremely tired of washing dishes every night. Neither our local Home Depot or Lowes carried anything in the portable variety. More hassle than they are worth… Imagine the headache of rolling a dishwasher out to your sink, hooking it up to a faucet, plugging it in, running the discharge hose into the sink… really??? I went back to search mode and reluctantly bought this SPT getup. The only differences are the additional attachments, wheels on the bottom, counter space on top, cement weight in the rear (to counter balance the weight of dishes on an extended rack), and a power plug. I got rid of all attachments that were unnecessary, placed caster coasters under the wheels, plugged it into a well hidden extension cord and installed lines just like a regular dishwasher. Physics: The discharge pump does not have to fight gravity to make it up to the sink. Pots, pans, ladles, tongs, forks, knives, plates, glasses… stuck on food, dried mac and cheese, greasy pans… ALL CLEAN."
"It had a little trouble with removing peanut butter (because I was sort of terrible about rinsing) and it didn't dry the greatest, but even still I would recommend this to anyone!"
"As an added bonus its on casters so it can roll away when you dont need it and the countertop is great to store your dish gel and rinse aid (I use finish, BTW)."
"Unpacking it was a little difficult, being that I'm a single woman who has back problems, but I got it done eventually once my brother and a friend got it up my basement steps into the kitchen. I have a built in space for it under my counter and after the one that was there finally went, this was the only portable dishwasher I could find that would fit in the same space. It preformed very well on first use and I had no problems with it at all. The faucet adapter I had for my other dishwasher fit this one perfectly, and I bought it here on Amazon back in 2014."
"Only draw back is it does not dry the dishes so have to dry them or allow them to air dry."
"This is the best dishwasher ever used guess the dishes very clean."
"Love love love this dishwasher, she is my new best friend, works absolutely fabulous!!"
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Like most people, I prefer a dishwasher partly because doing dishes is a chore and partly because a dishwasher just gets the dishes cleaner than you ever will doing them by hand. So, this is accurate and as complete as I can be... UNIT MEASUREMENTS. The unit as it measures in my home: 17.25 (H) X 21.5 (W) X 19.75 (D). So as you decide where you're going to put it, if you're using a portable rack or other device, make sure it can hold at least 100 lbs - 50 for the unit, plus 8 or 9 lbs for the water, plus the weight of your dishes (another 8-10 lbs) - total about 70 lbs when full and in use, plus some cushion just to be safe. I'm hoping that will loosen up just a little as time goes on because right now I have to put downward pressure on top of the unit in order to open the door - I've got my unit sitting on a thin-legged metal rack (see pics) and so the rack wobbles a bit if I pull hard without the downward support to hold the rack still. It takes as long as a full sized dishwasher to clean the dishes. There are several cycles: Heavy/Pots & Pans (100 minutes). Normal (85 minutes). Light (75 minutes). Glass (70 minutes). Speed (45 minutes). and Pre-wash/soak (10 minutes). The Heavy cycle has a double wash cycle. The Heavy, Normal, Light and Glass cycles all include a heated dry cycle. The other major difference in the cycles is the temperature of the wash/rinse water: Heavy and Normal having the highest (wash 131*F and rinse 149*F). The Speed has the lowest temperatures (wash 122*F and rinse 131*F). I made sure the water was at its hottest before turning off the tap to connect the hose and turning it back on. The dishwasher will heat the water to the correct temperature for the option you've chosen, but clearly starting with already hot water will shorten the time to heat the water. So, starting with very hot tap water, the Normal wash cycle from the moment I pressed the start button to the moment the end-of-cycle beep happened was 87 minutes. So using cold water is an option, but it will add a little more than 30 minutes to the process because the unit needs to first heat the water in order to properly wash the dishes. DRY DISHES. The Normal cycle that I'm using includes dry time. I've made a point to be standing at the dishwasher when the end-of-cycle beep sounds so that I could see if the dishes are in fact dry. The ceramic dishes (plates, bowls), metal dog food bowls, plastic cups and silverware are all dry to the touch (and baked hot). Letting the dishes sit in the rack, with the door open for 20-30 minutes and all dishes are completely dry and cool enough to put away. NOISE. The sound of the unit in cycle (the swish of your dishes being cleaned) is very quiet. It sounds like someone just turned on your tap to full - so if you have a metal sink, it's water hitting metal. I connected the hoses to the back of the unit as directed. You can leave the faucet on all night if you start the dishwasher at bedtime as you will not be using/running water all night due to the pressurized hose. Also, be sure to PRESS THE RED BUTTON and wait for the water to drain before disconnecting the hose from the faucet. Once disconnected, you'll want to hold the end down and the length of the hose up to drain the last of the water that's in there before tucking the hose into its storage position - this is simply to avoid drips. Also, the unit and the hoses smell like new appliance."
"My dislike of doing dishes turned most of the counter space of my small Manhattan kitchen into physics-defying stacks of procrastination. This countertop dishwasher takes up about 60% of usable counter space in my apartment, a sacrifice I'm willing to make but for city dwellers, definitely measure it out. My loaner husband no longer lives next door to me so I was apprehensive about installing the faucet adaptor myself, turns out it was a cinch. Some of the typos and wording are good for a laugh and its focus is on how to load a hypothetically uniform set of dishes no one actually owns. The reason I like the Cascade Complete Gel Packs is it's got everything in it, including the rinse agent that keeps your glasses from streaking. I mean, I wouldn't go on vacation without turning off the faucet but you don't have to obsess that there's going to be some water pressure build-up that's going to shoot your shiny new countertop dishwasher into space if you're absorbed in another activity. A few times I rinsed a couple of dishes again, they were super shiny so I was suspicious maybe the Cascade Gel Pack left some residue, so basically I ran them under water again because they looked too clean, starting to worry that I have trust issues. I've received mutilated deliveries from other companies with everything from footprints on top of the box to holes where the fork lift went through it. It's good to know that it's not going to spring a leak any time in the near future but I have to figure out some hook system to make them less obtrusive."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Like most people, I prefer a dishwasher partly because doing dishes is a chore and partly because a dishwasher just gets the dishes cleaner than you ever will doing them by hand. So, this is accurate and as complete as I can be... UNIT MEASUREMENTS. The unit as it measures in my home: 17.25 (H) X 21.5 (W) X 19.75 (D). So as you decide where you're going to put it, if you're using a portable rack or other device, make sure it can hold at least 100 lbs - 50 for the unit, plus 8 or 9 lbs for the water, plus the weight of your dishes (another 8-10 lbs) - total about 70 lbs when full and in use, plus some cushion just to be safe. I'm hoping that will loosen up just a little as time goes on because right now I have to put downward pressure on top of the unit in order to open the door - I've got my unit sitting on a thin-legged metal rack (see pics) and so the rack wobbles a bit if I pull hard without the downward support to hold the rack still. It takes as long as a full sized dishwasher to clean the dishes. There are several cycles: Heavy/Pots & Pans (100 minutes). Normal (85 minutes). Light (75 minutes). Glass (70 minutes). Speed (45 minutes). and Pre-wash/soak (10 minutes). The Heavy cycle has a double wash cycle. The Heavy, Normal, Light and Glass cycles all include a heated dry cycle. The other major difference in the cycles is the temperature of the wash/rinse water: Heavy and Normal having the highest (wash 131*F and rinse 149*F). The Speed has the lowest temperatures (wash 122*F and rinse 131*F). I made sure the water was at its hottest before turning off the tap to connect the hose and turning it back on. The dishwasher will heat the water to the correct temperature for the option you've chosen, but clearly starting with already hot water will shorten the time to heat the water. So, starting with very hot tap water, the Normal wash cycle from the moment I pressed the start button to the moment the end-of-cycle beep happened was 87 minutes. So using cold water is an option, but it will add a little more than 30 minutes to the process because the unit needs to first heat the water in order to properly wash the dishes. DRY DISHES. The Normal cycle that I'm using includes dry time. I've made a point to be standing at the dishwasher when the end-of-cycle beep sounds so that I could see if the dishes are in fact dry. The ceramic dishes (plates, bowls), metal dog food bowls, plastic cups and silverware are all dry to the touch (and baked hot). Letting the dishes sit in the rack, with the door open for 20-30 minutes and all dishes are completely dry and cool enough to put away. NOISE. The sound of the unit in cycle (the swish of your dishes being cleaned) is very quiet. It sounds like someone just turned on your tap to full - so if you have a metal sink, it's water hitting metal. I connected the hoses to the back of the unit as directed. You can leave the faucet on all night if you start the dishwasher at bedtime as you will not be using/running water all night due to the pressurized hose. Also, be sure to PRESS THE RED BUTTON and wait for the water to drain before disconnecting the hose from the faucet. Once disconnected, you'll want to hold the end down and the length of the hose up to drain the last of the water that's in there before tucking the hose into its storage position - this is simply to avoid drips. Also, the unit and the hoses smell like new appliance."
"My dislike of doing dishes turned most of the counter space of my small Manhattan kitchen into physics-defying stacks of procrastination. This countertop dishwasher takes up about 60% of usable counter space in my apartment, a sacrifice I'm willing to make but for city dwellers, definitely measure it out. My loaner husband no longer lives next door to me so I was apprehensive about installing the faucet adaptor myself, turns out it was a cinch. Some of the typos and wording are good for a laugh and its focus is on how to load a hypothetically uniform set of dishes no one actually owns. The reason I like the Cascade Complete Gel Packs is it's got everything in it, including the rinse agent that keeps your glasses from streaking. I mean, I wouldn't go on vacation without turning off the faucet but you don't have to obsess that there's going to be some water pressure build-up that's going to shoot your shiny new countertop dishwasher into space if you're absorbed in another activity. A few times I rinsed a couple of dishes again, they were super shiny so I was suspicious maybe the Cascade Gel Pack left some residue, so basically I ran them under water again because they looked too clean, starting to worry that I have trust issues. I've received mutilated deliveries from other companies with everything from footprints on top of the box to holes where the fork lift went through it. It's good to know that it's not going to spring a leak any time in the near future but I have to figure out some hook system to make them less obtrusive."
Best Built-In Dishwashers
This built-in 8 place setting dishwasher is a great addition to any home. At 18 inches wide, this unit takes up minimal space and is a great replacement for older appliances. Time Delay Feature: allows you to program operation at a later start time (1-24 hours). Error Alarm: displays fault codes. Quite Operation: at 55 dBA. Capacity: up to 8 standard place settings. Energy Star: meets or exceeds federal guidelines for energy efficiency for year-round energy and money savings. Tap Water Temperature at 68 degree F: WASH CYCLE: Rinse. 6 Wash Programs: All-in-1, Heavy, Normal, Light, Rinse and Speed.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Really nice dishwasher and just the size I needed."
"been working just fine, we love the space saving."
"Small but efficient big pans don't go in there but all the small things do."
"Excellent product thus far!"
"Great product and fast shipping."
"A great price and we've had it over a year now."