compact dishwasher

[SnozzberryPie]

Does anyone have one of these? Are they worth having? What can it hold - do your dinner plates fit in it?

There are three of us, soon to be four.

Tiny kitchen and i would love a dishwasher but the only way we could do it would be to put a compact one under the sink.

I've got a compact Beko one for 3 of us - fits under the drainer half of the sink so lost half a cupboard. Most days it only goes on once, sometimes twice. It's aces

Thanks Katherine.

Does it fit full sized dinner plates?

By compact do you mean a narrow slimline one?

No I mean the really small counter top ones - although in our case it would go under the sink.

Ah, mine is the slimline one. Yes dinner dishes fit in it.

if it goes under the sink you will have to stoop to use it. It is rather bigger than a large microwave. On a counter or strong shelf is more convenient, or in an oven tower if you have one.

Last time I looked, the Bosch was the best range. You can fit dinner plates in it, and large cooking pans, but not both at the same time. It will easily take a meal's worth of plates and dishes in one go. If you have lots of cutlery, you can buy an extra cutlery basket, they are only a few pounds on fleabay.

They have less than half the capacity of a full-size dwr, and are noisier. They are not very cheap, and there is a lot of demand for used ones, and they are popular with older people who move into small flats.

Thanks for the tips. piglet my kitchen is tiny and there is no spare counter space. I think I could fit one on the top shelf of the cupboard under the sink, would it be too heavy for that? The other option would be to take the shelf out and have it at the bottom of the cupboard. I don't think bending to put the dishes in would be too big a deal (although I may change my mind as this pregnancy progresses!).

I will check out the Bosch, thanks.

If you put it on a unit shelf, I would reinforce it. Screw a 20x20mm batten to each side of the unit, and use a piece of kitchen worktop (or 18mm ply) as the shelf, and screw that to the battens.

Unit shelves are usually held with tiny plastic supports, and are not rigid. They can fall down.