Product review (3 stars): Woman seeks washing machine that just washes and rinses
a little off the mold

I'd give it 3 1/2 stars, if I could.  I wrote this before I did a number of washes and I am a little more satisfied with the results.  Now that I'm used to it, the major drawbacks are that the wash takes forever, clothes with the full rinse are slow as ever to dry, and I sure wish I could watch that agitator in action because it sure sounds slow, but because the lid lock prevents that, we'll never know.  the minor drawbacks are that it takes forever to fill, it thinks a lot before it attempts to fill or spin and you wonder what it could be thinking about.... But, the clothes seem clean and fresh, they don't smell like tide, (my old washer never rinsed the soap out, everyone told me I  smelled like tide) and I am pretty satisfied, plus, you cannot beat the price.  But, this machine may not last long, the parts underneath are plastic and so, if it only lasts a few years, then I guess you just buy another.

Here is my first review:

So, if you're looking for an old style washer, this is halfway there. There is definitely a learning curve. If you keep the cover open for 10 mins after you push start, it dumps all the water from the tub and you have to start over. I lost 3 cups of expensive tide finding out this key factoid. So, beware if you are loading clothes and measuring soap and the phone rings, cause you're sol. You may get different washer hoses, but the ones they gave me with the machine are too small and it takes forever to fill. They look about half the diameter of old hoses .Once you decide the cycle and it starts, you're locked out unless you pause the machine. The lock prevents your pets and children from opening the washer and climbing in for a quick swim because they don't know about the secret button, shhh. Then the machine starts and the fun begins. It makes odd noises the first time and sounds like it is broken, but if you give up and go to bed, the next morning it seems to be ready to wash. The agitator makes abnormal sounds during the cycle, like it is straining to move, and it seems to wash forever, which I guess it would have to, to clean the clothes at such a low speed. Then on to the rinse cycle, which for most cycles offers a spray rinse only, meaning that you conserve water by not rinsing the clothes very well( only a child could come up with this concept). Now, to beat that, you can go to the rinse and spin cycle for bathing suits, that will fill the tub and rinse it again. So, for bathing suits, you do need to rinse, but for regular clothes, no need, the dryer will dry that soap right in there. The clothes do come out pretty dry, if you use just the spray rinse, probably due to the lack of water used in the rinse. But for the actual rinse(rinse and spin cycle), there is absolutely no difference in dry times...70 mins every time.  So, lets recoup...I washed each load twice to make sure it was clean, I rinsed each load once then again on rinse and spin and I was able to wash 2 loads today in the 5 hours allotted for clothing...now, I only have another 10 days before I get the pile of clothes washed. Hooray for energy efficiency! Does anyone from the EPA read these reviews??? We just want a washer that cleans the clothes and works like they have for the last 50 years, is that too much to ask? We've taken the phosphates out of the soap so that nothing gets clean, now we've taken the water out to insure the soap stays on-board. And we're still peeing on sterile water in our toilets...this makes a lot of sense...doesn't it??? Maybe we should start washing clothes in the toilet, oh wait, new regulations limit the water level there too....thank you government !