Product review (1 stars): Any bits of food WILL splash around and get stuck on your dishes!
I recently moved from a condo that still had the 30-year-old dishwasher from when the place was originally built. It worked great. I ran it before going to bed, and when i woke up, the dishes were clean and dry. The amount of dishes that ever had stuck-on food was less than one percent. So I just bought a house and fast-forward need a new dishwasher. I figured technology has improved over thirty years, so the dishwashers they make now should be even better. I thought the better brands are GE, Kenmore, Maytag, and Whirlpool. I saw a GREAT price on this (WDF750SAYW) Whirlpool model and got it. Boy was I surprised. I've used it about five or six times so far, and I have had to re-wash about 85% of the dishes by hand. I have run the dishwasher in the evening/night, and when I unload it in the morning, the dishes are wet and dirty! I miss the 30-year-old dishwasher that I left in my old apartment!

Buyer Beware: This dishwasher has a filter that lays across the bottom. What I realize is that any bits of food larger than a grain of sand will not pass through this filter and will splash around and get stuck on your dishes! So far, each time I have used the dishwasher, I ended up with dishes that were actually dirtier than when I put them in! The last load I did in this dishwasher, it couldn't even get yogurt off of a spoon!

PROS:
- very very quiet (although I did find the noise of the old dishwasher quite calming to go to sleep to)
- energy efficient, supposedly uses less electricity than the average dishwasher
- price point, this model costs less than a lot of other dishwashers

CONS:
- unless you have figured out the mystery of how to get this thing to clean your dishes, you have wasted your money
- stupid silverware holder. It's supposed to hook on to the door, but you can put it in one of the racks instead. In any case, one side of it is solid instead of mesh, so water does not reach the silverware as effectively (this problem is made worse when you attach the rack against the door). Also, there are slots in which to place the handle of each piece of silverware. The slots are too small for most of my silverware.

In the old dishwasher, I just used Cascade gel alone with no rinse aid, no problem! The manual for this dishwasher says rinse aid is REQUIRED! Also, it says it's highly recommended to use the single-use powder packs instead of gel. So I experimented with cascade gel and cascade powder packs (with cascade rinse aid every time). I have not overloaded the dishwasher. So far the results have continued to be unsatisfactory.

I just read a review on amazon of, I think it was the same model but with stainless steel front, that says try using Cascade Professional. I will try to find some of that and also play more with the settings... if I find a solution to the mystery of how to get this dishwasher to actually wash dishes, I will update!

UPDATE 6/29/14
I have had success with this dishwasher using the following settings: Sensor + HiTemp Wash - High Heat Dry + Sani Rinse (single-use powder pack plus rinse aid). When I forget to press Sani Rinse, the dishes still seem clean using the above. I wondered why Whirlpool would make leaving the dishes sanitary an option. It should be the default. On that note, evidently without using Sensor, the dishwasher will not think your dishes are dirty enough to wash them properly. I think it's foolish for Whirlpool to design the dishwasher so that the user must remember to select hot water. That should be default, too. Using "normal" for a load of normally soiled dishes should have worked, but instead it has resulted in a number of bad reviews of this model.

I'm satisfied with the dishwasher now. However, I'm back on amazon to look for a normal silverware rack that has mesh on all sides for better water flow.