Product review (4 stars): A dishwasher that actually cleans
Bought a new dishwasher after my 10 year old GE profile started leaking. Installed myself. Some hints,when moving the dishwasher, you will have the tendency to want to grab the metal flange of the dishwasher that is sticking out. Do not do that, that part of the dishwasher is really sharp and will cut you.  Also  buy a new water line to replace the old one.  I tried to use the same water line from before, but it leaked. There is an O-ring in it and I guess it did not seal very well. The strain plate that you have to buy took me a while to find. It was called a combination connector in the hardware store I went to. What it does is clamp the cord so that if someone pulls on the cord, the stress will go to the clamp and not pull the wires out of the dishwasher.  For wiring the electrical, no soldering is required, you just push the wire into the correct place and tighten the screw down. It is a 3 phase wiring. I forget which color goes to what, but you can find that online.  Putting on the bottom grill was hard. You should align everything with a flashlight , then put the screws in.

Now to the dishwasher.  After buying it, I had a bit of buyers remorse.  The rack  is great for loading saucers and plates,but it is hard to load cups and bowls. We used to load cups on the sides of the top rack, but on the Bosch, if you do that, you can't put plates next to it, unless you have ridiculously small tea cups.  There are a lot of very narrowly spaced bars that don't work so well for big items and bowls. You can move the bars down, but if you can't nest the bowls, you really can't put many bowls in. There are some wider spaced bars for bowls on the top rack, but not many. Overall, it does not seem to hold as much as my older dishwasher because of these inefficiencies in loading bowls and cups.  I also did not like the controls that much. When you turn the on/off switch on, it immediately starts the cycle. It doesn't allow you to pick which cycle. You can change cycles after it finishes.  I'm still figuring this out, but I left it on auto mode, which seems to work.

Now the good part, this is the first dishwasher I have ever used that I can just put in really dirty dishes and it will clean them without pre-rinsing or scraping. I put in plates with stuck on cheese and pasta that I could not scrape off without a scotchbrite pad.  After the cycle, they were very clean. They recommend using Finish quantum pellets, but I was using the cascade gel I was using from my previous dishwasher and it work fine.  So this makes cleaning dishes much faster. Just wipe off anything loose particles and put the soiled dish in. I really like this about this dishwasher. Maybe all new dishwashers are like this, but I'm happy that this cleans so well.

I would give the Bosch a 5 if it had more rack space suited towards bowls and the controls weren't so fussy. However, bottom line, this dishwasher cleans better than any dishwasher I've ever used and for that, I am happy that I bought it.  Also, I was able to get a $50 credit from the utilities for this since it saves water and electricity.