Product review (1 stars): The Most Frustrating Dishwasher I Have Ever Owned
It's a rare day that goes by that I don't curse this dishwasher for some reason or another.

Let me preface by saying that I don't own this exact model, but an earlier model of the DishDrawer, and it may be that Fisher-Paykel has fixed some of these problems, but use this as a guide to all the design mistakes they've made.  Let's just say they have a very target-rich environment for fixing problems.

First, I laugh at their claim of "flexible racking".  It's among the most inflexible racking I've seen on a dishwasher and I'm always struggling to fit my glasses or plates in the slots they've created.  I don't know, maybe dishes in New Zealand (Fisher-Paykel's home) are just different sizes than in the U.S.

And boy you better not drop anything while loading this, or get ready to remove EVERYTHING you've loaded to remove the racks and pick it out off the bottom.  If you don't, the entire load will come out dirty after 56 minutes of washing, without any warning.  We've gotten used to finding all the ways little things can creep through the racks and stop the rotating washer blades.  The latest is a small sharp knife that we load of course blade down into the silverware holder - we've discovered after much sleuthing that it pokes through just enough to stop the blades from rotating - dirty dishes.

And because the water sprays up from the bottom on this, any plastic bowls or cups - you know the kind you have if you have little kids - just bounce around inside the dishwasher, not getting clean and potentially blocking those infernal blades.  We've learned to just handwash these - it's not worth the hassle of trying to wedge them in there right (in those "flexible racks") to stop them from bouncing.

Oh, and the silverware caddie, when removed, falls apart, scattering newly clean silverware all over the floor.  We've learned here to just remove the silverware by hand, not lifting the caddie out.

On the positive side - it is pretty quiet (although I think my KitchenAide at my old house was quieter, but then I can't remember whether I had the Ultra Quiet, the Whisper Quiet, the Quiet Plus, ... KitchenAide's model names are like a bad joke of product naming spin).  It is kind of nice to have the two drawers, so you can do a smaller load, but we find (with a family of four, two boys ages 13 and 17) that we do probably 3-4 loads a day in the one drawer, so I'm not sure it's as big an advantage as they claim.