Product review (4 stars): Love it, super clean dishes, but not for everyone
We bought this dishwasher to replace our ten-year-old Whirlpool, which never really cleaned well and which finally quit draining.  The most frustrating thing about it was the frequency with which it re-deposited food inside glasses.  My first choice was a Maytag with a hard food grinder, a filter, and steam, but it was not readily available in our area.  Having read the negative reviews about this less expensive dishwasher, we bought it with some trepidation.

After using it for several weeks, I love it.  Our dishes come out not just clean but sparkling.  Because it has been years since I used a drying cycle, I do not miss heated drying at all.  I used to open the door of the Whirlpool at the end of the wash cycle, but this Bosch gets most of the dishes dry even with the door closed.  Although Bosch recommends using the auto cycle with the sanitize option to get the best drying, I have found that the auto cycle works well alone.  And even though I will follow Bosch's insistence that a rinse agent be used, I didn't notice any difference when I ran out of rinse agent.

One of the features I like is that the filter and the spray arms can be removed easily if they become clogged.  This was not the case with our Whirlpool, and I often had to poke long pipe cleaners into one of the spray arms to clean it.

Although I do not find this machine too small for our household of four adults, I do agree that the loading is awkward.  The pictures in the manual assume that you are washing a number of complete place settings, but few people do that.  We are simply loading dishes where they fit.  However, if you have children who load for you, this machine might pose problems.

I do not miss rinse and hold or a short cycle as I seldom used them with previous dishwashers.  Although the cycles are somewhat longer than those on our Whirlpool, I have not found them inconvenient.

People seem to love this dishwasher or hate it, and even those people who like it report success with different cycles or amounts of detergent.  I suspect that variations in households, including water hardness, account for some of these differences.

In short, if you do not want or need the extra cycles or heated drying and you don't have children helping, I would not hesitate to recommend this Ascenta.  (And, yes, it is super quiet!)