Product review (5 stars): OMG ...WHAT HAVE I BEEN THINKING!!!!!
I'm an idiot ! I've been building a house by myself for over 9 years, living in the lower level in rough comfort with a gourmet stove and fridge with single basin sink BUT NO dishwasher!.  It seems like I race myself to use EVERY dish, glass, mug, plate and utensil ...(even convincing myself that the alcoholic drink bar mixing spoons qualified as Cheerios breakfast spoons when there weren't any others clean to use!)  And I catch myself doing the REALLY desperate thing by washing the "cleanest" cereal bowl and spoon I can find at 6:30am just to get my cereal fix before you leave for work!!!! RIGHT?  Now, I KNOW YOU know what I'm talking about!!!

It's pathetic, I'm so good with caring for and putting my power and hand tools away when I'm done with them, but ever since I was a little kid I remember screaming matches with my mom because I HATED doing dishes!

It has become a joke when I tell my friends that I have to "SHOVEL the dishes tonight" . SO about a week ago I had had enough. One night I plunked in "Portable Dishwashers" and up popped this little surprise. I'd never seen a dwarf dishwasher before and though intrigued, I wasn't convinced it was worthwhile until I read the FIRST PATHETIC PERSONS REVIEW!! LOL!  I gotta tell ya, I spent days reading all the reviews ... BELLY laughing out loud that there are actually other "closet" pitiful people out there JUST LIKE ME!  They have all paid the ultimate price by probably spending the days trying to motivate themselves, all mostly in denial. THEN LIKE ME, they knuckle under out of desperation mind you, and finally carve out the 3 hours of time (time for me I'd  rather spend working on my house)... to stand in front of that damn sink:  sorting ....rinsing...and organizing dirty dishes EVEN BEFORE I can start to WASH them by hand.

I'm here to tell you that I have been counting the hours for this machine to arrive. I've watched the tracking diligently and today was the day and I watched FedEx drive into the driveway! And, I t was just in time, because I was down to one plate and one glass! So I was ready to put it to the test.

No visible shipping damage before unpacking... Great..That's a good start for such a miserably sized cumbersome box with NO handle knock outs on the protective outer box for the FedEx dudes and dudettes to help muscle it with. I actually watched him roll this off his van's step and push it onto the ground it's so hard for them to manage... BUT  it survived that test. CHECK!

It certainly was packed well and i didn't see any internal packaging damage. I really appreciated all the use of  the very inventive use of cardboard packing that can be recycled, that keeps it safe in transit.  KUDOS!  BUT...uh oh...there's a sheet metal ding on the back vertical 90 degree edge some 6" above the drain. The impact not only wrinkled the sheet metal but pushed it far enough that the back panel got wrinkled too!... BUT THIS VISUAL DAMAGE ISN'T STOPPING ME! This baby's got work to do!. Clearly this damage happened at the factory, SO HEY... EDGESTAR... jack your QC people up!

Onward, easy to unpack, faucet adaptor even fits my fancy faucet, good instructions, easy to set up ..CHECK CHECK CHECK! Something MUST be wrong with this thing, right? Well I ran the 10 minute rinse watching it closely drinking a ceremonial beer, thinking it was going to sound like a DC-10 taxiing to the runway...or leak like a sive. But I was amazed!  So I ran to the store and bought my favorite dishwasher products (you see I DO remember what it was like owning a dishwasher almost a DECADE ago!!) ...loaded it up for the first time, using the gel style cascade and jet-dry... Turned it on ...and I've got 15 minutes left on the first run for this little beauty!  I am overwhelmed. Next to tears actually, that I didn't get on it and buy this baby years ago!

When I do move to the upstairs of my home and bring all my appliances up into the new kitchen, this fabulous midget machine is going to keep on working as the dishwasher right where it is for the lobby/bar for my theater room.
Yes it looks nice, not stainless on the outside, but it is very acceptable. In the next weeks after I'm 100% convinced it's not just a dream, I'm going to permanently install it by the sink.

Wow, if you are a single person no matter what age, busy with life ...and HATE doing dishes, AND you are sitting on the fence thinking you don't need a dishwasher... THIS DISHWASHER... You are wrong!  And now, I even have time to sit town and type out why you're wrong!
I hope this thing lasts and lasts and lasts!

OH... ITS BEEPING! Only 2-3 more loads to go to get caught up tonight and then I bet I won't need to run it but twice a week if that! Gotta go!  I'll let you know how the permanent installation goes.  What a relief I'm feeling. It's going to lower my STRESS level enormously! Well worth the money just for that!