Cookology CMDW2 Compact Mini Portable Counter Top, Tabletop Dishwasher Small, 7 Wash Cycles with ECO Friendly Mode - In Silver

After reading all the reviews, I went for it and purchased this handy Little dishwasher! Its rather expensive for unfortunately but definitely worth every penny. Im an asian mother of 3 young Children eating all day...and with the lockdown the dishes have become unbearable to do. I live in a flat and installing a dishwasher would be impossible. I randomly was Just searching for A portable dishwasher in the hope that i can just HAVE A DISHWASHER and to my surprise Amazon were selling this handy little machine! This is the best appliance which I have ever bought! Its being more used than my washing machine. It goes on after each meal; breakfast, lunch and dinner So 3/4 times a day definitely a great way to keep on top of your dishes if you want them back quick instead of stacking them All up and waiting for the end of the day to put your dishwasher on. I actually have so many dishes to put in every-time and surprising it fits a lot in more than I expected if I'm honest! Loading was a trial and error so my 1st week of dishes were a hit and miss once you have Had a fiddle with loading your regular dishes then you’ll be fine with sparkling dishes coming out each time. I choose the P2 (1hour) cycle there are other cycles like the 30min cycle but it does not dry and an ECO cycle which is 2 hour and 40min, it has a program for; glassware (2 hour), babys bottle with steam and fruit wash. Installing was great as no hassle and stress of buying the right faucet adapter or getting a plumber to fit in, As soon as you receive your parcel you plug it in, attach the outlet pipe, Add 13g salt along with a 1L of water and have your dishwasher basket already loaded so you can go ahead and quickly start the dishwasher because once you have filled the salt compartment with salt you need to get the dishwasher started to avoid corrosion as the salt shouldn’t really sit on any surface. Then just simply fill the mini Little dishwasher with 5L water add your favourite detergent to the dirty dishes and simply touch your desired program and start the cycle..EASY! Before you know it your dishes are washed and dried (depending on the the cycle chosen)! I have kept the outlet pipe inside my kitchen sink as thats where i was able to place the dishwasher on top of my counter next to the sink. If you however have no space on the counter near a sink then place it on a table with a bucket next to it with the outlet pipe sitting inside of the bucket. This dishwasher really does work if anything it makes my tired looking dishes looking Evan more Spick an span! Maintaining is easy because its compact, I usually just clean the filter after every cycle and also wipe the inside of the dishwasher down. I keep the dishwasher door open to avoid moulds and odour but i do this with my washing machine too. Loading is a real pleasure because you just take out the basket and load it, slide the basket back in it’s really as simple as that. Also i don't have to bend As I have kept it sitting on my counter. My only niggle is... I wish wish wish Cookology will make another one but a BIGGER! Seriously I love this dishwasher but just want it a little bit bigger.

This is a great little dishwasher that sits on my work surface. It is a basic dishwasher, I’ve included a photo showing the various washes. It has a salt dispenser but no rinse aid compartment like many other larger machines that aid the final rinse If you are used to using those chemicals. The salt dispenser does aid with rinse aid though and to be honest it’s absolutely fine. The unit has a light that can be turned on by a simple touch of the Control Panel and it stays on for a set time and then goes off but you can always activate it again. This unit can either be plumbed in or can be filled manually or you can get an adapter if you so wish for your tap. I’m simply filling the reservoir up with the supplied water container that’s included with the dishwasher. I’ve also not bothered plumbing in the waste pipe but simply have it running into my sink. You can use either powder or tablets or liquid but it’s worth mentioning that they recommend a longer wash if you use tabs so that it allows time for these to break down and to work. I’ve been using finish quantum tabs and finish powder and so far the results are great. Now I know the recommended amount according to the book is 6 g of powder but this varies when you start to get used to the amount of powder needed depending on what you are washing, of course if you use these all in one tablets it’s not a problem but I find with the powder I’m using 6 g is fine for a quick wash but anything that needs a little bit more work then I either have to increase the amount of powder or simply throw in one of the tablets and run a longer cycle. The dishwasher itself is not tall and any plate over 25 cm is going to be a push to fit up right so on some of my plates I have to angle them within the dishwasher and load it appropriately taking that into account. It’s not a huge dishwasher by any means but it’s fine for me. I would’ve liked to seen the door that acted more like a conventional dishwasher where it tends to spring up as they recommend leaving the door slightly ajar to allow air inside wall not in use but because the door is held magnetically and there is no spring as such in the store I’ve got around this by placing a thin cloth at the top section of the door as seen in the photo. You could simply leave the door wide open but it’s always in my way hence the cloth. Results have been really good, washed items have come out spotless And no sign of white streaks. With this in mind there is a setting for adjusting the sort out but depending on your water hardness. This was very simple to set, I simply visited my water suppliers website where they gave me the figures I required and I just matched up with the handbook and adjusted the output as described within the handbook. There’s really not a lot more to say but it’s been a great machine so far and very easy to operate. A little update, after almost 3 years this has now failed. The internal pump failed and I open up the unit to see that water had damaged the heat exchange unit which also failed. Water had corroded the outside of the heat exchange.

We have had this for a month now, I wanted to give it enough time to get used to the functions of the machine and be able to wash variety of different dishes before I left a review. I wanted a dishwasher for a very long time but without completely renovating our kitchen there was just no space for even a slimline machine; once I had had this confirmed by a more adulty adult I started researching table top dishwashers and this one was a balance between the footprint it would take up, it's height (I am vertically challenged) and price. In terms of installation, it was very easy - we have it set up beside the sink with the draining hose in the sink at all times, we initially used the jug to fill the machine but I was spilling a lot of water between a dodgy shoulder and the aforementioned height challenges so quickly hopped back on Amazon to get a mixer tap hose adapter and 1 metre hose pipe so we now turn the machine on, pop the hosepipe in the reservoir until it is full. We certainly use less water than when we hand wash; being with South West Water I am very much enjoying the water efficiency!! In terms of programs, we mostly use the 1 hour quick wash and other than some particularly stubborn baked bean sauce we have barely needed to rinse the dishes before washing and it has handled everything like a champion. We have also used the fruit and veg wash options which have been really helpful in trying to reduce food waste. All in all, it is a fantastic little dishwasher, very efficient in terms of electricity and water usage and saves me from doing my least favourite chore. The only minor downside (and not enough to only give 4 stars) is that I would have gone for a bigger capacity machine if there were any more than 2 adults in the house.

I bought this after suffering through a 1980's kitchen (trust me you do NOT want to see the wallpaper in this place!) long enough with my wheelchair to hate doing anything in it, least of all washing the dishes. There was absolutely no way to plumb in a regular dishwasher - not without spending as much as one of these mini versions, if not more (yay for needing electricians too!), so I figured - cut out the middle man, get one of these and job done. It arrived a couple days after I ordered, despite a delivery estimate of two weeks. The delivery driver was polite and yes, socially distanced correctly so I had to gently lug this from the door a metre or two into the kitchen. It wasn't that heavy and I've had some experience of doing this in a wheelchair so this wasn't a massive problem, but it might be for others. Right, let's talk the two elephants in the room. First, this is a *MINI* dishwasher - this means you're going to have to make some decisions. For me, I've been working with smaller pots and pans and a small air fryer oven for a while and this is the perfect size for all of that (yes, that's the rotating chip basket inside in my picture) - I did end up getting some smaller plates but I think I was overdue on getting some new ones anyway. If you have a big household, or you're somehow attached to your gigantic wok or whatever, then this isn't going to be a sensible buy. Look for something more standard. Secondly, this doesn't need to be plumbed in - which means if you're not plumbing this in, then you'll be filling this with water (five litres, to be precise) every time you want to use it, and the water tank inlet is on the top and at the back of the device which turns out is surprisingly inconvenient for disabled people or the elderly. There are some quick and dirty fixes - I have a small hose I can attach to my tap that I can then feed into the top, and I turn the tap off when the device beeps to say it's full of water. But keep in mind that you're making this trade-off (you can, however, get this plumbed in normally if you want but part of the appeal here is that it doesn't need that expense). Just aim the waste pipe into a sink or bucket or whatever - if the bucket, remember to empty it. Keep in mind tablets work best on a full eco wash (there is a divot in the door for the tablets... but you may as well bung them in at the bottom since they'll fall out the moment you close the door) - if you plan on using the shorter cycles for smaller loads, get some normal detergent gel instead, I made this mistake with a tablet on a one-hour cycle and there was a dusty white residue on my dishes. Also, the cutlery holder has buckled a little already, but that might be because I'm a heavy-handed fool. It still holds knives and forks and teaspoons perfectly well. Otherwise - it's still a dishwasher. These things haven't changed much in over a century and a half now, aside from us adding motors and electricity. I'm very happy with the purchase and sure, it's not absolutely perfect and yes the last time I was out with my carer shopping for some new roasting trays I did kind of maybe obsessively focus on the dimensions of them (but again, I also have a mini air oven too so I guess this is just my life now). But that's okay, because it does what I need it to do and it gets used every single day. So for me - it's really good. Not perfect - but life is sometimes about the compromises. This is a good compromise for my situation. Your mileage may vary.

So whilst it’s small it does exactly what we need it too. We live in a small house with a really small kitchen and due to lack of space can’t have a dishwasher that can be plumbed in, so when I found this at half the price of a very similar product which can also be filled from the top and empty into the sink (or in our case the washing up bowl) I thought I had to give it a try. So we have 2 adults and 2 young children (2&6) in our house, we work full time and the children are in full time settings during the week so between us we probably have on a normal day 2 breakfast bowls, 2 dinner plates, 2 mugs, 2 plastic cups and cutlery to match, as a result I use the dishwasher once a day, I’ve found it uses less water than a bowl of washing up and I have so far only needed to use the quick (30min) wash and everything has come out clean. On a weekend I might use it twice a day but before the dishwasher I would probably be doing the washing up twice a day (using twice as much water). You can fit small pots and pans in it and it cleans them well but it is small and you will struggle to wash them along with plates etc in one go. It comes with a helpful jug for you to fill it with if you can’t or don’t want to plumb it in. It’s really quiet, in fact the loudest noise it makes is when it’s reach the water level needed and when it bleeps at the end to tell you it’s finished. I have been very pleased with the dishwasher, it’s easy to use, easy to set up, and most importantly it washes and dries the dishes so I don’t have too.

I bought this product on recommendation from a friend, and it was brilliant when I first got it in Feb 2025. After a couple of months of running it once a day, I started getting the odd E1 error message. Usually a quick off and on at the mains and try again would fix it. But then it got to my quick fix not working more often than it would. And now it won’t run at all. I tried looking up the error online and discovered E1 isn’t something I can fix myself. Seller did offer a replacement or refund, I chose the refund. I’m really disappointed as it only lasted 4 months. And I’ve seen a lot of these dishwashers are the same product with a different brand name on them, so it’s made me really pessimistic considering a replacement, despite the fact it’s a great product when it works.

This little dishwasher has been my Best Buy this year. The 28 minute wash gets the job done. All my cutlery, glasses, cups and little plates are sparkling clean after 4 weeks of having this bad boy. It lights up when you open the door, it holds enough to just load and unload as you go. My kitchen’s been clutter free since we took the plunge to buy. We set it up on our draining board, using the draining hose into the sink, we tucked the hose securely under the tap and it sits there quite comfortably. We use the jug to load the water into the top. We could easily fit it properly with the water pipe, but I like taking my time filling the water. We buy the Dishwasher liquid in a small bottle from Sainsbury’s, I’ve not seen liquid anywhere else? This is perfect as you only need a squirt around 6ml. Don’t forget to buy salt and pour in some water with the salt when you fill it up. You don’t need to use rinse aid as it’s so small it rinses throughly with no problem. Your standard big plates won’t fit, but hey, I don’t care we just use our smaller ones. You’ll get used to juggling around your cutlery and bits to get the maximum load in. We had an error with too much water, my son had over filled it. All we did was unplug from the mains and tip it so the excess water drained out into the sink through the drainage hose. Problem sorted straight away. Don’t be put off, this is the best little dishwasher you can get... plus, seriously it’s so cool I feel like I have a sci-fi film prop in my kitchen.

Ok so I hate washing up. And it uses so much water and gas to heat. An average sink holds around 15 litres of water! I am a tenant in a small flat where I cannot alter any of the plumbing, so I did a lot of research and this item got good reviews. Just did a weeks worth of washing up in three loads on the quick wash cycle (29 minutes). Everything came out sparkling clean, including a very greasy hot plate thing. It uses 5 litres of water per wash, but that costs about 5 pence. It uses about 0.3Kwh of power so very cheap as well. Overall a lot cheaper than the gas required to heat the hot water. Downsides really are it is a bit messy to fill the water tank from the top, water tends to spill out no matter how careful you are. It is not clear from the instructions where the cutlery bit goes, and where people have said it goes, it still doesn't seem to fit very well. I bought some dishwashing gel from Amazon rather than using tablets, as people are saying one tablet is too much. Salt is very cheap and easy to get pretty much anywhere. It seems the salt you load into it lasts quite a while. I think I will put mine closer to the sink so I can use the sink for the waste water (at the moment using a bucket on the floor, which works just as well). You could, in theory, re-use the waste water as it comes out hot and soapy for larger items in the sink? I reckon I could do 2 days worth of washing up in it in one wash which is brilliant. Would definitely recommend.