Cleans well and dries well with soft water. Silverware basket is too small, so I put the basket from my previous machine in the lower rack and suffer loss of space. Biggest nusisance relates to the lower rack. You can't just open the door and pull it out, it is a two handed operation. You have to hold the door all the way down with one hand and pull out the rack with the other.
This washer doesn't have all the bells and whistles as other high priced ones. I like the simplicity of it, it washes the dishes very well! For the money you can't beat it! Its also pretty quiet too which is a huge plus!
I've only had this dishwasher a couple of weeks so it's still new and I haven't used all of the various cycles, but overall I'm very happy with it's performance. This dishwasher replaced a 19-year-old Whirlpool dishwasher that was still working great when I replaced it with this one. Because the one I replaced was working so well, there are certain things I miss from the older one that are different from this one. My old one had a white interior and this new one has a gray interior so it's a little harder to see things, like the silverware. My only minor complaint is the door when it's open. It tends to spring up a little bit. My husband adjusted the tension (the directions to do this are in the installation manual) but it still does it a little bit, which means that if the bottom rack is rolled out and not very full, it rolls back into the dishwasher. The bottom rack needs to be pulled out all the way, and full of dishes in order for the door to remain flat while open. On the plus side, the dishwasher is super quiet. That wasn't really an important factor for me while choosing this, but compared to my old one which was much louder, this one is remarkably quiet - so much so that the first couple of times I ran it, I wasn't sure it was even running. It was. And the performance is great. The dishes come out very clean. I haven't tried pots/pans yet, so I don't know about that, but I've done heavy loads of dishes and they come out as clean as you'd expect. A very good dishwasher that I would definitely recommend.