Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Bought this for my 1 bedroom apartment. I despise dishes.. not to mention "wasting" gallons and gallons of water. I keep seeing people asking if this unit has a HEATING ELEMENT. The manual says "don't touch the heating element" and also there are descriptions of each cycle and some of them have different Celsius degree temps. A logical person could suggest that it does have some sort of heating element. Not sure why they don't market this, maybe its an industry standard, not sure. My cheap apartment faucet is so finicky with water temp either it is scalding or ice cold so i just keep it in the middle when i run the washer. This thing works really well as far as i'm concerned! There is no way I could get my dishes to look and feel this clean, not a chance. Save yourself the headache and just get the powder or gel, not the pods. My first normal cycle and the pod was still sitting at the bottom of the washer staring up at me, un-dissolved. Good thing I bought a package of like 100 of these things, right... So, I just cut them and pour the powder inside the flap and do it that way, works just fine. Noise level is surprisingly quiet. It's loud at certain times for maybe half a minute at a time when the pump is on making noise and also when the water sprays into the sink. What I mean by "noise" is not the water or washing cycle it's a strong bass-vibration; like I said i'm pretty sure it's from the water pump. Just wanted to mention it in case someone thinks there is something wrong with their unit, there isn't. installation was realllly easy for me, just screw it on and use the quick connect, pretty straight forward. Also, this is NOT a large basket in my opinion. Someone said they can do and entire sink of dishes and still have room, I find that hard to believe. Although, if you have smaller plates and cups and such in general, you're better off so maybe it's true. I will be purchasing an entire dish new set soon with size in mind. Also, don't get excited about the little "shelves" they show the coffee cups on. Those have to be some sort of tiny cappuccino cups, again it's not that big inside lol. When i'm done, I drain as much as I can out of the tubes and reel it up like a hose outside and slide my washer forward a bit and put it behind it. Ta-daa! Overall this dishwasher is great, and my cursing has gone down significantly after dinner :) **PS. If anyone could explain to me how this thing actually keeps water within the pressurized tubes but yet doesn't need to expel it every 10 seconds please let me know! I'm 100% this thing saves a tone of water because you have to leave the faucet on the entire time you use it, and it only pumps water out a couple of times; so obviously its not constantly using water haha. Just curious how it works is all, thanks!!