AEG Favorit 86070Vi Review

Overall Rating

Cleans dishes!
Easy to use
Perfoms brilliantly
Quiet
Reliability and construction

Can't think of any

I think the £298 price is wrong, we paid a lot more than that for ours, and it is worth much more than that, the price I think is around £700. I have seen the cheaper dishwashers for £250 and I would suggest you save yourself the hassle, as this is brilliant. We have never had a dishwasher before, so having the AEG Favorit 86070Vi installed was a novelty, and the idea of having clean dishes done for you is something you wonder why you never had a dishwasher before. The appliance was easy to install, with a Aquastop valve on the end, that cuts off the water supply if there is a leak, which is good peace of mind. The dishwasher is rock solid, very high quality and sturdy. We had a odd problem of the door not balancing correctly, but once we had the kitchen frontal fitted, it balances smoothly. The door is not stiff to open, and is easy to open and close. The racks are dark grey and look smarter than the awful white ones, these too are easy to pull out and push in and very sturdy. My only nitpick with the baskets is that they could be better designed, with better flexibility, but still we manage to fit everything in, even the steamer bowls and every pan, especially after a Sunday dinner. The top basket is height adjustable on one side, shame it isn't adjustable on both, but having this gives you flexibility so that you can put small plates and pan lids in the top rather than below. The cutlery basket could be a bit bigger, but fits snug in the lower rack. The fixed plate racks can be annoying, sometimes plates have seemed to roll out of them. The rack as two rows of folding plate holders, not that you would need to wash so many plates. Folded down, there is plenty of room for pans and bowls. The wine glass holder in the top rack is annoying, not very good when you want to load cups, but you can remove it quite simply. The filter is easy to clean and remove. Once you have put your detergent in, switch the machine on, and press the programme that is all there is to operating the machine. We use Morrisons 5-1 tablets, and there is a special function button to optomise the tablets efficiency, and dishes come out really clean and sparkly, even glasses and cutlery. We use the automatic programme which senses the dirtiness of the load and alters everything about the programme to suit, such as the water consumption, temperature and time. The machine is relatively quiet, and a handy red light comes on at the bottom of the door to remind you its switched on, we had to keep going back to it, just to make sure it was working! It is excellent, and well recommended, it has the performance and reliability you would expect from AEG and does not disappoint.