Review of the MOOSOO MX-10: A Tank-Type Dishwasher That Needs No Plumbing Work

This article was automatically translated from Japanese using AI. The Japanese version is the authoritative version.

When you live alone, dirty dishes pile up endlessly, and washing them is honestly a pain.
Even when you plan to cook for yourself, the thought of the washing up kills your motivation and you never quite get around to it.

When I started living alone I decided I’d really commit to cooking for myself, and I bought a dishwasher to keep myself motivated!!
After a lot of deliberation, I went with the MOOSOO MX-10.

In this post I want to explain why I chose this dishwasher, and why I didn’t go for the very similar MAXZEN JDW03BS01.

Why MOOSOO?

The first decision when buying a dishwasher for your home is whether to get an installation-free tank-type model or a conventional one.
I’m in a rental, and installation work sounded like too much hassle, so I went with a tank-type model that requires no installation.

With a tank-type unit, you just plug it in, fill the tank with water, add detergent, and it washes your dishes.
You can use it the day it arrives, which is incredibly convenient, and it’s easy to move around too.

There are plenty of tank-type models out there these days, from cheap ones to expensive ones.
So the next thing to think about is where you’ll put it.

In my case, the spot was on top of the fridge — fairly high up.
If you live alone in a place with no spare space, isn’t the top of the fridge by far the most likely place you can actually fit a dishwasher (somewhere reasonably wide and close to the sink)?

I stood a box of plastic wrap next to it in the photo so you can gauge the size.
It’s bigger than you’d expect!!

When you think about filling the tank, you want the fill point to be low and easy to reach — so having the water inlet on the bottom is ideal.

The problem is that most tank-type dishwashers have the fill opening on top, which makes filling awkward if the unit is up high.
As far as I could find, the tank-type dishwashers with the water inlet on the lower front are Panasonic’s NP-TSP1-W, MAXZEN’s JDW03BS01, and MOOSOO’s MX-10.
Incidentally, judging from the reviews, cleaning performance is basically fine on all of them unless something is really off.

Of these three, I’d love to go with the Panasonic, but the price…
So that left the latter two models.
Both can be had for under about 30,000 yen, which seems pretty good. (Though I’m a bit worried about durability.)

What’s the difference between the MAXZEN and the MOOSOO?

The two models look very similar and have very similar wash modes, so you may well wonder what actually differs.
The big difference is the drying function.

The MAXZEN uses fan drying, while the MOOSOO uses heated-air drying.
With the MOOSOO, once the wash and dry cycle finishes you can put the dishes straight back in the cupboard. (I’ve never used the MAXZEN, so I don’t know how dry it gets things.)

You could just leave the dishwasher door open after the wash finishes, but since the MOOSOO has heated drying, things dry quickly and you can get by with relatively few dishes on hand.

The MAXZEN is a bit cheaper, so if you don’t really need the drying function, I think it’s plenty. (Washing performance seems to be about the same.)

MOOSOO frequently offers coupons on both Rakuten and Amazon, so you can often pick it up at a really good price — in which case the gap with the MAXZEN may not be that big after all.

How to set it up

First, attach the drain hose and the adapter (intake hose) that draws water up from the pump at the bottom to the back of the unit.
I’d recommend attaching them before putting the unit in place.

The water supply hose is used if you connect to a faucet diverter.
Doing so means you don’t have to fill the tank, but it leaves hoses everywhere, so I don’t recommend it.

Next, position the drain hose so it sits nicely in the sink.
One suction-cup clip is included for holding the drain hose in place, so use that to secure it.
One time my drain hose thrashed loose and made a real mess of the room.

After that, just plug it in and use it.
For the first run, do an empty wash cycle to clean out the interior.

That’s all it takes to get going — very easy.

The drain hose is about 1.5 m long, so even from roughly fridge height with some distance to the sink, it reaches comfortably.

As for the results, even annoying messes like curry-stained plates come out beautifully clean with no slimy residue — I’m very satisfied.

Summary

Personally, if you’re going to make a real effort to cook for yourself, the very start of living alone is exactly when you should buy a dishwasher.
There are plenty of cheap models, so with a little effort a much more convenient life awaits.

I’ll add notes on durability and so on later.

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There’s a VIBMI dishwasher on Amazon that looks extremely similar to the MOOSOO MX-10, but there’s so little information about it that I won’t cover it here.
The Amazon listing claims the features are literally identical, but it seems sketchy, and personally I wouldn’t recommend it…