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I would love one of those. But I just can't bring myself to spend $63 on a dish rack. I just can't.

it does seem like a steep price ... but i've had my dish doctor for six years now and have no plans to get rid of it any time soon. considering that it gets used every day (or at least every day that i don't leave things just hiding out in the sink!), i feel like i'm getting my money's worth out of it.

one thing about the design: you have to remember to empty out the water in the bottom piece every once in a while, since there's nothing that automatically drains out into the sink. and since i can't see the water pooling up, sometimes i go too long without emptying it.

...and my problem is the watre-pooling situation. yuck! i like mine, that drains right into the sink.

I owned one and threw it out. This is the worst example of form DOESN'T follow function that I've ever seen. Not only is there VERY little space for water (which has to be emptied), but even worse, there is no support to keep the upper part that your dishes rest on from bending down in the middle...so you're dishes ALWAYS sit in a puddle of water even if there was no water in it when you started washing dishes. Unless you only wash 2 or 3 very light weight dishes at a time, I would absolutely NOT recommend this piece of crap to anyone.

Like Shannon, I now have one that drains into the sink

jyojyo - hmmm ... i've never experienced the problem you're describing ... BUT, i will add that i don't handwash all of my dishes. so while it works absolutely great for my household, that may be in part because we supplement it with a good ol' dishwasher.

"Why is it called the dish doctor?"

I think it's because it's looks like a bunch of thermometers standing up on end. It's going to take the temperature of your dishes.

Dish racks get gunky after a while, no matter how often you clean them. I like the fact that for very little money I can get a brand new one, in any color.

I like my dish doctor. It was a gift. Like anh-minh, at my place the dishwasher supplements the dish doctor. Or maybe it is the other way around because I'm lazy. You do have to empty the water often. I haven't been doing that enough and it is always a pain to scrub and soak the gunk off. If there is a next time, I plan to stick the dish doctor in the dishwasher (after removing the dishwasher's upper rack). But I've resolved to be good and just empty it more often.