New dishwasher - what tablets would you recommend that work well?

[cavoodle]

Someone has bought us a dishwasher, which was very nice of them. However I have no idea of what  the best tablets are to use. Some of the ones I saw at the supermarket were hella expensive I thought.

What would you lovely CS people recommend? Ones that don't leave a residue and don't wreck your dishes over time. 🙂

TIA  

[gleee58]

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@j*oono wrote:

Me too.  I think some people just want it to be a dish sterilizer rather than a washer, although I do scrape the food off and give them a quick rinse.

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Yes, scrape them off as best you can but the dishwasher retains the final rinse water to rinse the dishes with before washing so there is no point rinsing them first. 

[imastawka]

If you don't rinse the food bits off first, your dishwasher filters

will clog up with food and it'll stink like a tip.

As for powders, regardless of what the packet says,

only use a teaspoon.  It works just as well and it's economical.

[gleee58]

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@imastawka wrote:

If you don't rinse the food bits off first, your dishwasher filters

will clog up with food and it'll stink like a tip.

As for powders, regardless of what the packet says,

only use a teaspoon.  It works just as well and it's economical.

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Not if you scrape them off first.  The filters are supposed to be cleaned sometimes.

I never buy powder and use a reduced dose of gel or liquid.

[iapetus_rocks]

Sounds to me like it's less hassle and less expense to just wash dishes the old way, by hand.

I'm lucky in that when I wash dishes, I get to look out of the kitchen window onto a view of the back yard. Trees, birds and seasonal flowers. It's a time to relax my mind. I wouldn't buy a dishwasher for quids. 😉

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0

[imastawka]

If that video is any indication, your mind is way too

relaxed already - white rabbits indeed.

              

[iapetus_rocks]

Oooooh, nice 🙂

At least I don't have to waste my time thinking about what sort of tablets to put in my non-existent dishwasher. 😉

[softail-joanie]

I think washing dishes by hand is becoming a lost art. Much like with moping floors and school hallways whan the custodians have those oversize bulky in the way floor machines. When I was a substitute custodian, nothing said exersize and staying fit to me like mopping a long hallway, side to side figure 8s, it was like dancing the way I did it.