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Thread Number: 89105
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Putting regular soap in a dishwasher |
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Post# 1136818 12/21/2021 at 22:01 (848 days old) by bradfordwhite  (central U.S.) |
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| Post# 1136821 , Reply# 1 12/21/2021 at 22:12 (848 days old) by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas) | ||
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Post# 1136823 , Reply# 2 12/21/2021 at 22:17 (848 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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awww, poor deery. She probably would never have used it anyway as she was used to hand washing.
In the late 80s I gave a gift of a portable dishwasher to a distant older 60ish relative and she just couldn't figure out how to put the cups in correctly. She kept putting them in upside right. lol. It's was roto-rack too. I don't know if that made it more difficult. And she was from Ireland. Idk.... | ||
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Post# 1136875 , Reply# 4 12/22/2021 at 12:05 (848 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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| Post# 1136879 , Reply# 5 12/22/2021 at 14:26 (848 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY) | ||
I think we all at least know someone
who's done this. In the 80s, my uncle did it. Ran out of dish detergent and put in regular dish soap and soap bubbles came out everywhere. I think it was a 1975 Kenmore dishwasher from the fact their house was built in 1975 and they got everything Kenmore throughout their house....Even a central vac.
One thing: I read a while back how if you have an oil spot on your clothes, you can put a couple of drops of dish soap and it works wonders. I worried doing that that it would cause massive foam in the front load washer.....but it never does. you can't even tell | ||
| Post# 1136909 , Reply# 6 12/22/2021 at 17:22 (848 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
Sometimes I add a tiny bit of regular Dawn to my cascade complete bottles, it adds an extra oomph making it so you don’t have to use quite as much, I like slightly moderately sudsy washes in my dishwasher so I love adding a slight bit here and there. I like how the cascade action pacs get slightly sudsy!
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| Post# 1136910 , Reply# 7 12/22/2021 at 17:24 (848 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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Incase this ever happens to anyone, cascade gel works as an amazing desudser. There was a few times where my cascade action pac made my Whirlpool oversuds to where it was close to dripping out of the door, and I squirted a little gel in and bam it reduced them majorly. I’m sure any dish gel or powder will help.
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Post# 1136912 , Reply# 8 12/22/2021 at 17:30 (848 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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Post# 1136914 , Reply# 9 12/22/2021 at 17:42 (848 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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| Post# 1136915 , Reply# 10 12/22/2021 at 17:46 (848 days old) by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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Post# 1136942 , Reply# 12 12/22/2021 at 22:46 (847 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Had a friend do this in her mom's KDS-17 once. "Oh, it'll be fine." It wasn't fine. We ran about a dozen rinse and hold cycles to get the foam out of that tank. Her mother was impressed with the cleaned up kitchen, "even the floor!" so all was well.
Up to a 1/4 cup of vegetable/cooking oil will take care of any foam almost immediately. Wish I'd known that back in high school, but resetting that KitchenAid over and over was worth the mess. | ||
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Post# 1137007 , Reply# 13 12/23/2021 at 15:09 (847 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Adding cold water from the sink also helps knock down the suds especially if you can manually fill the sump and immediately make the machine to drain, but not as fast as oil. Great tip, Greg. Thanks. | ||
| Post# 1137048 , Reply# 14 12/23/2021 at 18:46 (847 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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DO NOT EVER put fabric softener in a dishwasher, not even to test it out. The clinging wax agents found in softeners are not designed to be running thru a dishwashers pump system and will take several and several cycles to fully rinse it out. Accidentally forgot to pre wash my direct drives softener cup before throwing it in my dishwasher for a sanitize and that was disgusting to open the door at the end of the cycle and I was slapped across the face with fabric softener scent.
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| Post# 1137050 , Reply# 15 12/23/2021 at 18:49 (847 days old) by maytaga806 (Howell, Michigan) | ||
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Post# 1137060 , Reply# 16 12/23/2021 at 20:03 (847 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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dish soap in dishwasher I've done it before. Never again! | ||
| Post# 1137091 , Reply# 17 12/24/2021 at 01:15 (846 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
I used regular dish soap back in 2012 (silly 13 year old me couldn’t find the dishwasher detergent) and I’ll never forget that since there were suds pouring as soon as I opened the door so I’ll never let that happen again lol. I will say putting a small amount of dish soap in the pre wash compartment definitely helps wash/rinse away any backed or caked on food and that’s one thing I’ve been doing since last year and have noticed everything is crystal clear as soon as everything is done in the dishwasher.
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