Something that I always keep in my house are packets of lemon Kool-Aid. They’re relatively inexpensive – when in a pinch, and out of milk, my kids will drink it.
It also functions as a dishwasher cleaner. Now I don’t use my dishwasher at all – in fact, I despise using that thing because I feel like it does a lousy job… but that could very well be my dishwasher.
Lately, my dishwasher hasn’t worked anyways… it’s brand new, and I tried a load last week only to smell smoke.. I quickly shut it and haven’t opened it since.
Lemon Kool-Aid, on it’s own, works better than any other commercial dishwasher cleaner you’ll ever buy.
Pour it in the tray of the dishwasher and run an empty cycle. A cheap packet of Kool Aid has citric acid ~ the citric acid cleans lime deposits & iron stains – in fact, it’s the only flavor that works (so don’t buy anything else, stick with lemon).
Neat! Good to know! I was wondering what the best way was to clean the dishwasher without having it smell like vinegar in my house. Thanks Sheryl! We will have to try this!
if I’m not mistaken the vinegar should fade away as it dries. I know when the pet had an accident on the sofa, I oured vinegar on it ans it did away with the pet smell and no vinegar smell at all
Will this help a funk smell too? Lately I’ve noticed my dishwasher is a little on the funky side.
sure does
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You may want to clean out the drain basket too! I did mine a few weeks ago and haven’t smelled that smell since. Ps what you find in there isn’t pretty.
There is a drain basket!? Yea, better go find that. Thanks!
tang works also
Where did you find Tang?!
ooh we got Tang at Fry’s just last month I remember, they had it for .99 – the big tub. Just like the Kool Aid tub. I have never tried Tang, we had it as kids, always been scared of it – not sure why.
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