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Pixie_Fairydust

Could anyone help me?

I like to give my dishwasher a clean out and used to buy the specialist dishwasher cleaners, but they are expensive.

What else could I use?

Many thanks if you reply

Pixie

Butterfly_Brain

Pixie_Fairydust wrote: »

Could anyone help me?

I like to give my dishwasher a clean out and used to buy the specialist dishwasher cleaners, but they are expensive.

What else could I use?

Many thanks if you reply

Run it on a boiling hot wash with a bottle of cheap 13p malt vinegar
purists would say only use white vinegar, but that is 52p a bottle and the result is the same.

Butterfly_Brain

Both Asda and Sainsbury stock Biotex at £1.90 for a 500g box which is nearly double what I paid last year in the 99p store:eek: luckily I did buy lots and still have a spray bottle and four boxes left.

phizzimum

Becky_2 wrote: »

My OH's brother likes growing chillies but don't like eating them, so we are given loads every year and in the end the chillies got mouldy and thrown away. Not anymore, now the chillies go straight in the freezer, no need to defrost beforehand, just cut them up and add them to the cooking. Cutting them up is also easier.

DH dried his chillies by tying them into bunches and hanging them up in the kitchen. In fact they're still hanging up, they look quite decorative! I keep meaning to chop them up and put them into a jar, but they don't take long to chop - they crumble really

Wesker

Smokemeakipper wrote: »

I get a charity bag through the letter box almost every day and as a result get a stack of them. If I gave something to them all the house would be empty! So I keep some for when I do take something to charity shops. The rest I use as bin bags for my kitchen bin. They work a treat and save on bin bags.

I've got a load of these too and was going to use them for bin liners but then realised they have ventilation holes in them. No good for me as i put cat litter in the bin and it would fall through the holes

Pixie_Fairydust

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Run it on a boiling hot wash with a bottle of cheap 13p malt vinegar
purists would say only use white vinegar, but that is 52p a bottle and the result is the same.

Do I just pour the vinegar into the dishwasher?

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Both Asda and Sainsbury stock Biotex at £1.90 for a 500g box which is nearly double what I paid last year in the 99p store:eek: luckily I did buy lots and still have a spray bottle and four boxes left.

If I only use a tablespoon per soak this should last for ages, definately going to try it :T
Pixie

Pixie_Fairydust

Another quick question.........

If I buy a bottle of concentrated Stardrops could I water it down and put it into a spray bottle?

How watered down can I make it?

Many thanks for replies, I've never used this product before but keep seeing it highly recommended on lots of threads!

Trying to get my grocery/cleaning bill down...... so all suggestions gratefully taken on board :T

Have a good day, Pix

angelaloveschocolate

Pix, yes you can keep a dilute stardrops solution in a spray bottle. I use a mix of vinegar and stardrops, really makes my hob shine. use plenty of water in the solution. I read that it should be a third water, third stardrops and third vinegar, but I make mine much weaker. Experiment to find what you like best. Don't worry about the vinegar smell, it seems to evaporate really quickly.

DundeeDoll

Pix for the dishwasher 1put half a mug of vinegar upright on the top shelf of otherwise empty DW and put it on hot cycle. I do it 1st of each month? I also put a couple of spoons of soda crysals on each plug and flush with hot water

magikpurple

Hi,

Morrisons sell bio tex it is with the other stain removers vanish and the like in a small blue box abotu 500g I think.
I think it was abotu a pound or just over and is the best stuff ever.
I have managed to fet liquid shoe polish out of my jeans and it was a lot by soaking with a good dessertsponful in hot water and leaving to soak for abotu two days then washing as normal.
Also computer printer ink that H got on his jeans and was about to throw in the bin- again soaked these in the same solution and washed as normal- he still wears them now.

Also the smell is quite pleasant not as pungent as some of the more ordinary stain removers.

Tis great stuff