Commercial Dishwasher Rinse Aid - any good?

bumblestil

Hi. I recently discovered that ebay is good for bulk buying dishwasher tablets, and have now seen that rinse aid can be bought in industrial quantities - presumably this is the stuff that restaurants use. Does anybody have any experience of using this stuff in a domestic dishwasher? Is it okay for the machine? What is the wash quality like?

Thanks,

Paul

DCFC79

Rinse aid, we dont use it anymore and not found much difference, dont some tablets include rinse aid in them

julietiff

I buy daisy make at tesco £2.08 for 1litre and which ever
dishwash tablets are cheapest, work well.

givememoney

I have never used rinse aid. Years ago when I bought my first dishwasher someone said why add another chemical.

Dishes and glasses always look nice and clean

Baileys_Babe

We use vinegar as rinse aid, which ever is the cheapest currently Sainsbugs Basic Malt Vinegar 13p a bottle (yes the brown stuff), the DW doesn't smell of vinegar and everything comes out very clean.

frankiemuniz01

It seems that I remember reading that somewhere. White vinegar seems as though it would be more environmentally friendly and less expensive than the commercial dishwasher rinse aid products.

looktothefuture

I use industrial dishwasher tabs, rinse aid and salt - all works fine in my machine at home! 100 tablets for just over £5! Lasts me around 8 months because I break them in half! LOL!

eco-catering

Hi, I know this is a bit out of date and may not be of interest any more but commercial dishwashers do work differently to domestic machines and the chemicals used in commercial units are very different to the tablets you pop in your domestic dishwasher. My advice is to stick with domestic products. Commercial rinse aid tends to have drying agents in and is quite a bit more potent than your domestic brand.

On a commercial unit if you want the right results and as long as the unit is set up correctly then you should be using detergent and rinse aid.

As for industrial all in one tablets they tend to be pretty poor in their potency for a commercial machine however would probably be more acceptable in a domestic appliance. One important fact though is the salt in them as mentioned by another poster. Salt in the tablets does not work as a way of stopping limescale. If you're in a hard water area you still need to top up your softener. The idea of a softener is to soften the supply before it gets to the internals of the machine not when the water is already in and running through it.

daveyjp

How much do you use your dishwasher if you need industrial quantities of rinse aid? Our 6 year old machine is on 3-4 times a week, but we still haven't used the 1 litre bottle it came with!

carebabe

like baileys babe i find that the supermarket basics vinegar used in place of rinseaid does the job.