Middle aged Dishwasher Virgin Help!

tanith

Love my dishwasher too its a hotpoint 11yrs old and still runs perfectly, I too wash pots and pans by hand, don't use salt or rinse aid, just use any tablets that are on special, there are two of us and I use it every other day or there abouts , never used a pre-rinse, just bung them under the tap if we've had curry or something messy. I did need to buy extra mugs though. Enjoy..so nice to tidy the kitchen by bunging all the dirty dishes away even if you haven't needed to put the washer on yet, the kitchen is tidy.

valk_scot

I got a Siemens dishwasher four years ago after a lifetime of not thinking I needed a dishwasher. We were remodelling the kitchen though and OH wanted one..

Anyway it's my new best friend, I love the way you can tidy the kitchen up into it in two minutes flat and none of that clutter of dirty dishes/clean dishes/twenty minutes of washing up in the middle. I wouldn't be without one now, there's four of us, I do a lot of cooking and it's on every day. I bung everything in, pots and all, though I do scrape off bits of food pretty well and give the odd thing a rinse off. I wash out the filters every week, it only takes two minutes.

I lve in a soft water area so I can get away with minimal salt and rinse aid so I buy whatever is cheapest on offer. I'm currently coming to the end of the two years worth of Tesco Value tablets I bought at 15p a box, they have been just fine tbh. I was looking at tablets the other day actually, the current cheapest ones I can see are the Tesco Daisy ones at £1.50-sh for 40, so that's what I'll get next I expect.

she_who_can_not_cook

anyone tried any home made stuff ?

valk_scot

she_who_can_not_cook wrote: »

anyone tried any home made stuff ?

At 4p a day for a Daisy tablet I suspect it's not cost effective tbh.

Badrick

she_who_can_not_cook wrote: »

anyone tried any home made stuff ?

We bought a sack of mixed broken ones from eBay after someone posted on another OS thread, think they were around £14 delivered for approximately 4 biscuit tins full. We've been using for around 9 months (2 to 3 a week) and have so far used about half a tin.

Syman

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

You *might* find that this unnecessary item becomes something you will replace instantly it goes wrong in the future. Most people who get one admit that they never realised how good they were beforehand.

Spot on.

wouldn't do without ours now. Me,DW and DD at home so we need to run the washer every other day.

We also bought one with a timer dealy as we have E7 leccy so it does it's thing over night.

mummyroysof3

mine goes on everyday and i usually have to was by hand at breakfast or i wont get everything in..there are 5 of us though