A question about : Dishwasher tips and questions
Yes, I know, water usage... but I worked it out that if I hand washed and rinsed every day I'd use almost as much water as a weekly D/W run would - and I plan the usage of my pots and pans to allow this just as much as I plan the recipes I cook in them. There's the electricity too - but since the D/W uses water hotter than I could put my hand in and detergent that would take my skin off it cleans, rinses and dries more efficiently than I could - so I'm happy to pay the extra for cleanlyness and hygene.
Tip One:
Those large spoons that we all hang up by the hole in the handle - I used to lie them from front to back along the tray. Crossways I found, works better. Drop the hook over one of the prongs that hold the plates up and lay it cross ways with the bowl of the spoon facing down. They won't twist or move and fill up with water that way.
Tip Two:
Never mind all these fancy vinegar recipes 
when it comes to topping up storage jars and sugar bins and pots it's almost impossible to avoid spilling a little bit of it that then needs cleaning up. So open the D/W door and pull the top tray out. Set your filling pots and bags and things on the tray and get to work... and you can be as sloppy as you like. (no you can't that's not good MoneySaving). But any spills sit on the D/W door. Just close it up when you're done and of course the next time you use the dishwasher all your spills are gone.
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- That second tip is brilliant, thanks squeaky.
I couldn't live without my dishwasher either but I am trying to cut down using it since I found out how much electricity it uses. - Don't scare me - how much do they cost to run?
I always pack mine to the gunnels and have started only using 1/2 tablet, but as I hate washing dishes, I won't be giving mine up in a hurry. - I always put in my washing-up brush and the plug from the sink too.
I don't often have the space (I also make sure it's absolutely full) but when I do I put the sink cutlery drainer in also. - I've recently started to hand wash the kidz school lunch boxes, flasks and tuck pots cos they created a full DW load on their own and are really easy to swill out yourself. I now only do one load in the DW at night on econ 7.
I don't know if this is an urban myth or not but someone once told me that you can cook a whole salmon in the DW by wrapping it in foil and placing in the top rack for the longest, hottest cycle. Hav'nt tried it tho Wonder if it also works for fishfingers - My DW take about 1.5kw to complete a full 65c cycle, which costs me about 4p on econ 7. If I were to wash up everything by hand I would run out of hot water (also heated on cheap rate) and would need to have the immersion heater 'top-up' for an hour in the afternoon using 3kw (using full day rate) costing me about 17p.
- The wire tray in the grill, the oven grills, and the pan stands on the oven top all go in the dish washer - much easier to clean.
Not all at once - but each will lay flat in the bottom tray of mine and then I just fill with pots and pans as normal. - My daddy puts glass vases in the dishwasher, and they come up really clean. We hate him doing it though
- Tip One
If you live in a soft water area you probably don't need salt and rinse aid
Tip Two
Make sure you're busy as the it comes to the end of the cycle so you can call "Can someone just unload the dishwasher while I'm sorting out dinner/getting the washing in/feeding the cat?". Timesaving rather than moneysaving. - To clean your dishwasher, simply run it on the hottest, longest program - but empty. Nothing needs to be added. Just make sure it's empty first
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If you want to be the poshest person on the street run ya empty milk bottle through the dishy before returning them to milko Then sit back and bask in your neighbours admiration - I just love the fact that you can dye all your tupperware a fetching mid orange shade by putting it in with the pan you made the chilli in....... kids don't quite see it that way but I'm trying to set a tupperware trend here!!
- Yeah, why does that happen :confused: I haven't had a dishwasher that long, all my chopping boards are now orange and I don't put the pans in there! I thought it was something I was doing, I feel much better now :rolleyes:
- Another DW phenomenon is stucco effect mugs and plates after a cycle containing anything that has been within sniffing distance of mashed potato. No matter how much you rinse beforehand everything comes out 'texturized'
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