"Finish" Jet - Dry is THIN!!

[jeffg]

I've been using dishwashers for 30 years and have needed a rinse aid just once (living in Palm Springs, where the tap water is incredibly hard and leaves white calcium residue on everything).

Otherwise, simply use adequately hot water (at least 140F) and it should evaporate immediately on your glasses and dishware.

I also can't stand the faint taste of soap most rinse aids leave.

 

[launderess]

Well That Is All Very Well

However most homes and residential buildings have hot water heater set to 120F, and many dishwashers do not offer heated rinses. Indeed routine use of a heated rinse and or dry cycle defeats any energy savings.

Have not noticed any taste of rinse aid on dishes, faint or otherwise, but then again do have the thing set down to barely "1".

In a perfect world all modern dishwashers would keep yibbles filtered out of the water and result in perfect dishes. However reality is far different and considering the recent Consumer Reports ratings, where dishwashers costing thousands, cleaned no better than those costing mid-hundreds, really don't see the point in extra bells on the higher priced units.

Older dishwashers got the best of yibbles, by using multiple cycles and flushing. Now that does work to an extent, but the tree-huggers and the Obama people would have a fit over energy and water use. Oh what the heck, California would have a fit as well. *LOL*

L.

 

[brisnat81]

what do the seals look like?

Rinse Aid has always been like water here, I'm trying to imagine how a viscous liquid would drain out of the dispenser?

What do the sealing caps look like on the Rinse Aid filler holes in the US? They were screw in's years and years ago, but now its just a simple piece of rubber held in place by a flap. I've only ever seen them leak once they get really old.

 

[launderess]

Ours Still Screws In

Cap to fill the dispenser, I mean.

We're not speaking of something the consistency of a gel, but rather a thick "shampoo" like quality.

Stuff only requires to dribble out of the port, water spraying around the dishwasher will carry the rinse aid into the water, much in the same way it helps to empty the detergent cups.

L.

 

[qsd-dan]

"Otherwise, simply use adequately hot water (at least 140F) and it should evaporate immediately on your glasses and dishware."

Yep. We have hard water, but after jacking up the water heater to 140F, no spots anywhere. Still have water on top of cups as such since I only use air-dry.

"Oh what the heck, California would have a fit as well. *LOL*"

Not all of us are tree hugging liberals

 

[mayguy]

I went up and checked my bottle, and seems to be the same as always. I have mine set on low setting since we have soft water, and I don't have to refill it till about 2 months out.

 

[danemodsandy]

Sometimes I Think...

...That Corporate America won't be satisfied until it has killed everything we like about every product.

 

[yogitunes]

Called and complained...their sending me coupons for free bottles.....

does this answer my complaint?....watered down...so they give me more!!!!of a product I don't like.....

maybe I'll call Speed Queen and complain, who knows, maybe a coupon for a free washer?, anything is possible...lol

 

[kenmorekeith]

Rinse agent!

I just dont use it! I think it's a rip off and I started to think,Ok if this is going into my final rinse should I be rinsing my dishes before I use them! Is this safe for baby bottles,glasses etc.When I use Cascade/bleach with or without jetdry/cascade rinse agent they come out the same *sparkeling*

 

[whirlcool]

A lot of the newer energy star dishwashers don't dry dishes the way older models used to. The heater cycles on and off to save energy. This can leave plastics on the upper rack still wet after the dry cycle has completed. Jet-Dry seems to help with this. For awhile I saw a version of Jet-Dry for plastics. It was there and gone in a matter of weeks from the shelf. I haven't seen it since. It was supposed to help plastic items dry much more quickly than without using it. I never got a chance to try it.

I recently noticed in the store that quite a few DW detergents already have Jet-Dry in the formula. So I imagine that would eliminate the need for Jet-Dry itself to be added to the DW.

 

[whitekingd]

I use Jet - Dry

to keep the "crumbs" so to speak off the glasses and so forth. I can always tell when the rinse dispenser is empty. I have sediment on the glasses. The "store" brand that is thicker is working just great! It doesn't leak out of the dispenser, and does a great job. Shame on Jet-Dry for re-formulating. UUGGHH!!

 

[toggleswitch2]

Jet-Dry Turbo created way too many suds when GadgetGary used it in his classic KitchenAid DW.

I am hugely disappointed that forced-air dry seems to have disappeared in this country; I always beleived that it helps.

I wonder if one could thicken rinse-aid stove-top as one reduces a sauce! *LOL*

 

[spankomatic]

Jet Dry and rinse aids.... I never use them. Cascade complete seems to work just fine for me. Glasses come out sparkling clean.

Jim

 

[rolls_rapide]

I wonder if one could thicken rinse-aid stove-top as one red

I shouldn't imagine so; the alcohols content that act to reduce tension in the water droplets would probably be boiled off first.

But I know what you mean. Have you ever seen old residues in liquid rinse-aid dispensers? It leaves a kind of crytalised, waxy residue.

 

[spiceman1957]

Speaking of Jet-Dry and Cascade

I have a Whirpool dishwasher that came with my house. I'm thinking this dishwasher is approx a 2003 model. Every time I put in either Jet-Dry or any other rinse agent I find it has leaked out into the tub the next day. I always make sure that the nob is secured. Any suggestions?

 

[everythingold]

I use Ammonia, just dump it in when my KA stops pumping at the start. Cheap and very effective, although I know some people can't stand the smell. matt

 

[maytagbear]

This just proves several points to me.......

First, water conditions vary widely across the United States, and indeed the world.

Secondly, manufacturers can't leave well enough alone.

Thirdly, dishwashers do vary. Considerably.

Lastly, when it was still Jet-Dry, there was a green apple scent formula available here, it worked well, but the scent was surprisingly unpleasant.

Even though the dispenser on my dishwasher works well, I am seriously thinking about going back to the solid bar type of Jet-Dry Finish.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[whitekingd]

I would use the solid form, except

all I can find it in is lemon scented! My Martha Stewart Everday Dishes say specifically not to use any product that contains lemon or lemon scent. So I am using the Safeway Rinse Aid. It is thicker and does not leak out of the dispenser.

 

[angus]

Noticed yesterday at Wal Mart that the Cascade Rinse Agent is also now as thin as Jet Dry. So now need to find a store brand that is thicker. Even though we have soft water here in southern CT and I use Cascade complete powder, the rinse agent really does help with water spotting on glassware