Vinegar instead of Jet Dry ?

[toploader55]

I don't use Jet Dry.  I just never got use to the idea of some chemical going in the final rinse and staying on the dishware.

 

I've been reading that White Vinegar breaks the surface tension on glassware etc.  Has anyone tried this and would the vinegar corrode any of the components in the dispenser ?  I have heard that jet Dry (and the others) are fairly corrosive.

 

So, I wipe the water spots off by hand if company is coming. Thoughts ???

 

[launderess]

Been There, Done That & It Doesn't Work

Though many dishwasher rinse agents have been touting "vinegar" as part of their contents, truth is they usually always contained a small amount of acidic substance but that alone won't fight spots nor help with drying action.

Many wine drinking purists either wash their glasses by hand and or do not fill the rinse agent dispenser of their dw. The result is something housewives have been trying to get out of for ages, having to wipe dry/polish away spots on glassware with a towel. If you like that sort of busy work, have at it! *LOL*

White vinegar alone does not have the sheeting action of the surfactant based rinse agents thus things often will not totally dry dry by convection. That is you'll need to use your dw's heated dry cycle. Even then your dishes are likely to have yibbles and spots from whatever is in the rinse water that is flung onto dishes but stays put.

Problem is once you've filled the rinse agent dispenser with WV and decide later it's not up your street you've got to get the stuff out. Failing that simply live with things on the ground until it runs out.

 

[labboy]

Personally, I will always use rinse agent. However, my best friends wife is against rinse agent so I make sure their dispenser is regularly filled with white vinegar.
I wouldn't do it in our house but it seems to work well for them. They use Finish Power Ball tabs and things seem to come out better than with no rinse agent at all.

I have started regularly cleaning their dishwasher (they had bad scale encrustation) and it seems that the vinegar does a better job of keeping the scale down than using nothing at all.

 

[launderess]

Well It Would, Wouldn't It?

Using vinegar I mean. After all it tis a (weak) acid and thus will cut scale from appliances.

IIRC Finish "Powerball" Tablets have a rinse agent already (the red ball part of the tablets), indeed many top and middle shelf automatic dishwasher detergents do as well. If the action of these rinse agents lasts long enough to make it through the rinse then one could see dispensing with adding more during that cycle.

 

[arbilab]

I splash some vinegar in the first rinse and have no problems with scaling, even though our water is 1 part per THOUSAND dissolved solids (almost entirely calcium carbonate, or water spots). I mean, even if it doesn't work it only costs 2c to try.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Emptying a rinse agent injector reservoir

Actually, if you fit about 4 or 5 inches of aquarium air line tubing onto a plastic syringe or one of those flavor injectors, you can put the tube down into the dispenser reservoir and suck out what you don't want in there.

 

[toggleswitch]

Actually no vinegar or lemon, please, in vintage pocelain tubs! It will eat them.

Let me say to everyone here a line similar to the BS I hear when I post here that unvented gas appliances are posionous. (And no one takes it seriously). "But my grandmother had unvetend heaters and appliacnes for 50 years...."

I have used and been subjected to rinse aids in dishwashers since 1968 when mother dearest first got one. I'm still alive. NEXT!

Yes it may be better NOT to be subjected to such chemicals. But with the air we breathe and water we drink, the food we eat, storing our foods in plastic, and cooking on aluminum cookware with a non-stick finish, and DIET sodas with their poisonous fake sugars ----- THIS is a problem?

WHY THE SELECTIVE CONCERN?

LOL

 

[mark_wpduet]

My rinse aid dispenser has leaked in my dishwasher for the past few years, so I just have been doing without rinse aid. But there for a while I was pouring in some white vinegar in the final rinse and I thought it worked GREAT, but it's too much of a pain so I just don't use any rinse aid and everything looks fine without it. I notice little if any spots. I always immediately open the dishwasher after it's done and shake the racks to get any collected water off & the dishes are dry in about an hour with the door cracked.

 

[launderess]

Jet Dry still makes those little basekts of rinse aid one hangs from the upper rack.

 

[toploader55]

Wave Jet

I got a tip from a friend to try this.  Wave Jet. I bought some yesterday and put some in the KDS 20.  It works Very Well.

 

 

http://www.ecos.com/rinse.html