Dishwashers. Do you have one? Why?

[Chocaholic]

I am thinking about getting a dishwasher but am a little hesitant. I have had little experience with them and they always seemed to smell funny.

How often do they need cleaning out? How much extra water & power do they use? Any recommendations on brands? Do they really turn the glasses cloudy?

As you can tell, I have no idea so any information would be a great help!

[Visitor7]

Yes, we have one. Why? Cause it come with the house We have a F&P twin draw one. It's a fantastic dishwasher, can't fault it really. We've never had the problem of our glasses going cloudy.

[amberj]

I LURVE my dishwasher. Its a LG and it works really well- I've never had to clean it out (maybe I am dodgey about this!), and it doesn't make my glasses cloudy. I would run it 2-3 times a week and just use those little 'pellet' things you can buy- super easy.

As far as smell, they can smell. But you can get these little lemon things that you hook in the dishwasher and they make it smell all yummy.

Oh, I also like my LG because it has child-lock. Important when there are all those pretty lights!!

[Lolli]

Yep, mine came with the house too I'd nevert had one before but I seriously loooove it and wouldn't be without it now.

I just run a Finish Dishwashwer cleaner through it once a month, use bi carb for washing powder and vinegar for rinse aid. I've heard that when stacked properly they use roughly the same amount of water as hand washing everything.

[Astrid]

I am awful with handwashing so I love mine. I still handwash some items that are better not going in, or take up too much space so stop a heap of other things going in. I often get distracted whilst washing up, so the water goes cold and I need to refill. So for us using a dishwasher uses less water.

We used to use the tablets, but have found out that can cause issues with over foaming and are not really recommended, plus depending on your machine they can't be used on the ecocycle. Also when we looked at the cost it was cheaper to powder with a rinse aid. Am still yet to try bicarb and vinegar.

There is a filter that is meant to be cleaned out every wash, I do it about every 2-3 washed. It catches all the large food bits, so is best to be kept clean to keep the machine running properly and to keep smells at bay.

[AliBaby]

We dont have one. Our house didnt come with one but over the last 3 years we have gotten used to doing without it. If you rinse the dishes before you put them in thedishwasher I think that helps, I also think they are only wrthwhile if you are going to use it at least every day or every second day as I think the dishes sitting in there dirty would make it smell funny.

At my mums house we had this little lemon thing that hung off the dish rack inside the dishwasher that gave off lemon scent.

[2CheekyMonkeys]

yep, we have it cause i am lazy! ours doesnt smell unless it has been sitting there unused for a few days and this rarely happens. we had a power outage last year when there was a really bad storm, lost power for a few days, can you believe it I HAD TO HAND WASH!

[danniellabella]

I hate handwashing. I got a dishwasher for my first Mother's Day last year...best thing ever! Mine doesn't smell as I don't leave dirty dishes sitting for longer than a day.

[feeb]

we had a dishwasher till friday night when it leaked all over floor and shorted power!!!!!!!

Its more than 8 years old and been dodgy for a while eg tablet needs to be balanced inside as flipy door fell off etc so we need a new one!

I got the joy of hand washing everything and emptying water out bowl at a time still not completly empty not sure how to finish it!

So will be looking for recomendations!