Comments on: Regular Dish Soap in the Dishwasher…

By: dumbass

dumbass — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:36:46 +0000

IF THAT DOESN’T WORK!!!!

I recommend these extra steps:

1. use vegetable oil instead of vinegar
and
2. turn off the water going to the dish washer
(then let it run through it’s normal cycles)

thats what did it for me

By: Corrie

Corrie — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:09:45 +0000

What if the dishwasher is one of those that does not have the knob and is electronic? I am not sure how to get it to just the rinse cycle. Is there anything else I can do?

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:07:35 +0000

My boneheaded son informed my wife and I that we were out of dishwasher soap. My wife told him to look harder for some since he has a tendency to only look halfway. Sometime later, after the dishwasher was already running, my wife said “Oh, so you found some dishwasher soap?”. He replied, No, I used this.” as he showed us a bottle of regular dishsoap and stated, ” I thought you could use this kind”. Thankfully, we did not have a flood, but our dishwasher was full of soap bubbles. My wife asked him “Have you EVER seen me use this kind of soap in the dishwasher?” He gave us his patented “I think i’m dead” look and muttered “Nooooooo.” Thanks for the tip. (Kids, gotta love ‘em)

By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:13:09 +0000

Glad I found this. I have no idea how soap got in the dishwasher. There is no one else here except my daughter and she hadn’t been using the soap. She’s 19 & doesn’t try to use the dishwasher. Not right now anyway. We just got it a week ago. (she had a wreck & lost most of her sight & hasn’t learned how to use the dishwasher yet.) Maybe the cat & dog did it! LOL

By: Gmp

Gmp — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:52:06 +0000

Well, you saved my husband…and our dishwasher.

We were ready to ‘call it a day’ with the dishwasher. Now we can wait until we’re really ready to replace it. I only discovered what he did when I found the top of the dishwashing liquid container in the bottom of the dishwasher (thinking something was plugging/blocking the drain). When I found the plastic top in there and went to put it back on the container, I discovered what he put in the dishwasher - dish soap. UGH! He’s been starting the dishwasher for years. He thought we were out of regular dishwasher liquid (we weren’t!) so he used regular dish soap. Hopefull, never again!?

Finding the problem, I put the regular dishwasher soap in and started the cycle only to have another flood of bubbles and water run all over the kitchen floor. Hence, my search for a solution.

Thanks for your post. I will try it and it sounds like it will work…

By: gage

gage — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:34:42 +0000

tx so much my life is saved but it kinda made my dish washer smell bad.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:33:11 +0000

I wasn’t thinking, and put the wrong stuff in my dishwasher. That desperation of what-in-the-world do i do now set in when the kitchen was full of soapy bubbles from the dishwasher. Thanks for this advice!!! Now, I know what to do, and knowing is half the battle

By: Mondo Tofu

Mondo Tofu — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:43:07 +0000

if you have a ready supply of snow, you can dump that it in the dishwasher instead of using energy-intensive ice-cubes.

By: claire

claire — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:39:44 +0000

thanks! this helped me a ton tonight.

By: Shelly The Domestic

Shelly The Domestic — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:36:39 +0000

And me. I never would’ve thought about salt and vinegar.

By: Ruth Bonnet

Ruth Bonnet — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:43:31 +0000

You saved me! Thank you!