Mickey Zalusky > wrote in
:

> I recent heard that filling the rinse aid compartment in your
> dishwasher
> is an inexpensive alternative to using rinse aid. Has anyone out
> there ever tried this? Does it work? Any concerns about the vinegar
> harming the dishwasher components?
>
>

It might be worth an experiment. Rinse-aid and vinegar would certainly
work from different principles. The Rinse-aid makes water "wetter" and
causes it to drain off the dishes/glasses more completely, minimizing or
eliminating droplets. Vinegar would not do this, but it would help
minimize spotting caused by hard water deposits. At least one of the
rinse-aids, JetDry, now offers a version that contains vinegar,
presumably to hit the spotting from both angles.

The small amount of vinegar that you might dispense into the machine
should not cause a problem. Dishwasher "cleaners" contain far stronger
acid in them and apparently do no damage.

--
Wayne in Phoenix

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