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.

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Wayne in Phoenix

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