How do I clean my dishwasher?

The dishwasher is one of the main helpers around the house. Making daily routine work in the kitchen easier and washing mountains of dishes, she needs care and attention. Despite the fact that the device constantly works with water and detergent, grease, food debris, debris, and plaque get stuck in the cavities, on the walls and accumulate.

The more often you use the technique, the more regular the care should be. It is recommended to carry out cleaning every 10-15 days, and if you do not turn it on daily, then focus on 10 starts.

Do not wait for an unpleasant odor to appear and bacteria begin to multiply. This is both the risk that the equipment will become unusable faster, and a threat to the health of your family.

There are a number of simple and accessible actions that will make life easier for you and your assistant:

• Ventilate the machine if possible - high humidity inside leads to an unpleasant odor.
• Wiping the inside with a regular absorbent cloth or sponge will also help get rid of excess moisture.
• When the machine has passed the wet cleaning cycle, wipe the inside with a dry cloth.
• Remember to clean the rubber bands on the door.
• Watch out for hard-to-reach corners periodically.
• It is recommended to clean the grease that gets on the inner surface regularly - the old grease film is difficult to wash off.
• Observe basic loading rules. Remove food leftovers from the dishes before placing them in the unit.
• If possible, do not skimp on detergents, salt and rinse aid.

During operation, knowledge of different cleaning methods and means can be useful. Below we will talk about how to clean the dishwasher from various types of contamination: fat, scale, food debris. The first and most important rule is - before you start manipulating, you need to make sure that we unplug the power cord and disconnect the power to the equipment.

By experience or by reading reviews on the forums, you can find a tool that suits you in terms of price-quality ratio.

The standard application scheme is as follows: place the product in the manner indicated on the label in the machine. Next, start the program at +60 degrees without dishes. The basic cleaning of the chamber was successful.

Here is a list of the most popular products, but in stores you can find many more options:

• Calgonit Fusion Power Finish (Liquid)
• Finish Rinse (Liquid)
• UniPlus (liquid)
• Paclan Brileo;
• Claro;
• Frosch Soda;
• Rinnova Lavastoviglie (liquid).

How to use each product is indicated in the instructions.

Among the folk methods, those who are always present on the shelf have gained popularity. soda, vinegar, lemon. These means will be discussed further.

Pour into a pallet, run for a short cycle at maximum temperature. Kills odors, removes old stains.

It is better to take a white table 9% solution. Fill a bowl with vinegar and place in the upper basket. Turn on the device at maximum power. Leave the door open after work to remove the odor.

Traditionally it is used for descaling.

After cleaning with special products, walk by hand over the inner surface of the camera, baskets and remove any residual dirt. It will be easy to carry out these manipulations - the detergent has softened the dirt.

The machine is capable of washing any dishes in any volume to a shine, but there will always be food residues in the chamber. You need to check and remove them from all elements:

• Along the entire inner surface of the chamber, on the walls.
• In hard-to-reach corners.
• On elastic bands.
• Along the perimeter of the adjoining door.
• On baskets.
• From the filter.

Dishwasher trays are best cleaned by hand. They need to be removed and cleaned using any type of detergent. If the contamination is significant or does not leave, we carry it to the basin, soak it in foam and let it soak. Then the process is easy, rinse with water and dry with a woven cloth.

The inside of the working chamber can be simply cleaned with a damp sponge and any dish detergent, preferably with a good grease-dissolving effect. For these cases, tools such as Morning Fresh, it has a lethal effect on sediments. As a rule, 5-10 minutes is enough, in especially neglected cases we leave it for 20 minutes, turn the sponge over with the hard side or use a brush with non-metallic bristles and wash off the soaked residues of grease and dirt.

Do not forget about the sealing material, the sides of the door - here they remain unnoticed and grease stains and food particles accumulate in a difficult-to-remove layer. For dishwasher cleaning, it is preferable to choose liquid-based products, powders contain abrasive particles and can scratch surfaces.

We pay attention to filter cleaning at least once a month. We often forget about it - it is in it that smells can arise, since a large amount of dirt settles.At this stage, cleaning can be considered complete, if there is time, you can start a cycle with a special cleaning agent.

Next, we will share the options for cleansing from fatty deposits. Such pollution is washed off with difficulty and adds work to the housewives. Fat deposits tend to accumulate on the rotating blades, in the ceiling, on the baskets and around the rubber bands.

Above, we talked about basic home cleaning. If it and special products are not effective, we recommend cleaning by hand, armed with detergent for dishes or cleaning, hot water, sponges and an old toothbrush.

Fat Removal Methods:

• Based on the properties of baking soda and vinegar to react, during which not only fat is removed, but also other impurities. We apply soda on the surface inside the machine so that it does not crumble, you can moisten it a little with water. We put a container with vinegar on the bottom, start an intensive washing mode at the maximum temperature.
• It is also recommended to use borax instead of baking soda as a home remedy. The principle is the same - apply inside and start the maximum mode.
• Another "folk" recipe looks like this: add essential oil to soda, for example, eucalyptus, lemon or sage (in proportion to 2 cups of soda, 0.5 teaspoons of oil). Add 40 grams of hydrogen peroxide powder. We put the mixture on the bottom of the machine, in the upper part we put a couple of glasses of 9% vinegar.

If you are not an alchemist at heart and not an experimenter, there is a sufficient selection of special products on sale for cleaning dishwashers from grease.

Cleaning your dishwasher is easy.

Hard water is not uncommon in our apartments, therefore it is recommended to add special salt during washing to soften it. But we do this not all and not regularly, without thinking that the scale covering the heating element impairs its properties and efficiency. Electricity consumption increases, kitchen utensils are washed worse.

You can descale the dishwasher using the following products:

• Special preparations that are on sale in the departments of household chemicals.
• Anti-scale is a product that can be bought at any store. Different brands have variations depending on the device. We take it for dishwashers, pour it on the bottom, run it.
• Table vinegar - pour a few glasses directly into the machine, run to maximum. We already wrote about citric acid above, use it like vinegar. After use, you can additionally start a short cycle to eliminate acid residues.

After cleaning the machine using the above methods, you can start another cleaning cycle, which will help remove unpleasant odors:

• Soak the filter in soapy water after removing it from the machine. We wash, put in place.
• Next, pour 1 glass of vinegar into the tray and start a full washing cycle without dishes.
• We fall asleep 2-3 glasses of soda at the bottom of the unit, leave for 3-4 hours, it is possible overnight.
• We start another final cycle.

Taking care of your dishwasher is a snap and a matter of habit. In return for the fact that you will regularly clean the dishwasher, the equipment will delight you for many years with its high-quality work.

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