dishwasher poll

[ritaxis]

[Poll #1920245]

Naturally, I ask because . . . I forgot for several months and now here I am wishing I had access to dragon spit.

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I have never been aware of mould growing in my dishwasher. I run it every single day and I don't see how mould could have a chance to grow, what with the dishwasher powder being quite vicious. Perhaps it's just not warm enough here for it to gain a foothold between washes?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Mold doesn't grow in *my* dishwasher, anyway. (I checked!)

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Huh. Never seen mold in a dishwasher, myself. Wouldn't the heat and detergent kill it?

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

You'd think so, wouldn't you? I use extra detergent and all the hottest settings and I have recurrent mold anyway. If I run it empty with vinegar now and then and bleach some other times it recurs less virulently and less often, but it does recur.

[ellarien]

I don't have a dishwasher any more, but I don't remember having mold problems with the one in my Tucson apartment, and that only got used once a week. Arizona was hot, but never really humid enough for mold to be an issue.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

We run dishes through the prewash cycle with vinegar and a little Dawn, then through the main cycle with bleach and salt.

In twenty years we've never had any mold.

Or spots.

And it's a damn sight cheaper than that goop they sell for dishwashers, too.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

ADDENDUM: To the best of my knowledge, dragon spit is only good for growing back lost body parts.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I believe my current dishwasher was effectively new when I bought the house 2 years ago. I have not yet observed mold in it. (Sorry to be so excruciatingly precise, but I'm taking a break from composing discrepancy investigation reports and you can't shake that writing style so easily.)

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

The only time I've noticed a problem with mold was when running a load before heading out the door for a week+ trip. Well, maybe it finished, and we just didn't think to crack open the door so that everything could dry out. I don't remember there being all that much mold when we got back.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

We don't really have mould, but the dishwasher sometimes develops an off smell which is probably mould. So. We use a specific dishwasher cleaner a couple of times a year.

Now, the washing machine gets black mould. Running once every couple of months on the boil wash (with nothing in it because we don't boil wash anything) does the job.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

There's a procedure here that can mostly be summarized as vinegar and elbow grease: http://www.ehow.com/how_6494959_clean-mold-dishwasher.html.

Bleach is probably not a good idea; it might corrode some of the internal parts. Some dishwashers have filters--might be worth checking yours and seeing if the filter needs cleaning.

[joycependle.livejournal.com]

I said dragon spit. I mean the tablet supplied with the machine, to be used once every few months with no dishes in. I don't know if I'd get mould if it weren't used.

[carbonel]

I only run my dishwasher once every week or two, and I've never noticed a mold problem. Maybe a Midwest vs. West Coast thing?