Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Learnin' to Clean: My Smelly Dishwasher Loves Lemonade

My husband and I live in a rented townhouse and we are the proud renters of a very smelly dishwasher (or dishwarsher as my husband calls it).  As newly moved in, newly wed and newly figuring out how to take care of our place, I tried just about everything I could to change our dishwasher into a non-smelly one.  There are few things worse when it comes to kitchen appliances than opening your just run dishwasher and being inundated with a smelly something that can’t really be described.  I’m pretty sure my dishes were making food taste like my dishwasher smelled.

So enough with the melodramatics.  I wouldn't be writing a post if I didn't have a solution.

All you need to do is buy too packets of sugar free lemonade powdered drink mix.  Make sure you get the sugar free kind, otherwise, the sugar can make a sticky mess in the soap cup and other parts of the dishwasher.  I just used the cheap store brand which fit better in my budget then some of the more expensive name brands like Koolaid.

Fill the soap cup with both packets of lemonade mix and run the dishwasher.  Make sure the dishwasher doesn't have any dishes in it when you run it.

After the dishwasher has finished running, open it up and enjoy a much fresher smell and the good feeling of finally beating the smelly dishwasher.


I've only had to do this once to my dishwasher and the smell has yet to return.  However, I have a stash of lemonade packets on hand should the smell attempt to make a comeback.

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