What the hell is rinse aid anyway
Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids
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#22Rinse aid is completely unneeded if you properly maintain and use your dishwasher.
I never use any, and my dishes are completely spotless. 30 years old dishwasher, super hard water.
Specifically, you should:
- always fill the salt of the dishwasher's water softener once it's empty. It cannot soften the water if it doesn't get cleaned by the salt. If the water is not softened you will get spots. EDIT: Apparently US folks often have dishwashers which don't soften the water. Ugh. In Europe I haven't even heard that such a thing exists! :|
- configure the dishwasher to your water hardness.
- do NOT use detergent which is advertised as "you won't need salt". This is garbage for lazy people. It cannot properly replace the water softener. Think about it for a moment: The detergent is meant to fully dissolve during washing so you won't have it on your dishes after the final water cycle. The only way it could affect the softness of the water in the final cycle is if it did NOT fully dissolve in time. So there are two factors to be optimized which contradict - stay long enough to soften the water, but not long enough to leave remainders on the dishes. It will never work properly.
- This is not related to rinse aid, but you should know it: Clean the sieve regularly, at least every week. It will get ultra nasty with gunk if you don't. If you have no time for cleaning it, buy a second one, switch them once one is dirty and put it among the dishes so the dishwasher washes it like a dish.
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#23maybe dont wash them that often
You should start a business: a restaurant that serves your food on the previous diner's unwashed dishes.
It would be like my college apartment kitchen, so you could hire me as manager.
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#24Oh wait....cue gluten-allergy
I think I have gluten-sensitivity(cant confirm). I rarely eat out. always order delivery, use plastic fork. I dont have a dish washer.
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#25What is the solution? (Don't have the focus to read, understand, and analyze the scientific paper atm.)
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#26Rinse aid is completely unneeded if you properly maintain and use your dishwasher. I never use any, and my dishes are completely spotless. 30 years old dishwasher, super hard water. Specifically, you should: - always fill the salt of the dishwasher's water softener once it's empty. It cannot soften the water if it doesn't get cleaned by the salt. If the water is not softened you will get spots. EDIT: Apparently US fo…
Fill the salt? Configure for water hardness?
I've never heard of either of these things before. Certainly not things on my, relatively fancy, dishwasher.
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#28Rinse aid is completely unneeded if you properly maintain and use your dishwasher. I never use any, and my dishes are completely spotless. 30 years old dishwasher, super hard water. Specifically, you should: - always fill the salt of the dishwasher's water softener once it's empty. It cannot soften the water if it doesn't get cleaned by the salt. If the water is not softened you will get spots. EDIT: Apparently US fo…
My dishwasher doesn't have a salt compartment or any sort of water-softening features; in the US, I haven't heard about this feature. Apparently it's a UK thing?
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#29It’s endocrine awareness day on Hacker News ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816861 )
I don't think the OP proposes an endocrine-related mechanism for this damage.
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#30Rinse aid is completely unneeded if you properly maintain and use your dishwasher. I never use any, and my dishes are completely spotless. 30 years old dishwasher, super hard water. Specifically, you should: - always fill the salt of the dishwasher's water softener once it's empty. It cannot soften the water if it doesn't get cleaned by the salt. If the water is not softened you will get spots. EDIT: Apparently US fo…
My dishwasher doesn't have a salt compartment or any sort of water-softening features; in the US, I haven't heard about this feature. Apparently it's a UK thing?
I know Miele has a water softener feature. That's the only time I've heard of it in the US.