How do you clean up dish soap after it's foamed up in the dishwasher?

Question

So...I'm sort of freaking out because I'm visiting my sister, and I thought it would be a nice thing to do if I washed the dishes. Except...I put the soap you use to wash the dishes by hand in the dishwasher, and I let it run all the way thru before I came back into the kitchen to discover that it had foamed up and oozed all over the kitchen floor. The kitchen floor is clean, but the dishwasher is still full of the soap foam. I have 10 hours before she gets back- Please help me clean it up. (There is no mop, there is no wet/dry vac.)

I would just like to let anyone out there reading this know that I finished cleaning everything up about 5 minutes ago. Salt- lots and lots of salt. Put it in the pre-wash place (the one without the lid) and run it through the rinse cycle over and over and over and over and....you get it. Take out the bubbles between each rinse, too. And it doesn't have to go through the whole cycle.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP! YOU GUYS ARE LIFESAVERS! Except...now I need to figure out how to break it to my sister that in my panic, I dropped one of her new, favorite bowls making it crack....eek.

Answer 1

salt

dissolves the soap

find as much salt as you can
sprinkle it on the suds
run it again

you need alot of soap

vinegar will hep also

pour inside dishwasher
with the salt

Answer 2

well i don't know what to tell ya...
just scoop the rest of the suds out of it as best you can and try running it and draining it till no more suds are left........i've never heard of what to do if anyone actually did this ...good luck

found this on a website
Here’s the fix:

Dump all of your ice cubes into the bottom of the dishwasher to cool the water.
Sprinkle salt on the suds.
Pour some vinegar into the suds.
Scoop out as many of the suds as you can.
Turn your dishwasher’s knob (if it’s the old-school kind that has one) to the end of the last part of the cycle. It should be fairly straightforward to find the point where it actually starts draining the water. Usually this is right after the rinse cycle.
Once it’s empty, turn it all the way around to the rinse cycle, and let it rinse then drain 3 or 4 times. The first time or two, monitor things so that the suds don’t get out of control. If you did the vinegar and salt thing, it shouldn’t be a problem.
After about the 4th mini-cycle, you’re probably safe to do a regular load again to clean the dishes that are coated in dish soap. Again, monitor things, since the residue of dish soap on the dishes could cause a flare up of bubbles.
If you noticed dish soap bubbles, yet one more cycle might be in order to get the dishes clean.

Answer 3

LOL, why would you put dish soap in a dish washer, never mind, lesson learned. Wipe the inside of the unit down as best you can, put salt in the little cup where the dishwasher detergent goes, close the lid. Turn the dishwasher on and run it through the wash cycle as normal. Don't let it go through the drying cycle though.

Answer 4

Thank you for this question, I was wondering the same thing.