How can I get the soap film off my glasses that the dishwasher leaves ? Please don't say jet dry I already use

Question

Ok i tired the baking soda , I have cleaned my dishwasher My glasses arn't etched cause i can scratch the film off with my nail . Please someone who has had this problem give me some good ideas !!!!

Answer 1

lemi shine is best!! it makes everything cleaner. we alse use the little bars with the power ball and that helps as well i think its electrasol

Answer 2

First start by cleaning your dishwasher. This is weird, but works quite well. Turn on the hot water at the facet to get really hot water to the kitchen. Then turn on the dishwasher, empty, and run it for 2 minutes. Then add a pint of Tang. Yeah that breakfast drink. Let the machine complete it's cycle. The citric acid helps clean the machine.

Now for your glasses. They may be etched by too much chemical use, especially detergents. The detergents are more caustic than the stuff you use when hand washing and eventually scratch glassware. You may be able to prolong new glasses from becoming etched by cutting back on detergent used. Ideally you should use 1 t. powder detergent for every grain of hardness in the water.........like everybody has that number on the tip of their tongue. If you can find out easily, then use the appropriate amount.

If cleaning the dishwasher and then washing (in the sink) with baking soda and vinegar doesn't remove the "film" from your glasses, you may have to replace them.

Oh yeah, check the trap at the bottom of your dishwasher, it might have food crud down in there.

Answer 3

It may not be soap film. Some dishwashers leave the glassware cloudy from etching the glass. There is little you can do about this. However, you can try one teaspoon of ammonia in 1/2 sinkful of warm water and let the glasses soak overnight. If they don't clear up, there's nothing else you can do.
Another reason they are cloudy is that the water temp is not hot enough. It should be between 140-160 degrees.
If calcium deposits, try soaking glassware in distilled water with a little vinegar for a couple of days.

Answer 4

I have tried putting vinegar in the final rinse cycle. I don't know how much, I just open the door and pour a little in. You also need to make sure your water temp is hot enough. It seems to do the trick as it cuts the soap film. After the soap scum is off, I find I don't have to do it after each washing, maybe just once a week.
I sometimes do this in my clothes also. It works when you mop your floors also, just put a little vinegar in clean water and go over the floor and it takes the soap left from the first mopping. Soap is what draws the dirt and makes things groady even when you know they're clean.

Answer 5

IF you try this I KNOW I'll get the best answer award! LOL I have the same problem because we have really hard water here..the cheapest and easiest thing to do is just dump in about a 1/2 a cup of baking soda on the door of your dishwasher before you close it to run it! Works excellent! (You still go ahead & use your regular detergent like you would.)
Good Luck!!

Answer 6

Are they old glasses? Sounds like you have etching, not soap film. If this is the case, there's nothing you can do. If it really bothers you, buy new glasses and use a detergent that prevents etching.

Answer 7

If you already are using jet dry, your problem may be hard water and not soap scum. hard water leaves white deposits. however, if your water is too soft, you wont get effective rinsing either, so you need to find out which kind you have and then fix that with either a water softener or water hardener. good luck, hope that helps

Answer 8

Maybe you don't have the water temp high enough for your dishwasher. I had the same problem once and someone suggested that I turn up the thermostat on my hot water tank...and it worked.
Best of luck to you!

Answer 9

I use this stuff called Lemi-Shine and I get it at Wal-Mart for 3 or 4 bucks.

Answer 10

Try Borax.