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Vinegar for Dishwasher Rinse Agent

Some of you have posted that you use vinegar in the dishwasher as a rinse agent (rather than products like Jet Dry). I'd like to do that too, but I need more information. With Jet Dry, you just put the product in the dishwasher once a month or something like that. Is that what you do with the vinegar - just put some in the dishwasher's little dispensing well once a month? Or do you do it more often? Thanks.

Tina from Ashland, OR

By tsiegl

Answers: Vinegar for Dishwasher Rinse Agent

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By
03/21/2010

I've been filling the JetDri rinse reservoir with vinegar lately, and the glasses and plates are defintely clearer.

By
10/08/2008

I use vinegar in the rinse aid dispenser. I just fill it up when it indicates it's empty.

By MaryBelle (Guest Post) 10/08/2008

As the jet dry well needs it.

By
10/07/2008

Whether or not vinegar works for you depends on the type of water that you have. When it worked for me, I opened the door on the rinse cycle and tossed in about a cup of vinegar. Worked like a charm. Since I used a lot of vinegar, I didn't use the little dispenser. Now that I have a water softener, I don't need to use either a rinse agent or vinegar.

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10/07/2008

I'll have to be a dissenting vote here--I tried it a couple of years ago and it didn't do a thing for me. I had just as many spots as I did with nothing in the rinse dispenser. I hope it works for you, but don't be surprised if it doesn't.

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