white stains on drinking glasses

DogKidsHubby

I used a cheaper dishwasher tablet and now some of my drinking glasses have white stains on them. I have rewashed them with a better brand but the marks are still there any ideas on how to remove them greatly appreciated

The high horse brigade

DogKidsHubby wrote: »

I used a cheaper dishwasher tablet and now some of my drinking glasses have white stains on them. I have rewashed them with a better brand but the marks are still there any ideas on how to remove them greatly appreciated

It's most likely lime from the water, try vinegar

wiz569

Try toothpaste, and use white vinegar as a rinse aid even when using tablets.

DogKidsHubby

Thanks. Luckily they are not really expensive glasses so will try the toothpaste and vinegar

wiz569

DogKidsHubby wrote: »

Thanks. Luckily they are not really expensive glasses so will try the toothpaste and vinegar

Then just dump the glasses and just use vinegar as a rinse aid going forward lol

Anteayer

Start using the water softener in your dishwasher.
The multi function tablets only soften the water during the wash part of the cycle, not during the rinses.

They rather misleadingly tend to advertise "salt function", when in reality they're just using water softening chemicals.

Dishwasher salt doesn't actually soften water - it's used to recharge the water softener built into your machine. There's an ion exchange filter in the bottom of the machine. The resin beads inside grab calcium and magnesium ions from the water, replacing them with sodium ions and then once in a while the dishwasher flushes the filter with salty water which recharges it.

So basically if you're using salt in the dishwasher's salt reservoir, if will automatically manage its own water softener and your dishes will be rinses with soft water and you won't get spots on stuff

Also if you're using cheaper tablets, check the reviews first. The Lidl ones are supposedly excellent while some of the other supermarket own brands may be rubbish