How to clean grease from your dishwasher at home

The purpose of a dishwasher is to wash away greasy deposits and food residues from dishes. But ironically, the machine itself must be periodically cleaned from inside to remove dirt, otherwise it will stop functioning normally. Residues of grease accumulate on the garbage filter, at the base of the lower spray arm, at the bottom of the washing chamber and must be disposed of in a timely manner. How to clean grease from your dishwasher? We will definitely tell you about this.

Idle start

If you once open the door of your “home assistant” and find that there is a thin film of greasy residue left on the bottom of the washing chamber, take action. You shouldn’t wait until fat accumulates in a thick layer at the bottom and you have to figure out how to get rid of it. When there is little grease, run the dishwasher dry. What does it mean?

1. We open the dishwasher door and take out everything unnecessary: ​​dirty dishes, dish baskets, cutlery trays.

Baskets and trays can be washed separately and even soaked in a large container with some powerful household chemicals.

2. We put powder or a dishwashing tablet into the cuvette (depending on what you use). These products contain concentrated anti-fat compounds. In the absence of dirty dishes, they will dissolve grease on the walls of the washing chamber, inside the garbage filter and in other places.
3. Close the door and start washing dishes in hot water, at least 60⁰C. The program must last at least 3 hours.
4. At the end of the wash, we open the door and stuff everything that we previously pulled out of there into the washing chamber.

These simple “bath procedures” allow you to effectively clean the dishwasher from the inside. Most often, this is enough to completely get rid of fat, but only on the condition that you do such procedures regularly. If the machine has not been cleaned for a long time, you should resort to another method.

Manual cleaning

You can only clean your dishwasher of old grease at home by hand. And there’s no need to explain anything special here, you understand everything yourself. If you wash greasy dishes and then leave the machine alone for 1-2 weeks, the remaining grease will dry onto the parts of the equipment. A hard layer is formed that is not so easy to dissolve. The only way is to clean it by hand.

You can clean the inside of the dishwasher using any convenient brush and some good fat-dissolving chemicals. The cleaning technique is clear to everyone, you apply the product to the brush and go ahead. Pay attention to hard-to-reach places where fat settles in large quantities:

• under and around the lower sprinkler arm;
• on the sprinkler impeller;
• in the garbage filter;
• on the trash filter grille;
• in the corners of the washing chamber;
• at the bottom of the rear wall of the washing chamber.

Drying dried-on grease is still a pleasure, but you will get a feel for what it is, and from now on you will wash the dishwasher on time. You can apply dishwashing detergent to the inner surfaces of the washing chamber an hour before cleaning, then the work will go easier.

We use special chemistry

Special dishwasher cleaning products most appropriate to use. Dishwasher repair specialists recommend regularly using such chemicals to prolong the work of “household assistants”.However, when purchasing such chemicals, make sure that the manufacturer is well-known and the price is not too low. Sometimes, under the guise of dishwasher cleaning agents, they sell aggressive chemicals that are dangerous to equipment and human health.

When figuring out how to clean the dishwasher, people take regular vinegar and pour it in excessively, hoping that it will destroy all the dirt. In fact, vinegar does not remove all dirt, at the same time causing damage to machine parts, Therefore, we recommend either not using it at all, or using it rarely and in small concentrations.

The proprietary composition for cleaning the dishwasher is very simple to use. It is enough to pour it into the powder or tablet compartment, select a long washing program, remove dirty dishes from the washing chamber and start the program. When the program ends, the machine will be cleaned from the inside.

So, cleaning your machine from grease is not always easy. Sometimes this is difficult but necessary physical labor. It is important to remember one thing: the more often you clean your “home assistant” of fat, the easier it is to do it. If you forget about “bath procedures” a couple of times, the equipment will become covered with dirt, and this will mean the most unpleasant thing - manual cleaning.

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