You know what I mean. Looks like partially digested food that's been pureed and spread liberally about the crockery. And the goes hard. Tis vile.

Have cleaned the filter, and the spray arm things, and put the dw through a hot cycle.

Please. Before I take a hatchet to the bloody thing!

are you putting pans or plates with mashed potato in the dishwasher.

Beautifully put!! Mine goes through phases of this and I think it means you need to put in more salt and/or rinse aid. Or wash out the filter - basically do stuff that having a dishwasher is supposed to prevent you from having to do! Good luck!

No. Not often anyway. But maybe we need to rinse the plates more thoroughly. I was assuming it could cope with a little mess. I just scrape off the worst of it off.

was serious about the mashed potato
if i put a pan or plate or my spud basher in the washer it covers everthing with this hard gritty deposit especially on glasses. It feels like sand paper. It is the starchy grains from potato.

mine does this, you have to clean the arms often stuff gets stuck in there

I know you were! I took you seriously aly. I have noticed it before when hand-washing. But we don't eat it often.

We had a man out to look at ours last week, and it was blocked somewhere in the back that you can't get to unless you take the panel off. He recommended using dishwasher cleaner to avoid problems in future.

I was going to recommend one of those bottles of dishwasher cleaners too.

I used one on mine last week - and I am amazed at the difference.

Have you cleaned the big filter/drain thing at the bottom <technical>?

Do you clean the filter every time?

I rinse plates etc before it goes in the dishwasher and I use the prewash if stuff's going to be waiting around for a while. Dh doesn't, and it shows...

Oh, and every now and then I use one of those dishwasher cleaner thingies. Seems to help.