Aibu to ask for help with a mystery

[londonrach]

Ok i need help. I like a clean kitchen. Therefore every week i put the hob bits into the dishwasher and wash them as it brings them up perfect. Ive been doing this for some time. Ive just unloaded the dishwasher and one piece is missing. I know i put it in the dishwasher. It went in the top shelf. Dh and i have changed the bit at the bottom, the shelfs everything and its not there! Where else? Please help. This is a rented flat i need that bit.

Check the filters in the bottom of the dishwasher, if you twist the filters in the bottom you can remove and check. Otherwise it can't be in there.

Photos. Please help. Where would it go?

Filters where?

Have a look in the part where the water drains away, it must surely be there if you can't see it anywhere else.

Have you pulled the trays out and checked it's not right at the back of the dishwasher?

Fallen down and slotted sideways on into the cutlery basket?

Has it got stuck inside something else?

Since it's round, could it have rolled out of the dishwasher and away underneath something when you opened/closed the drawers?

Found it. Can now breath. Thanks mn. It got stuck behind at the back. Magic of mn found it as dh and i have checked everywhere including where it was. My search for the filters found it. Still no idea where the filters are. As you were mntters... Thanks for your help xx

Phew

Great!

Wow, your hob is sparkling! what do you use to get it so shiny?

Washing up liquid and £1 kitchen roll from pound land and cif actifizz. Cif it first then (leave on for 5 mins) then use a sheet from the kitchen roll to clean which had old washing up liquid in then cleaned all liquid up with new poundland kitchen roll sheet. Its the really thick stuff that just one over grown roll. Do it every couple of days so no major build up although we cook thai curry from stratch and that gets everywhere! Hate gas, still getting used to it. Burns too quick. Thanks mn for help re ths mystery. X

Put a few drops of baby oil on it then polish with a microfibre cloth that makes stainless steel sparkle like new.

Definitely work out how to remove your dishwasher filters. They're the buggers that make your dishes smell bad if you don't clean them regularly.

Nice hob!

I think this thread was just a stealth boast about your amazingly clean hob...

Your dishwasher interior looks like mine. The grey circular plastic part that sticks out of the mesh should twist and come up. Highly unlikely anything but food would get trapped in there.

I run a dishwasher cleaning product through it every quarter (depending on usage) to ensure it keeps running well

Highly unlikely anything but food would get trapped in there. - lol - bits of lego, anyone? (Kids are 26 and 28)

WhEre are the filters please. I know where the salt goes in. Is it near there. Discovered the washing machine had a filter last week. Hate having renting house with no instructions in machines.

Thanks skk x

The filter is, in the centre of your picture.You will find there is a fine mesh stainless steel "plate" that is on the floor or the dish washer with the drain hole in the middle,The grey plastic basket in the middle is sitting in the drain,this basket should lift out .It is a wide bore filter, will catch things like bits of lettuce, it sits in other sections of finer filter.Watch how you lift them out so you can pop them back in the same order.Once the centre sections are out you can lift out the base tray filter.A quick rinse in hot water and wave of a brush and they can all go back in.
You must be a valued tenant, that hob is dazzling !

If you put the make of the dishwasher & model, which may be on it, into google you will probably find instructions for it.

Eww. brace yourself for when you unscrew the filter.

Oh god, I'm gonna have to clean my filter now, not done it for ages. Yuk.

I might have to clean the filters in the cooker hood-they go in the dishwasher after a quick swill in the sink.

Yes, baby oil on your hob works great.