AIBU to put washing up liquid in my dishwasher?

[katemiddletonsothermum]

Damn, I thought I had another packet of tabs but it turns out it's salt. Dishwasher is full. Can I put washing up liquid in the socket thing or will my dishwasher over-froth and end up looking like a foam disco?

It will be foam partay time. Don't do it.

Don't do it!!!

The world will fill with the bubbles.

I think it will over froth

Oh do it. But only if you promise to to take pictures and post them.

My guess would be foam disco... My DSIS used to do it at work and it was fine. She did it in my dad's dishwasher and broke it... He found it funny fortunately.

It will foam and won't rinse properly. I once rinsed glasses with washing up liquid before putting them in the dishwasher. It wasn't a cartoony mess but it took an empty rinse to wash it out

Don't use washing up liquid! I read somewhere that biological washing powder is OK to use in dishwashers in an emergency.

Over froth, I have done it, it took ages to clear up the mess.

If you want a foam party.... Crack on.

There's an old Doris Day film where this happens. It will be exactly like a foam party.

It's a bad idea. I've done fairy and bleach and the results were catastrophic!!

No don't do it!

Just run it without a tablet at 60 degrees, probably it will still get things clean.

Foam party

Christ almighty! don't even think about it unless you want to stage an impromptu foam party.

Dishwasher will get most stuff acceptably clean and sterile with no tablet actually - I know this because mine has a dodgy dispenser hinge that sometimes doesn't open.

Use washing powder......

Don't do it. I once chucked the water out of a jug which had had cutlery standing in it into mine. Very dilute fairy liquid and I still had to spend hours scooping out foam and rinsing it. It didn't squeeze round the door but I have seen that happen elsewhere.

Just run it on a hot cycle, it still comes out clean (unless you have baked on sauce on your dishes).

Can't it wait til tomorrow ?

That perverse part of me is now wanting to try it out. But the sensible part of me says NO as the warranty ran out last week and I'd have to pay to have it fixed.

You'll wreck your machine if you do that.

This is exactly the situation that neighbours are for surely?
Someone will lend you a tablet. We're always at it round here

I could Mintyy but there's overfill in the sink. So I actually....have... to.....

WASH UP....

Use white wine vinegar on a hot cycle

It is not the machine that gets wrecked, it is the kitchen floor. The foam just seeps out of spaces that you never knew your dishwasher had and crawls across the kitchen floor like some sort of other dimension being. I do not know why it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Do it, be ready with dustpan, bucket, towels and video recorder

You can use regular dish detergent. Use just a spot no bigger than a penny.