Is it just me???? (dishwasher tabs)

[maybenow]

or do lemon fairy dishwasher tabs make all your dishes smell lemony??

My DH can't smell it but i am fed up of eating off plates that smell like lemon detergent, and i can smell it from the oven when a baking tray is in there heating up. it's horrible.

Ordered 'original' finish tabs from sainsburys delivery and bloody LEMON ones were subsituted!!! I didn't accept them.

Does anybody else smell the lemon on the dishes, or am i going mad (my DH thinks i am).

I agree, I absolutely hate lemon dishwasher tabs - artificial lemon stuff makes me wheeze as well, definitely not going mad maybenow.

I can smell it and don't like it.

so what do you who hate the lemon smell use?

i think finish normal ones are fine... but expensive.. was considering ecover but not sure how well they work??

I use Tesco Value brand (as recommended by "Which")

Tesco value brand here too and no smell.

Yes I agree - we use Finish instead.

I use tesco daisy powder, it's lemon scented but I cant smell anything lemony in it tbh. I only use a level dessert spoon in each wash too. Works out cheaper than tablets.

I use the basic ones (no salt) in Lidl. Clean fine & No horrid after-stink.
Ecover one also fine for us (and not smelly).

Aldi classic dishwasher tablets - another which recommends. Cheap too

we usually use the fairy ones...bit jelly ish, but with a powder section. I have found recently the spatulas are smelling of lemon and I thought i could smell/taste it on the cutlery but wasn't sure.

I use sainsburys basic ones, they cost under £2 and i cannot see how they are any different from the expensive brands. Also no smell

Tesco Daisy here :o)

Tesco daisy here too ! works just as well as fairy etc, I do however use rinse aid and salt seperately ( i.e. don't by the 5 in one daisy).

Aldi powder. Cheap as.

my aldi doesnt sell powder only tabs, how much is it and how big is the container?

The Aldi all-in-one are another Which best buy (but IMO separate salt and rinse aid are better than all in one tabs)

Aldi Magnum All in 1 Complete

£3.99 for 40 tablets

Score: 74%

Cost per wash: 10p

I can't bear any of the smelly ones - Tesco Naturally ones are the best I've found so far, without resorting to expensive options from the healthfood shop!

Wilkinsons own, no problems with them whatsoever. And cheap as chips.

I've used the Fairy lemon jelly-ish ones too and they make plastic bowls and jugs smell a bit. In fact when I use those items in the microwave, the food tastes lemony as well.

I like Aldi 5 in 1 tablets best.

The Aldi powder stuff is called Logix and comes in kilo plastic boxes. Can't think of the price right now, but it 's in dollars, anyway, packed in Australia.

I think part of the deal about allowing Aldi in is that a certain amount of stuff has to be Australian. You don't get quite the range you'd get in a European Aldi. And Lidl not at all.

Has anyone found good cheap liquidy ones? Which ever powder or solid tabs we use, they don't dissolve properly (perhaps its down to ancient dishwasher).

if they are not dissolving, it might be that the water in your dwr is not getting hot (enough). Open the door during a washing cycle to check

or it might be that the hatch is not opening correctly. In which case you can put the tablet in the cutlery basket, and it will dissolve during the hot washing cycle (but not much in the cold pre-wash)

We have an ancient Bosch dishwasher which I bought second-hand 11 years ago - it is utterly reliable and never goes wrong, even after spending 2 years in a garage between house moves. Tesco Value or Aldi tablets work perfectly well in it. Cannot understand why other brands so outrageously expensive.

i bought some in robert dyas yesterday which look exactly like the sainsbury basic ones, which i normally use, and they did just the same job, but only cost a pound