Y'know, the cheepo Daisy dishwasher tabs are really just as good as the expensive 'platinum' ones

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I made the change a month ago cus I was sick of paying through the nose to wash my dishes and, as long as your salt and rinse aid is topped up, they're just as good as the other kind.

Daisy dishwasher tabs: £2.50/ box
Expensive Rip-u-Off tabs: £7/ box

Simples.

We use the Aldi ones and they are better than the big brands.

never used salt, never had a problem. we do have very soft water though..

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Lidal's and ASDA's work perfectly well.

Can I ask a question of all you experienced dishwasher owners please? I am soon to be a dishwasher owner (JOY) and have never had one.

What do you do with salt and rinse aid? As in normal salt? Where do you put it?! I know I'm thick but I don't know what I am doing (apart from now buying cheaper tablets!).

I live in north Oxfordshire and the water here is harder than it is in london; you can't drink it straight out of the tap here.
Anyway, I use salt, rinse aid and Sainsburys Basics tablets. The 5 in 1 tablets left my glasses all cloudy.

Tara

You need to take a look at the manual (should be able to find a PDF online if the original isn't there). The salt is special dishwasher salt - I normally get supermarket own brand 1kg bags. My dishwasher has a screw top in the bottom under the lower rack which you unscrew and then pour the salt into the reservoir. I use a jug as the bags go all sloppy and spill loads of salt oer the bottom.

Rinse Aid goes in a little round turn thing next to the container for the dishwasher powder. Unscrew the little knob, take it out and pour in rinse aid. Mine also has a dial (from 1 - 8) and the harder the water the higher the dial needs to be.

We use tesco or sainsburys value tabs (with seperate salt/rinse aid) and actually find them better than the expensive tabs.

Freebuttonbee Thank you!
never thought about the manual, I knew I was a bit thick

What's the point of the tablets if you have to use separate salt and rinse aid? We just buy the powder - much cheaper!

There just marketing arent they? another way to extract money from us.

banana I think it still works out cheaper even buying 3 separate things. The main reason we buy the cheap ones isn't actually the fact it's cheaper though it's as we find they work better - we tried finish/fairy/loads of other dw tabs and they all struggled to get the eggy smell out of everything. Don't have that problem any more

I have just down graded from Aldi Magnum d/w tablets to their Classic d/w tablets and noticed no difference at all. Both clean much better that Finish IMO. The Classic are quite a lot cheaper than the Magnum too!

We have crappy London water. When I have been out of salt and tried to sneak in an extra wash, glasses all come out with a white deposit on them. I suppose soft water doesn't do this.

I usually use Daisy tabs and Tesco salt. I have a bottle of vinegar to try as rinse aid once I need to refill it.

Oh, good because I've just ordered some.

What about Calgon for the washing machine? Necessary? Anything cheaper?

I haven't used calgon and the washing machine, boiler and dishwasher are all 11 years old. Oh god, they are all going to break at the same time, aren't they?!,

"Which" challenged the Calgon advertising because there is no evidence that it does any good.

Do the Aldi tablets come wrapped in a little individual packet that you have to remove prior to putting them in the powder container?

I use the expensive ones that have a dissolving cover but need to save money however i am very very lazy :(

As for Calgon, never used it, live in a hard water area, both the dishwasher and washing machines are over 10 years old

The Asda 'green' ones were a Which best buy and cheap too.

I tried vinegar as rinseaid but it didnt work for me so I went back to the one from savers that wasnt tested on animals.

Sainsburys has a 3 for 2 offer on their own brand rinse aid at the moment. And quite a few fruit and veg for £1.
Tesco has 4 tins napoli chopped toms for £2.44. Cheapo brands are just more juice than tomatoes! Ciro are very nice and often do special offers.

I love a bargain!

Aldi tablets do have packets, but they open very easily. I snap them in half unless the dishes are very dirty. Very soft water here though.