Keeping your favourite wine glasses, special glassware and dishes in good condition is a priority for many people. From avoiding those annoying cloudy stains on your glasses to how to get your glassware sparkling, the dishwashing experts at Finish share their top tips on the best way to clean glassware and dishes in the dishwasher.
Start Clean
There are two main causes of cloudy glassware, and both tend to happen over time. The first is due to hard water deposits, and the other is caused by corrosion. These two different types of clouding require different precautions to prevent them from happening when cleaning glass baking dishes or drinking glasses. Hard water can be problematic for dishwashers, as the minerals in the water can appear as cloudy marks on glasses and dishes. These deposits, such as limescale, can cling onto your glassware and dishes, causing white spots or clouding. To help combat the problems driven by hard water, it’s a great idea to give your dishwasher a regular, thorough clean with Finish Dishwasher Cleaner. This will also help to remove debris that can get left behind after a wash, like grease and limescale — before it can cling to your glassware.
Fewer spots, more shine
Keep the Rinse Aid topped up in your dishwasher. It helps ensure that water droplets that form on surfaces are dispersed before they can evaporate and leave behind any residue.
Go Low
When washing special glasses and dishes, you can also adjust the temperature of the dishwasher or try using a different dishwasher cycle. Some dishwashers have a glassware setting, or you can manually adjust the temperature to bring your wash onto a lower temperature cycle. This gentler cycle may help reduce clouding.
Stack Smart
Cleaning wine glasses in the dishwasher can be perfectly safe – as long as you are careful about how you load your machine. Ensure that your glasses are safe for your dishwasher and if possible, load your wine glasses on the top rack -— you may have to lower the rack to make space. Make sure they’re not touching each other, as this could cause them to crack if they knock together. When it comes to dishes, it may be tempting to squeeze them all into one load to save time, but an overloaded dishwasher can cause damage to dishes. Plus, you may find that items don’t clean as well due to overcrowding disrupting the flow of the water and detergent. And no, you don’t need to rinse your dishes first if you use a good detergent like Finish Quantum Ultimate Pro, as it contains both bleach and enzymes which fight stains, and break down proteins and starches. All you have to do is scrape the larger pieces of food into the bin or compost before you load.
Amazing clean and shine
Finish Ultimate Pro Material Care dishwasher tablets are designed to thoroughly clean glassware and wine glasses. Their advanced chemistry is effective at breaking down all types of food residues, even stubborn, dried-on stains, without pre rinsing. Finish Ultimate Pro Material Care tablets help protect and care for your glassware and glasses, maintaining their shine wash after wash. They also contain boosted glass care agents*, with 15% less chemical weight than Finish’s traditional pressed powder tablets, such as Finish Power All in 1. So to help give your glasses that sparkling diamond shine, use Finish Ultimate Pro Material Care.
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