Stain Help: Houseguest put apple cider vinegar in my dishwasher and…

What possessed them to do that?

Try to run it through with baking soda in the detergent compartment.

Bleach? Ajax?

They dumped apple cider vinegar on the bottom and it evaporated. It has left a disgusting brown stain.

Rin baking soda through it

Not bleach it might yellow everything. Again baking soda is the best. You could also throw a little extra into the bottom of the machine as well as the amount that will go into the soap compartment. Run it for a longer cycle. Don’t bother either a heated drying cycle. You may need to do this more than once.

If baking soda doesn't cut it, try a rag soaked in CLR. (Wear gloves)

I’m done with guests. One Frau broke an antique clock and shrugged it off like it was nothing. It was a 6k clock that cost $1800 to repair. When I asked her to Cover the deductible for my home owners insurance claim she blocked me. Another spilled some power are drink on brand new white blackout shades.

R7 How did she spill a drink on the shades? That sounds like some serious klutziness.

Feel free to invite me over any time.

I won't touch your stiff, and I don't do dishes.

What about using white vinegar?

Could I just pour a bottle of bleach on the bottom? Could something go wrong? Would bleach remove a brown ugly massive stain from apple cider vinegar?

I would try some liquid Soft Scrub with Bleach and maybe the abrasive side a sponge.

Take a sharpie and put a smiley face on it.

I cleaned the floor of my shower stall (molded fiberglass, I think) with No Fumes Easy Off spray. I had tried all kinds of different things and that finally worked.

[quote]I’m done with guests. One Frau broke an antique clock and shrugged it off like it was nothing. It was a 6k clock that cost $1800 to repair. When I asked her to Cover the deductible for my home owners insurance claim she blocked me. Another spilled some power are drink on brand new white blackout shades.

I did you a huge favor by breaking that disgustingly gaudy clock.

Contact the dishwasher manufacturer. You could damage the seals and other components if you use the wrong thing.

I'm pretty sure the vinegar I used to clean the inside of my microwave bubbled the paint and caused a rust through (danger! danger!) after just 2 years of use. RIP cheap-o microwave...thanks for all the fish! I love the stuff for general cleaning, just not on appliances apparently.

OP. Ladies. Listen up. This sounds like a job for Barkeeps Friend Soft Cleaner. NOT the powder. It’s a paste.

R11 are you the OP? If you are then at least read the suggestions people have taken the time to give you. I told you bleach will stain things yellow in there

BAKING SODA.

R15 plus you gave him the gift of a story.

Use soy sauce, OP. Soy sauce.

Do u think it is permanently stained? I am so pissed.

Just tell future houseguests that a previous houseguest took a shit in it.

Otherwise they'll think you did.

I must be missing something. Aren't dishwashers stainless steel inside, or does OP have a white manservant who bottoms?

Just close your dishwasher when not in use. Out of sight, out of mind!

Vinegar is highly acidic, it probably ate through your bottom and nothing will restore it.

Bleach, if anything. Maybe oxy detergent powder.

[quote] I won't touch your stiff,

What fun are you, then?

I am going to cry. I cannot believe this is happening.

WHEN WILL THE TEARS STOP?!?!?!

Is this some elaborately disguised parable about Aaron Schock's brown stained bottom?

I understand that it is unsightly, but do you leave the dishwasher door open all the time where everyone can see it? I don’t think the stain will impact the washer’s performance and the stain will probably lessen over time.

Wait. You're bitching because there's a stain on the INSIDE of your dishwasher?????

WTF?

You're an idiot.

(This why they hate us.)

Have you tried dog shit yet, weepy OP?

-0.00005/10 OP

You can use vinegar to clean the inside of a dishwasher. You put a cup of it inside a bowl and run the cycle.

The only thing vinegar can hurt in a dishwasher is the rubber in the seals, potentially. It will not discolor a dishwasher's interior. In fact, it's used to clean an interior that has been discolored by hard water deposits.

All these posts on DL about how clean you guys keep your homes, and something like this fools you? For shame.

White vinegar

R24 Older dishwashers (pre the stainless invasion of 1995) and many new inexpensive ones still have that white or gray interior casing.

Assuming you're one of those "classy gays" whose appliances are up-to-date, and your dishwasher is stainless steel on the inside?

Your stain is permanent! Vinegar is an acid! A corrosive acid! Call up your friend and demand she replace your dishwasher! (But, since she's going to be shelling out 1,000 for your replacement, offer her your "slightly stained" "slightly used" one, which she can then use to replace her horrific avocado green dishwasher!)

Everybody wins!

Here’s your solution, OP

Take a valium, swallow it. Poof! Problem solved

Just use some vim with your fingers. It's how you take a stain out of a countertop.

How did the Frau break the clock?

Tide pen?

I think the stain will lessen over time and eventually disappear even if you do nothing.

🙉 Toss in a handful of denture cleaning tablets.

🙈 If that doesn't work, try wearing a blindfold.

Marry a rich old queen and your problems are solved!

Mix some bleach and toilet bowl cleaner and put it in but close the door FAST to avoid exposure to the toxic chlorine gas cloud this will create. Allow the chemicals and gas to fester for a few hours then run the machine. When it's done DO NOT OPEN IT!! The gas is still inside. You must run 10 cycles to dissipate the gas. Then voila! The stain will still be there and you may have destroyed the machine but at least you tried based on some bullshit advice you read on the internet.

Was this the obese houseguest you tried to cook with the high thromostat, OP? Did he get away? Was he trying to use the vinegar stain as a distraction?

First of all, any dishwasher that does not have a stainless steel interior is trash. Throw out the trash, OP.

Handsies Kneesies w/ Mr. Clean Eraser or Bartender's Friend. I'm not mad at you, house guest, I'm mad at the stain.

Yes, OP, throw out your inferior, snob unapproved, dishwasher. How common of you to have an average appliance. Do what the best households do and hire a maid/house keeper/domestic slave.

I have never in all my life had apple cider vinegar in my house. That is frau trash. Why would you even have such a ridiculous thing in the house? Stop allowing trash to enter your home and this problem will not recur.

R11 If you're the OP, why the fuck aren't you reading the suggestions? I gave up on this thread after your post.

[quote]Handsies Kneesies

Also known as the DL missionary position.

OP you are far too skittish and neurotic. Stop thinking about it. It works fine. You make me tense.

Baking soda. Give it a scrub by hand and then run it.

In 55 replies, not one of you realized that OP's moron houseguest is liable for a new dishwasher due to his/her sheer stupidity? Come on bitches, you're slipping!

It's probably not worth the hassle to OP. I'd feel the same.

🤗 Grab him by the throat, and mercilessly bang his freaking head against the dishwasher until he's unconscious, and leave him lying in a pool of his own soapsuds.

Kill the guest, sever his head, deliver the head to his loved ones along with a Polaroid of the inside of your dishwasher.

[quote]In 55 replies, not one of you realized that OP's moron houseguest is liable for a new dishwasher due to his/her sheer stupidity?

This need NOT be expensive...Walmart has $200 RCA countertop dishwashers with STAINLESS STEEL INTERIOR!

Cream hydrogen peroxide, the shit you bleach your hair with. Whitens plastic. Youtub it.

If this is what your houseguest did to your dishwasher, I'd hate to see what he did to your bathroom.