Finish Dual Action Dishwasher Cleaner: Fight Grease & Limescale, Fresh, 8.45oz

As advertised

What to deep clean your dishwasher of scale, dirt, and gunk in the pump? This product does it and I am please with a fresh clean dishwasher everytime. If your getting any odors from your dishwasher use one of the bad boys!

It’s rare to find a product that works this well. I had been struggling with lime scale (or possibly calcium deposition, not sure which) in my dishwasher and other appliances and this product was amazing for me. I also tried running CLR (a different calcium/lime remover non-specific to dishwashers) through my dishwasher and it didn’t compare to this little bottle from Finish. Almost all the white scaly buildup is gone and theres a pleasant smell in it’s place. Seriously, blown away with results here. I’ll definitely be using this regularly.

Easy to use. Cleans the dishwasher and freshens it.

We have two Bosch dishwashers in our kitchen. They are 20 years old and generally have done a great job over the years; however, they have been taking longer and longer to complete their cycles because of hard-water deposits on the heating elements. In most (or all) Bosch dishwashers, the heating element is inaccessible (which is great since no plastics can fall on it and melt), so its not possible to manually clean or inspect it. Hard-water minerals and other gunk build up on the heaters over time and decrease their heating ability while taking longer and using more energy to get through the cycle. I didnt take before images, but you can see how clean and sparkling everything is in my after images. The filter plug is image two, and this was after I degreased it. The fine mesh screen did not come fully clean with just the Finish cleaner. We used this cleaner as directed and the dishwasher is sparkling clean inside, smells very clean and fresh, and the racks glide in and out much more easily than before. I did not realize that the racks were resisting movement, but now that they are clean, they move with almost no effort even when fully loaded. The main stainless filter screen on the bottom of the tank did come sparkling clean, but the final filter screen did not. Its made of some sort of very fine plastic and still appealed to be somewhat clogged with grease, minerals, food debris, or perhaps a combination of them all after using the Finish dishwasher cleaner. I had to separately remove the filter and use a strong degreaser on it to get it totally clean, so next time I will do this ahead of using the Finish dishwasher cleaner product. I cant complain after 20 years of use and never cleaning the filter. I hope that by starting with a clean filter and with regular use of the Finish cleaner, it will not be necessary to clean the filters manually. The dishes are spotlessly clean now and the cycle is running about 20 minutes less than before cleaning, so we are saving time and money -- probably enough to offset the the cost of the Finish cleaner. For those who do not like scents, the product does have a fresh, but lingering, scent. After 2 cycles, the scent was gone, but the dishwasher is cleaning and working as if it were new. I never imagined that I would have to wash my dishwasher, but since I apparently do, Cinderfella here recommends this Finish dishwasher cleaner. PS -- one item of concern is this from the product listing: Do not mix with chlorine bleach or any other product as harmful fumes may result. We use Jet-dry rinse agent regularly, so there was some of that injected during the cycle. I assume no harmful fumes resulted. There is no way to turn off the rinse agent injector and no way to tell if its completely empty. Perhaps the vendor should address this concern and indicate if there is an issue with using Jet-Dry with the cleaner.

Just buy it. It’s amazing. Makes my dish washer smell like the day we got it. 10/10

Left my gross dishwasher smelling SO nice. Really got rid of that stale water and food scent. I use one every couple weeks! So easy to just put in and run the washer!

This product is fantastic. I cleaned the inside of my dishwasher CONSTANTLY, scrubbed filters, ran loads with baking soda, vinegar, even bleach, but the wet dog smell kept coming back. One time using this and I havent had it since. Just bought 2 more.

I dont even really remember how effective this was, I guess it was fine-- but the chemical scent is INCREDIBLY strong, very perfume-y and gave me a headache. And the scent took *forever* to diminish. My kitchen smelled just as strong for wash after wash. If you love your house to smell like cleaning chemicals, go for it, I know some people do actually like that; but for me, never again.

I have used this for 10 years and would never chang to something else. Does a great job