Save your dishwasher from the foam-of-death

by Alain Fontaine on Mar.25, 2009, under Me, myself, and I, Unbelievable, Uncategorized

… or “Why you should pay attention to your chemistry teacher”.

A couple of days ago, a friend and co-worker of mine had a big problem. She mistook classic dish washing soap (the classically green liquid) to be special soap for the dishwasher, and put a pretty hefty dose of this stuff into her dishwasher, to wash the dishes. Hum.

The result looked somewhat like this, and her kitchen was full with foam because the stuff just kept flowing out of the machine :

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H E L P !!!

Then I remembered something that was buried deeply into a part of my brain that I didn’t use for years. Soap and oil , saponification , hmmm YES that should work! You use soap to get rid of your oil stains, then you can also use oil to get rid of too much soap. Or the foam thereof. Yes!

The magic recipe: put 10 to 20 cl of olive oil into the dishwasher full of foam, and have it run a quick-clean cycle.

The oil and soap will nicely bind together, and there we go – no more foam soap monster ! This should also work with any other oil… please avoid motor oil though

Happy dishwashing.

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Bob Browning

Nice try, but “classic dish washing soap” is NOT soap. True soap is mostly sodium stearate (sodium octadecanoate, is the sodium salt of stearic acid). Classic dish soap is detergent. Your solution will probably work, however as the oil will act as a demulsifying agent. Other solutions to this horrid domestic problem are vinegar, alcohol, or liquid laundry softener.
http://www.alainfontaine.lu Alain Fontaine

I agree, from a chemical point of view, “dishwasher soap” is not “soap”. It works nevertheless Happy customer!

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