[poindexter]

A quarter teaspoon of TSP (trisodium phosphate), available at your hardware store, works wonders. It’s still legal to buy, for now.

[Varda]

We started using that thanks to freepers posting about it. Yippee, the dishes are clean again. I’m going to stock up on it before it dissapears too.

[ladyvet]

I have TSP but read the warnings and I didn't use it. So it is safe?

[Nickname]

I came across an article similar to this last time I was at my parents’ and brought some TSP home with me to try. The article included accounts of people having repairmen come out to fix their “broken” machines.

Adding a little bit of that stuff does work. I thought my dishes and flatware were looking grungy due to age but they’re shiny and happy now.

[Leo Farnsworth]

You might check the fine print - My local ACE hardware store only sells TSP that is ‘Phosphate free’ (this is NOT a joke!)

[Kieri]

I noticed the film and grubby dishes too. And the 1/4tsp. of TSP makes a world of difference.

We’re scrapers here because we have a septic tank, so they’re not excessively dirty when we put them in the dishwasher. There was no excuse for how lousy job the reformulated stuff was doing other than for the absence of TSP.

So I put it back in.

[nina0113]

A quarter teaspoon of TSP (trisodium phosphate), available at your hardware store, works wonders.

Do I just toss it in the soap dispenser with the soap? The first one or the second? Or does it matter?