Despite its name, the dishwasher can do more than just clean your dishes.
In addition to sanitizing your dishes, glasses and utensils, you can use your dishwasher to clean many other household items.
Dishwashers can be a real time-saver.
Save yourself some scrubbing time and put your dishwasher to good use.
Glass Globes from Light Fixtures Overtime, dust accumulates on the glass globes of your light fixtures turning them into an unsightly mess.
Remove the layers of dirt and brighten up your room by running them through the delicate cycle of your dishwasher.
Place them on the top shelf and make sure there's space between so they don't rub against each other and chip.
To be on the safe side, avoid washing antique or hand-painted, enameled, globes or those with gold-leaf trim in the dishwasher.
Plastic Toys Small plastic items such as baby toys, teethers and action figures can get sticky and full of germs pretty quickly.
Since infants and toddlers put many of these items in their mouths, you want to be sure to disinfect them often.
Toss them in a mesh bag or dishwasher basket and place on the top rack.
Avoid toys with fabric or cheaply made as they may be dramaged during the cleaning cycle.
Glass Refrigerator Shelves Cleaning out the refrigerator is one of those unpleasant household chores you need to tackle from time to time.
Don't spend your afternoon trying to remove the sticky spills and scrape the dried messes off the glass shelves, place them in the dishwasher.
Include the heavy plastic shelving on the doors - basically anything that you can remove.
Kitchen Appliance Parts When it comes to cleaning the kitchen, some areas tend to get neglected.
The refrigerator water dispenser grate, sink plugs, microwave tray and range hood grease filters are often left off your to-do cleaning list.
With the help of your dishwasher, these appliance parts can get a good scrubbing.
Butter Dishes, Sugar Bowls, and Salt and Pepper Shakers These items collect lots of grime and germs as a result of daily use.
Periodically empty sugar, salt and pepper shakers and condiment containers and run them through a cycle along with your regular loads.
Oven Knobs Between food splattering and constantly touching them with your hands, oven knobs can collect a layer of grease and gunk in no time.
Sanitize and clean removable knobs by placing them in the cutlery basket.