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OMG, if this really works, I can save tons of money on not buying Jet Dry which is required on Bosch dishwashers.

I echo that foodiegirl.

Less phosphates as well.

I haven't tried it, but I am intrigued!

It works especially well if you have hard water like those of us in So Cal...

We do this all the time. We have well water and not a softener, so it is either vinegar, or cloudy glasses...

In my experience it works just as well as Jet Dry or any other commercial rinse agent.

We make our own dishwasher soup with Borax, Baking Soda, and white vinegar. One tablespoon of each is all you need. The vinegar really does work.

I am so excited about this. I only recently started adding vinegar to my earth friendly dish soap for the hand washed dishes - and WOW did it cut through the grease and let the glass dry to a SQUEAKY clean sparkle. I don't know why I never thought of also doing it in the dishwasher.

Yippee!

so does it go into the jet dry compartment or the secondary detergent compartment?

vinegar also works great on all glass and mirror surfaces. i wash my windows with vinegar all the time.

so does it go into the jet dry compartment or the secondary detergent compartment?

The rinse cycle spot is the jet dry spot, so it goes in the jet dry spot. my secondary detergent spot doesn't have a lid, so putting it there would be difficult for me.

I've used LemiShine to get rid of the clouding of all my stuff, but you can't put some of my stainless flatware in there when you use it. Now that I've gotten rid of the flaking white stuff from the hard water off the interior of the dishwasher, I'm going to try it without Lemishine (with my flatware) to see if I can do without. I had tried the vinegar (I bought the gallon size!) before I got the LemiShine (the big guns), but I think it had been run too many times without the acid to get rid of what had hardened onto the inside of the washer using vinegar alone.

Incidentally, my parents live due inland of me 16 mile in So Cal, but their water is ONE SIXTH as hard as mine. Mom NEVER had a problem with her dishwasher; mine the first 2 times I used it, I thought everything looked like it was painted white with watered-down latex paint....

Vinegar is awesome for dissolving any kinds of deposits. I use it in the laundry for anything either stained or with an odor (put it in the compartment for liquid fabric softener), and it gets rid of everything. Dog takes a nap in your sheets? Vinegar. Partner changes a tire and wipes his hands on his pants? Vinegar. Spill food on a new sweater? Also vinegar. And it doesn't leave an odor. Everything just smells cleaner.

Using vinegar in the laundry more or less eliminated my need to use unnatural chemical stain-dissolvers, so I'm really glad to hear that I can get rid of the Jet Dry too.