FULL STORY: Happy National Lemon Juice Day . . . not to be confused with National Lemon Day, which was last month . . . or National Lemon Month, which was back in June.
Right on cue, a lemon-related hack is making the rounds online. But is it a GOOD hack, or just more TikTok nonsense?
Tossing half a lemon in your dishwasher supposedly kills bacteria and prevents limescale from building up.
“Food & Wine” looked into whether it really works. And the answer is . . . in theory, yes. The acidity might help with lime build-up. But overall, it’s probably not worth it. And you can’t just toss half a lemon in there either.
The seeds can clog or break the machine. So you have to remove them first. And half a lemon won’t do much anyway. You’d need to use multiple lemons.
Consumer Reports looked into this same hack last year and found it’s better to just use a cleaning solution designed for de-scaling dishwashers.
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