It’s important to make sure you regularly carry out maintenance on all of your home appliances, especially appliances, such as your dishwasher, that get plenty of use.
When it comes to your dishwasher, you might be thinking it cleans itself. For the most part, it does stay pretty clean inside, but it does still require regular cleaning. When you don’t regularly clean your dishwasher, foul odors can develop from trapped food particles, the drain blocking up, and mold build-up.
Here’s what to do when your KitchenAid dishwasher smells.
Please note that this guide covers most KitchenAid dishwasher models, including:
4KPDI620T0
4KPDI620T1
4KPDI620T2
4KPDI620T3
4KUDA220T0
4KUDA220T1
KUDS30IXBL0
KUDS30IXBL1
KUDS30IXBL8
KUDS30IXBL9
KUDS30IXBLA
KUDS30IXBT0
KUDS30IXBT1
KUDS30IXBT8
KUDS30IXBT9
KUDS30IXBTA
KUDS30IXSS1
KUDS30IXSS9
KUDS30IXSSA
KUDS30IXWH9
KUDS30IXWHA
If you are not completely sure where the smell is coming from, check underneath the dishwasher to ensure there is no food debris under it or any dead insects or rodents.
If the smell is coming from inside the dishwasher, then the first thing to do is to give it a thorough clean. When you run a wash cycle, loose food particles will get washed out through the filter and down the drain, but sometimes random particles can get stuck, and this can cause a bad smell over time.
Follow these simple steps to give your dishwasher a deep clean:
One of the places where food particles can get trapped and mold builds up is in the spray arms. A thorough cleaning should remove those things, but if you still have a bad smell coming from your dishwasher, you should pull out the spray arms and give them a separate clean. You can do that by:
Another component to check is your dishwasher filter. Your filter will most likely catch all larger particles of food when your dishwasher empties the water at the end of a cleaning cycle.
Here’s the best way to clean your dishwasher filter:
Most food particles will get picked up by the dishwasher filter, but sometimes they can get past it and then accumulate in the drain. Over time, if they don’t wash down the drain, they will cause a bad smell.
When cleaning your dishwasher drain, you should also clean your sink drain and garbage disposal, as they are also possible sources of bad smells, as they are often all interconnected.
Here’s what to do:
In the long run, you should try to practice regular cleaning of your dishwasher. It doesn’t take long to give your dishwasher a little bit of care from time to time, and you’ll reduce the chances of any bad smells developing. Here are some tips:
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