How much Dishwashing Liquid should I use?Updated a day ago

For a normal sink of warm water, use 4 pumps of Koh Dishwashing Liquid, around 16ml, and soak for 5 to 10 minutes before you wash. Each pump is roughly 4ml. There are two ways to work. The sink-soak method is the default: fill the sink with comfortably warm water, add 4 pumps, submerge the dishes, soak 5 to 10 minutes, then wash, rinse and drain. The dish wand method suits single items and wash-as-you-go jobs: fill the wand reservoir and apply straight to the dish, then wipe with a sponge or dishcloth. A bag-in-box lasts 1 to 2 months in an average home.

Adjust by load size and how much food is on the dishes. A small basin or two or three dishes takes 2 to 3 pumps, 8 to 12ml. A standard kitchen sink of everyday plates, glasses, bowls and cutlery takes 4 pumps, 16ml. Greasy pots, baking trays or baked-on food take 5 to 6 pumps, 20 to 24ml, or the same 4 pumps with the soak stretched from 10 minutes out to 15 to 20 minutes. Each pump is around 4ml. Hard-water areas usually need a little more than the standard dose to hold the suds.

If the suds disappear part-way through, the wash water is saturated with grease. Drain it, refill with fresh warm water and detergent, and carry on. Hard-water areas may need a little more than the standard 4 pumps to hold the suds. If dishes still feel greasy after washing, check they were fully submerged during the soak, give heavily greased items 15 to 20 minutes instead of 10, and rinse in water hotter than the wash water to clear the residue. Streaky glassware is the opposite problem and usually means too much detergent, so drop the dose by a pump or two and rinse in clean warm water.

Wipe the heaviest areas first, such as pan rims, baking trays and oven racks, so the soak goes to work on the stuck-on residue rather than the loose debris sitting on top. Do not mix Koh Dishwashing Liquid with bleach, ammonia or any other cleaning product, which will not clean better and can produce fumes. Do not use it in a dishwasher, use Koh Dishwashing Tabs for that. Each pump is around 4ml if you would rather measure by volume, and a bag-in-box lasts 1 to 2 months in an average home.