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from "larry" contains these words:

I tried to fill up the salt container on my Smeg dishwasher tonight and
to my horror found that it is full of water.

It's supposed to be.

The machine uses salt solution to flush the "hardness" previously taken
from the water by the built in softener device. It can't use the salt
dry to do this - it has to be wet. That's why the salt container is full
of water.

They're all like that - but it can be a bit alarming first time.

Add the salt slowly so that the water being displaced doesn't wash the
salt out as fast as you're pouring it in.

Don't worry about all the very salty water now sitting inside the
machine, it's designed to cope with it.

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Skipweasel
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.