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No cooking so no large test today However, I feel like this is a pretty strong statement. Remember the saucepan? The one whose bottom was white from limescale? I burned off the limescale with vinegar. The saucepan was then used and washed washed with Ecover Zero. Look at the bottom now vs...

Hard water and top rack performance. This unit has a top wash arm (third level wash arm in GE-speak) so the way I load the top rack usually isn't that big of a problem. This load, the top wash arm got clogged so it didn't work. After fixing that and rerunning the dishwasher everything came out...

The horror, oh God the horror. Welp, things have gone horribly, horribly wrong this round. I opened the dishwasher to the worst results ever obtained with this machine, ever. Finish failed to break down the rice properly, resulting in full rice grains being redeposited everywhere. Some rice...

Round 2: Finish vs a similar but optimized load I've changed the loading procedure a bit. The amount of things and their dirtiness is similar (that big red bowl has a lot of brown calogen-rich juice in it). I'll try the same loading method with Ecover Zero next. From now on, I'll post photos of...

(which like much less than Seventh Generation) Typo, I meant to say I like Finish powder much less than Seventh Generation.

But I think the redeposit problem is more a matter... Good point, I was thinking the same thing. However, quite a few reviews on this detergent mentioned having powdery stuff on the dishes after a wash. There is also the fact that my Bobload certified load did not have this much gunk redeposit...

Almost forgot on normal in my dishwasher, there is no prewash. A prewash would most certainly reduce the amount of redeposits.

The results are out Compared with Finish powder with this load. The detergent appears to have done a better job at powering away the rice bits on the rice cooker pot than the Finish (Finish seems to do very poorly against stuck rice) but left more redeposits on the bowls in the top rack. The...

Time to reset the timer I accidentally dropped a greasy (with semi-frozen chili oil, of course) IKEA glass container into the dishwasher, how clumsy of me.

There are these so-called "green" detergents on the market. They tout themselves as being non-toxic and biodegradable, some are even backed up by EWG ratings. It seems rather obvious that these "green" detergents are sacrificing cleaning power by going with less harmful chemicals. Are they still...

Similar situation here. I just leave the detergent cap open if I'm running the normal cycle. I only close the cap if I've selected ”Extra”. Since I only to use the extra cycle on heavy loads, I'm in the habit of opening the door to do a quick check on my load after the prewash (that snapping...

My dishwasher does not pause the cycle to wait for the temperature to rise. I remember reading somewhere that it's supposed to do that, but that doesn't work for the wash cycles in my unit. It doesn't matter since I'll reset the timer to extend the wash time regardless. I cannot find the...

"DW with a centre tower is better than no DW by a long s Indeed, even one that has been hamstrung by an energy star efficiency certification and phosphate-free detergent that the old design probably wasn't meant for. This is a basic model from 2001, but the design was most likely dated even...

"Pot and pans" cycle was used for this test. Sorry, I forgot to mention that. I have not noticed anything different with pots and pans vs normal, however. How is pots and pans supposed to be different from the normal cycle? Maybe that button hasn't been wired up properly on my machine.

Seventh generation is about as good as Finish for me. It's better in some aspects and weaker in others. I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two just by cleaning performance. Cascade Complete does NOT like my water, it sometimes leaves a layer of thick white crust on my...