johnb300m- I’m not sure what’s gone on, but at some point in the past 3 years I read that my city water was 21/gal. I thought that was high, but didn’t question it.
After your remark, I went and double checked online and now my town says 8.4/gal. I know I’m not crazy, I definitely read 21 at some point in the past online, but I’ll have to change the settings on the Miele since it has a softener. I wonder if this explains why all of the sudden I’ve had issues with getting consistently clean cups in the past couple months.
maytaga806 - I compared the Kroger brand detergent and I’m about 99% certain it’s the same manufacturer as the Target DealWorthy brand. The ingredients list is nearly identical. They also retail for the same price and quantity, 75 oz at $4.99. If Kroger ever discontinues it or is out of stock, now you know where you can still get it!
This made me check some other stores for their brand. Meijer is likely also using the same manufacturer, with an ingredients list that is also nearly identical to Kroger and Target. The difference being the quantities of the ingredients, including more sodium acrylic copolymer (anti spotting agent) but less propylheptyl ether (helps with cutting grease). It retails for $5.5 per 75 oz, so not as good a deal as Target / Kroger’s.
Mrstickball - I wish I could, but without being very intentional and methodical it would be hard to make a truly consistent load to load for testing different brands. Though I’ve thought about how much fun it would be to do so!