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Consumer Reports Addresses Complaints of Staining: Tide Pods
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arbilab
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Per cleaning ability, liquids cost a LOT more in fuel to transport.
BTW, water weighs almost exactly 8# per gallon. You Euros on KG and litres, figger it out for yerselves.
BTW, water weighs almost exactly 8# per gallon. You Euros on KG and litres, figger it out for yerselves.
Easier in Europe
"You Euros on KG and litres, figger it out for yerselves."
Thank you, but in Europe we don't need to figger out anything: a litre of water weights a kilogram.
And this further confirms the superiority of the International System of Units...
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"You Euros on KG and litres, figger it out for yerselves."
Thank you, but in Europe we don't need to figger out anything: a litre of water weights a kilogram.
And this further confirms the superiority of the International System of Units...
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arbilab
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OMG, I had no idea. I'd have to do two google calculations to figger that. 
But now seriously, that 'degrees centipede' thing has got to go, outside a chem lab. Just because it brackets the states of water is no reason to set one's thermostat by it. Denying *C is the only clearcut good thing the US government has done in my lifetime.
Mr. Celsius himself said the boiling point was zero and the freezing point 100. How backasswards is that? And that and its modern inverse are dependent upon barometric pressure.
Centipede isn't even a round number. The boiling point at 'standard pressure' is 99.9839 °C. Really? It takes you 6 figures to boil an egg? No wonder we had to win WW2 for you. [undefined smiley]
And centipedes do not have a hundred legs. Also, millipedes have only twice what centipedes have. So they don't have a thousand legs. Didn't you Euros name them both? Why should we trust you to count things?
But now seriously, that 'degrees centipede' thing has got to go, outside a chem lab. Just because it brackets the states of water is no reason to set one's thermostat by it. Denying *C is the only clearcut good thing the US government has done in my lifetime.
Mr. Celsius himself said the boiling point was zero and the freezing point 100. How backasswards is that? And that and its modern inverse are dependent upon barometric pressure.
Centipede isn't even a round number. The boiling point at 'standard pressure' is 99.9839 °C. Really? It takes you 6 figures to boil an egg? No wonder we had to win WW2 for you. [undefined smiley]
And centipedes do not have a hundred legs. Also, millipedes have only twice what centipedes have. So they don't have a thousand legs. Didn't you Euros name them both? Why should we trust you to count things?
Why should we trust you to count things?
You don't have to: we have too much fun when you crash your expensive space exploring robots just because you made an error with the calculations of feet and pounds
You don't have to: we have too much fun when you crash your expensive space exploring robots just because you made an error with the calculations of feet and pounds
Last I heard there were two industrial giants in the world still not embracing the international system. The US and Papua New Guinea... Makes me proud when a country as (once?) great as America can't figure out something as simple as the Metric system. Here we just like arbitrary, 12 inches, 3 & 5280 feet etc. Don't give us a simple system based on powers of 10 that inter-relates volume, weight and dimensional measures. Clearly our system is #1 !!
My sincerest apologies for continuing the hijack of the thread. Perhaps someone should start a Metric vs English system rant in a forum where such rants are allowed.
My sincerest apologies for continuing the hijack of the thread. Perhaps someone should start a Metric vs English system rant in a forum where such rants are allowed.
Tide Pods
I used Tide Pods one time, well actually almost one container, and decided I'm good to stick with powder. The clothes really didn't feel clean, but had more of a filmy texture to them. I have a newer belt-drive Whirlpool, but thankfully it's not an HE model, and with the options on it I can choose the water level and leave it set to Fabric Softener-On (which fills completely and does a traditional rinse cycle). I usually wash with warm water unless I have a load of more delicate darks, and for towels and whites, always hot (in which I flip the cold water outlet valve to almost a trickle to maximize the amount of true hot water entering), so even with washing with plenty of water and good temps, it seemed to have sub-par results. It wasn't until after I noticed a bluish film ring around the drum that I threw them out. I never had the stains on the clothing though, just the dinginess and the film in the machine.
I used Tide Pods one time, well actually almost one container, and decided I'm good to stick with powder. The clothes really didn't feel clean, but had more of a filmy texture to them. I have a newer belt-drive Whirlpool, but thankfully it's not an HE model, and with the options on it I can choose the water level and leave it set to Fabric Softener-On (which fills completely and does a traditional rinse cycle). I usually wash with warm water unless I have a load of more delicate darks, and for towels and whites, always hot (in which I flip the cold water outlet valve to almost a trickle to maximize the amount of true hot water entering), so even with washing with plenty of water and good temps, it seemed to have sub-par results. It wasn't until after I noticed a bluish film ring around the drum that I threw them out. I never had the stains on the clothing though, just the dinginess and the film in the machine.
Kirkland Detergent Pods
Warning, my partner and I have been using these for about two months now and I have had two instances using then in the SQ FL washer where they did not desolve and I found a hard lump of dried pod in tee shirts and outer shirts, the stuff is so hard in trying to figure what in the world was on my white tee shirt that I destroyed the tee shirt. On the other shirt I was able to soak it loose and save the shirt. Smitty has also had problems in his 10 YO WP Duet, both of us always wash in hot water. From this point on they will either go in the detergent dispenser or they will be fully dissolved in a container of hot water then added to the washer.
I will think twice before I either buy or recommend these to my customers.
Warning, my partner and I have been using these for about two months now and I have had two instances using then in the SQ FL washer where they did not desolve and I found a hard lump of dried pod in tee shirts and outer shirts, the stuff is so hard in trying to figure what in the world was on my white tee shirt that I destroyed the tee shirt. On the other shirt I was able to soak it loose and save the shirt. Smitty has also had problems in his 10 YO WP Duet, both of us always wash in hot water. From this point on they will either go in the detergent dispenser or they will be fully dissolved in a container of hot water then added to the washer.
I will think twice before I either buy or recommend these to my customers.
